First Mariner Bancorp helps customers navigate banking seas (and fees). It's the holding company for First Mariner Bank, which operates more than two-dozen branches along the Baltimore/Washington, DC, corridor. Targeting individuals and businesses, First Mariner Bank offers standard deposit products such as checking, savings, and money market accounts. Lending activities consist of commercial mortgages (more than 30% of all loans), as well as consumer, residential construction and mortgage, and business loans. Subsidiary First Mariner Mortgage originates mortgages for sale to secondary markets. First Mariner Bancorp sold consumer finance subsidiary Mariner Finance in 2009.

BBVA Compass is a leading U.S. banking franchise located in the Sunbelt region. BBVA Compass is the 15th largest U.S. commercial bank based on deposit market share and ranks as the third largest bank in Alabama, fourth largest bank in Texas and fifth largest bank in Arizona. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, it operates more than 720 branches throughout Texas, Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Colorado and New Mexico.

Mediolanum (the Latin name for Milan) is a financial services holding company with more than a million customers. Its primary subsidiary, Banca Mediolanum, employs some 5,800 financial advisors (called Family Bankers) who offer customers traditional banking products, as well as insurance, retirement products, and asset management services provided by other Mediolanum companies. Most of Mediolanum's operating units are based in northern Italy, although the company has expanded into Spain (it owns Spanish bank Fibanc) and other parts of Europe.

Citizens Holding Company has taken the proletariat approach to banking. The firm is the holding company for The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia, Mississippi, which operates some 20 locations in the eastern part of the state. Founded in 1908, the bank targets individuals and local businesses, offering products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, IRAs, and trust services. Lending activities consist mostly of real estate loans (about 70% of the loan portfolio) and commercial, industrial, and agricultural loans (more than 10%). Citizens Holding offers discount brokerage services through an agreement with First Tennessee Bank. Subsidiary Title Services offers title insurance.

Fidelity Bank is committed to providing exceptional service to all of our customers. As the second largest locally owned financial institution in Wichita, Kansas and a growing presence in the Oklahoma City area, we provide customers with a wide array of quality financial services. The forerunner of Fidelity Bank--The Fidelity Investment Company--opened its doors for business in Wichita in 1905 as a mortgage lender. In 1942 Homer C. Bastian, Kansas' first director of the Federal Housing Administration, recognized Wichita's growth potential as a trade area. He left the FHA and purchased one-half interest in Fidelity Investment.

Northern Star Financial is the holding company for Northern Star Bank, which has two offices in Mankato and St. Cloud, Minnesota. Serving local consumers and small and midsized businesses, the bank offers standard deposit services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Real estate loans, including single-family residential, multifamily residential, commercial mortgage, construction, and land development loans, account for most of the company's portfolio. To a lesser extent, the bank makes business, consumer, municipal, and farm loans.

PlainsCapital Corporation is an independent Texas bank holding company and diversified financial services company comprised of three separate operating businesses: PlainsCapital Bank, FirstSouthwest and PrimeLending. PlainsCapital Bank,with $5 billion in assets, is the financial and strategic foundation of this family of companies.

Whitney Holding Corporation was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whitney Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Whitney National Bank that provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. Whitney Holding Corporation offers various deposit products, such as non interest bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing deposits, NOW account, money market, savings, and other time deposits. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial; commercial real estate; construction, land, and land development; residential mortgage; and consumer loans, as well as secured and unsecured loan products, such as revolving credit facilities. The company also offers letters of credit, financial guarantees, and financing for the development of housing. In addition, it provides treasury management services; trust and investment management services to retirement plans; investment brokerage services; and annuity products, as well as personal and business lines of insurance to customers in northwest Florida and the New Orleans metropolitan area. Whitney Holding Corporation offers its services in Texas, southern Louisiana, coastal region of Mississippi, central and south Alabama, and the western panhandle and the Tampa Bay metropolitan area of Florida, as well as in Grand Cayman in the British West Indies.

Ameris Bancorp enjoys the financial climate of the Deep South. It is the holding company of Ameris Bank, which serves retail and consumer customers through some 60 branches in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and northern Florida. The bank provides standard products and services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards; it offers investment services through an agreement with Raymond James Financial. Loans secured by commercial real estate and farmland account for approximately two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio, while residential mortgages and business loans account for about 10% each.

Orchard First Source Capital (OFS) plants its money in companies and watches the interest grow. OFS offers lending services to middle-market companies and private equity firms operating in North America. Its loans, which are provided in support of restructurings, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and other business transactions, include revolving lines of credit, term loans, and asset-based loans. The firm serves various industries, typically lending to companies with annual revenues of more than $30 million. It occasionally partners with other financial institutions for larger transactions. In 2009 OFS terminated a deal to acquire 80% of cash-strapped Beverly Hills Bancorp.

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