Forget Elsie. S.Y. Bancorp is more interested in a cash cow. It's the holding company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust, which operates about 30 branches primarily in and around Louisville, Kentucky, but also in Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Founded in 1904, the bank targets individuals and regional business customers, offering standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, credit cards, certificates of deposit, and IRAs. Trust services are also available; brokerage and credit card services are offered through agreements with other banks. Real estate mortgages account for about 50% of the bank's loan portfolio, which also includes commercial (25%), construction, and consumer loans.

IMH Financial deals in real estate lending and investment mainly in the southwestern US. Although its family of companies historically have focused on acquiring and originating short-term bridge loans to enable commercial real estate development and construction, market conditions -- mainly lack of mortgage capital availability -- are prompting the company to change course. Its focus now is to make investments across a more diverse set of target assets, including interim loans used to pay off construction or property loans and whole commercial real estate mortgage loans. Its primary markets include Arizona, California, and Texas. IMH filed to go public in the latter half of 2010.

Partners Realty Capital, L.L.C. company offers a range of financing options for commercial and residential properties, including hotels, industrial, office, and retail space, as well as multi-family residences and single-family housing tracts. Options include acquisition, bridge, construction, development, and permanent loans, as well as debt and equity lines of credit. Partners Realty Capital also offers litigation support and pre-acquisition finance support. Clients include Fremont Investment & Loan and UBS Warburg. The firm was established in 1994 by Paul Fruchbom.

Citizens Community Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens Community Federal, a community bank with about two dozen branches in Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, and northern Michigan. Serving consumers and businesses, the bank offers standard deposit services such as savings, checking, money market, and retirement accounts, as well as a variety of loan products. The bank focuses its lending activities on one- to four-family mortgages, which represent more than half of its loan portfolio. The bank also offers consumer loans such as auto and personal loans; it does not routinely make commercial loans. Founded in 1938, Citizens Community was a state-chartered credit union until 2001.

Auburn National Bancorporation, Inc. operates as a holding company for AuburnBank that offers various banking products and services in east Alabama. The company’s deposit products include checking, savings, and transaction deposit accounts, as well as certificates of deposit, NOW accounts, money market accounts, and time deposits. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, financial, agricultural, real estate construction, and consumer loans. In addition, the company provides automated teller services; Visa Checkcards, which are debit cards with the Visa logo that work where Visa is accepted, including automated teller machines (ATMs); online banking and bill payment services; and safe deposit boxes. As of December 31, 2009, it operated nine branches in Alabama, as well as three mortgage loan offices in Mountain Brook, Phenix City, and Valley, Alabama; and ATM machines in 13 locations. Auburn National Bancorporation, Inc. was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Auburn, Alabama.

Sapporo Hokuyo Holdings, Inc was formed in 2001 to serve as the holding company for North Pacific Bank and The Sapporo Bank; together the regional banks have some 230 offices in Hokkaido, as well as an office in Tokyo and two offices in China. North Pacific Bank, which is the largest bank in Hokkaido, accounts for most of the holding company's sales; the bank traces its roots to 1917. The company also has subsidiaries active in credit cards and leasing; bank subsidiaries engage in such activities as financing.

Firstbank Corporation is the holding company for six separately chartered subsidiary banks offering services under the Firstbank banner; it also owns Keystone Community Bank, which it acquired in 2005. Through more than 50 branches in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, the banks attract deposits from area residents and businesses by providing standard services such as checking and savings accounts and CDs. The company also owns subsidiaries that provide real estate appraisal services, armored car services, and title insurance. Firstbank bought another Michigan-based bank holding company, ICNB Financial, parent of Ionia County Community Bank (now Firstbank - West Michigan), in 2007.

Wells Fargo & Company, through its subsidiaries, provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services principally in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Community Banking; Wholesale Banking; and Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement. The Community Banking segment offers deposit products, including checking accounts, savings deposits, market rate accounts, individual retirement accounts, time deposits, and debit cards. Its loan products include lines of credit, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education loans, residential mortgage loans, and credit cards.

Landesbank Berlin Holding (LBB Holding) provides comprehensive banking services to its core market of Berlin and adjoining areas. Formerly Bankgesellschaft Berlin, LBB Holding operates through several subsidiaries, namely Berliner Sparkasse, a leading German savings bank for retail customers with about 150 branches, and Landesbank Berlin AG, a regional corporate banking center for small and medium-sized businesses. LBB Holding also offers services in capital markets, which help private investors with trading and sales, and commercial real estate financing, which support institutional investors and residential developers. Erwerbsgesellschaft der S-Finanzgruppe mbH & Co. KG owns 88% of LBB Holding.

Caixa D'Estalvis | Pensions De Barcelona (in Spanish, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, but better known as La Caixa) strives for ubiquity, providing banking services to consumers and small to midsize businesses through some 5,500 branches and more than 8,100 ATMs; it offers Internet banking service through its Linea Abierta to some 5 million customers. La Caixa also serves business customers through a network of nearly 70 dedicated business centers under the CaixaEmpresa brand. The savings bank reinvests a sizable portion of its profits (some 25%) in programs and projects that provide societal benefit or improve welfare.

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