Members fly high with Alliant Credit Union. With about 10 locations near major US airports, Alliant is one of the largest credit unions in the country with some $7 billion in assets and more than 260,000 members. The credit union offers a fleet of products and services, including checking and savings accounts, credit cards, investments, and insurance. Alliant also offers mortgages, as well as home equity, auto, and student loans. Membership is open to all Chicagoland residents and current and retired employees (and families) of United Airlines, Aflac, Google, Kaiser Permanente, and over a hundred other qualifying companies and organizations. Alliant was founded by a group of United Airlines employees in 1935.

Arvest Bank is a regional bank that operates in a unique, customer-focused way. Arvest delivers the convenience and technological advantages of a large super-regional bank, but with the local commitment and decision-making of a local community bank. Our primary focus is on meeting and exceeding customer expectations through convenient hours, an extensive network of branches, competitive rates and pricing, technological innovation and offering a full line of banking, mortgage, investment, lending and wealth management services.

BEO Bancorp began in 1945 as the Gilliam County Bank, Arlington.BEO Bancorp wants to be the bank of choice for rural Oregonians. BEO, which is the holding company for Bank of Eastern Oregon, has about a dozen offices in north central Oregon; it is the state's largest agricultural bank. BEO serves area consumers and businesses, offering standard deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, and lending products including mortgages and commercial loans. Through BEO Financial Services, the company offers customers investment and insurance products.

California First National Bancorp (CalFirst) wants to be first on your mind when it comes to meeting your equipment leasing needs. Through subsidiaries Amplicon and California First Leasing (CalFirst Leasing), the firm leases mainly computers and software. It also leases retail point-of-sale systems, ATMs, telecommunications equipment, office furniture, and other equipment. CalFirst also operates California First National Bank (CalFirst Bank), a branchless retail bank that accepts deposits through the mail, by phone, or over the Internet. CEO Patrick Paddon owns 64% of the company.

First Merchants makes community banking its first priority. The company owns First Merchants Bank, which operates some 80 branches in Indiana and western Ohio. The bank provides standard consumer and commercial banking services, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and check cards. Loans secured by commercial real estate and farmland account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio (more than a third), followed by residential mortgages and business loans. First Merchants Corporation also owns First Merchants Trust Company, which provides trust and asset management services, and First Merchants Insurance Services, which sells personal, property/casualty, and employee benefit coverage.

Whitney Holding Corporation was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whitney Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Whitney National Bank that provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. Whitney Holding Corporation offers various deposit products, such as non interest bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing deposits, NOW account, money market, savings, and other time deposits. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial; commercial real estate; construction, land, and land development; residential mortgage; and consumer loans, as well as secured and unsecured loan products, such as revolving credit facilities. The company also offers letters of credit, financial guarantees, and financing for the development of housing. In addition, it provides treasury management services; trust and investment management services to retirement plans; investment brokerage services; and annuity products, as well as personal and business lines of insurance to customers in northwest Florida and the New Orleans metropolitan area. Whitney Holding Corporation offers its services in Texas, southern Louisiana, coastal region of Mississippi, central and south Alabama, and the western panhandle and the Tampa Bay metropolitan area of Florida, as well as in Grand Cayman in the British West Indies.

Laurentian Bank of Canada offers commercial and consumer banking services from more than 150 branches, located mostly in Quebec. Residential mortgages account for about half of the bank's loan portfolio; personal loans are more than a third. Other retail products include checking and savings accounts, mutual funds, and Visa cards. The bank also has some 30 commercial banking centers that serve small to midsized businesses, real estate developers, and agricultural concerns. Subsidiary B2B Trust provides supplies financial products to financial planners, advisors, and brokers.

First Financial Holdings, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Charleston that provides various banking and other related financial services. Its deposit products include demand deposit transaction accounts, time deposit accounts, non-interest-bearing checking accounts, interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposits. The company’s loan portfolio comprises residential real estate mortgage and construction loans, commercial and multifamily real estate mortgage loans, home equity, manufactured housing, and other consumer loans; credit card receivables; and commercial business loans. As of September 30, 2009, it operated 44 full service retail branch sales offices, 18 in-store retail branch sales offices, and 3 limited services branches in Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Hilton Head area of Beaufort, Georgetown, Horry, and Florence Counties, South Carolina; and Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender Counties, North Carolina. First Financial Holdings, Inc., through its other subsidiaries, engages in full-service brokerage activities; property, casualty, life, and health insurance sales; third party administrative services, including services to retirement plans; trust and fiduciary services; reinsurance of private mortgage insurance; and premium finance activities. First Financial Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

HBOS Australia operates a Bank of Scotland Treasury branch as well. A subsidiary Lloyds Banking Group, HBOS Australia holds two financial services companies: asset-based lender Capital Finance and BOS International, which is active in corporate advisory, public-to-private transactions, property lending, and infrastructure, resources, and oil and gas financing in Australia; BOS International also underwrites lending facilities in New Zealand and participates in large syndicated transactions such as leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and structured corporate finance in Hong Kong.

The Farm Credit Bank of Texas is owned by the lending cooperatives it serves. Part of the federal Farm Credit System, the Farm Credit Bank of Texas provides loans and financial services to more than 20 lending cooperatives and financial institutions in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas. The co-ops include federal land credit associations, which offer real estate loans on farms, ranches, and other rural property, and agricultural credit associations, which provide agricultural production loans, agribusiness financing, and rural mortgage financing. Its Capital Markets Group partners with banks and other institutions to provide capital to food, energy, agribusiness, and telecom companies.

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