Erste & Steiermarkische Bank (ESB) is banking on the fiduciary habits of native Croatians. The Croatia-based bank caters to individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses through more than 120 branches; services include Internet banking for retail and corporate clients. When the bank first opened in 2002, it had few direct competitors, but today as the competitive landscape has changed, the bank's clientele have had more banking choices and have asserted their loyalty to ESB. The company has a more than 10% market share. Erste Bank owns 555% of Erste & Steiermarkische; Steiermarkische Bank und Sparkassen owns about 40%.

Founded in 1917, Bankers Trust is Iowa’s oldest and largest independently owned bank, with assets of $2.4 billion and more than 400 employees. Based in Des Moines, Bankers Trust has 11 offices throughout the Greater Des Moines area, as well as branches or operations in Ames, Iowa; Phoenix, Ariz.; Omaha, Neb.; and Sioux Falls, S.D. Bankers Trust Cedar Rapids, operating under a separate banking charter, has assets approaching $400 million and more than 40 employees.

BPI Family Savings Bank, which has some 140 branches, traces much of its growth to remittances from Filipinos working abroad. The overseas foreign workers (OFWs) take higher-paying jobs outside of the island nation and send funds back home. (About 10% of Filipinos are OFWs.) The bank was formed in a 1985 merger between parent Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and the Family Savings Bank.

Banco Guipuzcoano (BG) offers a variety of financial services to individuals and businesses, including savings, checking, and credit card services. Financial consultation, asset management, retirement planning, insurance, and investment products are also available; in addition, the bank is active in international business and real estate. Its ASPRO division handles corporate finance. BG, which was founded in 1899, operates nearly 260 branches in the region. The company is merging with larger rival Banco de Sabadell.

Idaho Independent Bank has about a dozen branches located throughout the state. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank provides such traditional products as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. The bank also offers a variety of products and services aimed specifically at business customers, including cash management and working capital loans. Real estate loans make up more than half of the bank's loan portfolio. Idaho Independent Bank also originates business, construction, and consumer loans.

BGL BNP Paribas covers both general and specific banking needs for customers in the grand duchy and beyond. The bank offers a wide variety of financial services to individuals, businesses, and government institutions. For private consumers, it operates about 35 retail branches throughout Luxembourg and also offers Internet-based banking. For businesses, the bank offers such services as foreign-exchange transactions and international trade financing. It also engages in private banking for wealthy clients. In 2009 BNP Paribas acquired a 67% stake in BGL and 75% of its previous parent, Fortis.

Provident Financial Holdings is the holding company for Provident Savings Bank, which operates more than a dozen branches in Southern California's Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Catering to individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers such standard retail products as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs, as well as retirement planning services. Real estate loans including single-family, multifamily, and commercial mortgages and construction loans make up essentially all of the company's loan portfolio. Single-family residential mortgages make up more than half of all loans.

Guaranty Bancorp (formerly Centennial Bank Holdings) knows a thing or two about dollars and cents. After all, it's the holding company for Colorado's Guaranty Bank and Trust. The bank operates about 35 branches, primarily in the metropolitan Denver and North Front Range areas. Guaranty Bank and Trust offers traditional checking, savings, money market, and NOW accounts as well as IRAs. Real estate mortgages and business loans each make up more than one-third of a loan portfolio that also includes construction and other types of consumer and business loans. In 2008 the company merged subsidiary Centennial Bank of the West into Guaranty Bank and Trust and, following suit, changed its own name.

Blue River Bancshares was founded in 1937 and is based in Shelbyville, Indiana. Blue River Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Shelby County Bank and Paramount Bank, which provide community banking services for individuals and businesses in south central Indiana. Its deposits products include checking, NOW, savings, and time deposits. The company also offers real estate loans for single-family and multi-family properties and medium and short-term loans for commercial, agricultural, and industrial properties, as well as consumer and commercial lines of credit secured by real estate; commercial loans for the purpose of financing equipment, working capital, expansion, and other general business purposes; consumer loans, including automobile loans and equity lines of credit; and agricultural loans. As of March 31, 2007, it operated three full service branches in Shelbyville, Morristown, and St. Paul, Indiana; a loan production office in Fishers, Indiana; and one office in Lexington, Kentucky.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union serves over 999,658 members in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, defense-related companies, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We were federally chartered in 1935 and serve our members worldwide.

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