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.

Farmers Capital Bank Corporation, a bank holding company, provides financial services to individual, business, agriculture, government, and educational customers. Farmers Capital Bank Corporation company’s deposit products include checking, savings, and term certificate accounts. Its lending products comprise residential mortgage, commercial lending and leasing, and installment loans. The company also offers other services, such as cash management, issuing letters of credit, safe deposit box rental, and funds transfer. In addition, it acts as a trustee of personal trusts; an executor of estates; a trustee for employee benefit trusts; and a registrar, a transfer agent, and a paying agent for bond issues. Further, the company serves as an agent in providing credit card loans; offers investments and other services; and performs data processing services for nonaffiliated entities. As of December 31, 2009, it had 36 banking locations in 23 communities in central and northern Kentucky. Farmers Capital Bank Corporation was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in Frankfort, Kentucky.

OmniAmerican Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for OmniAmerican Bank that provides banking and financial services to individuals and business customers in north central Texas. The company’s deposit products include savings accounts, noninterest-bearing and interest-bearing demand accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises one to four family residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, real estate construction loans, consumer loans, and commercial business loans. The company also offers various insurance and investment products, as well provides wealth management services. It provides services from its main office in Fort Worth, Texas, and 15 full-service branches located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and Hood County, Texas. OmniAmerican Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered Fort Worth, Texas.

UCO Bank provides commercial banking services to India. Established in 1943, UCO has 35 regional offices and nearly 2,000 branches throughout the country. The bank also operates two major international financial centers in Hong Kong and Singapore. It also has offices in China and Malaysia. In addition to offering commercial banking, UCO handles foreign exchange business in more than 50 different locations throughout the country and offers foreign exchange dealing at four specialized centers. UCO has been particularly involved in financing activities in the agricultural, industrial, trade and commerce, service, and infrastructure sectors. The Indian government controls nearly 75% of the bank's listed shares.

Northeast Community Bancorp is the holding company for Northeast Community Bank, which serves consumers and businesses in the New York metropolitan area and Massachusetts. Through about a half-dozen branches, the thrift offers traditional deposit services like checking and savings accounts, as well as a variety of lending products such as commercial and multi-family real estate loans, home equity, construction, and secured loans. While its deposit services are confined to New York and Massachusetts, it markets its loan products throughout the northeastern US. The bank offers investment and financial planning services through Hayden Wealth Management. Northeast Community Bank's roots date back to 1934.

Bank of Scotland (Ireland) brings commercial banking services from the Scottish Highlands to the Emerald Isle. The bank provides such banking services as commercial loans, commercial and asset finance, and investment services. In 2006 it launched a retail banking division, Halifax, with such offerings as mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, and savings products. The bank has more than 40 locations throughout Ireland. Halifax was launched via Bank of Scotland (Ireland)'s purchase of ESB's retail outlets in 2005. In 2009 Bank of Scotland (Ireland) became part of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed by the merger of Lloyds TSB and the bank's former parent, HBOS.

Mega Financial Holding Company,through subsidiaries including Mega International Commercial Bank, Mega Securities, and Mega Global Asset Management, the company provides commercial and retail lending, venture capital investments, international trade finance, securities dealing, trust services, and property/casualty insurance. The group operates from 185 domestic locations and nearly 40 abroad. Taiwan's second-largest financial services group (after Chinatrust Financial Holding, or CFHC), Mega Financial was formed in 2002 through a share exchange of Chiao Tung Bank and International Securities. China's Ministry of Finance owns about 10% of Mega Financial. Rival CFHC owns about 5%

Middleburg Financial is the holding company for Middleburg Bank, which serves individuals and small to midsized businesses through about 10 branches in northern Virginia. The bank offers standard deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, money market and NOW accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Middleburg Bank focuses heavily on real estate lending: Commercial, agricultural, and residential mortgages account for about three-quarters of its loan portfolio; real estate construction loans add another 15%. Business and consumer installment loans round out the company's loan book.

C. Hoare & Co.,established in 1672 by Sir Richard Hoare, the bank began as a goldsmith under the sign of the golden bottle, where the bank's first lending activities were undertaken. The golden bottle remains a symbol of the bank, which has two London locations. C. Hoare & Co. offers a variety of savings and investment services (such as loans, mortgages, individual savings accounts, personal equity plans, and investment advice) as well as a host of services and consultation for tax and estate planning. The private bank, which caters to the very wealthy, is still run by the descendants of the founder.

Founded in 1988, Industrial Bank is one of China's first joint stock commercial banks. Through some 40 branches and more than 400 sub-branches across China, Industrial Bank offers standard deposit, loan, wealth management, credit card, and e-banking products and services to personal and commercial banking customers. Fujian Finance Department, a government institution, controls about a quarter of Industrial Bank, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Bank and Singapore's Tetrad Ventures together own about a fifth.

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