Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. owns 10 independently operated companies that offer private banking, wealth advisory, and investment management to wealthy individuals and institutional clients throughout the US. Boston Private's holdings include Boston Private Bank & Trust, which operates about 10 branches in Massachusetts. In California, the company runs Borel Private Bank & Trust and First Private Bank & Trust. Charter Private Bank serves clients in Washington. The banks offer a range of deposit lending products. Boston Private's advisory and management arms oversee some $19 billion in assets.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) provides various consumer, commercial, corporate banking, and other financial services in Japan. The company offers deposit taking, lending, securities retail sales and trading, securities investment, fund transfer, foreign exchange, insourcing of financial futures transactions, corporate bond trustee and custody, trust bank, investment trust sales, and securities intermediary services, as well as engages in retail sale of insurance products. It also provides credit card, credit finance, sales promotion, and payment collection agency services; and operational services, including card issuance, invoicing cardholders, and settlement of accounts of other cards.

First Financial Holding Co., Ltd is the holding company for First Commercial Bank, which provides retail and commercial banking to some five million customers in Taiwan and Asia-Pacific region. Originally founded in 1899, the bank has nearly 200 domestic offices and more than 20 international offices, including one in the US. Taiwanese business loans account for about 70% of its loan portfolio; consumer loans make up the remainder. In 2007 the bank joined with European insurer Aviva to create savings and pension products provider First-Aviva. In addition to First Commercial Bank, the holding company owns First Securities, First Venture Capital, and other financial companies.

Aiful Corporation provides consumer, mortgage, and guaranteed loans to individuals and business customers in Japan. Aiful operates via more than 900 domestic branches and specializes in consumer credit, credit cards, and small-to-medium enterprise loans. A network of subsidiaries help shoulder the work, including Life (shopping loans and credit), Businext (small business loans), City's (small business loans), Tryto (unsecured loans), and Wide (unsecured loans). Aiful Corporation got its start in 1978 with four branches offering unsecured consumer loans. Struggling with its own debt repayments, Aiful is working on a restructuring plan which could include branch closures and/or payroll cuts.

The Bank of Kentucky Financial Corporation is the holding company for The Bank of Kentucky, which provides a variety of personal and commercial banking services from more than 25 branches in northern portions of the Bluegrass State. It attracts deposits by offering checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Commercial real estate loans make up about 40% of the bank's loan portfolio, while residential mortgage loans account for more than 20%. The bank also offers business and consumer loans, as well as credit cards, investments, and trust services.

Wilmington Trust Corporation owns Wilmington Trust Company, which has about 50 bank branches in Delaware. Its trust and banking operations elsewhere in the US are carried out through its Wilmington Trust FSB subsidiary, which has about two dozen offices. In addition to standard banking services such as deposits and loans, Wilmington Trust has business segments devoted to Corporate Client Services, primarily for private businesses in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe; and to Wealth Advisory Services, which includes trust, asset management, and family office services. Wilmington Trust also owns money managers Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn and Roxbury Capital Management. M&T Bank is buying Wilmington Trust.

CMS Bancorp was formed in 2007 to be the holding company for Community Mutual Savings Bank, which serves the northern suburbs of New York City. Operating through about five branches in Westchester County (one of the richest counties in the country), the bank collects deposits from area consumers and small businesses and uses the funds mainly to originate one- to four-family residential mortgages, which account for more than 85% of its loan portfolio. The bank also issues commercial mortgages, consumer loans, and business loans and lines of credit. Deposit products include checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and IRAs. Community Mutual Savings Bank was founded in 1887.

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Hudson Valley Holding is the parent company of Hudson Valley Bank, which serves individuals, businesses, municipalities, and not-for-profit organizations from more than 35 locations throughout metropolitan New York and lower Connecticut. The bank's focus is on real estate lending, which accounts for more than 80% of the company's loan portfolio. Other products and services include savings, checking, and money market accounts; commercial and industrial loans; consumer loans; credit cards; CDs; and IRAs. Bank subsidiary A.R. Schmeidler & Co. offers money management services.

CFS Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens Financial Bank, a savings and loan serving residents and businesses of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois, including parts of the Chicago metropolitan area, through about two dozen branches. The bank offers standard deposit products such as checking, savings, NOW, and money market accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It uses the funds primarily to originate commercial loans (mortgages, construction and land development loans, and business loans), which account for some two-thirds of its loan portfolio. The bank also originates residential mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and other consumer loans.

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