Riverview Bancorp is the holding company for Riverview Community Bank, which operates about 20 branches located primarily in the Columbia River Gorge area of Washington State and Oregon. Serving consumers and local businesses, the bank offers such standard retail banking services as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, NOW accounts, and CDs. Commercial construction and commercial real estate loans account for nearly 90% of its lending portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages, residential construction loans, and other consumer loans. Trust and investment services are provided through the company's Riverview Asset Management Corp. Riverview Community Bank was founded in 1923.

The Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited is the country's oldest bank, established by King Rama V in 1906 in response to the proliferation of foreign financial institutions in Thailand. Today the bank offers an array of financial services that include corporate and personal lending, retail and wholesale banking, foreign currency operations, international trade financing, cash management, custodial operations, credit and charge-card operations, and investment banking. Siam Commercial operates through a network of about 950 branches including offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Laos.

Home Loan Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for The Home Loan Savings Bank (bank). The bank’s deposit services include passbook savings accounts, demand deposits, NOW accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its lending activities comprise mortgage loans secured by one- to four-family residential, nonresidential real estate loans, commercial loans, home improvement loans, education loans, loans secured by savings accounts, motor vehicle loans, unsecured loans, and credit cards services. The bank conducts business from two offices in Coshocton, Ohio and one office at West Lafayette, Ohio. The bank primarily invests in FHLB stock, U.S. agency securities, obligations of state and political subdivisions, and mortgage-backed and related securities. Home Loan Financial Corporation was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Coshocton, Ohio.

Southern Missouri Bancorp is the holding company for Southern Bank (formerly Southern Missouri Bank and Trust), which serves local residents and businesses in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas through more than 10 branches. Residential mortgages account for the largest percentage of the bank's loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages and business loans. Construction and consumer loans round out its lending activities. Deposit products include checking, savings and money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. The bank also offers financial planning and investment services. Originally chartered in 1887, Southern Bank acquired Arkansas-based Southern Bank of Commerce in 2009.

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.

Easton Bancorp, that is. Easton Bancorp is the holding company for Easton Bank & Trust, which serves Talbot and Caroline counties on Maryland's eastern shore. From about a half dozen offices, the bank provides standard retail products and services, including checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and credit cards to local businesses and individuals. It uses funds from deposits to write mostly commercial and real estate loans; other offerings include consumer loans and agricultural loans. Easton Bank & Trust also operates under the names Denton Bank & Trust and Oxford Bank & Trust. Easton Bancorp is taking itself private.

Public Bank Berhad has about 250 branches throughout Malaysia, where it is one of the top lenders and fund operators. Offerings include deposit accounts, credit cards, home loans, and insurance plans. In addition to retail and commercial services, it provides corporate banking, brokerage, investment banking, wealth management, and Islamic banking. Public Bank has more than 100 overseas branches in countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 1966 by chairman Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr. Teh Hong Piow.

The US banking arm of Bank of Montreal (BMO), Harris Bankcorp offers personal and commercial banking and other financial services through Harris Bank and other subsidiaries. The company has more than 300 bank branches in the Chicago area, Indiana, and Wisconsin; it also has locations in Arizona, Florida, New York, and a handful of other states. In addition to Harris Bank, the company owns Harris Investment Management, middle-market investment bank BMO Capital Markets, and private bank and wealth management unit Harris Private Bank. Harris Bank added more than 50 branches in the Midwest when it acquired the failed AMCORE Bank in an FDIC-assisted deal in 2010.

The banking services group includes Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking (retail trust, banking, real estate, and stock transfer services) and Chuo Mitsui Asset (pension and securities trusts). Chuo Mitsui Asset owns investment trust and private equity managers Chuo Mitsui Asset Management and Chuo Mitsui Capital. The group has units in the US, the UK, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, and China. Chuo Mitsui Trust and Sumitomo Trust & Banking plan to merge, with Chuo Mitsui as the surviving entity. Renamed Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, the combined company will be Japan's largest asset management group.

Unione di Banche Italiane combines several banks under one organization. Known as UBI Banca, it serves individuals and businesses through nine subsidiary banks with some 2,000 branches in Italy (concentrated in the Lombardy region) and offices in about a dozen other countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. The banks offer such standard deposit products as savings and checking accounts and CDs. They also provide asset management, leasing operations, private banking, insurance, corporate banking, and mortgage and other types of lending. The group was formed in 2007 when Banche Popolari Unite acquired rival Banca Lombarda e Piemontese and changed its name to UBI Banca.

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