Bank Sarasin, one of Switzerland's largest and most reputable private banks, specializes in asset management, investment funds, securities trading, and investment counseling, catering to both private and corporate clients. The bank also offers complementary services such as corporate finance and brokerage analysis. The bank's financial services businesses are run through several subsidiaries, including Sarasin Funds Management and Sarasin Investment Management, which manages the bank's fund advisement activities in the UK. Netherlands-based Rabobank owns a majority of Bank Sarasin, which was established in 1841.

Community Bank of the Bay is a community bank that was founded in 1996 with offices in Oakland, Danville and San Jose, California. We believe that business starts with an idea; a dream, a vision of what you want to be. Running a business means you need a smart, capable partner in a bank. We believe our approach works best. Outstanding personal service and forward thinking bank professionals who understand business -- because we are entrepreneurs too.To that end, we've created a bank that is going to change the way you look at banks and banking. It's an unprecedented way to look at the customer/banker relationship. It's a bank where outstanding service isn't just a promise. And we know we have one thing in common -- the desire to achieve success.

SCBT Financial is the holding company for South Carolina Bank and Trust and South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont (both are also known as SCBT), which operate more than 40 branches throughout the Palmetto state. The company also owns North Carolina Bank and Trust, or NCBT, which has three locations in the Charlotte area. SCBT Financial entered northern Georgia in 2010 when it acquired the failed Community Bank & Trust in an FDIC-assisted transaction; the deal added nearly 40 locations, most of them inside supermarkets, though SBCT later shuttered several of them. Serving retail and business customers, the banks provide deposit accounts, loans, and mortgages, as well as trust and investment services.

Banca Popolare Di Spoleto offers savings accounts, loans, credit cards and debit cards to individuals, families and businesses. The bank has about 70 branches throughout the central Italian regions of Umbria, Lazio, Marche, and Tuscany. BPS Online allows customers to access accounts on the Internet. Through a strategic alliance, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena provides bonds, pension funds, property management, project financing and mutual funds to Banca Popolare di Spoleto's customers.

Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. operates as a holding company for The Fauquier Bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, and industries in Virginia. Its deposit products include demand deposits, interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing deposits, NOW accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, and direct deposits. The company’s loan portfolio comprises real estate loans, such as one to four family residential loans, construction loans, and commercial real estate loans; consumer loans, including installment loans, credit card loans, and other secured and unsecured credit facilities; and commercial loans comprising loans for working capital, equipment purchases, and various other business purposes. Its loan portfolio also consists of stand-by letters of credit and grants for installments, unsecured and secured personal loans, and residential mortgages and home equity loans, as well as automobile and other types of consumer financing. In addition, Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. offers safe deposit services, credit cards, cash management services, direct deposits, notary services, night depository, travel and gift cards, cashier’s checks, domestic collections, savings bonds, bank drafts, automated teller services, drive-in tellers, Internet banking, telephone banking, and banking by mail services. Further, it provides wealth management services that include investment management, trust, estate settlement, retirement, insurance, brokerage, and title insurance services. Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. has 10 full service branch offices located in the Virginia communities of Warrenton, Catlett, The Plains, Sudley Road-Manassas, Old Town-Manassas, New Baltimore, Bealeton, Bristow, and Haymarket. Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. was founded in 1902 and is based in Warrenton, Virginia.

Banco Macro S.A. provides banking products and services to individuals, entrepreneurs, companies, and corporate customers in Argentina. It offers various retail products and services, such as savings and checking accounts, time deposits, credit and debit cards, consumer finance loans, mortgage loans, car loans, overdrafts, credit-related services, home and car insurance coverage, tax collection, utility payments, automated teller machines (ATMs), and money transfer services. The company also provides personal loans, document discounts, mortgages, overdrafts, pledged loans, and credit card loans to retail customers. Its corporate banking products and services include deposits, lending, check cashing advances and factoring, guaranteed loans, and credit lines for financing foreign trade, and cash management services. Further, the company offers trust, payroll, and financial agency services, as well as corporate credit cards; and transaction services, such as cash management, customer collections, payments to suppliers, payroll administration, foreign exchange transactions, foreign trade services, corporate credit cards, and information services, such as Datanet and Interpymes services to corporate customers; and Internet banking services. It operates a network of 408 branches and 836 automated teller machines. The company is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Centinel Bank Shares is the holding company for Centinel Bank of Taos. Catering to the Hispanic community, the bank provides traditional deposit services and products such as checking and savings accounts, as well as loans from four branches in New Mexico. CEO Rebeca Rainey's grandfather, Eliu Romero, founded the bank in 1969. He was motivated to establish a bank that would serve the Hispanic community when he was denied for a loan to help start his law practice

FirstRand's FirstRand Bank Holdings operates FirstRand Bank and First National Bank in southern Africa, as well as asset financing firm WesBank and investment bank Rand Merchant Bank. FirstRand Limited owns and operates more than 750 branches and approximately 6,000 ATMs in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zambia. It also has a presence on every continent except Antarctica, with an international focus on Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and the UK. The company's activities encompass retail and private banking, corporate and investment banking, insurance, and asset management.

The company was renamed Ally Financial in 2010, although it was founded in 1919 as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) to be a provider of financing to automotive customers. Since then, the business has expanded to include insurance, online banking, mortgage operations and commercial finance. See the timeline to trace Ally's evolution.

Access Group was founded in 1983 to provide funding to law students. As if paying for Albert's undergraduate degree didn't set you back enough, now your little Einstein wants to attend graduate school. It may be time to contact Access Group, a not-for-profit organization that offers graduate and professional student lending. The company issues and services private student loans for continuing education, part-time, and international students, and their parents. It specializes in financing educations in business, dental, law, medical, engineering, and other professional courses of study. Access Group, Inc. also issues specialized loans for bar and dental board exams and medical and dental residencies.

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