As one of China's Big Four banks, China Construction Bank (CCB) has historically concentrated on providing medium- and long-term loans to large domestic corporations in the oil and gas, power, telecommunications, and infrastructure industries. As such, corporate banking makes up more than half of revenues. CCB is increasingly lending to small and midsized businesses, foreign multinationals, and consumers (a segment that represents about a fifth of its revenues). The bank operates some 13,600 domestic branches, which offer standard deposit products, credit cards, and home and auto loans. CCB also provides asset management and investment banking services. China's government owns about 58% of CCB.

A state-owned organization, IDBI provides corporate clients funding for expansion, modernization, and diversification of their businesses--including equipment financing, asset credit, corporate loan, and working capital loans. IDBI operates through several subsidiaries: IDBI Bank, IDBI Capital Market Services (financial services), IDBI Intech (information technology), IDBI Gilts Ltd. (bond trading), and IDBI Homefinance (housing financing). Its banking unit also offers traditional deposit and loan services to consumers through a network of more than 680 branches, 450 banking centers, and 1,140 ATMs.

GS Financial Corp. operates as the savings and loan holding company for Guaranty Savings Bank. GS Financial Corp. provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers in metropolitan New Orleans area. It offers various transaction and savings deposit products, such as noninterest-bearing demand deposits, NOW and MMDA account deposits, savings deposits, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides secured and unsecured loan products, including one to four family residential, commercial real estate, and construction loans, as well as home equity lines of credit; consumer loans; and commercial loans. It operates six branch offices and a mortgage production office serving southeast corner of Louisiana. GS Financial Corp. was founded in 1937 and is based in Metairie, Louisiana.

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.

Oberbank, which has more than 130 locations, has operations throughout Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. The bank serves individual clients, but caters to business, particularly the industrial sector and small and midsized firms. Oberbank units are involved in such activities as investment, leasing, and real estate lending. A unit of Unicredit Bank Austria owns about one-third of Oberbank, which has minority cross-ownership alliances with Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark (BKS) and Bank für Tirol and Vorarlberg (BTV).

First Defiance Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for First Federal Bank of the Midwest that provides financial services to communities based in northwest Ohio, northeast Indiana, and southeastern Michigan. First Defiance Financial Corp. company offers various deposit products, such as checking accounts, money market accounts, regular savings accounts, term certificate accounts, non-interest-bearing demand deposits, interest bearing demand deposits, time deposits, and certificates of deposit. It also provides residential real estate loans, non-residential real estate loans, construction loans, commercial loans, home equity and improvement loans, mobile home loans, and consumer loans. In addition, First Defiance Financial Corp. company offers depository, trust, and wealth management services, as well as online banking services. Additionally, First Defiance Financial Corp., through its other subsidiary, First Insurance & Investments, operates as an insurance agency that offers property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and group health insurance products in the Defiance and Bowling Green areas in Ohio. As of April 12, 2010, it operated 33 full service branches and 45 ATM locations in northwest Ohio; southeast Michigan; and Fort Wayne, Indiana. First Defiance Financial Corp. company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Defiance, Ohio.

PVF Capital is the holding company for Park View Federal Savings Bank, which operates some 20 offices in Cleveland and northeastern Ohio. Founded in 1920, the thrift offers such standard retail banking services as checking, savings, money market, NOW accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Commercial real estate loans account for about a quarter of the company's loan portfolio; single- to four-family residential mortgages make up another quarter. The company also writes home equity, construction, multifamily mortgage, and land loans. In 2007 fellow Ohio-based bank United Community Financial announced plans to buy PVF Capital, but both parties terminated the deal when it was not completed by an agreed-upon closing date.

Since 1933, Navy Federal has grown from seven members to over 3 million members. And since that time, our vision statement has remained the same You can leave the military, change employers, move, retire, get married—and never have to leave Navy Federal. "Once a member, always a member." This policy undoubtedly has helped NFCU become one of the nation's largest credit unions, claiming more than 3 million members who can retain their credit union privileges even after discharge from the armed services. Formed in 1933, NFCU provides a variety of financial services to all Department of Defense uniformed personnel, reservists, National Guard personnel, civilian employees, and contractors, as well as their families

Mason State Bank was founded in 1886 as The Farmer’s Bank of Mason. Since inception, tailoring financial solutions to meet customer’s needs has been the cornerstone of the Bank’s success. The Mason area has changed significantly, growing from a predominantly rural and agricultural community into a unique historical community within the greater Lansing area whose residents are employed by General Motors, State of Michigan and Michigan State University.

Founded in 1960, Cohen Financial, L.P. has nearly 10 offices in major US markets. Cohen Financial is an investment bank that provides capital and other financial services to those in the commercial real estate industry. Cohen funds loans both directly and indirectly through a cadre of capital sources. Borrowers typically use loans to acquire, construct, or renovate industrial, multifamily, office, and retail properties. The firm spun off its investment management unit into a joint venture, Wrightwood Capital, which manages commercial real estate investments on behalf of foundations and endowments, institutions, private investors, and private and public pension funds.

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