Taishin Financial Holding is a key player in Taiwan's banking industry, offering an array of financial services to consumers and businesses. Through Taishin International Bank, the company targets its efforts on three core offerings: retail banking (deposits, housing and auto loans, credit cards, small-and-medium-enterprise lending), corporate banking (deposits, financing, factoring), and wealth management. It operates through more than 160 locations. Subsidiary Taishin Bills Finance underwrites corporate bonds. In 2009 Taishin Financial arranged to sell brokerage Taishin Securities to Taiwan-based KGI Securities for some $880 million.

First State Bank was originally chartered in 1909 to serve the local and surrounding agrarian community of Chilton, Texas. In 1987, the institution was relocated to the nearby urban community of Temple. Since that time First State Bank has engaged in a strategy of market expansion, opening branches throughout Central Texas. The efforts during the last 20 years have resulted in an annual asset growth rate of 24%, an increase in shareholder equity of over 380%, and expanding the operating market from the original base in Bell and It offers home mortgages and insurance through agreements with local providers.

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.

Bank of India is one of the nation's largest private banks. The bank has around 2,900 branches in India and about 30 foreign offices in the Channel Islands, China, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Singapore, the UK, US, West Indies, and Vietnam. International operations account for about 20% of the bank's business. Besides savings, checking, credit cards, and ATM services, the bank offers personal loan services including mortgage, car, and vacation loans. The bank's branches specialize in different areas: corporate banking (credit) overseas branches (foreign exchange), NRI offices (expat Indians). Other branches offer capital markets operations, asset recovery, and agriculture and lease financing.

Established in 1999, Stonebridge Bank offers you the best of both worlds: Traditional brick and mortar service and a state-of-the-art Internet banking site. We have branches in convenient locations where our customers can find all of the conventional banking services. They also have a comprehensive website at www.stonebridgebank.com that allows our customers to do all of their banking quickly and at their own convenience.

Southern First Bancshares operates in two markets: Greenville, South Carolina, where it operates under the Greenville First Bank moniker, and in Columbia, South Carolina as Southern First Bank. Selling itself as a local alternative to larger institutions, the company, which has more than five bank branches, targets individuals and small to midsized businesses. It offers traditional deposit services and products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and CDs. The banks use funds from deposits mainly to write commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and commercial business loans.

Calvin B. Taylor Bankshares be the holding company for Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company (aka Taylor Bank), which has about 10 branches in southeastern Maryland and another in Delaware. The bank offers standard commercial and retail services including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit cards. It also offers discount securities brokerage through an affiliation with correspondent bank M&T Securities. Real estate loans account for some 90% of the bank's lending portfolio, including residential and commercial mortgages. The bank is named after its founder, who opened a predecessor to Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company in 1890.

Republic Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Republic Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Republic Bank & Trust Company and Republic Bank, which provides banking, tax refund solutions, and mortgage banking services to individuals and businesses in the United States. The company offers a range of deposit products, including demand deposits, money market accounts, brokered and Internet money market accounts, savings deposits, individual retirement accounts, time deposits, and certificates of deposit. It also provides single family residential real estate loans; commercial loans; residential construction real estate loans; and consumer loans, which consists of home improvement and home equity loans, as well as secured and unsecured personal loans. In addition, the company offers private banking services; treasury management services, such as lockbox processing, remote deposit capture, business online banking, account reconciliation, and automated clearing house processing services; Internet banking services and products through its Website, republicbank.com; and trust, title insurance, and other financial institution related products and services. Further, it provides tax refund solutions that include the payment of federal and state tax refunds through third party tax preparers. The company facilitates the payment of these tax refunds through refund anticipation loans, electronic refund checks, and electronic refund deposits. Its mortgage banking activities comprise origination and sale of loans in the secondary market, and the servicing of loans for others. As of December 31, 2009, the company had 44 banking centers, including 35 located in Kentucky; 5 located in metropolitan Tampa, Florida; 3 located in southern Indiana; and 1 located in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio.

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.

OmniAmerican Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for OmniAmerican Bank that provides banking and financial services to individuals and business customers in north central Texas. The company’s deposit products include savings accounts, noninterest-bearing and interest-bearing demand accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises one to four family residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, real estate construction loans, consumer loans, and commercial business loans. The company also offers various insurance and investment products, as well provides wealth management services. It provides services from its main office in Fort Worth, Texas, and 15 full-service branches located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and Hood County, Texas. OmniAmerican Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered Fort Worth, Texas.

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