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.

First Community Corporation operates as the holding company for First Community Bank, N.A. that provides commercial and retail banking services to small to medium-sized businesses, professional concerns, and individuals primarily in Richland, Lexington, Kershaw, and Newberry Counties of South Carolina and the surrounding areas. It offers various deposit products, including checking, NOW, savings, money market, and individual retirement accounts, as well as time deposits and certificates of deposit. The company also provides various loan products, such as commercial loans for working capital, business expansion, and the purchase of equipment and machinery; consumer loans, which include secured and unsecured loans for financing automobiles, home improvements, education, and personal investments; real estate construction and acquisition loans; and mortgage loans. In addition, it offers various other bank services, which comprise Internet banking, cash management services, safe deposit boxes, travelers’ checks, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks, and automatic drafts for various accounts. Further, the company provides non-deposit investment products and other investment brokerage services, VISA and MasterCard credit card services, and insurance services, as well as involves in issuing trust preferred securities. First Community Corporation operates its main office in Lexington, South Carolina; and 11 full-service offices located in Lexington, Forest Acres, Irmo, Cayce-West Columbia, Gilbert, Chapin, Northeast Columbia, Prosperity, Newberry, and Camden. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Lexington, South Carolina.

TrustCo Bank Corp is the holding company for Trustco Bank, which operates in eastern New York, central and western Florida, and parts of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. It has about 130 branches, offering individual and business customers a variety of deposit products and trust services. It primarily originates residential and commercial mortgages, which account for about three-quarters of its loan portfolio; it also writes business loans and home equity lines of credit. Since 2003, TrustCo Bank has nearly doubled its branch network in New York and Florida by opening new locations. It plans to continue opening new branches, albeit not as rapidly.

Banca Antonveneta provides retail, private, and investment banking services from more than 400 locations throughout Italy. For individual and business customers, the bank offers deposit accounts, credit cards and loans, and insurance and investment products. Its private banking offerings include a variety of investment management services including mutual funds and other instruments. About half of the bank's offices are located in northeastern Italy. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) acquired Antonveneta from Spanish bank Santander in 2008.

The Southern Banc Company is the holding company for The Southern Bank, which operates about five branches in Etowah, Cherokee, and Marshall counties in northeastern Alabama. Serving both local businesses and consumers, the bank offers standard deposit products, including checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan portfolio is dominated by one-to-four family residential mortgages, business loans, and consumer loans, but Southern Bank also writes nonresidential real estate mortgages and loans secured by savings accounts.

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. operates as a diversified financial services company. It offers retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, asset management, and residential mortgage banking services. Its retail banking products and services comprise deposit, lending, brokerage, trust, investment management, and cash management services.

PrivateBancorp is the holding company for two PrivateBank subsidiaries that provide commercial and private banking, business and real estate lending, investments, and money management services to middle-market companies, commercial real estate investors, business owners, executives, and wealthy individuals and their families. The banks have some 35 offices in major markets in the Midwest and Southeast. PrivateBancorp is modeled after a traditional European private bank, placing emphasis on personal service in an effort to establish life-long relationships with its clients.

Dena Bank operates more than 1,100 bank branches and some 400 ATMs across India. The company offers standard retail services for individuals and businesses, including deposit accounts, loans, and credit cards. It also provides trade finance and other international banking services. More than half of Dena Bank's branches are located in the western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. Founded in 1938 as Devkaran Nanjee Banking Company, Dena Bank was nationalized in 1969 and put on the market in 1996. The Indian government owns 51% of the company.

Clarkston Financial, the holding company for Clarkston State Bank, threw its hat into the ring of retail banking in 1998. The community bank serves area consumers and small to midsized businesses from about five locations in Oakland County, Michigan, north of Detroit. The bank offers standard deposit services, including checking, savings, and money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and IRAs. Clarkston Savings Bank uses these funds primarily to originate real estate loans; commercial mortgages account for the largest portion of its portfolio, followed by residential mortgages and construction and land development loans.

First Franklin Corporation operates as the holding company for The Franklin Savings and Loan Company that offers a range of banking products and services in Ohio. Its deposit products include savings accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, fixed interest rate certificates of deposit with varying maturities, and individual retirement accounts. The company offers conventional first mortgage loans for the purpose of purchasing, refinancing, or constructing one-to four-family residential real property; multi-family residential and nonresidential real estate loans; consumer loans for personal, family, or household purposes, as well as for automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, and education; and home equity and commercial lines of credit. It also invests in mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations, as well as offers credit card, automated teller machine, voice response telephone inquiry system, and Internet-based banking system services. First Franklin Corporation operates one office in Cincinnati, Ohio; and seven full service branches in Hamilton County, Ohio. First Franklin Corporation was founded in 1883 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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