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3i Group
3i is Europe's leading venture capital company. 3i invest in ambitious growing businesses in all sectors and at all stages of their development, from start-ups and growing businesses to management buy-outs and management buy-ins, and share purchases pre-IPO financings.

Aberdeen Asset Management
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC is an international investment management group, managing assets for both institutional and retail clients from offices around the world.

Acom
Acom provides unsecured consumer loans through automated loan application machines. The Group consisted of the parent company, ten domestic consolidated subsidiaries, six overseas subsidiaries and three associated companies.

Aeon Credit Service
Aeon Credit Service provides consumer credit finance services, including issuance of credit cards, vehicle financing, hire purchase financing and personal loan financing.

Aetna
The Group's principal activities are to provide health care benefits, group insurance and retirement benefits.

Agiv Real Estate
Agiv Real Estate (formerly AGIV Aktiengesellschaft fur Industrie und Verkehrswesen) manages real estate, property and project development and other services.

Aiful
Aiful specializes in consumer credit, real estate, and providing small unsecured loans.

Aktiv Kapital
Aktiv Kapital is a supplier of comprehensive financial services. The group has three core business areas: acquisition of defaulted credit portfolios; debt collection and invoice administration and associated financing

Alliance Trust
Alliance Trust plc is a self-managed investment trust in the UK. Its portfolio invests in longterm commercial, financial and industrial markets in Europe, North America and the Far East.

Altamir & Compagnie
Altamir manages a portfolio of high-risk investments in unlisted companies with potential for growth.

Ambac
Ambac, through its subsidiaries, provides financial guarantee products and other financial services to clients in both the public and private sectors worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Financial Guarantee and Financial Services.

American Express
American Express Company is a global travel, financial and network services provider. The Company has three operating segments: Travel Related Services (TRS), American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA) and American Express Bank (AEB).

Ameriprise
Ameriprise provides financial planning, asset management, and insurance services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. It operates through two segments, Asset Accumulation and Income, and Protection.

AMP
AMP (formerly Australian Mutual Provident Society) is Australia's largest life insurance and investment management group.

AmSouth
AmSouth Bancorporation operates as the holding company for AmSouth Bank. It offers a range of bank and bank-related services in the southeastern United States. The company operates in three segments: Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking, and Wealth Management.

Amvescap
Amvescap is one of the largest independent global investment managers. Operating principally through the AIM, INVESCO and Atlantic Trust brands Amvescap has a significant presence in the institutional and retail segments of the investment management industry in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Arques Industries
Arques Industries AG focuses on the acquisition and the restructuring of enterprises in special situations e.g. unresolved successor issues, modernization and corporate spin-offs.

Asia Plus Securities
Asia Plus Securities provides business services, including securities brokerage, trading, underwriting and investment advisory.

Australian Stock Exchange
The Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) was formed in 1987 through the amalgamation of six independent stock exchanges that formerly operated since the 19th century in the state capital cities.

AWD Holding
AWD Holding AG is one of Europe's leading financial consultants and brokerages. The company markets products from various insurers, fund management companies and banks. In addition, AWD advises on property and asset protection, health insurance and improving living conditions.

Banca CR Firenze S.p.A
Banca CR Firenze S.p.A provides financial services such as mortgage loans to private and corporate customers, insurance products, real estate management and construction credit. The company operates mainly in the region of Tuscany through 416 branches.

Banca Fideuram
Banca Fideuram heads a group of integrated subsidiaries, located both in Italy and abroad, specialized in managing financial, life insurance and pension products, exclusively distributed by its Private Bankers

Banca Italease
Since 1968, Banca Italease has been among the leaders in the Italian leasing sector: initially as a financial company, then from 1995 as Bank. Over the last 37 years, it has been development and financial partner of over 150.000 Italian companies; currently it has a portfolio of over 62.000 ongoing contracts for 40,000 clients. Banca Italease has acquired a wealth of experience, which is unrivalled in its sector.

Banesto
Banesto is a financial company offering mortgages, insurance, credit cards and investment services, among other things. Banesto has a network of 1,600 branches across Spain and is headquartered in Madrid.

Bank Sarasin & Cie
Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd is a highly respected and successful Swiss private bank with offices in Europe and Asia. Its core activities include investment advisory and asset management services for private and institutional clients, as well as an investment funds business. Its complementary services extend to corporate finance, brokerage and financial analysis.

Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns, through its broker-dealer and international bank subsidiaries, provides investment banking, securities and derivatives trading, clearance, and brokerage services in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. It operates in three segments: Capital Markets, Global Clearing Services, and Wealth Management.

