Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group (TSX, NYSE: BMO) is a highly diversified financial services organization. With total assets of $397 billion as of July 31, 2010, and more than 38,000 employees, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

Clairvest Group is a merchant bank that invests its own capital and that of third-party investors as well. The bank invests primarily through its Clairvest Equity Partners Limited Partnership subsidiary, in both public and private entrepreneurial corporations. The company acquired a controlling interest in orthopedic back-care products investor Integral Orthopedics in early 2005. Other substantial holdings include N-Brook Mortgage Group, an underwriter of residential real estate mortgages in Canada, and Light Tower Rentals, which leases oil field equipment in the southwestern US.

First Pulaski National Corporation is the holding company for First National Bank of Pulaski, which has about ten branches in Giles, Lincoln, and Marshall counties in south-central Tennessee. The thrift opened its first two branches in Alabama in 2008. It offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. With these funds, the bank mainly writes real estate loans, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, and farmland loans. It also originates business, consumer, construction, land development, and agricultural loans.

Credit Agricole Nord de France provides banking services in the north of France as one of the nearly 40 regional banks that make up the Credit Agricole system. Credit Agricole Nord, which is approximately 25%-owned by Credit Agricole, offers a variety of consumer- and business-oriented services, such as savings accounts, loans, mortgages, credit and debit cards, real estate brokerage, and property and auto insurance. The bank is also active in private equity, taking stakes in local entities such as bottled water firm Eaux de Saint Amand and real estate appraiser Ex'Im Expertises, as well as area real estate projects.

Red Capital Group supplies the green for commercial real estate development. The company specializes in financing for affordable housing, multifamily residential real estate, assisted living facilities, medical office buildings, and community hospitals. It also finances industrial, and retail properties, hotels, and self-storage facilities. Red Capital Group consists of three firms: lender Red Mortgage Capital; Red Capital Markets, which underwrites housing bonds; and asset manager Red Capital Advisors. Red Capital Group has more than 10 offices in the US. ORIX USA bought the firm in 2010 from PNC Financial Services, which had acquired it in a takeover of Red Capital's previous parent, National City, in 2008.

Danvers Bancorp is the holding company for Danversbank, which serves eastern Massachusetts from about 30 branches. Founded in 1850, the bank offers deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, in addition to loan services targeted to both consumers and businesses. Commercial and industrial loans dominate its loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and construction loans. Wealth management services are offered through an arrangement with Raymond James Financial. In 2009, Danvers Bancorp acquired Beverly National Bancorp and its eight Beverly National Bank locations in a $62 million stock swap. Beverly National was merged into Danversbank in early 2010.

Eastern Bank Corporation are the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England. We offer banking, investments and insurance all under one roof, and we pride ourselves on working harder to understand our customers’ needs so we can deliver these services in a committed and personal way.

Lakeland Financial is the holding company for Lake City Bank, which serves area business customers and individuals through more than 40 branches scattered across about a dozen northern Indiana counties. Founded in 1872 in Warsaw, Indiana, the bank offers such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial loans, including agricultural loans and mortgages, make up about 80% of the bank's loan portfolio. Lake City Bank also offers investment products and services such as corporate and personal trust, brokerage, employee benefit plans, and estate planning.

Entrepreneurs who want to put a tiger in their customers' tanks, give them the Midas touch, or help them make a run for the border are saying, "Oh, thank heaven for GE Franchise Finance." The General Electric Capital subsidiary provides real estate and other financing for more than 6,000 franchise operators at some 21,000 locations in the US and Canada. The firm finances restaurants, hotels and other hospitality providers, and auto service and parts retailers. It also offers credit for buying equipment or acquiring new or expanding locations.

Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Prosperity Bank that provides retail and commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. It generates various deposit products, including interest-bearing demand deposits, savings accounts, money market accounts, time accounts, certificates of deposit, non interest-bearing demand deposits, and interest checking accounts. Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. also provides commercial mortgage loans and multifamily residential loans, one to four family residential mortgage loans, agricultural real estate loans, construction and land development loans, commercial and industrial loans, non-real estate agricultural loans, term loans, loans for automobiles, home equity loans, and lines of credit and loans for working capital, business expansion, and the purchase of equipment and machinery, as well as interim construction loans for builders and owner-occupied commercial real estate loans. In addition, it offers junior subordinated debentures and overdraft protection; check cashing, official check, safe deposit box rental, and currency handling services; and debit cards, Internet banking, cash management, and automated telephone banking services. As of December 31, 2009, Prosperity Bancshares operated 158 full-service banking locations, including 51 in the Houston area; 27 in the South Texas area, including Corpus Christi and Victoria; 27 in the Central Texas area, including Austin and San Antonio; 20 in East Texas; 9 in Bryan/College Station; and 24 in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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