Hometown Banking Returns to Oak Ridge"-this announcement was made in 1995 when 21 organizers and many local citizens combined their efforts to open the first locally owned commercial bank in Oak Ridge since 1953. That effort has evolved into a local business with more than 700 shareholders, almost $7 million dollars in capital and earnings of over one half million for 2001. Total assets exceeded $122 Million as of October 31st, 2004. As the bank continues to bring Hometown Banking to new customers each year. TNBANK is fortunate to have dedicated employees, a strong board of directors, and the trust and support of its community. Our growth and increasing profitability has enabled us to expand our services and our geographic coverage. TNBANK wants to help people expand businesses and own homes.

First Midwest Bancorp, the holding company for First Midwest Bank. Through about 100 branches, the bank mainly serves suburban Chicago, though its market extends into central and western Illinois and neighboring portions of Iowa and Indiana. Focusing on area small to midsized businesses, it offers deposit products, loans, trust services, wealth management, insurance, and retirement plan services; it has approximately $3.5 billion of client trust and investment assets under management. Commercial real estate loans account for more than half of the company's portfolio; commercial and industrial loans are around a third.

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.

Evans National Bank wants to take care of Buffalo's bills. The subsidiary of Evans Bancorp operates about a dozen branches in western New York (including Buffalo). The bank primarily uses funds gathered from deposits to originate commercial and residential real estate loans (more than 70% of its loan portfolio) and to invest in securities. Subsidiaries include ENB Insurance Agency, which sells property/casualty insurance; ENB Associates, offering mutual funds and annuities to bank customers; and Evans National Leasing, which provides financing for business equipment throughout the US. In 2009 Evans Bancorp aquired the assets and single branch of the failed Waterford Village Bank in Clarence, New York.

Turk Ekonomi Bankasi Anonim Sirketi offers standard retail and commercial services from about 340 branches (it has about triped its locations since 2005) and more than 120 ATMs in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul. Subsidiaries include TEB Investment, TEB Insurance, and The Economy Bank in the Netherlands. Together, the group provides leasing, factoring, insurance, asset management, and investment brokerage services. BNP Paribas owns 50% of TEB Mali Yatirimlar, which in turn owns some 85% of TEB. BNP Paribas is merging the business of Fortis Bank in Turkey with that of TEB, a move that will nearly double TEB's branch network.

Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) provides banking and financial services to a predominately Muslim clientele in the Middle East and North Africa. Offerings include retail and commercial banking, investment banking, portfolio management, and Islamic banking. The company also provides project finance, foreign exchange, derivatives, financial advisory services. ABC operates in about 20 countries, with representative and affiliate offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The Central Bank of Libya now owns a majority of ABC after acquiring about a third of the bank in two separate deals in 2010. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Kuwait Investment Authority also hold stakes.

American Business bank's commercial lending services include commercial real estate loans (more than half of its portfolio), asset-based lending, equipment finance, construction loans, and revolving lines of credit. Its deposit products consist of checking, savings, and money market accounts, and CDs.What's a middle-market, closely held, owner-managed business gotta do to get FORTUNE 500 treatment from a bank? American Business Bank caters to private companies in Southern California with annual sales between $5 million and $200 million, with an emphasis on wholesalers, manufacturers, service businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and professionals. It has offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Ontario, Torrance, and Woodland Hills.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is trying to erase borders in a way. EDC provides a variety of financial services, including lending, insurance, and risk management, to help exporters and investors in Canada to expand their international business. It also performs financial reporting and economic analysis. The agency serves more than 8,000 companies annually, a majority of them small businesses. Created in 1944 as an official export credit agency, EDC is wholly owned by the Canadian government. It operates as a self-sustaining commercial entity, but it is accountable to Canada's Minister of International Trade and the Canadian Parliament.

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.

BancorpSouth, Inc. operates as a financial holding company for BancorpSouth Bank that provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals, and small-to-medium sized businesses in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, and Illinois. It generates interest bearing and noninterest bearing demand deposits, and saving and time deposits. The company provides various commercial loan services, including term loans, lines of credit, equipment and receivable financing, and agricultural loans, as well as a range of short-to-medium term secured and unsecured commercial loans to businesses for working capital, business expansion, and the purchase of equipment and machinery. Its residential consumer lending activities consist of the origination of fixed and adjustable rate residential mortgage loans secured by owner-occupied property, construction loans, second mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and non-residential consumer lending activities comprise automobile loans, recreation vehicle loans, boat loans, secured and unsecured personal loans, deposit account secured loans, and student loans. BancorpSouth, Inc. also serves as an agent in the sale of title insurance; commercial lines of insurance; and a line of property and casualty, life, health, and employee benefit products and services. In addition, it offers investment services comprising brokerage, investment advisory, and asset management services; and trust services, including personal trust and estate services, and employee benefit accounts and plans, such as individual retirement accounts and corporate trust functions. As of December 31, 2009, BancorpSouth operated approximately 310 commercial banking, trust, and insurance business offices. BancorpSouth, Inc. was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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