The Rose Corporation has blossomed as a merchant bank specializing in real estate. Rose provides first mortgages and short-term mezzanine lending to developers primarily in Toronto and invests in such properties as senior living centers and resorts. Benefiting from Canada's thriving entertainment industry, subsidiary Toronto Film Studios will build and operate Filmport, a $250 million multistage film lot and media village in Toronto's port area. CEO Sam Reisman split from a family of homebuilders to found Rose (named for his wife) in 1982; he took the firm private in 2003.

Venture Finance, a unit of ABN AMRO, provides business financing through asset-based lending, invoice discounting, and factoring. Venture Finance focuses on small to midsized companies throughout the UK. The firm also has a structured finance unit, which focuses on refinancing, turnaround, management buyouts, and other transactions for midsized firms. Venture Finance, which was founded in 1989, has about a dozen offices throughout the UK.

First Franchise Capital is a subsidiary of First Financial Bancorp, which assumed ownership of the company after acquiring the operations of the failed Irwin Financial in an FDIC-facilitated transaction in 2009. Going loco trying to finance your El Pollo? First Franchise Capital can help ease the franchise-operation crazies. Formerly Irwin Franchise Capital, the company provides conventional and Small Business Administration-backed loans of at least $100,000 to restaurant franchisees to acquire, build, remodel, or refinance new stores. It also offers financing for equipment and real estate. First Franchise Capital Corporation works with more than 50 restaurant brands and deals with franchisees of all sizes throughout the US.

The National Bank of Indianapolis shareholders are concentrated in the Indianapolis metropolitan area-not Wall Street. The Bank’s experienced staff has strived to offer the highest level of local service and responsiveness while supporting the greater Indianapolis community. The results have created the largest locally-owned bank headquartered in greater Indianapolis and one of the nation’s fastest growing new banks.

Desert Schools Federal Credit Union operates more than 50 locations in the Phoenix area, serving more than 370,000 members. Established in 1939 by a group of 15 teachers, the credit union offers traditional banking products and services, including checking, savings, and money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. Its lending activities include home mortgage, vehicle, personal, and student loans, as well as business loans and lines of credit. Subsidiary Desert Schools Financial Services provides investment advisory, retirement, insurance, and tax planning services.

Pioneer Bank, which serves northeastern Virginia through about a half dozen branches. It provides standard retail products and services to individuals and small to midsized businesses. Lending activities are focused on real estate loans and mortgages: Loans secured by real estate account for some 80% of its total loan book. The company also offers business and consumer loans. The bank has two subsidiaries, Pioneer Financial Services (insurance and investment products) and Pioneer Special Assets (foreclosures with added liabilities).

Old Line Bancshares is the holding company for Old Line Bank, serving consumers, businesses, and wealthy individuals in the Old Line State and in the Washington, DC, area. From 10 branches in Maryland's Charles and Prince George's counties, the bank offers standard retail products including deposit accounts, CDs, and credit cards. It uses funds from deposits to write business and consumer loans; commercial real estate loans make up about half of its portfolio. The bank also offers luxury boat financing. The company also owns 50% of real estate firm Pointer Ridge Office Investment. The bank will double its branch numbers through its planned $20 million acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp, expected to close in 2011.

Finacity is a world-class expert in accounts receivable securitizations for companies in the U.S. and abroad, specializing in structuring, administration, and reporting. We optimize our clients' working capital by offering competitive liquidity and financing terms, off-balance sheet treatment, state-of-the-art credit management and risk mitigation, and bulk and distressed sale opportunities, and alternative liquidity solutions for non-securitized assets. Finacity has facilitated the funding and reporting for over $30 billion in annual receivables flow with obligors in more than 80 countries.Finacity is an independent company that benefits from the resources and expertise of strategic partners that include leading providers of banking, global trade and risk mitigation services. Founding partners include ABN AMRO Bank, Euler Hermes ACI, Bank of America, AMROC Investments, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with offices in New York and London, our sales network extends throughout North America, the European Union, Latin America, emerging Europe, and Asia.

Trustmark’s history of meeting its customers’ financial needs extends back to 1889. Through the years, Trustmark has broadened its customer base by expanding the markets it serves as well as the products and services it provides. After building a statewide banking system in Mississippi, Trustmark entered the insurance industry in 1999. In 2001, Trustmark expanded into the Tennessee market and then entered the Florida and Texas markets in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Trustmark Corporation, with $9.8 billion in assets, is a diversified financial services company. We provide banking, wealth management and insurance solutions through our subsidiaries including Trustmark National Bank, TRMK Risk Management, Inc., Trustmark Investment Advisors, Inc., The Bottrell Insurance Agency, Inc. and Fisher-Brown, Inc. With locations in Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, we have over 2,600 associates working to achieve outstanding customer satisfaction by understanding our customers’ businesses and needs and providing appropriate financial solutions. We believe building strong customer relationships is the result of knowing our customers, understanding their businesses and needs and providing appropriate financial solutions. We realize the inherent trust you place in your financial institution, and we look forward to the opportunity to prove to you the value behind our name. Trustmark is “People you Trust. Advice that Works.”

Citizens of the Republic! Citizens Republic Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens Bank, which operates about 220 branches primarily in Michigan, but also in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. In addition to consumer and commercial banking, Citizens Republic Bancorp also offers wealth management, brokerage services, mutual funds, annuities, and trust services. Commercial loans, including real estate, construction, and industrial loans, make up approximately 60% of the company's portfolio; consumer loans represent about 25%. Citizens sold its F&M Bank-Iowa subsidiary to Great Western Bank, a unit of National Australia Bank, in 2010.

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