Ridgestone Bank was founded in 1995. Current management and shareholders acquired the bank in September of 2006. Ridgestone operates in the Southeastern Wisconsin and Greater Chicagoland markets. We have the focus of providing custom tailored solutions for each customer. Given our focus, the customer should expect a different approach to banking. Our solutions won't always be the standard "yes" or "no" that you might expect from a bank. Let us show you how we can succeed together through innovative thinking and solutions! Expect a new approach to banking at Ridgestone. Let us show you how we can succeed together through innovative thinking and tailored solutions.

CIT Corporate Finance has more than $20 billion in managed assets. Middle-market companies with situations that need financing can turn to CIT Corporate Finance. The business unit of CIT Group, provides lending, leasing, and other financial services for medium-sized and small businesses in industries such as health care, entertainment, communications, and energy. The company's divisions offer a range of financing solutions: CIT Commercial & Industrial provides corporate loans between $20 million to $1 billion; CIT Capital markets helps raise funds for financial transactions; and CIT Sponsor Finance provides advisory and underwriting services. Its small business lending unit originates and services Small Business Administration loans.

Credito Bergamasco S.p.A (also known as CreBerg) offers standard deposit banking products and services to individuals and businesses from about 250 branch locations. In addition to commercial banking, the company offers related financial services including asset management, merchant banking, leasing, and insurance coverage. Banca Popolare, which has more than 2,000 branches throughout Italy, owns more than 85% of the company. Credito Bergamasco was established in 1891.

Impact Holdings (UK) plc company provides short-term loans for legal expenses in personal injury lawsuits. Though the loan is made to the individual claimant, funds are paid to the claimant's law firm to cover expenses such as legal advice, expert medical reports, and engineering studies. Subsidiary Impact Bridging Solutions provides bridge loans secured by residential or commercial property. The loans are made to property developers and investors to cover activities such as renovating a property, buying from auction, and development site purchase.

The Rose Corporation has blossomed as a merchant bank specializing in real estate. Rose provides first mortgages and short-term mezzanine lending to developers primarily in Toronto and invests in such properties as senior living centers and resorts. Benefiting from Canada's thriving entertainment industry, subsidiary Toronto Film Studios will build and operate Filmport, a $250 million multistage film lot and media village in Toronto's port area. CEO Sam Reisman split from a family of homebuilders to found Rose (named for his wife) in 1982; he took the firm private in 2003.

Doing business as BankWest, Bank of Western Australia provides mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, savings, and deposit products. It is not merely active in Western Australia, however BankWest has established distribution channels in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney; these make up about a half of total lending. BankWest opened for business in 1895 as the Agricultural Bank of Western Australia; it was acquired by Bank of Scotland (the BOS in HBOS) in 1995. In late 2008 Commonwealth Bank of Australia acquired BankWest from struggling HBOS, itself acquired by British bank Lloyds shortly after.

AmeriServ Financial offers up a smorgasbord of banking services for Pennsylvanians. The company owns AmeriServ Financial Bank, which primarily serves the southwestern portion of the state through some 20 branches. Targeting individuals and local businesses, the bank offers standard services such as deposits, credit cards, and loans. Commercial mortgages account for more than half of its loan portfolio; other real estate loans, including residential mortgage and construction loans, make up about 30%. One of a handful of unionized banks in the US, AmeriServ also manages union pension funds through its AmeriServ Trust and Financial Services subsidiary, which provides trust and wealth management services as well.

Norwood Financial Corp. serves individuals and local businesses through about a dozen branches in northeastern Pennsylvania. It offers standard deposit products and services including checking and savings accounts, money market savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Residential and commercial mortgages account for about 80% of Wayne Bank's loan portfolio. The bank also runs a trust and wealth management division; subsidiary Norwood Investment provides annuities and mutual funds; Norwood Settlement (70%-owned by the bank) offers title and settlement services. Norwood Financial is buying North Penn Bank; the deal will add five branches in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Deere & Company, founded in 1837 (collectively called John Deere), has grown from a one-man blacksmith shop into a corporation that today does business around the world and employs more than 50,000 people. Deere Credit Services, Inc. continues to be guided, as it has been since its beginning, by the core values exhibited by its founder: integrity, quality, commitment and innovation.

Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited, provides business and private banking through about 20 offices in Ireland, the UK, the US, Austria, the Isle of Man, Jersey, and Germany. Its operations are divided into three main service areas: business banking, treasury, and private banking. In early 2009 the Irish government took control of Anglo Irish Bank. The following year, the European Union and the IMF joined forces to rescue Ireland from pending collapse. Anglo Irish Bank and the also-nationalized Irish Nationwide Building Society proposed a plan to merge and be run down over time.

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