Community Shores Bank Corporation is the holding company for Community Shores Bank, which has about five branches that serve western Michigan's Muskegon and Ottawa counties. The bank provides deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, health savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Commercial operating and real estate loans to area businesses make up approximately three-quarters of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes residential real estate, consumer, and construction loans. The bank also offers investment products and services through an agreement with a third-party provider.

Amboy Bancorporation is the holding company for Amboy National Bank, which serves consumers and businesses through about 25 branches in central New Jersey's Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, and Somerset counties. It offers standard products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs, as well as life and title insurance and annuities. Almost all of Amboy Bancorporation's lending portfolio is secured by real estate, including construction and loan development loans (almost half of its loan book), residential mortgages (around 30%), and commercial mortgages (approximately 20%). The bank also originates business and consumer loans. Amboy National Bank was established in 1888.

The mission of Southeastern Bank is to provide the highest level of financial services possible to the communities, businesses and citizens in our market areas without regard to race, creed, sex, religion, or national origin. The Bank is in business to make profits and a return on investment for its shareholders. The Company is committed to excellence in operations, sales, and services in order to exceed the expectations of our customers and shareholders. We strive to provide the best financial employment opportunities in our market area. We expect to become the largest independently owned and operated community bank in our market area. We expect to dominate this market in personal installment loans and small business loans. We intend to build the premiere independent financial institution in Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida.

Bankinter is not the biggest bank in Spain, but it may be the most technologically advanced. The company was founded in 1965 as a joint venture between what is now Grupo Santander and Bank of America. It is among the top six banks in Spain and offers a variety of consumer and business banking services through branches, agents, telephone services, and the Internet. Bankinter provides mutual and pension funds, mortgages, leasing, and securities brokerage. Bankinter pioneered Internet stock trading in Spain. The bank jazzes up operations that could be deemed plain vanilla by focusing on convenient, low-cost delivery and customer service.

The Farm Credit Bank of Texas is owned by the lending cooperatives it serves. Part of the federal Farm Credit System, the Farm Credit Bank of Texas provides loans and financial services to more than 20 lending cooperatives and financial institutions in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. The co-ops include federal land credit associations, which offer real estate loans on farms, ranches, and other rural property, and agricultural credit associations, which provide agricultural production loans, agribusiness financing, and rural mortgage financing. Its Capital Markets Group partners with banks and other institutions to provide capital to food, energy, agribusiness, and telecom companies.

Established in 1957, Hitachi Capital also provides payment and collection services through its outsourcing business and issues credit cards and non-life insurance. Hitachi Capital Corporation, which has nearly 220 locations in Japan, serves some 2 million customers in the medical, agricultural, logistics, and industrial manufacturing sectors, among others. In need of a car, tractor, or personal computer? Hitachi Capital can help. A subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Capital Corporation provides a variety of financial services through its group of companies around the globe. The firm's offerings include financing for the lease and rental of industrial machinery and information equipment, as well as for auto and home loans.

WestLB acts as the central institution for the more than 100 "sparkassen," or savings banks, in Germany's largest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Brandenburg. The bank also serves midsized companies, public entities, multinational corporations, and individuals in Germany and abroad. A universal bank, WestLB offers a full range of financial services such as loans, asset management, investment banking, transaction processing, private banking, and real estate finance. It has about a dozen branches in Germany, plus more than a dozen in financial capitals in Europe and around the world. WestLB's savings bank partners collectively operate more than 3,000 branches.

Nedbank Group provides commercial and personal financial services in South Africa and other parts of the continent. The company offers a range of wholesale and retail banking services through principal business clusters Nedbank Corporate Banking, Nedbank Retail, Nedbank Business Banking and Nedbank Capital (investment banking). Other services include property finance, private banking, asset management, credit card processing, bancassurance, and foreign exchange and securities trading. Nedbank's 50.1%-owned Imperial Bank subsidiary focuses on motor vehicle finance, but also offers property, professional and supplier asset finance. UK-based insurer Old Mutual owns a controlling stake in Nedbank Group.

Community Trust Bancorp is the holding company for Community Trust Bank, one of the largest banks based in Kentucky. It operates about 75 branches throughout the state, as well as in Tennessee and southern West Virginia. The bank offers standard retail banking services to area businesses and individuals, including checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, and CDs. Loans secured by commercial properties and other real estate account for more than half of the bank's lending portfolio, which also includes business, consumer, and construction loans. The company provides trust services through subsidiary Community Trust and Investment Company.

The Dutch bank,N.V. Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG for short) is a government-owned entity that helps finance the operations of the country's municipalities, housing associations, health care institutions, and public utilities. The majority of the company's funding is funneled to the public sector, with the balance going to public-private partnerships. The bank also provides funds transfer, electronic banking, asset management, and investment consulting services for Dutch public authorities, and is involved in regional development.

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