Salisbury Bancorp has a stake in New England's financial market. The holding company owns the Salisbury Bank and Trust Company, which operates seven branches in northwestern Connecticut, southwestern Massachusetts, and southeastern New York. With roots dating to 1848, the bank offers a variety of financial products and services, including checking, savings, and money market accounts, CDs, credit cards, and trust services. Residential real estate mortgages make up the largest portion of the bank's loan portfolio by far; commercial real estate, construction, land development, business, financial, agricultural, and consumer loans round out its lending activities.

HSBC USA, a subsidiary of British banking behemoth HSBC Holdings, operates HSBC Bank USA. With some 375 offices, the bank has one of the largest branch networks in New York State, plus more than 100 additional locations in about a dozen other states and Washington, DC; California, New Jersey, and Florida are its next largest markets. The bank offers personal, commercial, and mortgage banking services, with a loan portfolio dominated by residential mortgages, commercial loans, and credit card loans. HSBC Bank USA's personal financial services segment also provides mutual funds, investments, and insurance.

The 77 Bank, Ltd., was founded in 1878 as Japan's 77th national bank.Headquartered in Sendai—the capital of Miyagi Prefecture—the Bank is the largest in the Tohoku region, with a branch network covering the northern part of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Based on its philosophy, The 77 Bank continues to strengthen its business foundation and enhance its management quality in order to be the "Best creative bank" that creates a new era together with the region. As of March 31, 2010, The 77 Bank had capital of ¥24.7 billion, 143 domestic branches and 2,767 employees.

Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) is Korea's largest foreign exchange bank, providing trades in approximately 40 global currencies. The consumer-oriented bank also offers loans and deposits, credit cards, insurance, investments, and private banking services. Its corporate banking services include futures trading, lease financing, and lending. KEB has some more than 300 domestic branches, plus more than 30 locations abroad. Founded in 1967 as a government-owned institution, the bank is controlled by US-based Lone Star Funds, which acquired a majority stake in 2003. Lone Star, which had been thwarted in two previous attempts, is selling its interest to another Korean financial institution, Hana Bank.

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.

Promise can't promise you'll be able to buy anything you desire in the world, but it'll help you get some of the stuff you want. The largest consumer credit company in Japan, Promise provides customers with loans and credit products with a range of interest rates. Promise sells its loans directly and through subsidiaries, and customers can get hooked up with money through automatic contract machines (ACMs, which are not unlike ATMs), branch locations, over the telephone, via the internet, and through the mail. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group owns 20% of Promise.

Bank Leumi USA, operating in the U.S. for more than fifty years, is an FDIC-insured, full-service commercial bank that provides financial services to middle- to upper-middle market firms, and international businesses through offices in New York, Illinois, California, Florida, and an offshore office in the Cayman Islands.

Glen Burnie Bancorp has an interest in the Old Line State. The institution is the holding company for Bank of Glen Burnie, which has about 10 branches in central Maryland's Anne Arundel County, south of Baltimore. The bank offers such services as checking and savings accounts, money market and individual retirement accounts, CDs, and remote banking services. It focuses on real estate lending, with residential and commercial mortgages accounting for the largest portions of its loan portfolio. The bank also writes indirect automobile loans, which are originated through a network of about 50 area car dealers. Bank of Glen Burnie was founded in 1949.

Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) wants what's "Made in America" to make it outside of America. The company, established with the help of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, supports the export of US-made goods by purchasing loans in the secondary market from commercial lenders that finance US exports. Lenders sell loans to PEFCO to improve profitability, remove low-yielding assets or loans in high-risk countries from their balance sheets, free up credit capacity for other borrowers, and to reduce the size of their loan portfolios. PEFCO shareowners include major commercial banks involved in US export financing, as well as industrial export companies.

GrandSouth Bancorporation operates as the bank holding company for GrandSouth Bank that provides commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in South Carolina. Its deposit products include business and personal checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, term certificates of deposit, and IRA accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises secured and unsecured, short-to-intermediate term loans with floating and fixed interest rates for commercial, consumer, and residential purposes.

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