Investment bank Banca Profilo offers personalized banking; corporate financing; and asset management, treasury, and consulting services. Clients include insurers, businesses, institutions, and individuals. Founded as a brokerage in 1988, the firm became a bank in 1995 to compete with securities-trading foreign banks entering the Italian market. Banca Profilo operates about 10 offices throughout Italy. In 2007 it bought a majority stake in Société Bancaire Privée of Geneva, expanding its European presence and its private banking business. It also plans to merge with Meliorbanca, expanding its network to nearly two dozen branches throughout Italy.

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.

BNC Bancorp knows the ABCs of the financial world. The firm is the holding company for Bank of North Carolina, which has about 20 locations in both North and South Carolina. The bank offers community-oriented services to local business and retail customers, providing checking, savings, and money market accounts, credit cards, and CDs. Its loan portfolio is mainly composed of residential and commercial mortgages and construction loans. Bank of North Carolina also offers insurance, retirement planning, and other investment products and services. In 2010 BNC Bancorp acquired the failed Beach First National Bank in an FDIC-assisted transaction, expanding Bank of North Carolina's branch network into South Carolina.

Tai Fung Bank, also known as Banco Tai Fung, the bank has more than 20 offices throughout the SAR (special administrative region of China) and provides individuals and businesses with deposit products, loans, credit cards, trade financing, and related financial services. Tai Fung Bank subsidiaries are active in such lines of business as investment management and real estate. Tai Fung Bank traces its roots to a money-changing service established in Macao in 1942; it officially became a bank in 1972.

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.

Bank of South Carolina Corporation is the holding company for The Bank of South Carolina, which was founded in 1987. It operates four branches in and around Charleston. Targeting individuals and small to midsized business customers, the bank offers such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, credit cards, and money market and NOW accounts. Real estate loans make up more than 70% of the The Bank of South Carolina's loan portfolio, which also includes commercial loans (around 20%) and to a lesser extent, personal loans. President and CEO Hugh Lane and his family control about 12% of the company.

Bank of America boasts one of the country's most extensive branch networks with more than 5,900 locations covering some 40 states from coast to coast. Its core services include consumer and small business banking, credit cards, and asset management. In early 2009 Bank of America paid some $50 billion in stock for Merrill Lynch, which had been crippled by the global credit crisis. The acquisition of the once-mighty investment bank known as "The Bull," which has an extensive retail brokerage network, beefs up Bank of America's wealth management, investment banking, and international business.

ACC Capital helps companies ease their leasing quandaries. The lender specializes in structuring, originating, and servicing equipment and operating leases, sale-leaseback transactions, and other leasing products for established middle-market companies. Typical transactions range from $15,000 to $15 million. The company targets the manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation, printing, telecommunications, restaurant, and food processing industries. ACC also serves a network of brokers that sells its products, providing funding, documentation, tax analysis, and legal advice, as well as direct origination through private-label programs.

Laurentian Bank of Canada offers commercial and consumer banking services from more than 150 branches, located mostly in Quebec. Residential mortgages account for about half of the bank's loan portfolio; personal loans are more than a third. Other retail products include checking and savings accounts, mutual funds, and Visa cards. The bank also has some 30 commercial banking centers that serve small to midsized businesses, real estate developers, and agricultural concerns. Subsidiary B2B Trust provides supplies financial products to financial planners, advisors, and brokers.

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.

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