Pacific Continental Corporation is the holding company for Pacific Continental Bank, which has about 15 locations in the metropolitan areas of Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. The bank attracts deposits from consumers, local businesses, professional service providers, and not-for-profits by offering such retail products as checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Services for commercial clients also include credit card transaction processing and business credit cards. Its lending activities consist mainly of residential and commercial real estate loans (more than three-quarters of its loan portfolio). Pacific Continental Bank also makes consumer and business loans.

Washington Trust Bancorp can utter "Washington" and "trust" in the same breath. The firm owns The Washington Trust Company, one of the oldest banks in Rhode Island. The bank operates nearly 15 branches there, as well as in southeastern Connecticut. It was originally chartered in 1800. The bank offers standard services such as checking, money market, and savings accounts; CDs; and credit cards. Residential mortgages comprise the largest portion of its loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages and other loans collateralized by real estate. The bank also offers wealth management services.

If Old McDonald's farm is in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, or Tennessee, he might have a loan-loan-here and a loan-loan-there from Farm Credit Services of Mid-America. The cooperative association, one of the largest in the National Farm Credit System, provides lending and other financial services to these states' farmers and rural homeowners. Borrowers use Farm Credit's products to purchase real estate, homes, livestock, and farming equipment, to fund capital improvements, and to cover operating and living expenses. It has a loan volume of about $12 billion and serves some 85,000 customers through nearly 100 offices located throughout its service area.

UniCredit S.p.A. provides various banking and financial services primarily in central and eastern Europe, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, and Ukraine. Its Retail segment offers financial services to mass market, affluent and small business customers. This segment provides consumer credit, residential mortgages, and asset gathering services. The company’s Corporate & Investment Banking segment offers financing and advisory services that include investment banking products, such as corporate finance and advisory, syndicated loans, leveraged buy-outs, project and commodity finance, real estate financing, and principal investments. This segment also provides cash management and e-banking solutions; and trade finance products and services, including letters of credit, guarantees and documentary credits, and forfeiting, as well as trade management solutions. Its Private banking segment offers advisory services and solutions for private banking. The company’s Asset Management segment provides a range of financial solutions, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and assets administration, as well as portfolios for institutional investors and structured products. UniCredit S.p.A. operates approximately 9800 branches. The company is based in Milan, Italy.

Nedbank Group provides commercial and personal financial services in South Africa and other parts of the continent. The company offers a range of wholesale and retail banking services through principal business clusters Nedbank Corporate Banking, Nedbank Retail, Nedbank Business Banking and Nedbank Capital (investment banking). Other services include property finance, private banking, asset management, credit card processing, bancassurance, and foreign exchange and securities trading. Nedbank's 50.1%-owned Imperial Bank subsidiary focuses on motor vehicle finance, but also offers property, professional and supplier asset finance. UK-based insurer Old Mutual owns a controlling stake in Nedbank Group.

Chicopee Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Chicopee Savings Bank that provides various financial services to individuals and businesses in Western Massachusetts. The company’s deposit products include non-interest-bearing demand accounts, such as checking accounts; interest-bearing accounts, which include NOW and money market deposit accounts; regular savings accounts, such as passbook accounts; and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises one-to four-family; multi-family; commercial real estate; commercial business; construction and development; and consumer loans, including home equity lines of credit and automobile loans. In addition, it offers non-deposit investment products, including mutual funds, debt, equity and government securities, retirement accounts, insurance products, and fixed and variable annuities. As of March 31, 2010, the company operated main office; lending and operations center; and seven branch offices located in Chicopee, Ludlow, South Hadley, Ware, and West Springfield. Chicopee Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Knightswood provides financing to companies residing in the agricultural, oil and gas, commercial real estate, and personal financing sectors through the issuance of bonds to investors. Subsidiaries include Opus Cranberries Corporation, Ponderosa Ginseng Farms, and Qwest Energy. Knightswood was established in 1987.

First Cherokee Bancshares is the holding company for First Cherokee State Bank, which operates three offices in the Georgia communities of Canton, Marietta, and Woodstock, north of Atlanta. Catering to local businesses and consumers, the bank provides checking, savings, and money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and debit cards. Commercial real estate mortgages account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio, followed by construction, land development, and residential mortgage loans. To a far lesser extent, the bank writes consumer, business, and farmland loans.

WSFS Financial is the holding company for Wilmington Savings Fund Society (WSFS Bank), a thrift with about 35 branches in Delaware and a handful of locations in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Founded in 1832, WSFS Bank attracts deposits from individuals and local businesses through such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. The bank primarily lends to businesses: Commercial loans and mortgages account for about 75% of its loan portfolio. Bank subsidiary Cypress Capital Management provides trust and advisory services to wealthy clients and institutional investors.

Community Shores Bank is participating in the FDIC's Transaction Account Guarantee Program. Under that program, through December 31, 2010, all noninterest-bearing transaction accounts are fully guaranteed by the FDIC for the entire amount in the account. Coverage under the Transaction Account Guarantee Program is in addition to and separate from the coverage available under the FDIC's general deposit insurance rules.

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