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.

Premium Credit can lay claim to being one of the largest insurance premium financiers in the UK simply because it is one of the few such companies. The firm lends money to individuals and small businesses for payments on a range of insurance products such as business insurance, professional indemnity coverage, and motor and household insurance. Premium Credit also handles outsourced collections of recurring annual or monthly payments such as those collected by accountants and lawyers, magazines and newspapers, property managers, and clubs and organizations. Through Holmwood Termtime, a partnership with HSBC, the company collects school fees from parents of students at some 650 schools across the UK.

American Savings Bank has grown into one of Hawaii’s leading financial institutions. A large network of American Savings Bank branches and automated teller machines – in addition to phone and online banking options – make it easier than ever to address the needs of our customers and our communities.

Velocity Commercial Capital has a deal for you. The specialty finance company acquires and originates commercial real estate loans up to $3 million for small businesses. Its average loan is less than $400,000. It currently holds mortgages for more than 300 properties, 30% of which are in California. Its loan portfolio includes multi-family housing, retail space, mixed-use developments, warehouses, offices, industrial complexes, restaurants, and mobile home parks. Velocity Commercial Capital does not make construction loans or lend for undeveloped land. The company, which filed to go public in 2010, intends to qualify as a real estate investment trust (REIT).

In 1828, Citizens Financial Group got its start as a small community bank called the High Street Bank in Providence, Rhode Island.Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is a $136 billion commercial bank holding company. It is headquartered in Providence, R.I., and, through its subsidiaries, has more than 1,500 branches, more than 3,700 ATMs and approximately 22,600 employees. Its two bank subsidiaries are RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. They operate a 12-state branch network under the Citizens Bank brand in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the Charter One brand in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. CFG has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states. CFG is owned by RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc).

ICICI Bank Limited provides banking products and financial services in the areas of investment banking, life and non-life insurance, venture capital, and asset management to corporate and retail customers. It offers savings accounts, fixed deposits, recurring deposits, and salary accounts; and consumer and commercial cards. The company also provides home loans, commercial vehicle loans, personal loans, car loans, and loans against securities. In addition, it offers tax saving bonds, government of India bonds, mutual funds, initial public offers, foreign exchange services, and senior citizens savings schemes; and health, overseas travel, student medical, motor, and home, insurance products, as well as invests in gold. Further, it provides cash management services and global trade services; mergers and acquisitions advisory services and private equity syndication services; financial institution, capital market, and custodial services; and structured and project finance products. Additionally, the company offers business advantage loans, vendor/dealer finance, and industry specific loans; transaction banking and CMS services; trade services; and private equity placement services. It also provides NRI banking, international banking, rural and agri banking, Internet banking, mobile banking, and phone banking services, as well as dematerialization services. As of May 3, 2010, the company had a network of 2,000 branches and extension counters, and 5,219 ATMs in India and internationally. ICICI Bank Limited was founded in 1955 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS), which provides consumer, business, and other banking services to 6 million clients through more than 3,000 branches throughout the country. BMPS also has limited operations in several other nations. The bank, which claims to be the oldest in the world, was founded in 1472 to help the poor. It is split into a public institution (chiefly active in benevolent works, grants, and public assistance) and the incorporated banking arm (focused on profits). The Fondazione Monte dei Paschi owns about 49% of the bank, but controls some 60% of it.

The banking division of Hong Kong's Dah Sing Group, DSBG operates three subsidiaries (Dah Sing Bank, Banco Comercial de Macau, and MEVAS Bank), a securities trading company, and a joint venture private banking business with SG Hambros Bank, which provides offshore private banking services. The bank's services include savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and e-banking. Dah Sing Bank has nearly 50 branches in Hong Kong, more than a dozen branches in Macau, and a handful of locations in China. It also owns about 20% of China's Bank of Chongqing, with 70 locations. Fellow Dah Sing Group subsidiary Dah Sing Financial Group owns DSBG.

Charter Financial is the savings and loan holding company for CharterBank, which operates more than a dozen branches and loan production offices in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Deposit products include consumer and commercial checking accounts, savings and money market accounts, and CDs. The bank is focused on real estate lending, with residential and commercial mortgages each accounting for more than a third of its loan portfolio. It also makes consumer, business, construction, and land development loans. The bank gives cash awards to high school customers for making straight A's. Mutual holding company First Charter MHC owns more than 80% of Charter Financial.

Nationwide Building Society reigns as king over the UK's dwindling number of mutual building societies. The society offers consumers standard deposit banking services as well as investment products such as pension plans, unit trusts, and ISAs (individual savings accounts). Nationwide is also one of the country's leading mortgage lenders, writing mortgages with a variety of terms and rates, along with secured and unsecured personal loans and credit cards. The company has some 800 branches and 15 million members. As other societies convert to public stock holding companies or consolidate with one another, Nationwide remains committed to staying mutual (owned by members) and has only continued to grow in size.

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