Bank of India is one of the nation's largest private banks. The bank has around 2,900 branches in India and about 30 foreign offices in the Channel Islands, China, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Singapore, the UK, US, West Indies, and Vietnam. International operations account for about 20% of the bank's business. Besides savings, checking, credit cards, and ATM services, the bank offers personal loan services including mortgage, car, and vacation loans. The bank's branches specialize in different areas: corporate banking (credit) overseas branches (foreign exchange), NRI offices (expat Indians). Other branches offer capital markets operations, asset recovery, and agriculture and lease financing.

Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

Glacier Bancorp is on a Rocky Mountain High. The multibank holding company owns about a dozen community banks in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Colorado, and Wyoming. Serving individuals, small to midsized businesses, not-for-profits, and public entities, the banks operate a total of about 100 branches. Glacier Bancorp offers traditional deposit products and credit cards, in addition to retail brokerage and investment services through agreements with third-party providers. Its lending activities consist of commercial real estate loans (almost half of the company's loan portfolio), as well as residential mortgages, business loans, and consumer loans.

Great Southern Bank was founded in 1923 with a $5,000 investment, four employees and 936 customers. Today, it has grown to $3.4 billion in total assets, more than 1,000 dedicated associates serving nearly 150,000 households. Headquartered in Springfield, Mo., the Company operates 75 retail banking centers in Missouri, Arkansas. Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Great Southern offers one-stop shopping with a comprehensive line-up of financial services that give customers more choices for their money. Customers can choose from a wide variety of checking accounts, savings accounts and lending options. With the understanding that convenient access to banking services is a top priority, customers can access the bank when, where and how they prefer, whether it’s through a banking center that will have the longest banking hours in town, through an ATM, by telephone or through the Internet.Beyond traditional banking services, customers can also look to Great Southern for help with investment, insurance and travel services through Great Southern Financial Services, Great Southern Insurance and Great Southern Travel. Great Southern’s mission is to build winning relationships with its customers, associates, shareholders and communities. On any given day, we are hard at work helping young families realize the dream of homeownership, helping a business owner expand his or her business, or providing the right product or service to help an individual save for a future goal. We’re also partnering with the community to help make it a better and more prosperous place to live. And, last but not least, we are keeping the interests of our shareholders in mind in every decision we make while also maintaining our commitment to provide a superior long-term return on their investment.

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Wilshire State Bank that offers a range of financial products and services. It accepts various deposit products, including certificates of deposit, regular savings accounts, money market accounts, checking and negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, installment savings accounts, and individual retirement accounts. The company’s loan portfolio comprises commercial real estate loans and home mortgage lending, commercial business loans and trade finance, small business administration loans, consumer loans, and construction loans. It also provides trade finance products that include the issuance and negotiation of commercial and standby letters of credit, as well as handling of documentary collections. In addition, the company offers Internet banking, automatic teller machines, and armored carrier services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 23 branch offices in California, Texas, New Jersey, and New York; and 5 loan production offices in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, and Annandale. Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

In 1960, a group of Whidbey Island business leaders felt the time had come to create an independent community bank — one that would serve the unique banking needs of local businesses and residents of Whidbey Island.Their vision was simple: To build a bank based on strong community values — one that would invest its financial capital locally. One that believed its employees are its most valuable asset. Most importantly, this bank would provide an exceptional level of service, simply by treating people for who they are — our friends and neighbors. We call this style of banking The Whidbey Way and, in spite of our island roots, it doesn’t end at the Clinton ferry terminal or at Deception Pass.Experience the Whidbey Way of banking at 30 branches, throughout 6 counties in Northwest Washington.

Xenith Bankshares, formerly First Bankshares, is the holding company of SuffolkFirst Bank, a community bank with three offices in southeastern Virginia. The bank targets commercial customers, wealthy individuals, and investors. It offers traditional products and services including checking and savings accounts, CDs, debit cards, and merchant card processing. Its lending portfolio is primarily made up of real estate loans, namely residential and commercial mortgages. Xenith Bankshares was created in late 2009 through the merger of the six-year-old First Bankshares and Xenith Corporation, which had originally been established to open a new banking institution.

Automotive Finance Corporation (AFC) is a premier capital funding source for the used car industry. Founded in 1987 and based out of Carmel, Indiana, AFC's commitment to the success of our customers, our employees, and our company has made us one of the largest independent providers of dealer floorplan financing in North America. With more than 85 strategically located branch offices servicing dealers at more than 800 auctions throughout North America, AFC offers outstanding customer service and solutions to the independent dealer's unique business needs. AFC offers innovative products and services designed with the independent dealer in mind, including Vehicle Inventory Protection (VIP) and 24-hour account management through www.afcdealer.com. Additional floorplan programs for salvage vehicles, daily rental operators, and for non-auction purchases are also available.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is trying to erase borders in a way. EDC provides a variety of financial services, including lending, insurance, and risk management, to help exporters and investors in Canada to expand their international business. It also performs financial reporting and economic analysis. The agency serves more than 8,000 companies annually, a majority of them small businesses. Created in 1944 as an official export credit agency, EDC is wholly owned by the Canadian government. It operates as a self-sustaining commercial entity, but it is accountable to Canada's Minister of International Trade and the Canadian Parliament.

Northeast Community Bancorp is the holding company for Northeast Community Bank, which serves consumers and businesses in the New York metropolitan area and Massachusetts. Through about a half-dozen branches, the thrift offers traditional deposit services like checking and savings accounts, as well as a variety of lending products such as commercial and multi-family real estate loans, home equity, construction, and secured loans. While its deposit services are confined to New York and Massachusetts, it markets its loan products throughout the northeastern US. The bank offers investment and financial planning services through Hayden Wealth Management. Northeast Community Bank's roots date back to 1934.

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