In 1956, Security Service Federal Credit Union opened its doors with eight members and $25 in deposits. Security Service was founded as a not-for-profit, member-owned financial institution to serve the financial needs of the U.S. Air Force Security Service Command. Since those humble beginnings, it has become the eighth largest credit union in the U.S., serving more than 787,000 members worldwide.Headquartered in San Antonio, the credit union has more than 36 service centers in Texas and 19 locations in Colorado. Service areas in Texas include Central Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Coastal Bend, and El Paso. Security Service also serves Colorado with locations in Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, Aurora, Fountain, and Northern Colorado.

Promise can't promise you'll be able to buy anything you desire in the world, but it'll help you get some of the stuff you want. The largest consumer credit company in Japan, Promise provides customers with loans and credit products with a range of interest rates. Promise sells its loans directly and through subsidiaries, and customers can get hooked up with money through automatic contract machines (ACMs, which are not unlike ATMs), branch locations, over the telephone, via the internet, and through the mail. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group owns 20% of Promise.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises around 8,000 offices in 87 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.With listings on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges, shares in HSBC Holdings plc are held by around 220,000 shareholders in 124 countries and territories. The shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American Depositary Receipts.

Virginia Commerce Bancorp is the holding company for Virginia Commerce Bank, which has about 30 offices serving metropolitan Washington, DC's northern Virginia suburbs. The bank's customer base includes consumers, non-profit groups, and small to midsized businesses, particularly those that have contracts with the US government. The bank also offers wealth management services such as retirement planning, asset management, and investments such as mutual funds. Virginia Commerce primarily originates real estate loans, including mortgages and construction loans, which account for about 90% of its portfolio.

Bank Polska Kasa Opieki, better known as Bank Pekao (from its initials P.K.O.), offers retail, corporate, and investment banking services, primarily in Poland. It also provides leasing and asset management services. Branches can also be found in France and the Ukraine. In addition to traditional deposit products, Bank Pekao offers loans, leasing and factoring services, custodial services, currency exchange, and foreign trade facilitation. Originally founded as a state-owned bank to provide banking services to Polish emigrants, Bank Pekao is now controlled by Italian bank UniCredit, which holds approximately 53% of its shares.

Bank Leumi le-Israel B.M., whose name translates as National Bank of Israel, offers retail banking (for consumers and small businesses), commercial banking (middle-market businesses), corporate banking (large companies), and private banking (wealthy clients) through deposits, mortgages and other loans, credit cards, trust services, and investments. It has about 235 branches in Israel and more than 80 locations (including branches, agencies, and representative offices) in some 20 countries, including the US. Subsidiary Leumi Partners provides corporate investment banking services and makes direct investments in nonbanking businesses.

Bank of East Asia provides retail and commercial banking services in Hong Kong and mainland China. Its offerings include deposit accounts, consumer loans, mortgages, business loans, credit cards, private banking, and investment management. Bank of East Asia has some 130 locations in Hong Kong and more than 60 in mainland China; internationally, it has about 30 offices in the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, the US, and Vietnam. The bank's subsidiaries include online securities and futures brokerage provider East Asia Securities, Blue Cross (Asia-Pacific) Insurance, and Tricor, which performs outsourced business services.

The year was 1910 when the men in the photograph at left gathered at the Strawberry Market in Mount Olive, North Carolina. Their local bank, The Bank of Mount Olive, was nine years old at the time, and reflected the values of the day. It was a place where their money was safe and earned good interest. A place where they were treated as friends and respected as individuals.

RBS Invoice Finance can help them find the cash. A subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, the company offers products that enable businesses to turn their own sales invoices and inventories into instant cash. Key offerings include invoice discounting (RBS lends cash to a client against the client's own sales invoices), factoring (RBS buys unpaid/defaulted invoices at a discount), and asset-based lending. It uses a customer-facing data management system (FacFlow) to manage its invoice discounting and factoring services. RBS Invoice Finance caters to companies in the manufacturing, recruitment, pharmaceutical, and other sectors.

Bankinter is not the biggest bank in Spain, but it may be the most technologically advanced. The company was founded in 1965 as a joint venture between what is now Grupo Santander and Bank of America. It is among the top six banks in Spain and offers a variety of consumer and business banking services through branches, agents, telephone services, and the Internet. Bankinter provides mutual and pension funds, mortgages, leasing, and securities brokerage. Bankinter pioneered Internet stock trading in Spain. The bank jazzes up operations that could be deemed plain vanilla by focusing on convenient, low-cost delivery and customer service.

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