Crescent Financial is the holding company for Crescent State Bank, which operates some 15 branches in central North Carolina. The community bank offers standard products and services, including checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. Commercial mortgages make up about half of its loan portfolio; construction loans make up more than a quarter. The company, which was founded in 1998, also writes business loans, home equity loans, and residential mortgages. Its Crescent Investment Services division offers financial planning products and services, including retirement plans, mutual funds, insurance, and other investments.

Commerce Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Commerce Bank, N.A. that provides various general banking services to individuals and businesses. It operates in three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth. The Consumer segment includes the retail branch network, consumer installment lending, personal mortgage banking, consumer debit and credit bank card activities, and student lending. The Commercial segment provides various corporate lending, merchant and commercial bank card products, leasing, and international services, as well as business and government deposit and cash management services. The Wealth segment offers traditional trust and estate tax planning services, brokerage services, and advisory and discretionary investment portfolio management services to personal and institutional corporate customers. This segment also manages a family of proprietary mutual funds, which are available for sale to trust and general retail customers. As of December 31, 2009, the company served customers through a network of branches and ATM machines, online banking, and a central contact center from approximately 370 locations in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

Annapolis Bancorp serves individual and small business customers through about 10 branches in and around the Maryland capital. The bank offers such retail services as checking, savings, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. It also provides private business banking, including cash management and credit products. Its lending activities are composed of commercial mortgages (about 30% of its total loan portfolio), one- to four-family real estate loans (more than 25%), business loans (some 20%), and to a lesser extent, construction and consumer loans.

Tidelands Bancshares does its work at the intersection of Southern charm and Coastal cool. The holding company operates Tidelands Bank, which has seven branches along the coast of South Carolina. The bank offers traditional retail services and products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and commercial and consumer loans. Tidelands Bank grows by opening loan production offices and then, when they prove successful, converting them into full service locations. The company specializes in services for small businesses and entrepreneurs, of which there are plenty in the tourist-laden beachfront locales it calls home. About 75% of its loan activity is in Charleston.

Banco Espanol de Credito (Banesto) operates more than 1,900 branches across Spain. The country's fourth-largest bank, Banesto offers a wide variety of products and services to corporate and individual customers, including deposits and savings, investment banking, private banking, credit and loans, portfolio management, and financing for real estate and small businesses. The company also provides international wholesale banking services. Spanish bank Grupo Santander owns a controlling stake of about 89% in Banesto, which was founded in 1902.

Britton & Koontz Capital Corporation operates as the holding company for Britton & Koontz Bank, National Association that provides commercial and consumer banking services in Mississippi and Louisiana. The company offers various deposit products, including personal and commercial checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, non-interest bearing accounts, NOW accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; real estate construction, residential, and other loans; and installment loans. In addition, the company provides automated clearinghouse services; safe deposit box facilities; brokerage services; automated teller machines; cash management services, including remote deposit, money transfer, direct deposit payroll, and sweep accounts; VISA credit cards; and letters of credit. As of May 18, 2010, it operated three full service offices in Natchez, two in Vicksburg, Mississippi; and three in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The company was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Natchez, Mississippi.

Signature Bank marks the spot where some professional New Yorkers bank. The institution provides customized banking and financial services to smaller private businesses, their owners, and their top executives through more than 20 locations in the metropolitan area. It attracts deposits by offering money market, savings, and NOW accounts, as well as CDs. Business loans, including commercial mortgages, commercial and industrial loans, and Small Business Administration-guaranteed loans, comprise the bulk of the bank's lending activities. Asset management, financial planning, life and disability insurance, and brokerage services are offered through affiliate Signature Securities Group.

Blue Valley Ban Corp, the holding company of Bank of Blue Valley. Founded in 1989, the bank targets closely-held small to midsized businesses and their owners, plus professionals and residents in Johnson County, Kansas. Through about a half dozen branches located within the Kansas City metropolitan area, the bank provides traditional deposit products, cash management services, investment brokerage, and trust services. Its lending activities are focused on construction loans, which account for about 30% of its portfolio, as well as business and commercial real estate loans, which each account for about a quarter.

The company was renamed Ally Financial in 2010, although it was founded in 1919 as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) to be a provider of financing to automotive customers. Since then, the business has expanded to include insurance, online banking, mortgage operations and commercial finance. See the timeline to trace Ally's evolution.

U.S. AgBank, FCB bank provides funding for long-term real estate loans secured by first mortgages on farm or rural land. It also provides shorter-term loans to agricultural producers. The government-sponsored entity does not lend directly to borrowers, but rather through more than two dozen associations (Agricultural Credit Associations, Farm Land Credit Associations, Production Credit Associations) that own U.S. AgBank. The company plans to merge with CoBank, another Farm Credit System member.

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