Fentura Financial has its hands full. Fentura Financial is the holding company for Michigan community banks The State Bank, Davison State Bank, and West Michigan Community Bank. From about 20 branch locations, the banks provide commercial and consumer banking services and products, including checking and savings accounts and loans. Commercial loans account for some two-thirds of the bank's combined loan portfolio. The State Bank, Fentura's first subsidiary, traces its origins to 1898.

Malaysia's largest bank, Malayan Banking Berhad (better known as Maybank) and its subsidiaries operate some 500 branches, mostly in Malaysia, but also in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and elsewhere throughout Southeast Asia. Its core services consist of deposits, mortgages and other loans, and credit cards to individuals and businesses. Other offerings include investment banking, asset management, online banking, brokerage, insurance, unit trusts and other investments, and corporate finance. Amanah Raya, a trust company controlled by the Malaysian government, owns more than 45% of Maybank.

Amboy Bancorporation is the holding company for Amboy National Bank, which serves consumers and businesses through about 25 branches in central New Jersey's Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, and Somerset counties. It offers standard products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs, as well as life and title insurance and annuities. Almost all of Amboy Bancorporation's lending portfolio is secured by real estate, including construction and loan development loans (almost half of its loan book), residential mortgages (around 30%), and commercial mortgages (approximately 20%). The bank also originates business and consumer loans. Amboy National Bank was established in 1888.

Midland Capital Holdings Corporation operates as the holding company for Midland Federal Savings and Loan Association, which offers banking services in Illinois. It provides regular passbook accounts, NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts, and fixed interest rate certificates of deposits. The company loan portfolio comprises first mortgage real estate loans secured by owner occupied one- to four-family residential property; multifamily residential loans; consumer loans, including educational loans, automobile loans, and loans secured by savings deposits

The government-owned Banco de la Nación Argentina (or Bank of the Argentine Nation) is the country's largest bank. Under pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to privatize it, the Argentine government moved to sell shares of the bank publicly. Economic chaos slowed that process and even caused the bank to deny that it was nationalizing local subsidiaries it had taken control of after they were abandoned by French bank Crédit Agricole. Banco de la Nación serves Argentina through about 650 branches. The bank provides industrial, agricultural, and export loans with an emphasis on small and midsized businesses.

Apollo Bancorp is the holding company for Apollo Trust Company, a community bank serving Western Pennsylvania's Kiski Valley, northeast of Pittsburgh. Through about five branches, the bank offers checking, savings, and investment accounts to individuals and local businesses. It also offers trust services. One- to four-family residential mortgages and commercial real estate loans make up most of the bank's loan portfolio. It also offers construction and land development loans, consumer loans, and farm loans, in addition to lending to area municipalities. Apollo Trust Company opened in 1871.

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.

BankFinancial Corporation was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Burr Ridge, Illinois. BankFinancial Corporation operates as the holding company for BankFinancial, F.S.B., which provides commercial, family, and personal banking services in Illinois. It accepts deposit accounts, such as savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and IRAs and other qualified plan accounts. The company’s loan portfolio consists of investment and business loans, including multi-family, nonresidential real estate, commercial, construction and land loans, and commercial leases, as well as one-to-four family residential mortgage loans comprising home equity loans, lines of credit, and other second mortgage loans. It also provides financial products and services consisting of cash management, funds transfers, bill payment and other online banking transactions, automated teller machines, safe deposit boxes, wealth management, and general insurance agency services. In addition, the company offers investment, financial planning, and other wealth management services; and sells life insurance, fixed annuities, property and casualty insurance, and other insurance products on an agency basis. It provides its products and services through banking offices and an Internet Branch. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 18 full-service banking offices and 3 express branch facilities in Cook, DuPage, Lake, and Will Counties, Illinois.

Centinel Bank Shares is the holding company for Centinel Bank of Taos. Catering to the Hispanic community, the bank provides traditional deposit services and products such as checking and savings accounts, as well as loans from four branches in New Mexico. CEO Rebeca Rainey's grandfather, Eliu Romero, founded the bank in 1969. He was motivated to establish a bank that would serve the Hispanic community when he was denied for a loan to help start his law practice

Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) acts as the principal bank to the state of Bavaria and as the central clearing house for the 75 Bavarian sparkassen (savings banks). Also serving corporations, national and local governments, financial institutions, and real estate firms, the bank offers a variety of services, including financing, security underwriting and trading, and risk management. It provides retail and private banking services for individuals through its Internet bank, Deutsche Kreditbank, which also targets infrastructure customers in eastern Europe. BayernLB is recovering after losing billions in the global economic crisis.

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