Lake Shore Bancorp is the holding company for Lake Shore Savings Bank, which serves consumers and businesses through about 10 branches in Chautauqua and Erie counties in western New York, near Lake Erie. Founded in 1891, the community oriented savings bank focuses on residential real estate lending, with one- to four-family mortgages accounting for a majority of its loan portfolio. Lake Shore Savings Bank also offers home equity loans and commercial and consumer loans, as well as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Mutual holding company Lake Shore, MHC owns about 60% of Lake Shore Bancorp.

Golub Capital Partners enjoys being caught in the middle. The company provides debt financing to and makes equity investments in established middle-market companies in the US. It allies with corporate owners, management teams, and financial sponsors in transactions such as recapitalizations, buyouts, and growth financing. Golub focuses on the consumer products, business services, defense, manufacturing, media, and restaurant industries, eschewing technology and passive real estate investments. The Golub Capital Partners LLC company underwrites and syndicates loans up to $150 million, provides debt financing up to $75 million, and makes equity investments of up to $25 million. It also buys loans in the secondary market.

UniCredit Bank Austria AG Company Profile UniCredit Bank Austria is one of the largest banks in the country. Part of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) unit of European banking giant UniCredit, Bank Austria is also among the largest in the region, boasting some 3,700 branch offices and 27 million customers in 20 countries. It serves private customers, small to midsized businesses, and large corporations; offerings include commercial banking services, credit cards, investment advice, real estate lending, and savings products. UniCredit acquired the small percentange of Bank Austria (formerly Bank Austria Creditanstalt) it didn't already control in 2008.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc., through its bank subsidiaries, provides commercial and retail banking services to businesses and individuals. Its deposit products include checking and other demand deposit, negotiable order of withdrawal, savings, money market, individual retirement, and health savings accounts, as well as certificates of deposits and other time deposits. The company’s loans include commercial and industrial, agricultural, real estate mortgage, consumer, and home equity loans, as well as lines of credit. It also offers other products and services, including VISA debit cards, automated teller machines, online banking, safe deposit boxes, and trust services. In addition, the company engages in investment brokerage activities; and offers vehicle, property and casualty, life, and disability insurance, as well as tax-free annuities. Further, it offers trust and investment services for individuals and corporations. Heartland Financial USA, Inc. has strategic alliance with LPL Financial Institution Services to operate independent securities offices at its bank subsidiaries, as well as offers various investment services, such as mutual funds, annuities, retirement products, education savings products, brokerage services, employer sponsored plans, and insurance products. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 61 banking locations in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, and Minnesota. Heartland Financial USA, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa.

SBV&T knows the ABCs of banking. The corporation is the holding company for Springs Valley Bank & Trust, a community bank with about five locations in southern Indiana. Serving local individuals and businesses, the bank offers checking and savings accounts, loans, and mortgages, as well as trust and investment services. It is mainly a real estate lender, with residential and commercial mortgages making up most of the company's loan portfolio. Business, consumer, farmland, municipal, and construction and land development loans round out the bank's lending activities.

There's nothing half way about HLF, or Hong Leong Finance. The company, with some 30 branches across Singapore, offers personal and business loans, insurance, wealth management, foreign exchange, and corporate financing services. The largest finance company in the country by assets, HLF specializes in financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it sponsors an annual forum for budding entrepreneurs. Hong Leong Finance Limited company also provides investment banking services including handling IPOs and other public offerings and M&A consulting. Investment firm Hong Leong Group Malaysia owns 73% of HLF.

KBC Group is one of Belgium's largest financial services firms. The company operates more than 850 bank branches in Belgium and another 1,300 in Central and Eastern Europe. It has other operations in Western Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia. KBC caters to individuals, small and midsized businesses, and private banking clients. It also offers insurance, and asset management. The bank is organized into four primary business units: Belgium; Central and Eastern Europe and Russia; Merchant Banking; and European Private Banking. In 2009 KBC received its third government bailout upon reporting losses related to toxic investments.

The Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited is the country's oldest bank, established by King Rama V in 1906 in response to the proliferation of foreign financial institutions in Thailand. Today the bank offers an array of financial services that include corporate and personal lending, retail and wholesale banking, foreign currency operations, international trade financing, cash management, custodial operations, credit and charge-card operations, and investment banking. Siam Commercial operates through a network of about 950 branches including offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Laos.

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Flagstar Bank, FSB that offers consumer and commercial financial products and services to individuals, and small and middle market businesses in Michigan, Indiana, and Georgia. The company engages in generating deposits and originating loans. Its deposit products include demand deposits, savings and money market accounts, checking deposits, certificates of deposits, municipal deposits, national deposits, and company controlled deposits. The company’s loan portfolio comprises single-family mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial real estate loans, non-real estate commercial loans, and residential mortgage loans for others. It also originates, acquires, sells, and services one-to-four family residential mortgage loans. Flagstar Bancorp, Inc., through its subsidiaries, acts as an agent for life insurance, health and casualty insurance, and reinsurance companies; and provides online paperless office solutions for mortgage originators. It also engages in holding investment loans, purchasing securities, selling and securitizing mortgage loans, maintaining and selling mortgage servicing rights, developing new loan products, establishing pricing for mortgage loans to be acquired, providing for lock-in support, and managing interest rate risk associated with these activities. As of December 31, 2009, Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. operated 165 banking centers. Flagstar Bancorp was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.

Clydesdale Bank PLC,founded in 1838, the full-service financial institution has been owned by National Australia Bank since 1987. Along with standard personal and commercial services such as deposit accounts, lending, credit cards, and financial advice, the bank also dabbles in agribusiness and private banking (it has an office on the Isle of Guernsey, the locus of offshore banking). Clydesdale Bank has some 150 retail branches in Scotland and England.

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