Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation stands atop a "big hill" in Pennsylvania. It is the holding company for Bryn Mawr Trust, which operates some 25 offices (several being limited-service branches located in retirement communities) in Pennsylvania's Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties, including Philadelphia's tony Main Line suburbs. In addition to such traditional services as checking and savings accounts, CDs, mortgages, and business and consumer loans, the bank also provides insurance products, equipment leasing, investment management, retirement planning, tax planning and preparation, and trust services. Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation has approximately $3 billion of assets under administration and management.

Merrill Lynch Bank (Suisse) is a Swiss private bank offering wealth management services such as portfolio advisement, fund management, and financial planning products to the ultra-rich, all with a dash of traditional Swiss banking secrecy and discretion. In addition to Geneva and Zurich, the bank has offices in Dubai, Singapore, Montevideo, and Panama. Merrill Lynch Bank (Suisse) is a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch International Bank Limited and part of the Merrill Lynch International Private Client Group (both are subsidiaries of Merrill Lynch). Banking powerhouse Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch for some $50 billion in early 2009.

Emporiki Bank of Greece offers traditional financing and banking services, including investment banking, housing loans, asset management, securities portfolio management, leasing, venture capital, and insurance products. Founded in 1907, Emporiki has about 370 branches in Greece, plus nearly 90 in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, London, Frankfurt, and Romania. About a dozen subsidiary companies (Emporiki Bank Group) offer a wide array of financial services -- from real estate development and management to consumer credit, insurance, and vehicle leasing -- to customers both private and corporate. France's #1 bank, Credit Agricole, owns more than 80% of Emporiki.

The year was 1910 when the men in the photograph at left gathered at the Strawberry Market in Mount Olive, North Carolina. Their local bank, The Bank of Mount Olive, was nine years old at the time, and reflected the values of the day. It was a place where their money was safe and earned good interest. A place where they were treated as friends and respected as individuals.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited is one of China's biggest banks and one of the largest in the world. ICBC, which went public in 2006 in a record-setting IPO, manages around 17,000 domestic branches and more than 160 overseas branches and offices. The bank's financial services, offered in Chinese renminbi and foreign currencies, include wholesale, retail, and international banking for more than 3 million corporate clients and some 190 million individuals. It oversees about a quarter of the total domestic assets owned by China's commercial banks. The Chinese government controls more than half of ICBC.

Charter Financial is the savings and loan holding company for CharterBank, which operates more than a dozen branches and loan production offices in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Deposit products include consumer and commercial checking accounts, savings and money market accounts, and CDs. The bank is focused on real estate lending, with residential and commercial mortgages each accounting for more than a third of its loan portfolio. It also makes consumer, business, construction, and land development loans. The bank gives cash awards to high school customers for making straight A's. Mutual holding company First Charter MHC owns more than 80% of Charter Financial.

Credit Suisse Group AG, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial services company. The company operates in three segments: Private Banking, Investment Banking, and Asset Management. The Private Banking segment offers advisory services and a range of wealth management solutions, including pension planning, life insurance products, tax planning, and wealth and inheritance advice for the high-net-worth individuals. This segment also supplies banking products and services to high-net-worth, corporate, and institutional clients in Switzerland.

Provident New York Bancorp is the holding company for Provident Bank, a community-based thrift operating some 35 offices in New York's Hudson Valley region and another in New Jersey operating as Towncenter Bank. Founded in 1888, the bank attracts consumers and business clients by offering traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts and CDs; its Provident Municipal Bank subsidiary provides deposit services to area municipalities. The bank uses funds from deposits to originate primarily real estate loans and mortgages. Subsidiary Hudson Valley Investment Advisors provides money management services for institutional and individual investors.

ING Lease Holding provides vendor leasing and general leasing services in about a dozen European nations. It also offers asset-specialized leasing of cars through several ING Car Lease affiliates and through Noord Lease in the Netherlands. Part of the Wholesale Banking group of Dutch financial services giant ING Groep, the company writes leases directly, as well as through brokers, vendors, and ING Bank. ING Lease Holding manages a portfolio of nearly E14 billion. The UK and the Benelux countries are the company's two biggest markets.

1st Source Corporation, parent of 1st Source Bank, which provides commercial and consumer banking services through more than 75 branches in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. The bank offers deposit accounts; business, agricultural, and consumer loans; residential and commercial mortgages; credit cards; and trust services. Its specialty finance group provides financing for aircraft, automobile fleets, trucks, and construction and environmental equipment through about two-dozen offices nationwide; such loans account for approximately half of 1st Source's portfolio. Subsidiaries offer insurance and investment advisory services.

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