Valiant Holding was formed in 2002 with the merger of regional Swiss banks Valiant Bank (retail banking) and Valiant Privatbank (asset management) with IRB Interregio Bank and Luzerner Regiobank. Today, Valiant Bank serves German-speaking clients in Switzerland, while Banque Romande Valiant serves the country's Francophone population. Together, the two banks have more than 100 offices. Valiant Holding also owns Spar + Leihkasse Steffisburg, a bank with two branches in Switzerland. The banks offer savings and investments, mortgages and loans, retirement planning, and private banking services, including asset management for retail and institutional investors.

Capitol Federal Financial operates as the holding company for Capitol Federal Savings Bank, which provides various banking services in Kansas. Capitol Federal Financial offers a range of deposit products, such as savings accounts, money market accounts, interest bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its lending products include consumer loans comprising home equity loans and lines of credit, home improvement loans, auto loans, and loans secured by savings deposits; loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences; and commercial and multi-family real estate loans, as well as construction loans secured by residential or commercial properties. The company principally serves metropolitan areas of Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia, and Salina, as well as a portion of the metropolitan area of greater Kansas City. As of September 30, 2009, it operated 42 branches. Capitol Federal Financial was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas.

Grupo Financiero HSBC, S.A. de C.V is the Mexico arm of international financial giant HSBC Holdings. Primary subsidiary HSBC Mexico is one of Mexico's largest banks, with more than 1,350 branches and some 4 million customers. In addition to retail deposit accounts and related retail services, the group offers insurance products and private banking services. Grupo Financiero HSBC also also offers commercial financing and international trade and treasury services. The group was formed when HSBC Holdings acquired Grupo Financiero Bital in 2002.

NEC Financial Services can loan you cold hard cash for hardware. A subsidiary of NEC Corporation of America and a member of the Tokyo-based NEC Corporation family, NEC Financial Services provides lease financing for stateside businesses and municipal customers to buy technology equipment such as software, computers, peripherals, and other IT and telecommunications products manufactured by its parent company. Lease terms typically range from 12 months to six years and often include options to purchase the leased equipment for as little as $1 once all payments are made.

KAS Bank provides a variety of banking services across Europe, including securities and management information services for institutional investors (pension and investment funds, asset management, insurance companies) and for other banks and brokers. KAS's core activities, which are mostly automated, include custody, clearing, and settlement services. Founded in 1806, KAS has offices in Amsterdam, London, and Germany, and it connects directly to stock exchanges in Dubai, Hong Kong, and the US. The company has been growing its valued-added services, and in 2008 it began offering complete back-office outsourcing services. The next year it bought the fund administration business of Deutsche Postbank.

United Community Banks is the holding company for 27 community banks united in their quest to provide consumer and business banking services in Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. Operating mainly under the United Community Bank or UCB banners, the banks collectively have more than 100 branches offering deposit products, mortgages, and other services. Residential construction and land development loans account for the largest segment of United Community Banks' loan portfolio (more than 30%); residential mortgages make up about 25%. The company has been growing through acquisitions.

In the late 1880's and early 1900's several associations were organized to make loans on homes and business property and to accept people's savings. Some of the names of these associations were Home Building and Loan Association, Johnson County Building and Loan Association and Buffalo Building and Loan Association. None of these associations were insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and many were short lived.

RiverWood Bank is a network of community banks located in 11 different communities in Northern and Central Minnesota. The original banking charters were formed in the 1920's in Bemidji and Morris as state chartered local building and loan associations. The present charter is a national savings and loan association regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision. The banks have had a long history of meeting the needs of our communities in both the Consumer Banking and Home Lending Services.

Bank of the James Financial Group is the holding company for Bank of the James, a financial institution serving central Virginia from about 10 branch locations. Catering to individuals and small businesses, the bank offers standard retail products and services including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Funds from deposits are mainly used to originate residential mortgages, which make up about half of the bank's loan portfolio, and commercial and consumer loans. Subsidiary BOTJ Investment Group offers bank customers brokerage services, annuities, and related investment products through a third-party broker-dealer.

Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) wants what's "Made in America" to make it outside of America. The company, established with the help of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, supports the export of US-made goods by purchasing loans in the secondary market from commercial lenders that finance US exports. Lenders sell loans to PEFCO to improve profitability, remove low-yielding assets or loans in high-risk countries from their balance sheets, free up credit capacity for other borrowers, and to reduce the size of their loan portfolios. PEFCO shareowners include major commercial banks involved in US export financing, as well as industrial export companies.

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