Southern Michigan Bancorp is the holding company for Southern Michigan Bank & Trust, which operates about 20 branches in a primarily rural area near Michigan's border with Indiana and Ohio. The bank provides standard deposit services, such as checking and savings accounts, money market and heath savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. It originates commercial, financial, agricultural, consumer, and mortgage loans. The banks also offers trust and investment services. Southern Michigan Bank & Trust got its start in the room of a hotel named Southern Michigan Hotel in 1872.

Firstbank Corporation is the holding company for six separately chartered subsidiary banks offering services under the Firstbank banner; it also owns Keystone Community Bank, which it acquired in 2005. Through more than 50 branches in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, the banks attract deposits from area residents and businesses by providing standard services such as checking and savings accounts and CDs. The company also owns subsidiaries that provide real estate appraisal services, armored car services, and title insurance. Firstbank bought another Michigan-based bank holding company, ICNB Financial, parent of Ionia County Community Bank (now Firstbank - West Michigan), in 2007.

Los Alamos National Bank was established in June 1963 by a group of local investors who saw the need for a convenient, full-service community bank. Now one of the largest and strongest banks in the state, LANB continues to be locally owned and operated by Trinity Capital Corporation, a one-bank holding company. We are committed to our customers and to those activities that foster a better quality of life in the communities they serve.

Serving approximately 12 million customers, Absa Group operates some 700 branches and about 9,000 ATMs, primarily in South Africa. The company's Absa Bank is one of that nation's largest retail banks and mortgage lenders. The bank and other subsidiaries offer deposits, loans, credit cards, insurance, investments, financial planning, and asset management services. Beyond South Africa, Absa Group owns some 80% of Barclays Bank Mozambique and a majority of National Bank of Commerce in Tanzania. British bank Barclays owns about 55% of Absa Group, making it one of South Africa's largest single foreign investors since apartheid ended in 1994.

HSBC USA, a subsidiary of British banking behemoth HSBC Holdings, operates HSBC Bank USA. With some 375 offices, the bank has one of the largest branch networks in New York State, plus more than 100 additional locations in about a dozen other states and Washington, DC; California, New Jersey, and Florida are its next largest markets. The bank offers personal, commercial, and mortgage banking services, with a loan portfolio dominated by residential mortgages, commercial loans, and credit card loans. HSBC Bank USA's personal financial services segment also provides mutual funds, investments, and insurance.

GE Facto (which also does business as GE Factofrance or Societe Factofrance) keeps businesses from having to factor in the time it takes customers to pay bills. Companies can avoid the typical 30- to 90-day billing cycle by selling their invoices to Factofrance, which then collects the money. Factofrance also provides accounts receivable management and debt recovery. Subsidiaries include Cofacredit and Factobail, which handle export and IT financing, respectively. Part of GE, Factofrance was formed by the 2002 merger of GE Capital Finance and Heller Financial. (The latter firm was founded in 1966 by Walter Heller, the Banque de l'Indochine, and BNP).

Banco Santander, S.A. provides various financial products and services in Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, other European countries, Brazil, Latin America, and the United States. It operates through three segments: Retail Banking, Global Wholesale Banking, and Asset Management and Insurance. The Retail Banking segment offers a range of deposit products, including savings, current, demand, time, and notice deposits, as well as international and domestic interbank deposits; and loan products and services, such as auto financing, personal loans, mortgages, and leasing and renting. This segment also offers credit cards, automated cash dispensers, savings books updaters, telephone banking, and electronic and Internet banking.

In 1997, organizers of Citizens Effingham Bancshares, Inc. embarked upon a quest to meet the need in Effingham County, Georgia for a bank committed to promoting economic growth and community involvement. Citizens Bank was organized with the communities that make up Effingham County in mind. Springfield, being centrally located and the county seat, was chosen as the site of the main office, which opened its doors on September 8, 1998. The Rincon office opened November 2, 1998. Rincon is the county's largest municipality. Growth in Effingham County has been phenomenal in recent years.

Firstbank, originally known as First Federal Savings and Loan, opened its doors in July of 1923. While growing with the Tyler community, our history has been intertwined with that of the people, prospering together. Today, more than eighty-five years later, our assets are over $240 million!Over the years, Firstbank has continued to be a secure and strong financial institution. This is due to the efforts of our Founders, Directors, Presidents, Officers and Staff, enduring both the good times and bad.

The Chinese economy would be nothing without the People's Bank of China. The central bank controls monetary policy, sets the exchange rate, regulates the gold market, manages the state treasury, and oversees other financial institutions. Like the Federal Reserve System in the US, the People's Bank of China lends money to commercial banks as necessary. It also issues currency. In mainland China, the reminbi is the name of the currency, and the yuan is the base unit (like the dollar). The People's Bank of China operates nine regional branches in addition to its headquarters in Beijing. The bank was established in 1948, and until 1978 it was the only bank in China. It became the country's central bank in 1983.

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