The First of Long Island wants to be the first thing on Long Islanders' minds. The company owns The First National Bank of Long Island, which offers a variety of lending, investment, and deposit services through about two dozen branches on New York's Long Island and in Manhattan. Loans secured by real estate, including residential and commercial mortgages, home equity loans, and construction loans, make up more than 85% of the bank's loan portfolio. To a lesser extent, the bank also writes business and consumer loans. Other services include checking and savings accounts, IRAs, CDs, and credit cards. Subsidiary The First of Long Island Agency sells mutual funds and annuities.

County Bank Corp is the holding company for Lapeer County Bank & Trust (LCBT), which operates about 10 branches in southeastern Michigan's Lapeer County, north of Detroit. Founded in 1902, the bank offers traditional services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and and trust services. LCBT focuses on real estate lending: Commercial and single-family residential mortgages together make up approximately three-quarters of its loan portfolio.

Oneida Savings Bank, which operates about a dozen branches in upstate New York. Founded in 1866, the bank offers savings, checking, NOW, and money market accounts, as well as IRAs and CDs. It specializes in real estate lending. Oneida Savings also owns insurance agency and investment manager Bailey & Haskell Associates. The company's Bank of Chittenango unit accepts municipal deposits. Formerly mutually owned, Oneida Financial Corp. coverted to stock holding company structure in 2010 by selling shares of itself to the public.

One of the largest banks in Romania, Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) offers some 4.5 million customers standard retail banking products such as car and home loans, debit and credit cards, and traveler's checks. On the commercial banking side, BCR caters to small and midsized businesses, offering such products and services as foreign currency loans, corporate debit cards, and bank guarantee letters, while its stock market offerings include open investment funds and municipal and corporate bonds. Subsidiary Anglo-Romanian Bank manages the bank's UK operations. Austria's Erste Group Bank owns some 70% of BCR. Tracing its roots back to 1990, BCR operates more than 640 branches across the country.

Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) offers a range of consumer and business banking services through approximately 25 branches in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It operates in France and other parts of Switzerland, as well. The regional bank offers retail services such as deposit accounts and loans; its corporate banking division specializes in financing for real estate developments and construction. In 2008 BCGE merged subsidiaries Anker Bank and Synchrony Asset Management into the main organization. Together, the canton of Geneva and the city of Geneva control more than three-quarters of BCGE's stock.

CNB Financial is the holding company for CNB Bank (formerly County National Bank), which provides traditional deposit and loan services through more than 20 branches and two loan production offices in northwestern and central Pennsylvania. In 2005 the company opened ERIEBANK, a division of CNB Bank, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Commercial, financial, and agricultural loans make up more than 35% of CNB Financial's loan portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages (about 30%) and commercial mortgages (more than 25%). Other offerings include credit cards, investments, life insurance, wealth management, and merchant credit card processing.

Orchard First Source Capital (OFS) plants its money in companies and watches the interest grow. OFS offers lending services to middle-market companies and private equity firms operating in North America. Its loans, which are provided in support of restructurings, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and other business transactions, include revolving lines of credit, term loans, and asset-based loans. The firm serves various industries, typically lending to companies with annual revenues of more than $30 million. It occasionally partners with other financial institutions for larger transactions. In 2009 OFS terminated a deal to acquire 80% of cash-strapped Beverly Hills Bancorp.

In 2010 Wells Fargo announced that it will merge the business of Wells Fargo Financial, which accounts for less than 2% of the company's loan volume, into its banking operations. The consumer finance arm of US banking superpower Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo Financial operates through approximately 1,100 locations throughout the US, as well as in Canada and the Pacific Rim. The company provides credit cards, personal loans, and real estate-secured loans to consumers. It originates indirect auto loans through more than 18,000 franchised dealers. Wells Fargo Financial, Inc. also provides sales financing to retailers and lease financing to health care and agribusiness concerns.

Los Alamos National Bank was established in June 1963 by a group of local investors who saw the need for a convenient, full-service community bank. Now one of the largest and strongest banks in the state, LANB continues to be locally owned and operated by Trinity Capital Corporation, a one-bank holding company. We are committed to our customers and to those activities that foster a better quality of life in the communities they serve.

Captive Capital capitalizes on clients' captive audiences. Captive Capital Corporation provides turnkey retail financing programs for primarily equipment manufacturers and distributors in the US and Canada. Captive Capital manages the in-house finance programs of equipment manufacturers (including creating and managing customer branded financing Web sites) and matches up lenders with pre-qualified borrowers. Subsidiary Star Capital Group provides direct leasing and financing for commercial equipment acquisitions from $5,000 to $500,000. Internet Capital Group leads investors in Captive Capital, which was founded in 1999 by CEO Jonathan Moran and vice presidents Brian Voland and Jeff Whitcomb.

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