Old Line Bancshares is the holding company for Old Line Bank, serving consumers, businesses, and wealthy individuals in the Old Line State and in the Washington, DC, area. From 10 branches in Maryland's Charles and Prince George's counties, the bank offers standard retail products including deposit accounts, CDs, and credit cards. It uses funds from deposits to write business and consumer loans; commercial real estate loans make up about half of its portfolio. The bank also offers luxury boat financing. The company also owns 50% of real estate firm Pointer Ridge Office Investment. The bank will double its branch numbers through its planned $20 million acquisition of Maryland Bankcorp, expected to close in 2011.

Northern Bank has a network of nearly 100 branches and about a dozen banking centers. The bank offers services including financial planning, personal and business loans, automobile financing, insurance, and international services. Founded in 1809 as Northern Banking Partnership, Northern Bank was acquired by Danske Bank, Denmark's largest bank, in early 2005.

BancorpSouth, Inc. operates as a financial holding company for BancorpSouth Bank that provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals, and small-to-medium sized businesses in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, and Illinois. It generates interest bearing and noninterest bearing demand deposits, and saving and time deposits. The company provides various commercial loan services, including term loans, lines of credit, equipment and receivable financing, and agricultural loans, as well as a range of short-to-medium term secured and unsecured commercial loans to businesses for working capital, business expansion, and the purchase of equipment and machinery. Its residential consumer lending activities consist of the origination of fixed and adjustable rate residential mortgage loans secured by owner-occupied property, construction loans, second mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and non-residential consumer lending activities comprise automobile loans, recreation vehicle loans, boat loans, secured and unsecured personal loans, deposit account secured loans, and student loans. BancorpSouth, Inc. also serves as an agent in the sale of title insurance; commercial lines of insurance; and a line of property and casualty, life, health, and employee benefit products and services. In addition, it offers investment services comprising brokerage, investment advisory, and asset management services; and trust services, including personal trust and estate services, and employee benefit accounts and plans, such as individual retirement accounts and corporate trust functions. As of December 31, 2009, BancorpSouth operated approximately 310 commercial banking, trust, and insurance business offices. BancorpSouth, Inc. was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Sterling Bancorp is the holding company for Sterling National Bank, which operates about a dozen branch locations in and around New York City. The bank offers such standard retail products as checking and savings accounts and CDs. Commercial and industrial loans account for about half of the company's loan portfolio; other offerings include residential mortgages and lease financing. The company also provides a variety of non-traditional banking offerings; its subsidiaries offer factoring (accounts receivable management), outsourced business support services, trust administration, and other services. Sterling National Bank was founded in 1929.

Hingham Institution for Savings is a haven for wayward cash. The company has about 10 branches in Boston's south shore communities, operating in Boston, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Norwell, Scituate, South Hingham, and South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Founded in 1834, the bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, IRAs, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio is roughly split between commercial mortgages and residential mortgages (including home equity loans). To a far lesser extent, the bank also originates construction, business, and consumer loans.

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.

Wintrust Financial is a midsized financial holding company engaged in personal and commercial banking, wealth management, and specialty lending services in the metropolitan Chicago area and southern Wisconsin, including Milwaukee. It operates about 15 community bank subsidiaries (many bearing the name of the community they serve) with more than 75 branches in all. The banks offers traditional deposit services and emphasize business and commercial real estate loans, which account for about half of the company's loan portfolio. The company provides financing for commercial insurance and ife insurance premiums throughFirst Insurance Funding.

Falcon International Bank is proud to call South Texas home. Founded in Laredo, Texas in 1986, Falcon knows well the distinct duality of border-town culture; in fact, we use it to blend the quality of Mexican tradition with the efficacy of modern American banking. The result is a bank with a sincere commitment to service—and an unparalleled track record of growth and achievement.

China Minsheng Banking Corporation (CMBC) provides standard corporate and personal banking services as well as a broader range of financial services including international financing, wealth management, settlement, factoring, and bond underwriting. The company has some 350 main branches and outlet locations throughout China, including a representative office in Hong Kong. It has relationships with about 750 foreign banks worldwide. CMBC was founded in 1996 and was China's first commercial bank to be owned by mostly non-government entities.

MidCarolina Financial likes to stay in the middle of all things financial in the Tar Heel State. The institution is the holding company for MidCarolina Bank, which has eight bank branches -- including two located in health care and long-term care facilities -- in Alamance and Guilford Counties. The bank offers standard retail products and services, such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit and debit cards. It uses funds from deposits primarily to write real estate loans; it also writes business and consumer loans. American National Bankshares is buying MidCarolina Financial for nearly $40 million.

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