The subsidiary of German financial services firm Deutsche Bank, like its parent, divides its business into two units: corporate and investment banking, and private clients and asset management. In addition to traditional personal and corporate banking services, the company offers asset and wealth management, insurance, and investment and brokerage services. Its nearly 275 branches are concentrated mostly in Lombardy, Liguria, Campania, and Puglia; customers can also conduct their banking business via the phone or the Internet. Deutsche Bank opened its first Italian office in 1977.

Joyo Bank offers regional banking services for Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture and its surrounding regions. Backed by more than 170 branches, Joyo offers deposits, loans, investment portfolios, international business, and other traditional retail banking products. Subsidiaries and affiliated companies include Joyo Computer Service Co. (calculation software), Joyo Lease Co. (machinery and equipment leasing), Joyo Credit Guarantee Co. (housing loans credit), and Joyo Cash Service Co. (ATM and CD management and maintenance).

Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial products and services in Korea. It offers various commercial banking products and services consisting of demand deposits, installment deposits, certificates of deposit, and repurchase instruments; and working capital loans and facilities loans. The company also provides various consumer banking products and services, including deposit products; and lending products, such as general purpose household loans, mortgage loans, and home equity loans. In addition, it offers various private banking services comprising time deposits, demand deposits, savings deposits, installment deposits, and certificates of deposit; and financial and real estate advisory services to high net worth and mass affluent customers. Further, the company provides credit cards; Internet banking; mobile banking; inter-account fund transfer; and balance, transaction, and customer service enquiry services. Additionally, it offers various capital market services, including securities investment and trading, derivatives trading, asset securitization services, investment banking, and securities brokerage services; securities investment and trading services; and derivative products and services. The company also provides asset securitization services, investment banking, securities brokerage, international banking, asset management, and trust management services. In addition, it offers merchant banking, bancassurance, consumer finance, and life insurance products and services. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 1,180 branches and 8,539 ATMs and cash dispensers in Korea. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Erste & Steiermarkische Bank (ESB) is banking on the fiduciary habits of native Croatians. The Croatia-based bank caters to individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses through more than 120 branches; services include Internet banking for retail and corporate clients. When the bank first opened in 2002, it had few direct competitors, but today as the competitive landscape has changed, the bank's clientele have had more banking choices and have asserted their loyalty to ESB. The company has a more than 10% market share. Erste Bank owns 555% of Erste & Steiermarkische; Steiermarkische Bank und Sparkassen owns about 40%.

DZ BANK is the central institution for some 1,000 local cooperative banks, which serve 30 million customers from a combined 12,000 branch offices across Germany. It provides administrative services for its member banks, which are also the company's owners. Additionally, DZ BANK provides corporate banking services including commercial lending for small to midsized businesses, investment banking, structured financing, and private banking. GZ-Bank and DG Bank -- Germany's primary central institutions for cooperative lenders merged in 2001 to create today's DZ BANK.

MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa. The Company’s bank subsidiary is also headquartered in Iowa City. MidWestOne Bank has office locations in Belle Plaine, Burlington, Cedar Falls, Conrad, Coralville, Davenport, Fairfield, Fort Madison, Hudson, Melbourne, North English, North Liberty, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Parkersburg, Pella, Sigourney, Waterloo and West Liberty, Iowa. MidWestOne Insurance Services, Inc. provides personal and business insurance services in Pella, Melbourne and Oskaloosa, Iowa. MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "MOFG."

MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. operates as a holding company for MidSouth Bank, N.A. that provides banking services to commercial and retail customers in south Louisiana and southeast Texas. The company’s deposit products and services include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing checking accounts, investment accounts, credit cards, and cash management services, as well as electronic banking services, including remote deposit capturing services. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans, and loans secured by real estate and consumer loans. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a network of 35 offices and approximately 50 ATMs in south Louisiana and southeast Texas.

Founded in 1993, Gemini is a Massachusetts based private equity firm that provides capital and strategic resources to lower middle market companies. Since its inception, we have invested $350 million in more than 75 companies throughout the U.S., typically investing $3 – $8 million per transaction in either control or minority positions. In 2010, we opened our Texas office to expand Gemini’s presence in the southern region of the country. Gemini offers a flexible investment approach. We provide a wide range of financing structures, which include subordinated debt with warrants, preferred stock, and common equity. We have extensive experience leading transactions, as well as co-investing with other private equity firms and independent sponsors.Currently investing Gemini Investors V, L.P., we are seeking established businesses and experienced management teams that have a solid operating history and significant growth potential. Our target portfolio company has revenues of $10 to $50 million and EBITDA of at least $1 million. We have a diversified approach to investing, with and a proven track record in consumer products and services, healthcare services, manufacturing, distribution, for-profit education, restaurants, waste and recycling, retail, hardware and software technologies, and business services.In 2009, the U.S. Small Business Administration selected Gemini from among 300 current Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC) funds as the inaugural winner of the SBIC of the Year Award. We received this honor during National Small Business Week in Washington, D.C. in May 2009. Over the last fourteen years, Gemini has built an experienced and cohesive team of investment professionals. The firm’s five general partners have all worked together for more than a decade, and collectively bring 120+ years of experience in management, strategy consulting, investment banking, venture capital, and private equity.

FHL Bank Topeka, a privately owned, federally chartered corporation, promotes housing and home ownership by providing wholesale products and services that help member financial institutions expand the availability of mortgage credit, compete more effectively in their markets and foster strong and vibrant communities. With approximately $38 billion in assets and $1.8 billion in capital, FHLBank serves 837 banks, thrifts, credit unions and insurance companies throughout Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. FHL Bank employs approximately 200 people and is located in Topeka, Kan. FHLBank Topeka promotes housing and community development in the public interest by serving as an economical source of credit and by providing the services and rate of return necessary to attract and retain borrowing stockholders.

Southern First Bancshares operates in two markets: Greenville, South Carolina, where it operates under the Greenville First Bank moniker, and in Columbia, South Carolina as Southern First Bank. Selling itself as a local alternative to larger institutions, the company, which has more than five bank branches, targets individuals and small to midsized businesses. It offers traditional deposit services and products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and CDs. The banks use funds from deposits mainly to write commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and commercial business loans.

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