Calvin B. Taylor Bankshares be the holding company for Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company (aka Taylor Bank), which has about 10 branches in southeastern Maryland and another in Delaware. The bank offers standard commercial and retail services including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit cards. It also offers discount securities brokerage through an affiliation with correspondent bank M&T Securities. Real estate loans account for some 90% of the bank's lending portfolio, including residential and commercial mortgages. The bank is named after its founder, who opened a predecessor to Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company in 1890.

Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB) has international character. It was the first Chinese bank to receive significant foreign investment and its chairman and CEO, Frank Newman, is a former deputy secretary of the US Treasury. SDB has more than 250 bank branches in economic centers including Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin; it has correspondent branches in more than 70 international regions. The bank offers standard deposit and lending services to commercial and individual customers. It also trades in foreign and domestic securities and offers a mix of financial services including trust services and investment banking. Ping An Insurance owns about a third of SDB and plans to double that stake to control the bank.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is banking on the continued support of other banks. The bank provides funds for residential mortgages and community development loans to its members, which consist of about 450 financial institutions in New England, including banks, thrifts, credit unions, and insurance companies. The bank also lends to nonmember institutions such as state housing finance agencies, primarily to promote the funding of low to moderate income housing in the region. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is one of 12 regional wholesale banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Its region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. was founded in 1919 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. operates as the holding company for AnchorBank, fsb, which provides various financial products and services in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. Its deposit products include passbook savings accounts, demand deposits, interest bearing checking accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company originates single-family residential, multi-family residential, commercial real estate, construction, and land mortgage loans; consumer loans, including second mortgage and home equity, and education loans; and commercial business loans. It also invests in real estate partnerships. In addition, the company provides credit cards, annuities, and related consumer financial services. As of March 31, 2009, it operated 73 branch offices and 2 loan origination offices.

Credit Suisse (UK) Limited offers private banking services, including deposit accounts, mutual funds, personalized financial planning services, and wealth management. It also manages assets for retail investors, intermediaries, and institutions such as corporations, pension funds, and not-for-profit entities. Other services include alternative investments (private equity, real estate, hedging strategies) and investment banking (mergers and acquisitions advice; debt and equity underwriting, sales, and trading). Credit Suisse (UK) is the London subsidiary of Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group.

Bank of the Carolinas Corporation was formed in 2006 to be the holding company for Bank of the Carolinas, which provides traditional deposit and lending services to individuals and businesses through about 10 branches in central North Carolina. Deposit services include checking, savings, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. Commercial real estate loans account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio; the bank's lending activities also include business, construction, and consumer loans, residential mortgages, and home equity lines of credit.

First Federal Community Bank of Bucyrus was chartered in 1888 as Bucyrus Loan & Building Company. Business was initially conducted from the law offices of D.W. Locke, located in the current FirstMerit Bank building on the square in downtown Bucyrus. Bucyrus Loan & Building Co. soon moved to the rear of the First National Bank building, located in the 100 block of West Rensselaer Street. That office was only open one hour per week, with weekly board meetings held shortly after closing.

Riverview Bancorp is the holding company for Riverview Community Bank, which operates about 20 branches located primarily in the Columbia River Gorge area of Washington State and Oregon. Serving consumers and local businesses, the bank offers such standard retail banking services as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, NOW accounts, and CDs. Commercial construction and commercial real estate loans account for nearly 90% of its lending portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages, residential construction loans, and other consumer loans. Trust and investment services are provided through the company's Riverview Asset Management Corp. Riverview Community Bank was founded in 1923.

Northern States Financial is the holding company for NorStates Bank, which serves individuals and businesses in northeastern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin through around 10 branches. It provides retail services like savings, checking, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. The company uses deposits to originate commercial mortgages (accounting for about half of its portfolio) as well as residential mortgages, commercial loans, construction loans, and consumer loans. NorStates Bank was founded in 2005 when Northern States merged its Bank of Waukegan and First State Bank of Round Lake (founded in 1949 and acquired in 2004) subsidiaries.

First Investors Financial Services Group, Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiaries (“First Investors”) is an independent consumer finance company which originates automobile loans indirectly through relationships with franchised automobile dealers in the United States. The Company’s indirect lending business operates in 28 states through relationships with hundreds of automobile dealerships. First Investors specializes in providing financing solutions to consumers who typically do not have access to traditional financing sources. In addition to its automobile finance operations, the Company also engages in the purchase of portfolios of automobile loans from other lenders and the servicing of pools of loans for affiliated and non-affiliated investors. First Investors was founded in 1988 in Houston, Texas by its current President and Chief Executive Officer, Tommy Moore. In October 1995 the Company completed an initial public offering of common stock and trades on the Nasdaq/OTC market under the symbol “FIFS-OB”. First Investors has over 40,000 customers, approximately $600 million in managed auto receivables.

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