ECB Bancorp Enjoys Community Banking. The holding company owns The East Carolina Bank, which serves individuals, small to midsized businesses, and local governments through about 25 branches in eastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks. The bank, which opened in a barbershop in 1920, provides checking, savings, money market, NOW, and individual retirement accounts, plus certificates of deposit. It mainly originates real estate loans (approximately 80% of its loan portfolio), including residential and commercial mortgages and construction and land development loans. The East Carolina Bank also writes commercial, consumer, and construction loans. Members of the Gibbs family own about 15% of ECB Bancorp.

Central 1 Credit Union (Central 1) is the central banker for nearly 200 independent credit unions in British Columbia and Ontario. With nearly $10 billion in assets under management, Central 1 offers conventional banking products, liquidity services, and payment processing products, as well as business consulting assistance and online banking services (via MemberDirect). Central 1's member unions, which act as company shareholders, serve some 3 million clients through 835 branches. Credit Union Central of British Columbia merged with Credit Union Central of Ontario in 2008 to create Central 1 Credit Union. The merger set the stage for further consolidation in Canada's credit union system.

American Business bank's commercial lending services include commercial real estate loans (more than half of its portfolio), asset-based lending, equipment finance, construction loans, and revolving lines of credit. Its deposit products consist of checking, savings, and money market accounts, and CDs.What's a middle-market, closely held, owner-managed business gotta do to get FORTUNE 500 treatment from a bank? American Business Bank caters to private companies in Southern California with annual sales between $5 million and $200 million, with an emphasis on wholesalers, manufacturers, service businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and professionals. It has offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Ontario, Torrance, and Woodland Hills.

Camden National Corporation is the holding company for Camden National Bank, which was founded in 1875 and once issued its own US currency. With about 40 branches in 10 Maine counties, the bank provides checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Residential mortgages make up more than 40% of its loan portfolio; business loans, including commercial mortgages, make up another 40%; and consumer loans constitute the remainder. Subsidiary Union Trust operates nine branches in the coastal counties of Hancock and Washington, while Acadia Trust provides trust, fiduciary, investment management, and retirement plan administration services and Acadia Financial Consultants offers brokerage and insurance services.

Anglo-Romanian Bank, founded in 1973, it is the UK operating subsidiary of Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR), the largest bank in Romania. Besides typical banking products such as checking and savings accounts, Anglo-Romanian offers commercial banking services and engages in import-export finance and a variety of related operations including foreign exchange and money market transactions. In addition to its UK offices, the bank owns and operates branches in Germany and Romania. It has been a subsidiary of BCR since 2001.

A Burdale in the hand may be worth a few bushels full of cash to midsized businesses in the UK and continental Europe. Burdale Financial, which was acquired from Wachovia by Bank of Ireland in 2005, provides comprehensive asset-based lending to businesses looking for growth financing. Burdale Financial shuns what it characterizes as piece-meal approaches (receivables lending, factoring) in favor of comprehensive asset-based financing, which typically sees Burdale lending to manufacturing, retail, or distribution clients undergoing a change, such as management-led buyout or turnaround. Officers Dennis Levine and Brian Gitlin founded Burdale Financial in 1992.

AMB Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for the American Savings, FSB that offers a range of financial products and services to families and local businesses primarily in northwest Indiana. The company’s deposit products include passbook accounts, demand and NOW accounts, certificate accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises residential real estate, nonresidential real estate, home equity, multi-family, construction, consumer, land, commercial business, home improvement, and vehicle loans. AMB Financial Corp. also offers online banking, debit/ATM cards, automated clearing house, remote deposit capture, accounts receivable financing, and merchant services. In addition, the company provides investment, estate, business, and financial planning services. It operates through three full-service banking offices located in Dyer, Hammond, and Schererville, Indiana. AMB Financial Corp. was founded in 1910 and is based in Munster, Indiana.

NBT Bank and its Pennstar Bank division, which together operate about 120 branches in central and upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and Burlington, Vermont. The community banks offer such standard products and services as checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and trust services. The company's lending activities are dominated by business and commercial real estate loans. Other subsidiaries offer insurance, financial and retirement planning, and investment products. Its NBT Capital subsidiary provides venture funding to area businesses.

Dwinn-Shaffer & Company wants to match you a match, find you a find, catch you a catch. For some 40 years, this Chicago-based mortgage broker has been in the business of matching borrowers, such as real estate developers, with lenders, including insurance companies, pension funds, banks, and credit companies. It provides funding for first and second mortgages, corporate financing, joint venture financing, equity lending, securitizations, and equipment leasing. Dwinn-Shaffer is also a Fannie Mae Prior Approval lender. Affiliates Dwinn-Shaffer Development Company and BNG Management Company augment the firm's mortgage banking business with real estate development and property management services.

The Toronto-Dominion Bank, together with its subsidiaries, provides retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and wholesale banking products and services in North America and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. The Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking segment comprises its Canadian banking and global insurance businesses that serve personal and small business customers. It provides a range of insurance products, such as home and automobile coverage, life and health insurance in Canada and the U.S.; business property and casualty business in the U.S.; and credit protection coverage on lending products. This segment also offers banking solutions through telephone and Internet banking. The Wealth Management segment provides discount brokerage, financial planning, private investment advice, and private client services in Canada; and financial advisory, private banking, and trust and investment management services to the U.S. clients. The U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking segment comprises the retail and commercial banking operations in the United States. It serves through a network of approximately 1,028 branches. The Wholesale Banking segment serves corporate, government, and institutional clients in financial markets worldwide. It provides a range of capital market and investment banking products and services that include underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and executing daily trading and investment needs. As of October 31, 2009, the company operated approximately 2,600 automated banking machines, and a network of 1,116 branches located in Canada. The company was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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