The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is an $88.1 billion wholesale bank and one of 12 district banks chartered in 1932 by the U.S. Congress to ensure a secure source of mortgage funds to thrifts, insurance companies, and housing finance institutions. In 1989, the charter was expanded to include commercial banks and credit unions through the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). Today, the FHLB System, which is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is over 8,000 members strong.

Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, S.A. offers business banking services (its main focus) like checking and money market accounts and foreign trade financing. Personal products include loans, checking and money market accounts, debit cards, and CDs. BICSA can also buy and sell currency, set up and administer trusts, issue credit cards, and conduct foreign currency trading. With offices in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and the US (Miami), the bank serves its international clients with checks drawn on foreign accounts. BICSA is owned by the Costa Rican government.

Suffolk County National Bank, which serves Suffolk County, New York, through about 30 branches. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers standard services such as checking, savings, and money market accounts, and trust and asset management. It also provides insurance and investment products, including IRAs, mutual funds, annuities, bonds, and brokerage services. Commercial mortgages account for about a third of the company's loan portfolio; business loans make up another 20%. The portfolio also includes residential mortgages and consumer and construction loans.

At Simmons First, putting the customer first has been our business since 1903. We opened for business in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on March 23, 1903, and since that time Simmons First is committed to the philosophy that people make a difference. In spite of the changes occurring in technology and electronics, banking is still - in fact, more than ever - a "people" business. We believe our philosophy of putting you, our customer, first has been the key to our success. It's a philosophy that stresses the importance of providing our customers with a warm, friendly and competent staff offering the very best in quality services and products. We appreciate this opportunity to serve you, and we want to earn your business and loyalty by pledging to offer the highest level of service to you on a safe, sound and competitive basis. Simmons First National Corporation currently operates eight affiliate banks that conduct financial operations from 80 offices, located in 40 different Arkansas communities and one community in Missouri.Simmons First offers a variety of financial services including: Personal/Commercial Checking and Savings accounts, Personal/Commercial credit cards, as well as various time deposits. Simmons also offers consumer loans, real estate construction loans and single family residential loans; commercial loans; agricultural loans; and loans to financial institutions. Simmons offers a number of cash management products for business customers, as well as credit card processing (merchant services). Further, the company provides trust and investment management services, as well as securities and investment services.

American Savings Bank has grown into one of Hawaii’s leading financial institutions. A large network of American Savings Bank branches and automated teller machines – in addition to phone and online banking options – make it easier than ever to address the needs of our customers and our communities.

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.

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).

One of China's largest commercial banks, China CITIC Bank offers corporate, small business, and retail banking and financial services, including business accounts, personal savings accounts, loans, asset management, and private banking. The bank operates primarily in China through a network of more than 600 branches, many of which are located in China's coastal regions and major economic centers. To a lesser extent, China CITIC serves select international markets as well. Founded in 1987, the bank is majority-owned and controlled by state-owned investment firm CITIC Group.

First Mariner Bancorp helps customers navigate banking seas (and fees). It's the holding company for First Mariner Bank, which operates more than two-dozen branches along the Baltimore/Washington, DC, corridor. Targeting individuals and businesses, First Mariner Bank offers standard deposit products such as checking, savings, and money market accounts. Lending activities consist of commercial mortgages (more than 30% of all loans), as well as consumer, residential construction and mortgage, and business loans. Subsidiary First Mariner Mortgage originates mortgages for sale to secondary markets. First Mariner Bancorp sold consumer finance subsidiary Mariner Finance in 2009.

Arion Bank is a leading Icelandic bank offering universal financial services to companies, institutional investors and individuals. These services include corporate and retail banking, investment banking, capital markets services, treasury services, asset management and comprehensive wealth management for private banking clients.Arion bank has solely operations in Iceland.

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