Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

ACC Capital helps companies ease their leasing quandaries. The lender specializes in structuring, originating, and servicing equipment and operating leases, sale-leaseback transactions, and other leasing products for established middle-market companies. Typical transactions range from $15,000 to $15 million. The company targets the manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation, printing, telecommunications, restaurant, and food processing industries. ACC also serves a network of brokers that sells its products, providing funding, documentation, tax analysis, and legal advice, as well as direct origination through private-label programs.

Canadian Western Bank offers banking products and services to businesses and individuals through about 40 branch offices in western Canada; more than 80% of its loans are made in British Columbia and Alberta. The bank's consumer services include residential mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit products. Its Canadian Direct Insurance unit offers home, auto, and travel coverage. Canadian Western Trust provides investment and trust services, while Valiant Trust performs corporate trust, stock transfer, and employee benefit plan services.

Standard Chartered PLC provides consumer and wholesale banking products and services to individuals, small and medium enterprises, corporate, and institutional customers. It offers savings accounts, demand drafts, foreign exchange services, safe deposit boxes, and telegraphic transfers; personal loans and mortgages; credit cards; life, savings and retirement planning, health and medical, home, motor, and travel insurance; and investment advisory and international banking services. The company also provides private and priority banking; cash management, treasury services; trade finance and working capital, including import, export, and cross-border financing services; business installment loans and mortgages; transaction banking, financial markets, and corporate finance services; custody services; and Saadiq Islamic banking services, as well as Internet banking services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated approximately 1,700 branches and outlets, and 5,679 ATMs primarily in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, as well as in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The company was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

United Bank of India provides a variety of retail, deposit, and commercial banking services throughout India. Tracing its roots to 1914, UBI offers a variety of deposit services, such as fixed deposits, reinvestment plans, and stock investment instruments. Its retail credit division provides auto, home, and education loans, as well as consumer loans. UBI operates through about 30 regional offices and more than 1,450 branches and has historically been involved in rural and semi-urban development initiatives. The bank also has international branches located at Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai. The company, nationalized in 1969, plans to go public in 2010.

ABN AMRO got a fresh start with the Dutch government. In 2010 the bank, one of the largest in the Netherlands, separated from Royal Bank of Scotland and was transferred to a new holding company, ABN AMRO Group, which is wholly owned by the government. The new ABN AMRO Bank serves commercial, consumer, and private clients in the Netherlands, and nearly 30 other countries. In 2010, the Dutch banking operations of state-owned insurer ageas (formerly Fortis) were merged with ABN AMRO Bank. ABN AMRO announced plans to cut up to 5,000 jobs in the Netherlands in relation to the merger. The cuts represent about 17% of the combined workforce of the banks.

Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, one of the country's top holders and servicers of student loans. The not-for-profit organization helps borrowers obtain education financing such as Federal Stafford, alternative or supplemental, and consolidation loans through lending institutions such as Bank of America and U.S. Bancorp. It also offers a "Rate Relief" program that can lower a borrower's interest rate by up to 3%, as well as deferment and forbearance options that either postpone or reduce a borrower's monthly payment. The authority also manages loan servicing for lending institutions nationwide.

First National Community Bancorp is the holding company for First National Community Bank, which has about 20 offices in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne and Monroe counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. The bank provides standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, credit cards, mortgages, and other loans. It also offers wealth management services. The bank is mainly a business lender, with commercial mortgages accounting for more than 40% of its loan portfolio and operating loans comprising about another quarter. Chairman Louis DeNaples and his brother Dominick, who is vice chairman, each own around 10% of First National Community Bancorp.

Home Federal Bank originated in 1920 in Middlesboro, Kentucky as the Peoples Building and Loan Association. In those early years, with modest assets and prudent management, we established a record of dependability. In 1961, we became a federally chartered institution. As a means to better serve our customers' needs and to more effectively compete in today's market place, we converted from a mutual institution to a stockholder owned institution in December 1992.

Tompkins Financial, formerly Tompkins Trustco, is the holding company for Tompkins Trust Company, The Bank of Castile, and The Mahopac National Bank, which all offer traditional banking products and services through some 45 offices in upstate New York. Deposit products include checking, savings, and money market accounts. The company offers investment management services through Tompkins Investment Services, and financial planning and wealth management through subsidiary AM&M Financial Services. Tompkins Insurance Agencies sells property/casualty coverage to consumers and businesses in central and western New York.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.