Hitachi Capital helps business help customers buy stuff. Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC (HCUK) is a provider of financial services, including business cash flow, commercial asset finance, vehicle finance and management, and retailer finance. Hitachi Capital company, formerly Hitachi Credit, operates through various divisions and subsidiaries, including Hitachi Capital Business Finance, Hitachi Capital Credit Management, and Hitachi Capital Insurance Europe. HCUK provides finance for some 330,000 consumers, 45,000 fleet vehicles and provides asset finance and block discounting for 5,500 companies. Hitachi Capital Corporation, a unit of Japan's Hitachi, Ltd., owns HCUK and operates it as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Axis Bank Limited,the private bank offers retail and corporate banking services through more than 800 branches and about 3,500 ATMs in India. Axis Bank also has branches in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and United Arab Emirates. Its retail banking group offers deposit accounts and auto, home, and other personal loans to individuals and small businesses; its corporate unit targets larger businesses with working capital loans, trade and warehouse financing, and cash management services. Axis Bank provides other products, including credit cards, mobile banking, and online tax payments. The bank offers insurance products through partnersips with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and MetLife India.

Got your eye on a new backhoe or truck fleet, but having trouble scraping together the cash? Wells Fargo Equipment Finance can help. One of the largest bank-owned business finance and leasing outfits in the US, the subsidiary of megabank Wells Fargo courts middle-market businesses, offering equipment financing, vendor financing, and a variety of lease options in the US and Canada. Clients use funding from Wells Fargo Equipment Finance to obtain such durable goods as computers, aircraft, manufacturing equipment, heavy machinery, shipping containers, and vehicles.

Princeton National Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens First National Bank in north-central Illinois. Founded in 1865, the bank serves area residents and businesses through more than 20 branches in nearly as many communities. It offers traditional services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Business loans account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio, followed by commercial and residential mortgages. The bank also writes agricultural, construction, and consumer installment loans. Through Citizens Financial Advisors, it offers insurance, investments, farm management, and fiduciary services.

First Security was incorporated in 1999 as a Tennessee corporation to serve as a bank holding company, and is regulated and supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. First Security conducts all of its business activities through its wholly-owned subsidiary, FSGBank, National Association, a national banking association regulated and supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. First Security serves the banking and financial needs of the various communities located along the interstate corridors of middle and East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. These interstate communities are primarily served by branches of large regional and national financial institutions headquartered outside of the area. As a result, we believe these markets need, and are best served by, a locally-owned and operated financial institution managed by people in and from the communities served. We offer personalized and flexible banking services to the communities in our market area and are able to react quickly to changes in those communities, in part by maintaining local advisory boards. In Dalton, Georgia, FSGBank operates under the name of Dalton Whitfield Bank; along the Interstate 40 corridor in Tennessee, FSGBank operates under the name of Jackson Bank & Trust. FSGBank provides retail and commercial banking services, trust and investment management, mortgage banking, financial planning, internet banking, and equipment leasing through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kenesaw Leasing and J&S Leasing.

CommerceFirst Bancorp is the holding company for CommerceFirst Bank, which opened in 2000 and now has five branches in central Maryland. Catering to small to midsized businesses and professional clients, it offers deposit products including checking and savings accounts, NOW and money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The bank mainly uses funds from deposits to write business loans (including Small Business Administration loans) and mortgages. Executive officers and board members of CommerceFirst Bancorp collectively own more than 20% of the company.

NewAlliance Bancshares is the holding company for NewAlliance Bank, a community savings institution that offers personal and business banking through about 90 branches in Connecticut and Massachusetts. It provides standard services such as checking and savings accounts, loans and mortgages, and retirement planning. Trust Company of Connecticut, a division of the bank, provides trust and investment management services to individuals, families, and not-for-profits. Acquisitive Buffalo-based financial services holding company First Niagara Financial, which has expanded into Pennsylvania through recent purchases, is buying New Alliance Bancshares for some $1.5 billion.

Fukuoka Financial has more than just a yen to serve the banking needs of Kyushu. The bank operates about 300 branches in southwestern Japan's Kyushu region (including the prefectures of Fukuoka, Jumamoto, and Nagasaki) and a handful of branches in China. Annually the bank makes loans of more than 3 trillion yen (more than $33 billion) to small and midsized companies and loans of more than 1 trillion yen (more than $11 billion) to individuals. The company isn't banking only on banking, though: It also owns 13% of retail chain Iwataya. Bank of Fukuoka bought Kumamoto Family Bank to form Fukuoka Financial in 2007; it then bought Kyushu-Shinwa's Shinwa Bank to create Japan's largest regional banking group.

ESL Federal Credit Union was known as Eastman Savings and Loan until 1996 when it changed its charter from a thrift to a credit union. The company has about 20 branches in upstate New York that offer deposit accounts, credit cards, insurance, and investment products. It originates consumer loans and mortgages, including automobile, boat, and home improvement loans. The credit union has some 290,000 members; membership is available to employees and retirees of Eastman Kodak and its subsidiaries as well as a handful of other employer groups and residents of Rochester, New York.

First Mariner Bancorp helps customers navigate banking seas (and fees). It's the holding company for First Mariner Bank, which operates more than two-dozen branches along the Baltimore/Washington, DC, corridor. Targeting individuals and businesses, First Mariner Bank offers standard deposit products such as checking, savings, and money market accounts. Lending activities consist of commercial mortgages (more than 30% of all loans), as well as consumer, residential construction and mortgage, and business loans. Subsidiary First Mariner Mortgage originates mortgages for sale to secondary markets. First Mariner Bancorp sold consumer finance subsidiary Mariner Finance in 2009.

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