Banco Guipuzcoano (BG) offers a variety of financial services to individuals and businesses, including savings, checking, and credit card services. Financial consultation, asset management, retirement planning, insurance, and investment products are also available; in addition, the bank is active in international business and real estate. Its ASPRO division handles corporate finance. BG, which was founded in 1899, operates nearly 260 branches in the region. The company is merging with larger rival Banco de Sabadell.

ChoiceOne Bank, which has more than a dozen offices in the western part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The bank serves consumers and area businesses, offering checking and savings accounts, CDs, investment planning, and other services. Real estate loans, including residential and commercial mortgages, constitute more than two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio. Agricultural, consumer, and business loans help to round out the bank's lending activities. ChoiceOne Financial Services sells life, health, and disability coverage through its ChoiceOne Insurance Agencies subsidiaries.

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.

Credit Industriel et Commercial, commonly known as CIC, is made up of seven banks that serve Paris and five other regions of France. The company offers savings accounts, mortgages, and loans; it also owns stakes in specialized entities involved in private banking, asset management, leasing, securities brokerage, and property/casualty insurance. CIC serves more than 3 million retail customers and 100,000 business clients through about 1,900 offices in France. The bank also has representative offices in some 35 countries around the world. Entities affiliated with French banking group Credit Mutuel own more than 90% of CIC.

Citizens South Banking Corporation operates as the holding company for Citizens South Bank that provides savings bank services to local customers in the United States. The company offers various deposit products, including demand deposits, money market deposits, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises residential and nonresidential real estate loans, construction loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans, investment securities, and mortgage-backed securities. In addition, the company acts as a broker in the origination of loans secured by one-to-four family dwellings and in the sale of uninsured financial products. As of May 17, 2010, it operated a network of 21 branch offices. Citizens South Banking Corporation was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Gastonia, North Carolina.

F & M Bank has deep roots in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Founded in 1908, the holding company operates about 10 Farmers & Merchants Bank branches in the northern Virginia counties of Rockingham and Shenandoah. Farmers & Merchants caters to individuals and businesses. It provides typical deposit products, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Some 40% of its loans are mortgages; it also writes agricultural, business, construction, and consumer loans. The company offers insurance, brokerage, and financial services through TEB Life Insurance and Farmers & Merchants Financial Services.

River Valley Bancorp is the holding company for River Valley Financial Bank, a thrift serving southeast Indiana and neighboring communities in Kentucky from about 10 branches. The bank offers standard deposit products including checking and savings accounts, CDs, NOW accounts, and IRAs. It uses funds from deposits to write a variety of commercial and consumer loans; single-family mortgages make up about half of its loan portfolio. River Valley Financial also invests in government bonds, municipal securities, and mortgage-backed securities. The bank's wealth management arm offers brokerage, trust, and advisory services.

The Commerce Bank of Washington has enriched local businesses with highly personalized banking from local, experienced bankers dedicated to long-term relationships.Founders James Hawkanson and Robert Richards joined forces to create a local bank to serve businesses in the Greater Seattle area. They were joined shortly afterwards by Dave Friedenberg who worked to help extend our vision of a bank with strong community ties.

FirstRand's FirstRand Bank Holdings operates FirstRand Bank and First National Bank in southern Africa, as well as asset financing firm WesBank and investment bank Rand Merchant Bank. FirstRand Limited owns and operates more than 750 branches and approximately 6,000 ATMs in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zambia. It also has a presence on every continent except Antarctica, with an international focus on Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and the UK. The company's activities encompass retail and private banking, corporate and investment banking, insurance, and asset management.

Technology Credit Union is one of the nation’s largest credit unions with nine full service branches in the Silicon Valley. With more than $1.4 billion in assets and still growing, Tech CU is a financial leader in the Silicon Valley.personal loans, business loans and lines of credit, insurance, and investment services to more than 75,000 members in California's Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area. Founded in 1960 by a group of Fairchild Camera and Instrument employees, the credit union has about ten branches. Membership is open to those who live, work, or go to school or church in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties.

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