First National Community Bancorp is the holding company for First National Community Bank, which has about 20 offices in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne and Monroe counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. The bank provides standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, credit cards, mortgages, and other loans. It also offers wealth management services. The bank is mainly a business lender, with commercial mortgages accounting for more than 40% of its loan portfolio and operating loans comprising about another quarter. Chairman Louis DeNaples and his brother Dominick, who is vice chairman, each own around 10% of First National Community Bancorp.

Capital Bank Corporation is the holding company for Capital Bank, which capitalizes on the bustling Research Triangle area it serves. Founded in 1997, the bank has about 30 offices in central and western North Carolina. It provides a range of consumer and commercial banking services, including savings, checking, and health savings accounts, as well as CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Commercial real estate loans, made primarily to small and midsized businesses, make up more than 60% of the bank's loan portfolio; residential mortgages are around 20%. The bank also issues business and consumer loans. It offers investments and insurance through unaffiliated third-party provider Capital Investment Group.

Santander UK (formerly Alliance & Leicester) offers deposit and lending services throughout the UK. Its largest segment is its traditional savings and home mortgage business, but the company also offers checking accounts, credit cards, and consumer finance, as well as commercial services such as cash management and asset financing. The firm has alliances with such firms as Legal & General and Zurich to provide investment and insurance products. Its approximately 5.5 million retail customers can access the bank through more than 300 branches, 2,500 ATMs, and 14,000 post offices across the UK. Spanish banking giant Santander bought Alliance & Leicester in 2008. It was rebranded Santander UK in 2010.

Jeffersonville Bancorp is the holding company for The First National Bank of Jeffersonville. The bank serves businesses and consumers through about 10 locations in southeastern New York's Sullivan County. First National Bank of Jeffersonville offers such standard retail services as demand deposit, savings, and money market accounts; NOW accounts; CDs; and IRAs to fund a variety of loans. Nearly 40% of the bank's loan portfolio consists of residential mortgages, while commercial mortgages account for another 35%. The bank also provides home equity, business, consumer, construction, and agricultural loans.

Chinatrust Financial Holding (CFHC) is one of Taiwan's largest financial services groups. It operates Chinatrust Commercial Bank, which has more than 140 domestic branches and more than 70 overseas. The group provides general banking services including corporate and consumer loans, financial consulting, checking and savings accounts, letters of credit, commercial drafts, collections and payments, and credit cards. It also offers property/casualty insurance, life insurance, investments, and other related financial services. Overseas, the bank operates subsidiaries in the US, Canada, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The predecessor to the family-owned CFHC was founded in 1966.

Indiana Community Bancorp is holding company for Indiana Bank and Trust, which operates around 20 offices in south-central and southern regions of the Hoosier State. The bank offers such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, CDs, and IRAs. The bank earns much of its revenues from its lending activities. Commercial real estate loans account for more than half of the company's loan portfolio. Indiana Bank and Trust also writes residential, consumer, auto, construction, and other loans. The bank was founded as New Building and Loan Association in 1908.

Blue River Bancshares was founded in 1937 and is based in Shelbyville, Indiana. Blue River Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Shelby County Bank and Paramount Bank, which provide community banking services for individuals and businesses in south central Indiana. Its deposits products include checking, NOW, savings, and time deposits. The company also offers real estate loans for single-family and multi-family properties and medium and short-term loans for commercial, agricultural, and industrial properties, as well as consumer and commercial lines of credit secured by real estate; commercial loans for the purpose of financing equipment, working capital, expansion, and other general business purposes; consumer loans, including automobile loans and equity lines of credit; and agricultural loans. As of March 31, 2007, it operated three full service branches in Shelbyville, Morristown, and St. Paul, Indiana; a loan production office in Fishers, Indiana; and one office in Lexington, Kentucky.

Sydbank serves some 345,000 retail banking customers and small-to-medium businesses, primarily in Denmark (where it is the fourth-largest bank, with about 105 branches). Sydbank's core geographical regions are Aarhus, Funen, and southern Jutland; it also has branches in Copenhagen, and its 2008 acquisition of bankTrelleborg boosted its operations in Zealand. In addition, the company has a handful of branches in Germany and Switzerland. Sydbank, which offers a range of private banking services and asset management, is part of the Sydbank Group, which holds DMK-Holding, SBK-Invest, Ejendomsselskabet, and Sydbank (Schweiz) AG. Sydbank was formed in 1970 after the merger of four local banks in southern Jutland.

Slovenska sporitea (translates as Slovak Savings), the largest commercial bank in Slovakia, provides commercial and international banking services from more than 300 branches throughout the Slovak Republic. It offers its individual customers standard deposit products, credit cards, loans and mortgages, and investment funds. Its private banking arm provides asset management services. Slovenska sporitea also serves commercial clients ranging from entrepreneurs and small businesses to large and multi-national corporations. The bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Austria's oldest bank, Erste Bank.

Sterling Financial is doing what it can to prevent its reputation from being tarnished. It is the holding company for Sterling Savings Bank, which provides standard banking and lending services in the Pacific Northwest. Sterling Savings operates about 180 branch locations in California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Its wealth management division markets stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and other investments to bank customers. Mortgage and construction loans account for more than half of the company's portfolio. Bank subsidiary INTERVEST issues commercial mortgages throughout the West. Under orders from regulators, Sterling Financial is working to raise its capital levels.

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