Alliance Financial Corporation is the holding company for Alliance Bank, which operates about 30 branches in central New York. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers such deposit products as checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Its loan and lease portfolio mainly contains residential mortgages (about 30%), commercial loans (nearly 25%), and indirect auto loans (around 20%). The company provides commercial equipment leasing in more than 30 states through its Alliance Leasing subsidiary. Alliance Financial also operates a trust department that manages some $1 billion worth of investment assets.

Headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation is the financial arm of Caterpillar Inc., a Fortune 50 company, a technology leader and the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, natural gas and diesel engines, and industrial gas turbines. For more than 28 years, Cat Financial, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., has been providing a wide range of financing alternatives for the complete line of Caterpillar machinery and engines, Solar ® gas turbines, other related equipment and marine vessels. Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation also extends loans to customers and dealers. Cat Financial has offices and subsidiaries located throughout the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Horizon Bancorp is on the up-and-up. It's the holding company for Horizon Bank, which serves northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan through more than 20 branches. It provides local individuals and businesses such standard services as checking and savings accounts, IRAs, CDs, and credit cards. Commercial, financial, and agricultural loans make up the largest segment of Horizon's loan portfolio, which also includes mortgage warehouse loans (loans earmarked for sale into the secondary market), consumer installment loans, and residential mortgages. Through subsidiaries, the bank offers trust and investment management services, life and health insurance, property/casualty coverage, and annuities.

1st Bank is locally owned and operated by Tri-State 1st Banc (TSEO.OB), a holding company. Tri-State also owns MDH Investment Management, Inc., and Gateminder Corporation, a provider of ATM services.In 1986, 1st Bank was conceived by persons concerned about changes that had taken place in the local banking community. Several key banking and business leaders who represented and influenced public opinion in the community were approached to determine whether there was a need for a new community bank dedicated to providing quality banking services at a fair price. The response was overwhelming. Six persons were selected to serve as organizers of the new bank:

The Hokkoku Bank, Ltd,the regional bank is headquartered in Kanazawa (which translates to marsh of gold), a city noted for its production of gold leaf. The bank serves the Ishikawa, Fukui, and Toyama prefectures, which together are known as Hokuriku. It also has offices in Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo, as well as overseas operations in Shanghai. In addition to its traditional deposit banking offerings, Hokkoku bank subsidiaries are active in such areas as leasing and credit guarantee.

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

Bank Leumi le-Israel B.M., whose name translates as National Bank of Israel, offers retail banking (for consumers and small businesses), commercial banking (middle-market businesses), corporate banking (large companies), and private banking (wealthy clients) through deposits, mortgages and other loans, credit cards, trust services, and investments. It has about 235 branches in Israel and more than 80 locations (including branches, agencies, and representative offices) in some 20 countries, including the US. Subsidiary Leumi Partners provides corporate investment banking services and makes direct investments in nonbanking businesses.

Jefferson Bancshares is the holding company for Jefferson Federal Bank, which has about a dozen locations in eastern parts of the Volunteer State. Founded in 1963, the bank serves individuals and businesses in Hamblen, Knox, Sullivan, and Washington counties, offering standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Lending activities primarily consist of commercial real estate loans and one- to four-family residential mortgages, which together account for a majority of the company's loan portfolio. In 2008 Jefferson Bancshares acquired State of Franklin Bancshares, a community bank hurt by the national mortgage crisis.

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.

Swedbank AB offers various financial products and services to private individuals, corporates, organizations, and municipalities. The company’s corporate banking services include cash management, financing, corporate finance, securities, capital market, asset management, and life and pension services; and banks and financial institutions services comprise transaction, custody, correspondent banking, trade finance, and relationship management services. It also offers loan and mortgage, savings and investing, payment, and insurance services for private customers; private banking services, including financial planning, investment advice, individual investment solutions, and ownership and generation shifting services; and single Euro payments area services for paying and receiving electronic payments in Euro. As of March 22, 2010, the company operated 381 branches in Sweden, 226 branches in the Baltic countries, and 156 branches in Ukraine. Swedbank AB offers its services in Sweden, Luxembourg, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the United States, China, and Japan. The company was founded in 1820 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

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