SCBT Financial is the holding company for South Carolina Bank and Trust and South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont (both are also known as SCBT), which operate more than 40 branches throughout the Palmetto state. The company also owns North Carolina Bank and Trust, or NCBT, which has three locations in the Charlotte area. SCBT Financial entered northern Georgia in 2010 when it acquired the failed Community Bank & Trust in an FDIC-assisted transaction; the deal added nearly 40 locations, most of them inside supermarkets, though SBCT later shuttered several of them. Serving retail and business customers, the banks provide deposit accounts, loans, and mortgages, as well as trust and investment services.

New Century Bancorp is the holding company for the aptly named New Century Bank, which opened for business in 2000. The bank has about 10 branches in central North Carolina's Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, and Sampson counties. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, New Century Bank offers such services as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and loans. Its loan book largely comprises real estate loans (75% of the portfolio); the remaining quarter includes business and consumer loans. The company merged its New Century Bank South subsidiary into New Century Bank in 2008.

Five Point Capital was founded in 1999 by owners Dave Gilbert and Dan Feder. In the market for a forklift? Five Point Capital provides equipment financing on everything from company vehicles to computer software for small and medium-sized businesses. Five Point Capital, Inc. finances leased new and used equipment for the agricultural, automotive, construction, medical, restaurant, and waste management industries, among others. It provides lease lines of credit for amounts as small as $5,000 and as high as $1 million, although most are around $100,000. Additional business services Five Point Capital, Inc. offers include a cash advance program for small merchants that deal in credit card transactions.

The Shizuoka Bank is one of Japan's largest regional banks. It has about 190 branches in and around Shizuoka prefecture, a major manufacturing region southwest of Tokyo. The bank specializes in commercial and industrial loans to businesses such as manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers within Shizuoka. Other offerings include deposit accounts, consumer loans, asset management, and investment banking services. Shizuoka Bank also has subsidiaries devoted to leasing, credit cards, mortgages, securities brokerage, and management consulting. It has representative offices and branches in Belgium, China, Singapore, and the US.

A state-owned organization, IDBI provides corporate clients funding for expansion, modernization, and diversification of their businesses--including equipment financing, asset credit, corporate loan, and working capital loans. IDBI operates through several subsidiaries: IDBI Bank, IDBI Capital Market Services (financial services), IDBI Intech (information technology), IDBI Gilts Ltd. (bond trading), and IDBI Homefinance (housing financing). Its banking unit also offers traditional deposit and loan services to consumers through a network of more than 680 branches, 450 banking centers, and 1,140 ATMs.

Credito Emiliano, one of Italy's leading midsized bank holding companies. Through its 20 financial subsidiaries and affiliates, Credito Emiliano (also known as Credem) offers a host of retail, commercial, and institutional banking services through some 590 branches across Italy. In addition to its lending and deposit products, the financial group offers life and liability insurance, pensions, asset management, leasing, and various corporate financial services. Credem Holding, owned by the Maramotti family (known in fashion circles for its design house Max Mara), controls the company.

Ocean Bank is the largest independent state chartered commercial bank headquartered in Florida.It is the holding company of Ocean Bank, which operates about 20 branches throughout South Florida's Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Serving area individuals and businesses, Ocean Bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts and CDs in addition to credit cards, wealth management, and merchant card processing services. Its lending activities are focused on real estate: Residential and commercial mortgages and construction and land development loans account for about 90% of its loan portfolio. The bank also makes business, consumer, and municipal loans. Ocean Bank was founded in 1982.

Jeffersonville Bancorp is the holding company for The First National Bank of Jeffersonville. The bank serves businesses and consumers through about 10 locations in southeastern New York's Sullivan County. First National Bank of Jeffersonville offers such standard retail services as demand deposit, savings, and money market accounts; NOW accounts; CDs; and IRAs to fund a variety of loans. Nearly 40% of the bank's loan portfolio consists of residential mortgages, while commercial mortgages account for another 35%. The bank also provides home equity, business, consumer, construction, and agricultural loans.

Commerzbank AG provides financial services to private and corporate customers principally in Germany. The company’s retail banking services include wealth management services, money investments, pension products, real estate financing, and advisory services, as well as provides Mastercard, Visa, and American Express credit cards. Its corporate banking services comprise investment banking, information, financing, transaction management, foreign business, risk management, and consulting services. Commerzbank also offers asset based finance services, including asset management and leasing; real estate finance for investors and developers; ship financing; and public finance. In addition, it provides online banking and ATM services. The company operates approximately 1,200 branches. Commerzbank was formerly known as Commerz- und Disconto-Bank and changed its name in 1940. Commerzbank AG was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland provides banking and other financial services to small and medium-sized commercial and industrial companies in Ireland and internationally. The company’s products include interest and non-interest bearing current accounts; demand and time deposit accounts; loans to customers, including overdrafts, installment credit and finance lease receivables, business and corporate lending, mortgage loans for house purchases, as well as home improvement and secured personal loans to existing mortgage customers. It also provides international asset financing, leasing, debt factoring, foreign exchange facilities, interest and exchange rate hedging instruments, executor and trustee services, life assurance/pension/investment fund management, fund administration and custodial services, telephone and online banking, and financial advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, and underwriting. As of March 31, 2009, the company operated in Ireland through 248 full time branches and 1,292 ATMs. The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland was founded in 1783 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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