Founded in 1865, Banca Popolare di Milano (also known as Pop Milano) is a cooperative bank with more than 580 branches in Italy, concentrated in and around Milan and in northern and central portions of the country. It also operates a virtual bank (Webank) and commercial banks Banca di Legnano and Cassa di Risparmo di Alessandria. In addition to standard retail services such as deposit accounts, credit cards, and loans, the company offers corporate and investment banking, insurance, and wealth management. Merger talks between Banca Popolare di Milano and Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna have stalled.

Sterling Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company of Sterling Bank, which provides commercial and consumer banking services to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses in Texas. The company offers a range of banking services, including demand, savings, and time deposits; commercial, real estate, and consumer loans; merchant credit card services; letters of credit; and cash and asset management services. It also facilitates brokerage, mutual fund, alternative financing, and insurance products through third-party vendors. In addition, the company offers treasury management, specialized lending consisting of energy lending, and private client services; and involves in the purchase of government guaranteed loans and wholesale real estate lending activities. Further, Sterling Bancshares provides investment advisory and pension administration/consulting services. As of December 31, 2009, it served through 58 banking centers in the greater metropolitan areas of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth. Sterling Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

First Security was incorporated in 1999 as a Tennessee corporation to serve as a bank holding company, and is regulated and supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. First Security conducts all of its business activities through its wholly-owned subsidiary, FSGBank, National Association, a national banking association regulated and supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. First Security serves the banking and financial needs of the various communities located along the interstate corridors of middle and East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. These interstate communities are primarily served by branches of large regional and national financial institutions headquartered outside of the area. As a result, we believe these markets need, and are best served by, a locally-owned and operated financial institution managed by people in and from the communities served. We offer personalized and flexible banking services to the communities in our market area and are able to react quickly to changes in those communities, in part by maintaining local advisory boards. In Dalton, Georgia, FSGBank operates under the name of Dalton Whitfield Bank; along the Interstate 40 corridor in Tennessee, FSGBank operates under the name of Jackson Bank & Trust. FSGBank provides retail and commercial banking services, trust and investment management, mortgage banking, financial planning, internet banking, and equipment leasing through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kenesaw Leasing and J&S Leasing.

Federal Trust Corporation, a Florida corporation since August 5, 1988, is the parent holding company for Federal Trust Bank and Federal Trust Mortgage Company. Federal Trust is a full-service financial institution, providing a variety of products and services including checking, savings, money market accounts; certificate of deposits; individual retirement accounts, residential, commercial and mortgage loans.

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Flagstar Bank, FSB that offers consumer and commercial financial products and services to individuals, and small and middle market businesses in Michigan, Indiana, and Georgia. The company engages in generating deposits and originating loans. Its deposit products include demand deposits, savings and money market accounts, checking deposits, certificates of deposits, municipal deposits, national deposits, and company controlled deposits. The company’s loan portfolio comprises single-family mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial real estate loans, non-real estate commercial loans, and residential mortgage loans for others. It also originates, acquires, sells, and services one-to-four family residential mortgage loans. Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., through its subsidiaries, acts as an agent for life insurance, health and casualty insurance, and reinsurance companies; and provides online paperless office solutions for mortgage originators. It also engages in holding investment loans, purchasing securities, selling and securitizing mortgage loans, maintaining and selling mortgage servicing rights, developing new loan products, establishing pricing for mortgage loans to be acquired, providing for lock-in support, and managing interest rate risk associated with these activities. As of December 31, 2009, Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. operated 165 banking centers. Flagstar Bancorp was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.

Hampton Roads Bankshares is the holding company for the Bank of Hampton Roads and Shore Bank, which together have about 40 offices in southeastern Virginia and eastern Maryland. Gateway Bank & Trust, a division of Bank of Hampton Roads, has about 25 locations in Virginia and North Carolina. Serving area consumers and businesses, the banks offer standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, retirement accounts, and loans. Through other affiliates, the banks also offer insurance, investment, and mortgage banking services. Hampton Roads Bankshares acquired Shore Financial and Gateway Financial Holdings in 2008.

Webster City Federal Bancorp operates as the holding company for Webster City Federal Savings Bank, and Security Title and Abstract, Inc. The bank primarily engages in the business of attracting deposits from the general public in its market area and invests such deposits in mortgage loans secured by one-to-four family residential real estate. Its deposit instruments include NOW accounts, passbook savings, money market deposit, term certificate accounts, and individual retirement accounts.

First Federal Savings & Loan Association was federally chartered January of 1935. First Federal grew in the tradition of the building and loan association and served the savings and loan needs of our area for 60 years.On June 10, 1995, First Federal Savings & Loan changed its savings and loan charter to a state commercial bank charter and our new name became FIRST SOUTHERN BANK. Today, First Southern Bank provides full service banking to individuals, families and businesses through our five offices in Lauderdale and Colbert counties of Alabam

Mercantile Bank Corporation is the holding company for Mercantile Bank of Michigan (formerly Mercantile Bank of West Michigan), which operates more than five branches in and around Grand Rapids, Holland, and Lansing. (The latter was the community bank's first foray outside the western part of Michigan, prompting the name change in 2005.) The bank targets local consumers and businesses, offering standard deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and health savings accounts. Loans for real estate secured by nonresidential properties make up more than half of the company's loan portfolio; business loans are about a quarter.

CBT Financial is the holding company for Clearfield Bank & Trust Company, which operates about a dozen offices in central Pennsylvania. Targeting individuals and local businesses, the bank offers traditional deposit products, credit cards, trust and investment services, and loans. The bulk of the bank's lending portfolio is secured by residential and commercial mortgages. It also offers consumer, construction, and business loans. CBT Financial nearly doubled its operations in 2005 when it acquired six banking locations from First Commonwealth Financial.

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