Banco Popolare was formed in 2007 when Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara wooed and wed Banca Popolare Italiana for some $10 billion. The resulting bank has a branch network of more than 2,000 offices throughout Italy, with a heavy presence in the northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, and Piedmont. In addition to retail banking, Banco Popolare focuses on consumer credit, asset management, and corporate finance services. The bank has a foreign branch in London; representative branches in India, China, and Russia; and subsidiaries in a half-dozen European nations.

Heritage Oaks Bancorp acts as a bank holding company of Heritage Oaks Bank. Other than holding the shares of the Bank, the Company conducts no significant activities, although it is authorized, with the prior approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to engage in a variety of activities that are deemed closely related to the business of banking. The Bank offers traditional banking products, such as checking, savings and certificates of deposit, as well as mortgage loans and commercial and consumer loans to customers who are predominately small to medium-sized businesses and individuals.

Tower Financial is the holding company for Tower Bank & Trust, which was formed in 1999 to fill the void in community banking services left in the wake of the consolidation of local banks into national banking companies. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank has some six branches and loan production offices, mainly in and around Fort Wayne. It focuses mainly on commercial lending, with business mortgages and operating loans making up around three-quarters of its loan portfolio. It also issues residential mortgages and personal loans. Deposit products include checking, savings, and money market accounts, and CDs.

Sandy Spring Bancorp is the holding company for Sandy Spring Bank, which operates more than 40 branches in the Baltimore and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas. One of the largest and oldest banks headquartered in Maryland (it was founded in 1868), Sandy Spring Bank provides standard deposit services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial mortgages account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio (about 40%); the remainder is a mix of residential mortgage, consumer, construction, and business loans, as well as equipment leases. The company also offers personal investing services, wealth management, trust services, insurance, and retirement planning.

Deere & Company, founded in 1837 (collectively called John Deere), has grown from a one-man blacksmith shop into a corporation that today does business around the world and employs more than 50,000 people. Deere Credit Services, Inc. continues to be guided, as it has been since its beginning, by the core values exhibited by its founder: integrity, quality, commitment and innovation.

Punjab and Sind Bank was founded in 1908 to help those economically challenged Indians traditionally underserved by financial institutions. PSB boasts more than 900 branches (about half in the state of Punjab) offering savings and checking accounts, credit cards, loans, and life insurance along with government pension accounts and remittance services. It also has about 100 limited service counters inside other businesses. PSB has been restructuring, closing or relocating underperforming branches to improve profits. It has asked the Indian government, its owner, to grant it an initial public offering.

M&F Bank has deep roots. Since 1890, M&F Bank has served a growing community of clients encompassing parts of four states. From 48 locations and the connected world M&F is delivering a wide array of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and churches. From our base in Mississippi M&F now serves in Tennessee, Alabama and Florida. Our markets are diverse; our financial services are adapted to the needs of the client. Our mission is built on integrity and focused on exceeding the expectation of our customer. We believe in the basics of traditional banking. We also believe in a menu of related services including insurance, wealth management, investments, mortgage banking and specialized applications of the financial system. M&F is as relational as your best friend and neighbor while being as technologically adept as you require. Stewardship is the means and the end of our mission. As we grow shareholder value through exceptional service we are better able to do good and perpetuate the multiplication of value to customer, community and associate. Our calling is high, our commitment is unswerving and our mission is clear. At M&F Bank the focus is on results.

M&F Bank, a state-chartered commercial bank, was organized in 1907 under the authority of a charter issued by the Legislature of the State of North Carolina . The original incorporators were a group of nine prominent businessmen, headed by R. B. Fitzgerald. The other incorporators included: J. A. Dodson, J. R. Hawkins, John Merrick, Aaron M. Moore, W.G. Pearson, James E. Shepard, G. W. Stephens, and Stanford L. Warren. Many people today lack appreciation of the origin of the Bank's name. The founders and original customers represented various trades, crafts and professions in which the African American community had achieved success and prominence, so "Mechanics" likely was derived from the legal term "mechanics lien" that grouped such occupations together. Additionally, most of North Carolina 's wealth at the turn of the 20 th century was based on the ownership of real property, especially farmland, hence the term "Farmers." That means the name "Mechanics and Farmers" denotes that this Bank is an institution dedicated to serving all facets of the community.

First Bancorp of Indiana, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Federal Savings Bank, which provides various banking services primarily in Vanderburgh and Daviess counties, Indiana. It offers various deposit products, including checking, certificates of deposit, money market, savings, health savings, education, and individual retirement accounts. The company also provides various financing solutions, such as mortgage loans, consumer loans, home equity loans, and business loans. In addition, it offers Internet banking, telephone banking, and investment services; and a variety of other consumer products, including e-statements, switch kit forms, credit cards, ATM and debit cards, direct deposit, and overdraft protection. First Bancorp of Indiana, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Evansville, Indiana.

WSB Holdings was formed in 2008 to be the holding company for The Washington Savings Bank, a thrift with about five branches and a loan production office in Maryland's Baltimore/Washington, DC, corridor. Targeting middle-class consumers and midsized businesses, it offers standard deposit services such as checking savings, money market, and retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. Although the bank has traditionally focused on single-family mortgages and construction loans, it has diversified its loan portfolio amid the troubled housing market; commercial loans now account for the largest portion of its portfolio. Chairman William Harnett owns more than 40% of WSB Holdings.

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