The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international organization which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks The head office is in Basel, Switzerland and there are two representative offices: in the HongKong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and in Mexico City. Established on 17 May 1930, the BIS is the world's oldest international financial organization.As its customers are central banks and international organizations, the BIS does not accept deposits from, or provide financial services to, private individuals or corporate entities.

Tidelands Bancshares does its work at the intersection of Southern charm and Coastal cool. The holding company operates Tidelands Bank, which has seven branches along the coast of South Carolina. The bank offers traditional retail services and products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and commercial and consumer loans. Tidelands Bank grows by opening loan production offices and then, when they prove successful, converting them into full service locations. The company specializes in services for small businesses and entrepreneurs, of which there are plenty in the tourist-laden beachfront locales it calls home. About 75% of its loan activity is in Charleston.

Oberbank, which has more than 130 locations, has operations throughout Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. The bank serves individual clients, but caters to business, particularly the industrial sector and small and midsized firms. Oberbank units are involved in such activities as investment, leasing, and real estate lending. A unit of Unicredit Bank Austria owns about one-third of Oberbank, which has minority cross-ownership alliances with Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark (BKS) and Bank für Tirol and Vorarlberg (BTV).

Southern First Bancshares operates in two markets: Greenville, South Carolina, where it operates under the Greenville First Bank moniker, and in Columbia, South Carolina as Southern First Bank. Selling itself as a local alternative to larger institutions, the company, which has more than five bank branches, targets individuals and small to midsized businesses. It offers traditional deposit services and products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and CDs. The banks use funds from deposits mainly to write commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and commercial business loans.

BEO Bancorp began in 1945 as the Gilliam County Bank, Arlington.BEO Bancorp wants to be the bank of choice for rural Oregonians. BEO, which is the holding company for Bank of Eastern Oregon, has about a dozen offices in north central Oregon; it is the state's largest agricultural bank. BEO serves area consumers and businesses, offering standard deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, and lending products including mortgages and commercial loans. Through BEO Financial Services, the company offers customers investment and insurance products.

CNB Financial is the holding company for CNB Bank (formerly County National Bank), which provides traditional deposit and loan services through more than 20 branches and two loan production offices in northwestern and central Pennsylvania. In 2005 the company opened ERIEBANK, a division of CNB Bank, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Commercial, financial, and agricultural loans make up more than 35% of CNB Financial's loan portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages (about 30%) and commercial mortgages (more than 25%). Other offerings include credit cards, investments, life insurance, wealth management, and merchant credit card processing.

Credit Agricole Nord de France provides banking services in the north of France as one of the nearly 40 regional banks that make up the Credit Agricole system. Credit Agricole Nord, which is approximately 25%-owned by Credit Agricole, offers a variety of consumer- and business-oriented services, such as savings accounts, loans, mortgages, credit and debit cards, real estate brokerage, and property and auto insurance. The bank is also active in private equity, taking stakes in local entities such as bottled water firm Eaux de Saint Amand and real estate appraiser Ex'Im Expertises, as well as area real estate projects.

Citizens Bancshares is the holding company for Citizens Trust Bank, which serves the Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia and Birmingham and Eutaw, Alabama communities from about 10 branch offices. The bank provides standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, credit cards, financial planning, and investments. Its lending portfolio mainly consists of loans secured by one- to four-family residences, multifamily dwellings, or commercial or industrial real estate. Former chairman and Atlanta-area entrepreneur and philanthropist Herman J. Russell owns about 30% of Citizens Bancshares' stock.

Aries Capital is a full-service mortgage banker specializing in structured financing for commercial projects including hotels, office buildings, and apartment buildings. Its offerings include fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, typically ranging from $3 million to $100 million, as well interim funds and smaller multifamily residential loans. Through Aries Real Estate Fund, Aries Capital, LLC provides mezzanine and bridge financing; Urban Development Fund finances projects that will benefit underserved communities. Aries Capital, LLC operates nationwide through offices in Chicago, Denver, Houston, and Phoenix. Aries Capital has funded more than $3 billion in real estate developments in the past decade.

Rabobank Group is an international financial services provider operating on the basis of cooperative principles. Rabobank Group offers retail banking, wholesale banking, asset management, leasing and real estate services, with emphasis on providing a comprehensive package of fi nancial services in the Netherlands. Internationally the Rabobank Group is focussed on the food and agri sector. Rabobank Group is comprised of 143 independent local Rabobanks plus Rabobank Nederland, their umbrella organisation, and a number of subsidiaries.

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