Republic First Bancorp is the holding company for Republic First Bank (dba Republic Bank), which serves southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey from a dozen branches. The bank targets individuals and small to midsized businesses, offering standard deposit products including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Commercial mortgages account for more than 70% of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes consumer loans, business loans, and residential mortgages. Republic First and Metro Bancorp scrapped plans to merge in 2010 due to regulatory difficulties. Undaunted, the company is still looking to expand in New Jersey and plans to open new branches.

United Community Financial is the holding company for The Home Savings and Loan Company of Youngstown, Ohio, a community bank with some 40 branches and a half-dozen loan production offices in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Real estate loans account for about 80% of the company's loan portfolio; business and consumer loans make up the remainder. The bank also offers checking and savings accounts, CDs, retirement accounts, investments, and credit cards. In 2007 United Community Financial planned to buy Cleveland-area banking company PVF Capital, but both parties later canceled the deal.

New York Community Bancorp is the holding company for New York Community Bank (one of the largest thrifts in the US) and New York Commercial Bank. In New York, New York Community Bank operates through four divisions: Queens County Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, and Roslyn Savings Bank. It also serves customers in New Jersey through its Garden State Community Bank division. Altogether, it has more than 200 branches throughout the two states. Nonbank subsidiaries offer asset management and life insurance. The company expanded into Arizona, Ohio, and Florida with its 2009 FDIC-assisted acquisition of the failed AmTrust Bank.

TMB Bank provides commercial banking services to customers in Thailand. Formerly known as the Thai Military Bank, TMB began operations in 1957 and has since broadened its services to include deposits, personal loans, credit cards, life insurance, and currency exchange. Hundreds of TMB Bank branches operate throughout the country alongside currency exchange centers, while the bank also boasts overseas branches in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Thai Military Bank, Thai Danu Bank, and the Industrial Finance Corporation of Finance merged in 2004 to form the latest incarnation of TMB Bank.

Emporiki Bank of Greece offers traditional financing and banking services, including investment banking, housing loans, asset management, securities portfolio management, leasing, venture capital, and insurance products. Founded in 1907, Emporiki has about 370 branches in Greece, plus nearly 90 in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, London, Frankfurt, and Romania. About a dozen subsidiary companies (Emporiki Bank Group) offer a wide array of financial services -- from real estate development and management to consumer credit, insurance, and vehicle leasing -- to customers both private and corporate. France's #1 bank, Credit Agricole, owns more than 80% of Emporiki.

Canandaigua National can undoubtedly stake its claim as the holding company for Canandaigua National Bank and Trust, which operates more than 20 branches in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In addition to traditional deposits and loans, the bank also offers online brokerage, insurance, and wealth management services, including corporate retirement plan management and individual financial planning. Its loan portfolio is composed largely of commercial mortgages (nearly 40%), other business loans, and residential mortgages (about 20% each). Canandaigua National executives and directors collectively control about one-fourth of the company.

RiverWood Bank is a network of community banks located in 11 different communities in Northern and Central Minnesota. The original banking charters were formed in the 1920's in Bemidji and Morris as state chartered local building and loan associations. The present charter is a national savings and loan association regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision. The banks have had a long history of meeting the needs of our communities in both the Consumer Banking and Home Lending Services.

PDS Gaming provides the machinery to do it, one bet at a time. The company is licensed to provide slot machines, video games, and other gambling devices to casinos in Nevada, New Jersey, and eight other states. PDS also serves US Native American jurisdictions. Its clients range from small casinos and truck stops to large resort properties and cruise ships. PDS Gaming offers equipment leasing and financing, in addition to financial services such as project financing, corporate recapitalization, and equity buyouts. A management group, consisting of husband and wife founders Johan and Lona Finley, and president and CFO Peter Cleary, own PDS.

First Franklin Corporation operates as the holding company for The Franklin Savings and Loan Company that offers a range of banking products and services in Ohio. Its deposit products include savings accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, fixed interest rate certificates of deposit with varying maturities, and individual retirement accounts. The company offers conventional first mortgage loans for the purpose of purchasing, refinancing, or constructing one-to four-family residential real property; multi-family residential and nonresidential real estate loans; consumer loans for personal, family, or household purposes, as well as for automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, and education; and home equity and commercial lines of credit. It also invests in mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations, as well as offers credit card, automated teller machine, voice response telephone inquiry system, and Internet-based banking system services. First Franklin Corporation operates one office in Cincinnati, Ohio; and seven full service branches in Hamilton County, Ohio. First Franklin Corporation was founded in 1883 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Illini Corporation and its subsidiaries are dedicated to helping meet the financial goals and needs of our customers and communities. We will offer financial solutions founded on integrity, trust and wisdom through empowered bankers.Illini Corporation operates as the holding company for Illini Bank and Farmers State Bank of Camp Point that provide various financial products and services in Illinois. The banks offer various deposit products, including various checking, NOW, money market, savings, investment sweep accounts, and certificates of deposit.

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