Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

Ames National Corporation is the multi-bank holding company for flagship subsidiary First National Bank, Ames, Iowa, as well as Boone Bank & Trust, Randall-Story State Bank, State Bank & Trust, and United Bank & Trust. With a total of about a dozen branches, the banks provide area individuals and businesses with standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit and debit cards. Commercial and agricultural real estate loans account for about half of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes residential, construction, consumer, and business loans. The banks also offer trust and financial management services.

LSB Financial is the holding company for Lafayette Savings Bank, which has been serving northern Indiana since 1869. Today the bank has a handful of branches in the communities of Lafayette and West Lafayette, offering checking, savings, and money market accounts, NOW accounts, and CDs. It primarily writes real estate loans, with residential mortgages making up about half of the company's loan portfolio. It also writes commercial and multifamily residential mortgages, real estate construction loans, and land development loans.

UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide. The company also involves in retail and commercial banking in Switzerland. Its Wealth Management & Swiss Bank divisions wealth management business caters to high net worth individuals worldwide (except the Americas) whether they are investing internationally or in their home country. This division offers these clients a range of tailored advice and investment services.

MainSource Financial wants to be the main source of financial services for residents and businesses in Indiana and beyond. It is the holding company of MainSource Bank, more than 80 branches in the Hooiser State, as well as neighboring portions of Ohio, Illinois, and Kentcky. The bank offers standard deposit and lending products in addition to trust and insurance services. The company also operates about a dozen insurance offices in Indiana and one in Illinois. Real estate loans account for approximately three-quarters of MainSource Financial's lending portfolio, which also includes other commercial and consumer loans.

A. J. Smith Federal is the primary operating subsidiary of holding company AJS Bancorp. The bank serves customers in suburban Chicago from three branches in Midlothian and Orland Park, Illinois. Catering to area businesses and residents, A. J. Smith Federal offers checking and savings accounts, insurance and investments, and loans. One- to four-family residential mortgages make up more than two-thirds of the bank's loan portfolio; multifamily and commercial mortgages and home equity and consumer loans round out its lending activities. Arthur J. Smith founded A. J. Smith Federal in 1892 as a building and loan cooperative; it became a federally chartered savings bank in 1984.

BNP Paribas Bangkok is the Thai branch of Paris-based global banking powerhouse BNP Paribas. The Bangkok location offers corporate and investment banking, including financing, asset management, equity derivatives, and insurance. Its consumer banking products include loans, credit cards, and insurance under the names Cetelem and Thai Cardif. BNP Paribas Bangkok's Connexis electronic banking service gives business customers online access to the bank worldwide. BNP opened its Bangkok branch in 1979; it was fully licensed by the Thai government in 1997.

Whitney Holding Corporation was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whitney Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Whitney National Bank that provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. Whitney Holding Corporation offers various deposit products, such as non interest bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing deposits, NOW account, money market, savings, and other time deposits. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial; commercial real estate; construction, land, and land development; residential mortgage; and consumer loans, as well as secured and unsecured loan products, such as revolving credit facilities. The company also offers letters of credit, financial guarantees, and financing for the development of housing. In addition, it provides treasury management services; trust and investment management services to retirement plans; investment brokerage services; and annuity products, as well as personal and business lines of insurance to customers in northwest Florida and the New Orleans metropolitan area. Whitney Holding Corporation offers its services in Texas, southern Louisiana, coastal region of Mississippi, central and south Alabama, and the western panhandle and the Tampa Bay metropolitan area of Florida, as well as in Grand Cayman in the British West Indies.

The Chiba Bank serves Japan's Chiba prefecture -- located east of Tokyo -- through about 170 branches and sub-branches. The bank, in addition to providing traditional banking services to individuals and businesses, offers investment trusts, credit cards, leasing, financial consulting, annuities, and securities. Its lending focuses on home mortgages, regional businesses, and residential construction companies. The bank has more than 28,000 ATMs nationwide and operates international offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, and Shanghai. In 2008 Chiba Bank joined with banks in Thailand and China to provide financial services in those countries.

Davenham has discontinued its property finance division, which has historically accounted for more than half of the company's sales. Davenham often says "yes" when the banks say "no." The company provides asset-based loans, primarily to small and midsized businesses in the UK. Davenham's trade finance division provides working capital loans, including short-term letters of credit, while its asset finance unit provides loans to buy or lease machinery and equipment. Subsidiary Manor Credit finances commercial vehicles, vans, and fleet cars. Davenham Group plc makes loans primarily to contractors, distributors, importers, manufacturers, and wholesalers who are not able to get financing from traditional lenders.

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