Seacoast Banking Corporation is the holding company for Seacoast National Bank (formerly First National Bank and Trust Company of the Treasure Coast), which has more than 40 branches in Florida, with a concentration on the state's southeastern coast. Serving individuals and areas businesses, the bank offers a range of financial products and services, including deposit accounts, credit cards, trust services, and private banking. Commercial and residential real estate loans comprise most of the bank's lending activities; to a lesser extent, it also originates business and consumer loans. Subsidiary FNB Brokerage Services provides financial planning services in addition to mutual funds and other investments.

Southern Community Financial is the holding company for Southern Community Bank and Trust, which operates more than 20 branches in the Piedmont Triad region and other parts of North Carolina. Serving area individuals, small and midsized businesses, and homebuilders, the bank offers such retail services as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit cards. The bulk of Southern Community Financial's loan portfolio is made up of commercial mortgages (about 35%), residential mortgages (25%), construction loans (20%), and commercial and industrial loans (more than 15%). The bank also offers insurance products through an agreement with The Phoenix Companies.

MainStreet BankShares, Inc. serves southern Virginia from about five offices. Chartered in 2002, Franklin offers such deposit products as checking and savings accounts, money markets, and CDs. The bank primarily uses funds from deposits to write real estate loans, including commercial and residential mortgages, construction loans, and home equity loans. Franklin Community's market is centered in the rural communities of Virginia's Franklin County.

The Southern Banc Company is the holding company for The Southern Bank, which operates about five branches in Etowah, Cherokee, and Marshall counties in northeastern Alabama. Serving both local businesses and consumers, the bank offers standard deposit products, including checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan portfolio is dominated by one-to-four family residential mortgages, business loans, and consumer loans, but Southern Bank also writes nonresidential real estate mortgages and loans secured by savings accounts.

One of China's largest commercial banks, China CITIC Bank offers corporate, small business, and retail banking and financial services, including business accounts, personal savings accounts, loans, asset management, and private banking. The bank operates primarily in China through a network of more than 600 branches, many of which are located in China's coastal regions and major economic centers. To a lesser extent, China CITIC serves select international markets as well. Founded in 1987, the bank is majority-owned and controlled by state-owned investment firm CITIC Group.

The communities served by Community Central Bank Corporation are in the Detroit area -- specifically Mt. Clemens, Grosse Pointe, and Rochester Hills. Founded in 1996, Community Central Bank operates branches that attract consumers, small to midsized businesses, and government entities. Standard services offered include checking, savings, NOW, and money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial real estate loans account for nearly 70% of the company's loan portfolio, followed by residential mortgages (about 20%), business loans, home equity lines, and consumer loans. In 2005 Community Central acquired River Place Financial Corp., a private bank previously owned by the descendants of brewery founder Julius Stroh.

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.

Founded in 1993, Gemini is a Massachusetts based private equity firm that provides capital and strategic resources to lower middle market companies. Since its inception, we have invested $350 million in more than 75 companies throughout the U.S., typically investing $3 – $8 million per transaction in either control or minority positions. In 2010, we opened our Texas office to expand Gemini’s presence in the southern region of the country. Gemini offers a flexible investment approach. We provide a wide range of financing structures, which include subordinated debt with warrants, preferred stock, and common equity. We have extensive experience leading transactions, as well as co-investing with other private equity firms and independent sponsors.Currently investing Gemini Investors V, L.P., we are seeking established businesses and experienced management teams that have a solid operating history and significant growth potential. Our target portfolio company has revenues of $10 to $50 million and EBITDA of at least $1 million. We have a diversified approach to investing, with and a proven track record in consumer products and services, healthcare services, manufacturing, distribution, for-profit education, restaurants, waste and recycling, retail, hardware and software technologies, and business services.In 2009, the U.S. Small Business Administration selected Gemini from among 300 current Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC) funds as the inaugural winner of the SBIC of the Year Award. We received this honor during National Small Business Week in Washington, D.C. in May 2009. Over the last fourteen years, Gemini has built an experienced and cohesive team of investment professionals. The firm’s five general partners have all worked together for more than a decade, and collectively bring 120+ years of experience in management, strategy consulting, investment banking, venture capital, and private equity.

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.

Farm Bureau Bank FSB is a wholly owned subsidiary of FB BanCorp and organized under federal law as a Federal Savings Bank. The Office of Thrift and Savings (OTS) is the primary federal regulator of Farm Bureau Bank, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has back-up regulatory authority. Farm Bureau Bank has the authority to exercise all powers available to Federal Savings Banks.

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