BHW Holding
The BHW group is a leading financial service provider for private pension schemes in Germany. BHW Holding AG manages the business policy of holding companies in the BHW core business areas. All company activities are aligned consequently on the pension schemes strategy and the three core business areas of building financing, life insurance and fund business.

BIL International
BIL International Limited (formerly known as Brierley Investments Ltd) is an international investment company with a global portfolio of investments and some 85,000 shareholders

Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles
Bolsas y Mercados EspaⰬes (BME) is the company that integrates all the securities markets and financial systems in Spain. The parent group comprises the Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia Stock Exchanges, MF Mercados Financieros, Iberclear, BME Consulting and Mercado Alternativo Burs⵩l (MAB).

Boursorama
Boursorama was set up in 1995 and is one of Europe's leading online brokers. It is part of the Soci굩 Gꯩrale Group.

Brewin Dolphin
Brewin Dolphin is a private client fund manager. It provides range of financial advice covering financial planning, inheritance tax planning, school fee schemes and pensions advice.

Bursa Malaysia
The Bursa Malaysia, previously known as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE, Bursa Saham Kuala Lumpur in Malay) dates back to 1930 when the Singapore Stockbrokers' Association was set up as a formal organisation dealing in securities in Malaya.

Caledonia Investments
Founded by the Cayzer family in 1878, Caledonia Investments Plc is a trading and investment company. The Group specialise with investment in financial, industrial and property companies throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Far East.

Candover Investments
Candover Investment Plc is an investment company established in 1980 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. The Group is engaged in the identification, implementation and monitoring of large management buyouts and buyins.

Capital One
Capital One is a diversified financial services company offering a broad array of credit, savings and loan products to customers in the United States, UK, and Canada.

Cathay Financial Holdings
Cathay United is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan and is doing business throughout Taiwan with more than 107 branches and four major product lines: corporate banking, consumer banking, wealth management and credit card.

Cattles
Incorporated in 1955, Cattles Plc is a financial services group offering a range of products to both retail and business customers, with emphasis on personal face-to-face services.

Challenger Financial Services
Challenger Financial Services Group is a publicly listed financial services company. Challenger has three core business lines; Challenger Life, Challenger Wholesale Finance and Challenger Wealth Management.

Charles Schwab
Schwab offer a wide selection of investments where the needs of the individual investor come first.

Chicago Mercantile
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings operates as a futures exchange in the United States for the trading of futures and options on futures. The company offers trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts on interest rates, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, and alternative investments. Its products include CME Eurodollar contracts and contracts based on the U.S. stock indexes.

China Development Financial Holding
CDFH was officially incorporated in December 2001 through a share swap with China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) - one of Taiwan's longest established venture capital and corporate financers. In 2002, CDFH further acquired Grand Cathay Securities and First Taiwan Securities (which later merged into Grand Cathay) and became a full-scale investment bank that serves institutional and retail clients in a wide range of products and services.

Chinatrust Financial Holdings
The Chinatrust Financial Holding Company (hereafter the Company or CFHC) was founded on May 17, 2002 to provide integrated services to its customers and to establish an international and multi-faceted financial entity.

CIT
CIT, a commercial and consumer finance company, provides finance and lease capital, and advisory services for consumers and companies across various industries worldwide. It offers vendor, equipment, transportation, and commercial finance products; factoring, home lending, small business lending, student lending, and structured financing products; and commercial real estate financing, as well as mergers and acquisitions and management advisory services.

Citigroup
For financial reporting and internal operational purposes, Citigroup is largely organized into five groups: Citigroup Global Consumer Group, the Global Corporate and Investment Banking Group, Citigroup Global Investment Management, Citigroup International, and Smith Barney.

Close Brothers Group
Close Brothers Group Plc listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. The Group is now a parent company to a number of subsidiaries that are involved in merchant banking operations. It''s City Merchant Banking Division focuses on the three traditional activities of Corporate Finance, Asset Management and Lending/Banking services.

CNP - Compagnie Nationale A Portefeuille
CNP invests in other European companies, with an investment portfolio divided into three categories: - PARGESA/GBL GROUP, which is jointly controlled by the Company and Power Group (Canada), that holds large or controlling interests in major international companies, including Bertelsmann, TotalFinaElf, Suez and Imerys; VALUE INVESTING, which is direct investments in companies considered to have potential for appreciation, including Fomento de Construccionnes y Contratas and Taittinger/Le Louvre; PRIVATE EQUITY investments, consisting of share holdings (preferably controlling interests) in medium sized enterprises in sectors including agri-food, wine, energy, publishing and media, selective distribution and luxury goods.

