DZ BANK is the central institution for some 1,000 local cooperative banks, which serve 30 million customers from a combined 12,000 branch offices across Germany. It provides administrative services for its member banks, which are also the company's owners. Additionally, DZ BANK provides corporate banking services including commercial lending for small to midsized businesses, investment banking, structured financing, and private banking. GZ-Bank and DG Bank -- Germany's primary central institutions for cooperative lenders merged in 2001 to create today's DZ BANK.

First Pulaski National Corporation is the holding company for First National Bank of Pulaski, which has about ten branches in Giles, Lincoln, and Marshall counties in south-central Tennessee. The thrift opened its first two branches in Alabama in 2008. It offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. With these funds, the bank mainly writes real estate loans, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, and farmland loans. It also originates business, consumer, construction, land development, and agricultural loans.

Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires (Banco Galicia) is one of Argentina's top three private banks by assets. Through some 350 offices, the bank offers loans to a client base primarily of businesses and individuals. It also provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking; insurance (through its Sudamericana subsidiary); risk management; and credit and debit cards. The bank, founded in 1905, has branches in neighboring Uruguay. Grupo Financiero Galicia, which is controlled by the Escasany, Ayerza, and Braun families, owns a 95% stake in Banco Galicia. The bank is looking to boost lending in the private sector.

Nexity Financial Corporation was incorporated in Delaware on March 12, 1999 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Nexity Financial operates a wholly owned subsidiary bank, Nexity Bank, with its main office in Birmingham, Alabama and correspondent banking offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Johnson Capital Group, Inc. company provides commercial real estate advisory services, helping property developers and investors access and structure capital. Johnson Capital Group specializes in debt and equity placement for construction and acquisitions; it participates in transactions for all types of commercial real estate including office, retail, multifamily, industrial, hospitality, and mixed-use properties. It also provides in-house servicing. Established in 1987, the firm has some 20 offices in the US, as well as offices in Mexico and Spain and operations in India and Dubai.

Access Group was founded in 1983 to provide funding to law students. As if paying for Albert's undergraduate degree didn't set you back enough, now your little Einstein wants to attend graduate school. It may be time to contact Access Group, a not-for-profit organization that offers graduate and professional student lending. The company issues and services private student loans for continuing education, part-time, and international students, and their parents. It specializes in financing educations in business, dental, law, medical, engineering, and other professional courses of study. Access Group, Inc. also issues specialized loans for bar and dental board exams and medical and dental residencies.

Societe Generale wants to be top brass in the French banking industry. The bank (familiarly known as SocGen) commands a three-pronged campaign, with operations in global investment management (including SG Private Banking and majority-owned online brokerage Boursorama); retail banking and specialized financial services, including finance, leasing, and insurance; and corporate and investment banking, focusing on European capital markets, derivatives, and structured finance. In the US, the company controls asset manager The TCW Group. SocGen has about 3,000 branches in France (including its Credit du Nord division), and some 5,300 locations worldwide.

Zions Bancorporation originated as Keystone Insurance and Investment Co., a Utah Corporation, in April 1955. In April 1960, Keystone, together with several individual investors, acquired a 57.5 percent interest in Zions First National Bank from the LDS Church. In 1965, the name of the company was changed to Zions Bancorporation. (However, it operated as Zions Utah Bancorporation from 1966 to 1987.) The first public offering of shares in Zions Bancorporation was made in January 1966. There continued to be some minority shareholders until April 1972, when the company exchanged the remaining minority shares for common shares. Zions Bancorporation's common stock is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol ZION. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ Financial 100 Index.

Patelco Credit Union has evolved as well. Founded in 1936, it has grown from a five-member organization with $500 in assets serving employees of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph to a nearly 300,000-member credit union serving employees from more than 1,100 organizations, as well as other residents of California who qualify for membership. A telephone company credit union until 1983, Patelco Credit Union now operates about 40 offices in Northern California and one in the Chicago area. It provides deposit, lending, insurance, and investment services, as well as credit cards, debit cards, and online banking.

SunTrust Banks, Inc. operates as the holding company for SunTrust Bank, which provides various financial services to consumer and corporate customers in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Retail and Commercial, Wealth and Investment Management, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Household Lending. The Retail and Commercial segment offers various financial products and services that include consumer deposits; home equity lines; consumer lines; commercial and commercial real estate lending; financial risk management; insurance premium financing; treasury and payment solutions, including commercial card services; and specialized commercial real estate investments.

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