Social Investment Scotland is a private partnership with backers that include the country's largest banks -- Clydesdale Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, and the Royal Bank of Scotland -- that provides loan finance and business support to social enterprises and voluntary organizations that do not fit lending criteria of commercial banks. Its main fund, Futurebuilders Plus, supports social economy organizations operating in Scotland; the Edinburgh Fund funnels grants to social enterprises in the city.

Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. owns 10 independently operated companies that offer private banking, wealth advisory, and investment management to wealthy individuals and institutional clients throughout the US. Boston Private's holdings include Boston Private Bank & Trust, which operates about 10 branches in Massachusetts. In California, the company runs Borel Private Bank & Trust and First Private Bank & Trust. Charter Private Bank serves clients in Washington. The banks offer a range of deposit lending products. Boston Private's advisory and management arms oversee some $19 billion in assets.

SunTrust Banks, Inc. operates as the holding company for SunTrust Bank, which provides various financial services to consumer and corporate customers in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Retail and Commercial, Wealth and Investment Management, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Household Lending. The Retail and Commercial segment offers various financial products and services that include consumer deposits; home equity lines; consumer lines; commercial and commercial real estate lending; financial risk management; insurance premium financing; treasury and payment solutions, including commercial card services; and specialized commercial real estate investments.

CBRE | Melody helps commercial real estate owners sing a sweeter tune. A unit of real estate powerhouse CB Richard Ellis, the real estate investment banking and commercial mortgage lending firm offers a variety of debt and equity financing products and related services through more than 35 offices in major cities throughout North America. Loan servicing is provided through GEMSA Loan Services, its joint venture with GE Real Estate. CBRE | Melody offers construction, permanent, mezzanine, and other types of financing for apartment complexes, office buildings, hotels, and industrial and retail properties.

Jeffersonville Bancorp is the holding company for The First National Bank of Jeffersonville. The bank serves businesses and consumers through about 10 locations in southeastern New York's Sullivan County. First National Bank of Jeffersonville offers such standard retail services as demand deposit, savings, and money market accounts; NOW accounts; CDs; and IRAs to fund a variety of loans. Nearly 40% of the bank's loan portfolio consists of residential mortgages, while commercial mortgages account for another 35%. The bank also provides home equity, business, consumer, construction, and agricultural loans.

BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) is the parent of Bank of China (Hong Kong), which has about 300 branches in Hong Kong as well as on mainland China. The bank serves local businesses and consumers, providing loans, deposit accounts, and other standard services, as well as securities brokerage, wealth management, and project financing and syndication. It also prints currency. In addition, Bank of China (Hong Kong) owns Nanyang Commercial Bank and some 70% of Chiyu Banking Corporation (both are also based in Hong Kong), as well as BOC Credit Card (International). Bank of China, which is controlled by the Chinese government, owns about two-thirds of BOC Hong Kong.

Great American Bancorp, Inc. operates as the savings and loan holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana (the Bank) in Illinois. The Bank provides various retail banking services to individuals, families, and businesses in Champaign County, Illinois and surrounding counties. It engages in generating deposits and originating loans. The Bank offers various deposit products to its customers, including savings, demand deposits, NOW accounts, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts.

Oberbank, which has more than 130 locations, has operations throughout Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. The bank serves individual clients, but caters to business, particularly the industrial sector and small and midsized firms. Oberbank units are involved in such activities as investment, leasing, and real estate lending. A unit of Unicredit Bank Austria owns about one-third of Oberbank, which has minority cross-ownership alliances with Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark (BKS) and Bank für Tirol and Vorarlberg (BTV).

NewAlliance Bancshares is the holding company for NewAlliance Bank, a community savings institution that offers personal and business banking through about 90 branches in Connecticut and Massachusetts. It provides standard services such as checking and savings accounts, loans and mortgages, and retirement planning. Trust Company of Connecticut, a division of the bank, provides trust and investment management services to individuals, families, and not-for-profits. Acquisitive Buffalo-based financial services holding company First Niagara Financial, which has expanded into Pennsylvania through recent purchases, is buying New Alliance Bancshares for some $1.5 billion.

ChoiceOne Bank, which has more than a dozen offices in the western part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The bank serves consumers and area businesses, offering checking and savings accounts, CDs, investment planning, and other services. Real estate loans, including residential and commercial mortgages, constitute more than two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio. Agricultural, consumer, and business loans help to round out the bank's lending activities. ChoiceOne Financial Services sells life, health, and disability coverage through its ChoiceOne Insurance Agencies subsidiaries.

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