DBS Group is the holding company for DBS Bank, the largest bank in Singapore and a significant presence throughout Southeast Asia. DBS Bank offers personal and private banking in addition to enterprise services to small and midsized companies through some 80 branches in its home country. The company also has around 60 locations in Hong Kong, plus operations in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand. In addition, DBS Group owns a 20% stake in the Bank of the Philippine Islands (that country's second-largest bank). Other services include treasury, brokerage, and fund management.

Punjab and Sind Bank was founded in 1908 to help those economically challenged Indians traditionally underserved by financial institutions. PSB boasts more than 900 branches (about half in the state of Punjab) offering savings and checking accounts, credit cards, loans, and life insurance along with government pension accounts and remittance services. It also has about 100 limited service counters inside other businesses. PSB has been restructuring, closing or relocating underperforming branches to improve profits. It has asked the Indian government, its owner, to grant it an initial public offering.

Henderson Citizens Bancshares is the holding company for Citizens National Bank, which operates from some 20 branches located across East Texas. The regional bank provides traditional banking services such as checking, savings, and money market accounts to individual and commercial customers. It also offers multiple loan products, including personal, mortgage, and home improvement as well as real estate, agricultural, and lines of credit. Insurance services are offered through subsidiary CFG Insurance. Citizens National Bank was founded in 1930 with $150,000 compiled by eight private investors.

ESSA Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1916 and is based in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. ESSA Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for ESSA Bank & Trust that provides a range of financial services to individuals, families, and businesses in Pennsylvania. The company’s deposit products include savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, club accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and other qualified plan accounts, as well as commercial checking accounts for businesses. It offers residential first mortgage loans, including construction mortgage loans; commercial real estate loans; home equity loans and lines of credit; and commercial and consumer loans, as well as various unsecured or secured loans, loans secured by deposits, personal loans, and automobile loans. The company also provides asset management and trust services, as well as investment services through its relationship with PRIMEVEST Financial Services, Inc., a third party broker/dealer and investment advisor. As of September 30, 2009, it operated 13 full-service banking offices located in Monroe and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania.

AdvanceMe provides working capital to small and midsized businesses with a minimum of $5,000 in credit and debit card sales per month. Its merchant cash advances range from $6,000 to $150,000 and have no fixed time frame; customers, who may not qualify for conventional bank loans because they lack collateral or have spotty credit, repay AdvanceMe by selling the company a predetermined percentage of credit and debit card sales at a discount. The working capital is typically used to cover expenses, acquire equipment or inventory, renovate facilities, and for business expansion.

Oberbank, which has more than 130 locations, has operations throughout Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. The bank serves individual clients, but caters to business, particularly the industrial sector and small and midsized firms. Oberbank units are involved in such activities as investment, leasing, and real estate lending. A unit of Unicredit Bank Austria owns about one-third of Oberbank, which has minority cross-ownership alliances with Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark (BKS) and Bank für Tirol and Vorarlberg (BTV).

First Franchise Capital is a subsidiary of First Financial Bancorp, which assumed ownership of the company after acquiring the operations of the failed Irwin Financial in an FDIC-facilitated transaction in 2009. Going loco trying to finance your El Pollo? First Franchise Capital can help ease the franchise-operation crazies. Formerly Irwin Franchise Capital, the company provides conventional and Small Business Administration-backed loans of at least $100,000 to restaurant franchisees to acquire, build, remodel, or refinance new stores. It also offers financing for equipment and real estate. First Franchise Capital Corporation works with more than 50 restaurant brands and deals with franchisees of all sizes throughout the US.

Consumers Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Consumers National Bank, which provides various commercial and retail banking services. Consumers Bancorp, Inc. involves in attracting deposits from businesses and individual customers and uses such deposits to originate commercial, mortgage, and consumer loans in its market area, consisting primarily of Stark, Columbiana, Carroll, and contiguous counties in Ohio. Its deposit products include interest and noninterest bearing accounts, such as NOW accounts, savings account, time deposits, and short-term borrowings, as well as federal home loan bank advances. The company’s loan portfolio comprises real estate mortgage and construction loans; commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; and installment loans to individuals. As of June 30, 2009, Consumers Bancorp, Inc. operated 10 branch offices. Consumers Bancorp is headquartered in Minerva, Ohio.

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.

Great Florida Bank provides a range of consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, and industries in Florida. Its products and services include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing demand deposit accounts, money market deposit accounts, NOW accounts, time deposits, credit cards, cash management, direct deposits, notary services, night depository, cashiers checks, domestic collections, bank drafts, and automated teller services, as well as automated teller machine cards and online banking services.

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