Hingham Institution for Savings is a haven for wayward cash. The company has about 10 branches in Boston's south shore communities, operating in Boston, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Norwell, Scituate, South Hingham, and South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Founded in 1834, the bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, IRAs, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio is roughly split between commercial mortgages and residential mortgages (including home equity loans). To a far lesser extent, the bank also originates construction, business, and consumer loans.

GS Financial Corp. operates as the savings and loan holding company for Guaranty Savings Bank. GS Financial Corp. provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers in metropolitan New Orleans area. It offers various transaction and savings deposit products, such as noninterest-bearing demand deposits, NOW and MMDA account deposits, savings deposits, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides secured and unsecured loan products, including one to four family residential, commercial real estate, and construction loans, as well as home equity lines of credit; consumer loans; and commercial loans. It operates six branch offices and a mortgage production office serving southeast corner of Louisiana. GS Financial Corp. was founded in 1937 and is based in Metairie, Louisiana.

Founded in 1960, Cohen Financial, L.P. has nearly 10 offices in major US markets. Cohen Financial is an investment bank that provides capital and other financial services to those in the commercial real estate industry. Cohen funds loans both directly and indirectly through a cadre of capital sources. Borrowers typically use loans to acquire, construct, or renovate industrial, multifamily, office, and retail properties. The firm spun off its investment management unit into a joint venture, Wrightwood Capital, which manages commercial real estate investments on behalf of foundations and endowments, institutions, private investors, and private and public pension funds.

Star One Credit Union. It has four branches in California's Silicon Valley, but its approximately 80,000 members can access their accounts through a nationwide network of more than 25,000 ATMs and 2,500 shared credit union branches in some 40 states. Star One offers membership to employees of selected companies, including such biggies as Lockheed Martin and Yahoo! Additionally, those who live or work in Santa Clara County, California, are eligibleThe Lockheed Missile Employees Federal Credit Union was chartered in October 1956 to serve employees of the new Lockheed Missiles and Space Division in Sunnyvale, California. Our doors opened in January 1957 when 1,350 member accounts were transferred from the Lockheed Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union in Burbank.

Sturgis Bancorp is the holding company for Sturgis Bank & Trust, which has about 10 branches in south-central Michigan. Founded in 1905, the bank offers checking and savings accounts, CDs, trust services, and other standard banking fare. Real estate loans comprise the bulk of its lending activities: one- to four-family residential mortgages make up more than half of the company's loan portfolio. Subsidiary Oak Leaf Financial Services provides insurance and investment products and services from third-party provider Linsco/Private Ledger.

MidCarolina Financial likes to stay in the middle of all things financial in the Tar Heel State. The institution is the holding company for MidCarolina Bank, which has eight bank branches -- including two located in health care and long-term care facilities -- in Alamance and Guilford Counties. The bank offers standard retail products and services, such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit and debit cards. It uses funds from deposits primarily to write real estate loans; it also writes business and consumer loans. American National Bankshares is buying MidCarolina Financial for nearly $40 million.

Southern First Bancshares operates in two markets: Greenville, South Carolina, where it operates under the Greenville First Bank moniker, and in Columbia, South Carolina as Southern First Bank. Selling itself as a local alternative to larger institutions, the company, which has more than five bank branches, targets individuals and small to midsized businesses. It offers traditional deposit services and products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and CDs. The banks use funds from deposits mainly to write commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and commercial business loans.

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).

The US banking arm of Bank of Montreal (BMO), Harris Bankcorp offers personal and commercial banking and other financial services through Harris Bank and other subsidiaries. The company has more than 300 bank branches in the Chicago area, Indiana, and Wisconsin; it also has locations in Arizona, Florida, New York, and a handful of other states. In addition to Harris Bank, the company owns Harris Investment Management, middle-market investment bank BMO Capital Markets, and private bank and wealth management unit Harris Private Bank. Harris Bank added more than 50 branches in the Midwest when it acquired the failed AMCORE Bank in an FDIC-assisted deal in 2010.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited is one of China's biggest banks and one of the largest in the world. ICBC, which went public in 2006 in a record-setting IPO, manages around 17,000 domestic branches and more than 160 overseas branches and offices. The bank's financial services, offered in Chinese renminbi and foreign currencies, include wholesale, retail, and international banking for more than 3 million corporate clients and some 190 million individuals. It oversees about a quarter of the total domestic assets owned by China's commercial banks. The Chinese government controls more than half of ICBC.

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