Standard Bank was incorporated as Standard State Bank in 1947. It served the southwest metropolitan Chicago community at 79th Street and Ashland Avenue. In 1970, the Bank moved to 95th Street and Western Avenue in the Evergreen Park community. In 1980, the Bank’s first branch was opened in the Oak Lawn community and, in 1986, a second branch began to serve the community of Palos Park. Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s Standard Bank & Trust Co. continued to expand into the communities of Orland Park, Hickory Hills and Naperville, Illinois. Standard Bank and Trust’s corporate headquarters are now located in Hickory Hills.

Southcoast Financial Corporation, headquartered in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, is the holding company of Southcoast Community Bank. The Bank, which opened for business July 20, 1998, is a state chartered commercial bank operating from its main office at 534 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Southcoast is a locally owned and operated business and has been recognized as one of the top 25 fastest growing companies in South Carolina. Southcoast Financial Corporation's common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol SOCB.Southcoast has ten locations in the Greater Charleston market, including offices in Charleston, North Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, Johns Island, Moncks Corner, Summerville, and Goose Creek. The Company's strategic focus is to serve the banking needs of small businesses in the Tri-County area. In addition to traditional consumer and commercial services, Southcoast offers mortgage loan origination services, tax deposits, as well as a variety of other services. Southcoast has also established a 24-hour automated teller network throughout the Tri-County area.

Lloyds Banking Group plc provides various banking and financial services to personal and corporate customers primarily in the United Kingdom. It operates through four segments: Retail, Wholesale, Wealth and International, and Insurance. The Retail segment provides banking, mortgages, and other financial services to personal customers. Its products include current and savings accounts, personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages. This segment also operates as a general insurance and bancassurance distributor and sells a range of long-term savings, investment, and general insurance products. The Wholesale provides banking and related services for multinational corporates and financial institutions, and small and medium-sized businesses.

Abington Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Abington Savings Bank, doing business as Abington Bank that provides various financial products and services in Pennsylvania. It primarily generates deposits and originates loans. Abington Bancorp, Inc. company’s deposit product line comprises interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking, savings, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts. Abington Bancorp’s loan portfolio includes one-to four-family residential mortgage loans; commercial real estate and multi-family residential real estate loans; construction loans; home equity lines; commercial business loans; and consumer loans, such as automobile loans. The company also offers securities and annuities through an affiliation with a third-party broker-dealer, as well as provides online banking and telephone banking services. Its banking office network consists of headquarters and main office in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; 12 additional full service branch offices; and 7 limited service banking offices located in Montgomery, Bucks, and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. Abington Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

The Farm Credit Bank of Texas is owned by the lending cooperatives it serves. Part of the federal Farm Credit System, the Farm Credit Bank of Texas provides loans and financial services to more than 20 lending cooperatives and financial institutions in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. The co-ops include federal land credit associations, which offer real estate loans on farms, ranches, and other rural property, and agricultural credit associations, which provide agricultural production loans, agribusiness financing, and rural mortgage financing. Its Capital Markets Group partners with banks and other institutions to provide capital to food, energy, agribusiness, and telecom companies.

SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for SouthFirst Bank, which provides general banking services in Alabama. The bank primarily generates deposits and originates various loans. Its deposit products include NOW accounts, money-market accounts, passbook savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. The banks loan portfolio comprises one-to-four family, owner-occupied, and residential mortgage; fixed-rate and adjustable-rate-mortgage residential construction loans; consumer loans, including savings account loans; and loans secured by second mortgage on real estate, such as home improvement and home equity loans.

First Franchise Capital is a subsidiary of First Financial Bancorp, which assumed ownership of the company after acquiring the operations of the failed Irwin Financial in an FDIC-facilitated transaction in 2009. Going loco trying to finance your El Pollo? First Franchise Capital can help ease the franchise-operation crazies. Formerly Irwin Franchise Capital, the company provides conventional and Small Business Administration-backed loans of at least $100,000 to restaurant franchisees to acquire, build, remodel, or refinance new stores. It also offers financing for equipment and real estate. First Franchise Capital Corporation works with more than 50 restaurant brands and deals with franchisees of all sizes throughout the US.

Henderson Citizens Bancshares is the holding company for Citizens National Bank, which operates from some 20 branches located across East Texas. The regional bank provides traditional banking services such as checking, savings, and money market accounts to individual and commercial customers. It also offers multiple loan products, including personal, mortgage, and home improvement as well as real estate, agricultural, and lines of credit. Insurance services are offered through subsidiary CFG Insurance. Citizens National Bank was founded in 1930 with $150,000 compiled by eight private investors.

MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. operates as a holding company for MidSouth Bank, N.A. that provides banking services to commercial and retail customers in south Louisiana and southeast Texas. The company’s deposit products and services include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing checking accounts, investment accounts, credit cards, and cash management services, as well as electronic banking services, including remote deposit capturing services. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans, and loans secured by real estate and consumer loans. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a network of 35 offices and approximately 50 ATMs in south Louisiana and southeast Texas.

The Reserve Bank of India serves as the Asian nation's central bank. Its primary function is to ensure the country's monetary stability. The bank creates monetary policy and assists in regulating its financial system. The central board of directors, appointed by the government, leads the bank. The Reserve Bank of India was founded as a privately owned bank in 1935; it became government-owned following nationalization in 1949. The bank is headquartered in Mumbai and has 22 regional offices. Its subsidiaries include the National Housing Bank, Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of India, and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development.

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