NewBridge Bancorp shows a marked preference for "lettuce." Formerly LSB Bancshares, the holding company owns NewBridge Bank (formerly Lexington State Bank and FNB Southeast), which operates about 40 branches and a half-dozen loan production offices in North Carolina and Virginia. The bank offers personal and business banking products and services, including checking and savings accounts and loans. Through a partnership with Raymond James Financial, it offers securities and investment advisory services and insurance products.

Provident Community Bancshares (formerly Union Financial Bancshares) is the holding company for Provident Community Bank, which operates about 10 branches in Laurens, Union, Fairfield, Greenville and York counties in northern South Carolina. The bank attracts deposits from local consumers and businesses by offering checking and savings accounts, money market and NOW accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Its lending activities mainly consist of business loans, commercial mortgages, and consumer and installment loans. The bank also offers investments, brokerage services, retirement planning, and credit cards.

Ceska sporitelna a.s,the savings bank is the largest in the country, with more than 600 branches scattered throughout the Czech Republic; it offers a complete range of financial products and related services. Among its 5.3 million clients are private citizens, small- and medium-sized businesses, municipalities, and corporations. The bank's 14 subsidiaries provide insurance, fund management and real estate and consulting services. Founded in 1825, the company started trading on the public stock exchange in 1991; it has been a member of the Erste Bank Financial Group since 2000, when Erste Bank purchased the company from the Czech National Property Fund.

Piedmont Federal Savings Bank focuses on offering sound financial solutions that truly fit people’s lives. We believe in getting to know customers by name, and providing a level of personalized service that just can’t be found at other financial institutions. In addition to our commitment to customer service, we have a wide range of financial products for just about any need, whether it’s a home loan, or a savings plan for college, retirement or medical expenses. Rates on all Piedmont Federal products are extremely competitive, and all our savings programs are safe, secure and backed by the FDIC.

Standard Bank was incorporated as Standard State Bank in 1947. It served the southwest metropolitan Chicago community at 79th Street and Ashland Avenue. In 1970, the Bank moved to 95th Street and Western Avenue in the Evergreen Park community. In 1980, the Bank’s first branch was opened in the Oak Lawn community and, in 1986, a second branch began to serve the community of Palos Park. Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s Standard Bank & Trust Co. continued to expand into the communities of Orland Park, Hickory Hills and Naperville, Illinois. Standard Bank and Trust’s corporate headquarters are now located in Hickory Hills.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc., through its bank subsidiaries, provides commercial and retail banking services to businesses and individuals. Its deposit products include checking and other demand deposit, negotiable order of withdrawal, savings, money market, individual retirement, and health savings accounts, as well as certificates of deposits and other time deposits. The company’s loans include commercial and industrial, agricultural, real estate mortgage, consumer, and home equity loans, as well as lines of credit. It also offers other products and services, including VISA debit cards, automated teller machines, online banking, safe deposit boxes, and trust services. In addition, the company engages in investment brokerage activities; and offers vehicle, property and casualty, life, and disability insurance, as well as tax-free annuities. Further, it offers trust and investment services for individuals and corporations. Heartland Financial USA, Inc. has strategic alliance with LPL Financial Institution Services to operate independent securities offices at its bank subsidiaries, as well as offers various investment services, such as mutual funds, annuities, retirement products, education savings products, brokerage services, employer sponsored plans, and insurance products. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 61 banking locations in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, and Minnesota. Heartland Financial USA, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa.

First Federal Savings & Loan Association was federally chartered January of 1935. First Federal grew in the tradition of the building and loan association and served the savings and loan needs of our area for 60 years.On June 10, 1995, First Federal Savings & Loan changed its savings and loan charter to a state commercial bank charter and our new name became FIRST SOUTHERN BANK. Today, First Southern Bank provides full service banking to individuals, families and businesses through our five offices in Lauderdale and Colbert counties of Alabam

Red Capital Group supplies the green for commercial real estate development. The company specializes in financing for affordable housing, multifamily residential real estate, assisted living facilities, medical office buildings, and community hospitals. It also finances industrial, and retail properties, hotels, and self-storage facilities. Red Capital Group consists of three firms: lender Red Mortgage Capital; Red Capital Markets, which underwrites housing bonds; and asset manager Red Capital Advisors. Red Capital Group has more than 10 offices in the US. ORIX USA bought the firm in 2010 from PNC Financial Services, which had acquired it in a takeover of Red Capital's previous parent, National City, in 2008.

Premium Credit can lay claim to being one of the largest insurance premium financiers in the UK simply because it is one of the few such companies. The firm lends money to individuals and small businesses for payments on a range of insurance products such as business insurance, professional indemnity coverage, and motor and household insurance. Premium Credit also handles outsourced collections of recurring annual or monthly payments such as those collected by accountants and lawyers, magazines and newspapers, property managers, and clubs and organizations. Through Holmwood Termtime, a partnership with HSBC, the company collects school fees from parents of students at some 650 schools across the UK.

The banking services group includes Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking (retail trust, banking, real estate, and stock transfer services) and Chuo Mitsui Asset (pension and securities trusts). Chuo Mitsui Asset owns investment trust and private equity managers Chuo Mitsui Asset Management and Chuo Mitsui Capital. The group has units in the US, the UK, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, and China. Chuo Mitsui Trust and Sumitomo Trust & Banking plan to merge, with Chuo Mitsui as the surviving entity. Renamed Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, the combined company will be Japan's largest asset management group.

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