American Savings Bank has grown into one of Hawaii’s leading financial institutions. A large network of American Savings Bank branches and automated teller machines – in addition to phone and online banking options – make it easier than ever to address the needs of our customers and our communities.

Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB) has international character. It was the first Chinese bank to receive significant foreign investment and its chairman and CEO, Frank Newman, is a former deputy secretary of the US Treasury. SDB has more than 250 bank branches in economic centers including Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin; it has correspondent branches in more than 70 international regions. The bank offers standard deposit and lending services to commercial and individual customers. It also trades in foreign and domestic securities and offers a mix of financial services including trust services and investment banking. Ping An Insurance owns about a third of SDB and plans to double that stake to control the bank.

State Street Bank provides custody, shareholder services, brokerage, securities finance, research, and other management services for institutional clients around the world. Customers include mutual funds, pension plans, and investment managers. At the top of the custody-services heap, State Street has about $19 trillion in assets under custody. It also has nearly $2 trillion in assets under administration. Other subsidiaries include asset manager State Street Global Advisors and State Street Alternative Investment Solutions.

China Minsheng Banking Corporation (CMBC) provides standard corporate and personal banking services as well as a broader range of financial services including international financing, wealth management, settlement, factoring, and bond underwriting. The company has some 350 main branches and outlet locations throughout China, including a representative office in Hong Kong. It has relationships with about 750 foreign banks worldwide. CMBC was founded in 1996 and was China's first commercial bank to be owned by mostly non-government entities.

The Home Development Mutual Fund was established by the government in 1978. For this financial services company, time flies when you're having funds. The Home Development Mutual Fund (more commonly known as the Pag-IBIG Fund) is one of the premier financial institutions in the Philippines. It caters to mostly middle-income workers, but also loans to residential developers. As one of the largest financiers of housing loans in the country, the state-run company issues housing bonds (used to finance its housing loan program), offers multi-purpose loans (for medical, educational, and minor home improvement assistance), and provides disaster relief financial assistance.

Bank of America boasts one of the country's most extensive branch networks with more than 5,900 locations covering some 40 states from coast to coast. Its core services include consumer and small business banking, credit cards, and asset management. In early 2009 Bank of America paid some $50 billion in stock for Merrill Lynch, which had been crippled by the global credit crisis. The acquisition of the once-mighty investment bank known as "The Bull," which has an extensive retail brokerage network, beefs up Bank of America's wealth management, investment banking, and international business.

Xponential, Inc., through its subsidiary, PawnMart, Inc., operates as a finance and retail company in the United States. Xponential, Inc. engages in the establishment and operation of stores, which advance money secured by the pledge of tangible personal property, as well as in buying and selling pre-owned merchandise. As of June 30, 2009, it owned and operated 25 pawn stores located in Georgia and North Carolina. The company, through its 12.13% interest in Capital Financial Holdings, Inc., also provides investment products and services to independent investment representatives, financial planners, and investment advisors. Xponential, Inc. was formerly known as PawnMart, Inc. and changed its name to Xponential, Inc. in February 2003. Xponential, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia.

NB&T Financial Group, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for The National Bank and Trust Company that provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals and corporate customers in southwestern Ohio. The company offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, and term certificate accounts. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial loans, such as loans to automobile dealers and loans guaranteed by the small business administration; loans secured by commercial real estate; real estate construction loans for constructing commercial and residential buildings; agricultural loans, including loans to finance farm operations, equipment purchases, and land acquisition; loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate and multifamily real estate; and consumer installment loans, such as home equity loans, automobile loans, recreational vehicle loans, and overdraft protection. The company also offers credit card services; and trust services that consist of trust administration, investment purchase and management, estate planning and administration, tax and financial planning, and employee benefit plan administration. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a main office in Wilmington, as well as 25 full-service branch offices and 1 automated teller machine facility in Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Highland, Montgomery, and Warren Counties in Ohio. NB and T Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1859 and is based in Wilmington, Ohio.

First West Virginia Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Progressive Bank, N.A., which provides various consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, professionals, and governments. The company offers various deposit accounts, including non-interest bearing demand checking accounts, interest bearing checking/negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and Christmas club accounts.

Five Point Capital was founded in 1999 by owners Dave Gilbert and Dan Feder. In the market for a forklift? Five Point Capital provides equipment financing on everything from company vehicles to computer software for small and medium-sized businesses. Five Point Capital, Inc. finances leased new and used equipment for the agricultural, automotive, construction, medical, restaurant, and waste management industries, among others. It provides lease lines of credit for amounts as small as $5,000 and as high as $1 million, although most are around $100,000. Additional business services Five Point Capital, Inc. offers include a cash advance program for small merchants that deal in credit card transactions.

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