VTB Bank offers a smorgasbord of financial services for corporate, financial, and retail clients in Russia, Western Europe, Africa, and Asia. VTB retail services, conducted through VTB 24, include deposit banking, credit and lending services, and money transfers serving individuals and small businesses through a network of some 500 branches in large Russian cities. The company also provides investment banking and services for financial institutions that include foreign exchange trading, Inter-bank lending, and securities trading. The Russian government owns some 85% of VTB, but plans to reduce its stake by about half by 2014.

Bank Pembangunan Malaysia, the government-owned bank's primary mandate is to provide financing for infrastructure, maritime, and high-tech projects. Infrastructure loans account for about 85% of the bank's lending activity. Former subsidiary SME Bank, which focuses on lending and other financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises, was separated from Bank Pembangunan in 2008. The demerger allows Bank Pembangunan to focus on core services. Its remaining subsidiary Global Maritime Ventures (GMV) provides venture capital for the maritime industry. Bank Pembangunan, which was founded in 1974, offers conventional and Islamic financing services.

The Ehime Bank provides a range of banking and other financial services to residents of the Ehime Prefecture and to the larger Shikoku area. Services offered include savings, loans, credit card issuing, foreign currency exchange, leasing, and more. The Ehime Bank has more than 90 offices, including two in Osaka and one in Tokyo, and the bank focuses on serving individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses. Minority shareholders in the bank include Japan Trustee Services Bank, Mizuho Corporate, and Aozora.

Severn Bancorp is the holding company for Severn Savings Bank, which operates about five bank branches in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The thrift provides traditional retail products, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Severn uses funds from deposits to originate loans and mortgages, primarily residential and commercial mortgages, construction loans, and business loans. The holding company also owns SBI Mortgage, which originates riskier loans than Severn Savings Bank does; it also invests in real estate on its own behalf. Severn is working towards recovery after suffering real estate- and mortgage-related losses in the economic recession.

Home City Financial is where the heartland is. Home City is the holding company for Home City Federal Savings Bank of Springfield, a two-branch thrift serving Clark County in southwestern Ohio. The bank offers standard deposit products including checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. Residential mortgages (nearly half of the company's loan portfolio) and commercial real estate loans (almost a quarter) are its primary lending focus; the bank also makes business, consumer, land, construction, and multifamily real estate loans. The company plans to go private through a reverse stock split.

United Security Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Thomasville, Alabama. United Security Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for First United Security Bank, which provides commercial banking products and services to businesses and individuals. It generates various deposit products, including non-interest bearing demand deposits, savings accounts, NOW accounts, money market demand accounts, and time deposits. United Security Bancshares, Inc. also provides commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; consumer loans, including credit cards and other related credit plans; real estate loans comprising construction loans for commercial and residential development, commercial buildings, and apartment complexes; and other loans secured by real estate, such as one-to-four family dwellings, including mobile homes, loans on land only, multi-family dwellings, non-farm, non-residential real estate, and home equity loans. In addition, it involves in underwriting credit life, and credit accident and health insurance policies related to loans; the purchase and sale of government securities; and the provision of safe deposit box services. As of December 31, 2009, United Security Bancshares operated and served its customers through 19 banking offices located in Brent, Bucksville, Butler, Calera, Centreville, Coffeeville, Columbiana, Fulton, Gilbertown, Grove Hill, Harpersville, Jackson, Thomasville, Tuscaloosa, and Woodstock, Alabama, as well as provided real estate and consumer loans through 22 branch locations in Alabama and Southeast Mississippi.

Lubbock National Bank has been a proud part of Texas banking since the early 1900s, in times of war and economic hardship, as well as prosperity and abundance. While the world around us has seemed chaotic at times, LNB has always provided our customers a trusted place to manage and grow their hard-earned money.

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.

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.

Bank of Granite Corporation is the holding company for a community bank of the same name that serves individuals and small businesses in about 10 west-central North Carolina counties. From 20 branches, Bank of Granite offers traditional demand and time deposit products mostly for individuals and small businesses. Before the economic downturn , mortgages made up more than half of Bank of Granite's loan portfolio. However, the slowdown deeply affected customers' ability to repay their loans and in 2009 Bank of Granite stopped originating mortgage loans altogether.

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