Peoples Financial helps people with their money. The company owns The Peoples Bank, which operates more than 15 branches along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The bank offers traditional checking and savings products. Real estate mortgages make up about nearly 65% of its loan portfolio, which also includes business, construction, and personal loans. Other offerings include fixed-rate mortgages, and asset management and trust services. Peoples caters to individuals and middle-market businesses in industries such as seafood, retail, hospitality, gaming, and construction. Chairman and CEO Chevis Swetman owns about 16% of the bank; his family has had an interest in the bank since its inception in 1896.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco helps meet the borrowing needs of communities by providing wholesale credit products and services to member financial institutions. The Bank is privately owned by its members, which include commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, thrift and loan companies, and insurance companies headquartered in Arizona, California, and Nevada. We are part of a network of 12 regional Federal Home Loan Banks chartered by Congress in 1932 to provide low-cost credit to residential housing lenders.

Hampton Roads Bankshares is the holding company for the Bank of Hampton Roads and Shore Bank, which together have about 40 offices in southeastern Virginia and eastern Maryland. Gateway Bank & Trust, a division of Bank of Hampton Roads, has about 25 locations in Virginia and North Carolina. Serving area consumers and businesses, the banks offer standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, retirement accounts, and loans. Through other affiliates, the banks also offer insurance, investment, and mortgage banking services. Hampton Roads Bankshares acquired Shore Financial and Gateway Financial Holdings in 2008.

Northrim BanCorp offers standard deposit products including checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and IRAs. It uses funds from deposits to write commercial loans (40% of loan portfolio) and real estate term loans (nearly 35%), as well as construction and consumer loans.Can you get banking services at the north rim of the world? Of course! Northrim BanCorp, formed in 2001 to be the holding company for Northrim Bank, provides a full range of commercial and retail banking services and products through some 10 banking offices in Alaska's Anchorage, Fairbanks North Star, and Matanuska Susitna counties. Division offices that provide short-term capital to customers also are located in Washington and Oregon.

Chinatrust Financial Holding (CFHC) is one of Taiwan's largest financial services groups. It operates Chinatrust Commercial Bank, which has more than 140 domestic branches and more than 70 overseas. The group provides general banking services including corporate and consumer loans, financial consulting, checking and savings accounts, letters of credit, commercial drafts, collections and payments, and credit cards. It also offers property/casualty insurance, life insurance, investments, and other related financial services. Overseas, the bank operates subsidiaries in the US, Canada, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The predecessor to the family-owned CFHC was founded in 1966.

Headquartered in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $80 billion at September 30, 2010. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. The bank operated 397 banking offices in California, Oregon, Washington and Texas and two international offices, on September 30, 2010.

Singapore bank Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) operates more than 530 branches and offices in 15 countries, including some 410 offices in Indonesia through its PT Bank NISP subsidiary. The company offers traditional banking services for individuals and businesses, as well as financial services such as brokerage and asset management. Subsidiary Great Eastern Holdings, which provides life and property/casualty insurance, is the largest insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia. OCBC Bank was founded in 1912 to serve the Chinese business community of Singapore and other parts of Asia, but now serves the general public.

Founded in 1952, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) reigns supreme as the largest and most dominant financial services company in Kuwait (fifth among worldwide Arab banks). Through about 65 branches in Kuwait, the bank offers traditional personal banking services such as money accounts, credit cards, loans, and other related banking packages, and it also caters to businesses and commercial clients. Brokerage services and several different kinds of investment funds are offered by the bank as well. NBK has operations in about a dozen additional countries in places such as London, Paris, New York, and Singapore.

Sandy Spring Bancorp is the holding company for Sandy Spring Bank, which operates more than 40 branches in the Baltimore and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas. One of the largest and oldest banks headquartered in Maryland (it was founded in 1868), Sandy Spring Bank provides standard deposit services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial mortgages account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio (about 40%); the remainder is a mix of residential mortgage, consumer, construction, and business loans, as well as equipment leases. The company also offers personal investing services, wealth management, trust services, insurance, and retirement planning.

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.

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