Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation stands atop a "big hill" in Pennsylvania. It is the holding company for Bryn Mawr Trust, which operates some 25 offices (several being limited-service branches located in retirement communities) in Pennsylvania's Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties, including Philadelphia's tony Main Line suburbs. In addition to such traditional services as checking and savings accounts, CDs, mortgages, and business and consumer loans, the bank also provides insurance products, equipment leasing, investment management, retirement planning, tax planning and preparation, and trust services. Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation has approximately $3 billion of assets under administration and management.

Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) provides banking and financial services to a predominately Muslim clientele in the Middle East and North Africa. Offerings include retail and commercial banking, investment banking, portfolio management, and Islamic banking. The company also provides project finance, foreign exchange, derivatives, financial advisory services. ABC operates in about 20 countries, with representative and affiliate offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The Central Bank of Libya now owns a majority of ABC after acquiring about a third of the bank in two separate deals in 2010. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Kuwait Investment Authority also hold stakes.

Merchants Bank provides community banking services to the residents of Vermont via about 35 branches throughout the state. Organized in 1849, the bank provides standard retail products including checking, money market, and savings accounts; IRAs; CDs; and ATM and debit cards. Residential mortgages account for nearly 50% of the company's loan portfolio; commercial real estate mortgages account for more than 30%. Merchants Bank also offers business, construction, agricultural, and consumer loans.

The Hyakugo Bank is a Japanese regional bank offering traditional banking services such as electronic, corporate, and consumer banking, as well as international and securities offerings. Hyakugo Bank serves its products through more than 100 branches and 26 sub-branches and also owns foreign offices in Singapore and Shanghai. Listed subsidiaries include Hyakugo Business Service Company, Hyakugo Staff Service Company, and Hyakugo Property Research Company. The bank goes all the way back to 1878, when it was established as The 105th National Chartered Bank.

Ames National Corporation is the multi-bank holding company for flagship subsidiary First National Bank, Ames, Iowa, as well as Boone Bank & Trust, Randall-Story State Bank, State Bank & Trust, and United Bank & Trust. With a total of about a dozen branches, the banks provide area individuals and businesses with standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit and debit cards. Commercial and agricultural real estate loans account for about half of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes residential, construction, consumer, and business loans. The banks also offer trust and financial management services.

Founded in 1917, Bankers Trust is Iowa’s oldest and largest independently owned bank, with assets of $2.4 billion and more than 400 employees. Based in Des Moines, Bankers Trust has 11 offices throughout the Greater Des Moines area, as well as branches or operations in Ames, Iowa; Phoenix, Ariz.; Omaha, Neb.; and Sioux Falls, S.D. Bankers Trust Cedar Rapids, operating under a separate banking charter, has assets approaching $400 million and more than 40 employees.

KB Financial Group, holding company for Kookmin Bank, provides commercial and consumer banking services in South Korea. It offers asset management and life insurance through alliances with Netherlands-based ING Groep. The bank's lending activities mainly entail residential mortgages, home equity loans, consumer loans, and corporate loans. Kookmin Bank has more than 1,200 branches in its home country, where it claims some 26 million customers, or about half of the population of South Korea. The bank provides corporate services such as foreign exchange and securities trading from offices at home and abroad in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Auckland, New Zealand.

American Chartered Bank is the premier bank in the northwest suburban corridor. Our mission is to provide customers with the best value in banking products and services, and to provide superlative customer service at all times. This can only be accomplished by hiring personnel of the highest caliber -- intelligent, adaptable, skilled, and committed to our standards of excellence.

Credit Industriel et Commercial, commonly known as CIC, is made up of seven banks that serve Paris and five other regions of France. The company offers savings accounts, mortgages, and loans; it also owns stakes in specialized entities involved in private banking, asset management, leasing, securities brokerage, and property/casualty insurance. CIC serves more than 3 million retail customers and 100,000 business clients through about 1,900 offices in France. The bank also has representative offices in some 35 countries around the world. Entities affiliated with French banking group Credit Mutuel own more than 90% of CIC.

NEC Financial Services can loan you cold hard cash for hardware. A subsidiary of NEC Corporation of America and a member of the Tokyo-based NEC Corporation family, NEC Financial Services provides lease financing for stateside businesses and municipal customers to buy technology equipment such as software, computers, peripherals, and other IT and telecommunications products manufactured by its parent company. Lease terms typically range from 12 months to six years and often include options to purchase the leased equipment for as little as $1 once all payments are made.

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