Promise can't promise you'll be able to buy anything you desire in the world, but it'll help you get some of the stuff you want. The largest consumer credit company in Japan, Promise provides customers with loans and credit products with a range of interest rates. Promise sells its loans directly and through subsidiaries, and customers can get hooked up with money through automatic contract machines (ACMs, which are not unlike ATMs), branch locations, over the telephone, via the internet, and through the mail. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group owns 20% of Promise.

Seacoast Banking Corporation is the holding company for Seacoast National Bank (formerly First National Bank and Trust Company of the Treasure Coast), which has more than 40 branches in Florida, with a concentration on the state's southeastern coast. Serving individuals and areas businesses, the bank offers a range of financial products and services, including deposit accounts, credit cards, trust services, and private banking. Commercial and residential real estate loans comprise most of the bank's lending activities; to a lesser extent, it also originates business and consumer loans. Subsidiary FNB Brokerage Services provides financial planning services in addition to mutual funds and other investments.

Nedbank Group provides commercial and personal financial services in South Africa and other parts of the continent. The company offers a range of wholesale and retail banking services through principal business clusters Nedbank Corporate Banking, Nedbank Retail, Nedbank Business Banking and Nedbank Capital (investment banking). Other services include property finance, private banking, asset management, credit card processing, bancassurance, and foreign exchange and securities trading. Nedbank's 50.1%-owned Imperial Bank subsidiary focuses on motor vehicle finance, but also offers property, professional and supplier asset finance. UK-based insurer Old Mutual owns a controlling stake in Nedbank Group.

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.

One of the largest insurance premium finance companies in the country, First Insurance Funding is a subsidiary of Illinois-based financial holding company Wintrust Financial. If premium financing is the last thing you need, don't call First Insurance Funding. Working through independent insurance agents and brokers, First Insurance Funding provides loans to businesses to finance the cost of their commercial insurance, including liability and property/casualty coverage. Clients finance their insurance premiums to preserve cash flow, consolidate insurance payments, and to potentially realize a tax deduction on the loan interest.

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.

Home Capital Group is a holding company that operates through its Home Trust Company subsidiary. Home Trust is home to Canadians seeking credit -- both to buy homes and to buy anything else with credit cards. The federally regulated trust offers mortgage lending, retail credit and credit issuing services, as well as deposit services. Home Trust owns and operates offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.

Bank of Virginia helps put the Rich in Richmond. The company serves Chesterfield County from a handful of banking branches in Midlothian, Richmond, and Chester. Bank of Virginia offers standard retail and commercial services including checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and money market accounts. In 2008, the bank opened its fifth branch in the Richmond area. Commercial mortgages account for about a third of the company's lending portfolio, which also includes business loans, single-family mortgages, and construction loans. Consumer lending accounts for less than 5% of its portfolio. Washington, DC-based Cordia Bancorp bought a majority of Bank of Virginia in 2010.

Aiful Corporation provides consumer, mortgage, and guaranteed loans to individuals and business customers in Japan. Aiful operates via more than 900 domestic branches and specializes in consumer credit, credit cards, and small-to-medium enterprise loans. A network of subsidiaries help shoulder the work, including Life (shopping loans and credit), Businext (small business loans), City's (small business loans), Tryto (unsecured loans), and Wide (unsecured loans). Aiful Corporation got its start in 1978 with four branches offering unsecured consumer loans. Struggling with its own debt repayments, Aiful is working on a restructuring plan which could include branch closures and/or payroll cuts.

UPS Capital Business Credit specializes in providing financing to small businesses. A subsidiary of UPS Capital, the company is a preferred Small Business Administration lender and also provides loans through government-guaranteed programs offered by the US Department of Agriculture and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Its loans are used to finance such business-related functions as acquisitions, franchises, and real estate. The company operates through nearly 50 UPS Capital offices in the US and through international locations and representative agents in emerging markets. Formerly known as First International Bank, the company was bought by shipping giant United Parcel Service in 2001.

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