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.

Central Federal Corporation is the holding company for CFBank. Traditionally a retail-focused savings and loan, CFBank has added business banking, commercial real estate, and business lending to its foundation. It now serves not only local individuals, but also businesses through five branches in eastern Ohio and the state capital, Columbus. Its deposit products include checking, savings, NOW, and money market accounts, as well as CDs. Commercial, commercial real estate, and multifamily residential mortgages represent nearly 80% of the company's loan portfolio. Single-family mortgages make up about 13% of loans. CFBank traces its roots to 1892.

Clairvest Group is a merchant bank that invests its own capital and that of third-party investors as well. The bank invests primarily through its Clairvest Equity Partners Limited Partnership subsidiary, in both public and private entrepreneurial corporations. The company acquired a controlling interest in orthopedic back-care products investor Integral Orthopedics in early 2005. Other substantial holdings include N-Brook Mortgage Group, an underwriter of residential real estate mortgages in Canada, and Light Tower Rentals, which leases oil field equipment in the southwestern US.

Cherokee residents were invited to invest in a new bank being formed by 10 local directors, and by July, Cherokee Bank opened its doors in a temporary facility with eight employees. The bank moved into a permanent home in its present main office in March of 2000. After a short 15 months of operation, the bank had its first break-even month in October of 2000. Assets grew steadily from the start, passing the $50 million mark within two years, $100 million within four years and surpassing the $200 million mark within seven years. A temporary office was opened in South Canton in July 2002 to complement the bank's North Canton main office. The permanent facility opened in January of 2004. In 2007, the bank opened its Woodstock Office to serve clients in Woodstock, Acworth and Kennesaw.

The Bank of Italy is the central bank of the Republic of Italy and part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Eurosystem. It is a public-law institution and pursues aims of general interest in monetary and financial matters: price stability, the primary objective of the Eurosystem under the Treaty establishing the European Community (the EC Treaty); the stability and efficiency of the financial system, thus implementing the principle of the protection of savings embodied in the Constitution (Article 47(1) “The Republic encourages and protects saving in all its forms, it regulates, coordinates and controls the provision of credit”); and the other duties entrusted to it by Italian law.

Security Federal is the holding company for Security Federal Bank, which has about a dozen offices in southwestern South Carolina's Aiken and Lexington counties. It expanded into Columbia, South Carolina and eastern Georgia in 2007. The bank offers checking and savings accounts, credit cards, CDs, IRAs, and other retail products and services. Commercial business and mortgage loans make up more than 60% of the company's lending portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages (about 25%), and consumer loans. Security Federal also offers trust services, investments, and life, home, and auto insurance.

Hua Nan Financial Holdings is a financial holding company with operations in commercial banking, securities brokerage, venture capital, asset management, fund management, and insurance. Its flagship subsidiary Hua Nan Commercial Bank (HNCB) is one of Taiwan's largest banks. Established in 1919, today the bank serves some 5 million customers from about 200 branches. It has overseas branches in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, the UK, and the US. Other major arms of Hua Nan Financial include property/casualty firm South China Insurance, brokerage Hua Nan Securities, and investment manager Hua Nan Investment Trust.

FFD Financial Corporation operates as a holding company for First Federal Community Bank that provides banking products and services to individual and business customers primarily in Tuscarawas, Holmes, and other adjoining counties in Ohio. FFD Financial Corporation company offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, passbook savings accounts, money market and individual retirement accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, health savings accounts, and certificate of deposit accounts. It also provides various loan products comprising real estate loans secured by one- to four-family and multifamily residential properties, nonresidential real estate loans, commercial loans, residential and home equity loans, construction loans, business loans, and consumer loans. In addition, FFD Financial Corporation offers various online services. As of June 30, 2009, it operated a main office in Dover, Ohio; and branch offices in Dover, New Philadelphia, and Sugarcreek, Ohio. FFD Financial Corporation company was founded in 1898 and is based in Dover, Ohio.

Aiful Corporation provides consumer, mortgage, and guaranteed loans to individuals and business customers in Japan. Aiful operates via more than 900 domestic branches and specializes in consumer credit, credit cards, and small-to-medium enterprise loans. A network of subsidiaries help shoulder the work, including Life (shopping loans and credit), Businext (small business loans), City's (small business loans), Tryto (unsecured loans), and Wide (unsecured loans). Aiful Corporation got its start in 1978 with four branches offering unsecured consumer loans. Struggling with its own debt repayments, Aiful is working on a restructuring plan which could include branch closures and/or payroll cuts.

Citizens of the Republic! Citizens Republic Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens Bank, which operates about 220 branches primarily in Michigan, but also in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. In addition to consumer and commercial banking, Citizens Republic Bancorp also offers wealth management, brokerage services, mutual funds, annuities, and trust services. Commercial loans, including real estate, construction, and industrial loans, make up approximately 60% of the company's portfolio; consumer loans represent about 25%. Citizens sold its F&M Bank-Iowa subsidiary to Great Western Bank, a unit of National Australia Bank, in 2010.

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