Collins Stewart Holdings
Collins Stewart Limited is one of the fastest growing stockbroking firms in the UK. Founded in 1991 by four ex-partners of Simon & Coates, they now employ over 200 staff. In addition to their office in London their subsidiaries Collins Stewart (CI) Limited and Collins Stewart Asset Management Limited operate from offices in Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.

Comerica
Comerica, through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong. The company operates in three segments: The Business Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth & Institutional Management.

Corporate Express Australia
Corporate Express Australia Ltd is one of Australia & New Zealand's leading suppliers of business essentials, including the distribution and sale of office products, business furnitures, information technology products, computer supplies, and canteen and janitorial products.

Count Financial
Count Financial Limited is an Australia-based network of financial planning accountants and advisers. The

Countrywide Financial
Countrywide Financial, a holding company, engages in mortgage lending and other finance-related operations. The company operates in five segments: Mortgage Banking, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, and Global Operations.

Credit Saison
Credit Saison is a leading credit card issuer in Japan.

Credit Suisse Group
Credit Suisse Group is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock. Credit Suisse Group's structure comprises three business units, Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse First Boston and Winterthur.

Daiwa Securities Group
The company's operations include trading, brokerage, underwriting, distribution and other transactions related to securities and derivatives.

Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading international financial services provider offering corporate and institutional clients the full product assortment of an international corporate and investment bank - In addition, the bank also provides international foreign exchange, fixed-income and equities trading.

Deutsche Boerse Ag
Deutsche Boerse AG is a European technology company which is active in e-commerce services for securities and derivates. The Xetra trading platform it operates is the second-largest fully electronic cash-market exchange worldwide, while Eurex is the largest derivatives market in the world.

DnB Nor
DnB NOR is Norway's largest financial services group, providing financial products and services including retail and corporate banking.

E*TRADE
The E*TRADE FINANCIAL family of companies provides financial services including trading, investing, banking and lending for retail and institutional customers.

E.Sun Financial Holding
E Sun Financial Holding Company Limited provides banking services, financial bills, credit card, and investment trusts.

Electra Private Equity plc
Electra Private Equity plc (formally Electra Investment Trust) was established in 1935 and is part of the Electra Partners Europe Group. The Trust invests in a variety of private equity situations, including management buy-outs and buy-ins, refinancing and expansion principally in the UK, the USA and Continental Europe.

Embarq
Embarq operates as an incumbent local exchange carrier providing communications services in the United States. It provides local voice and data services, including high-speed Internet, for customers within its local service territories.

Espirito Santo Financial Group
The companies in the Espto Santo Financial Group S.A. universe provide a diversified range of financial products to their clients including Commercial Banking,Insurance, Investment Banking and Asset Management in Portugal and internationally

Eurazeo
Formed by the merger of Eurafrance and Azeo, Eurazeo is a French investment company listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange.

Euronext
Formed in September 2000 as a result of the merging of the Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels stock exchanges, Euronext is the leading European stock exchange in terms of volume of transactions and the 2nd biggest in terms of the number of listed companies and capitalisation.

Europistas
Europistas Concesionaria Espanola is a Spanish company engaged in the construction, conservation and exploitation of interstate highways, tunnels, bridges and highways, as well as service stations and parking areas.

Evolution Group
The Evolution Group plc is a listed financial services group. Its principal operating businesses are: Evolution Beeson Gregory; Investment Banking and Christows; Private Client Stockbroking & Fund Management.

Experian Group
Experian is a global leader in providing value-added information solutions to organisations and consumers. Experian provides information, analytics, decision-making solutions and processing services. Using its comprehensive understanding of individuals, markets and economies, it helps organisations to find, develop and manage customer relationships to make their businesses more profitable.

F&C Asset Management
The Group operate as an international asset management company, offering a range of products and services to institutions, private investors and their advisers

Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae operates in the residential mortgage finance industry. It facilitates the flow of mortgage capital to increase the availability of homeownership for low-, moderate-, and middle-income Americans. Its lender customers are part of the primary mortgage market, where mortgages are originated and funds are loaned to borrowers.

Federated Investors
Federated Investors is a publicly owned investment manager with approximately $205 billion in assets under management. The firm provides its services to individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, and registered investment advisors. Through its subsidiaries, it manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and money market mutual funds; and separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios.

FFP - Soci굩 Fonci鳥 et Financi鳥 de Participations
FFP - Soci굩 Fonci鳥 et Financi鳥 is the main shareholding company of the PSA Peugeot-Citroen group. Besides its involvement in PSA which represents its main asset, FFP also holds interests in many other industrial and commercial companies, several properties, stocks and shares values and cash reserves.

First Financial
First Financial provides a wide variety of financial services, which includes commercial and consumer lending, trust account services, lease financing and depository services.

First Horizon
First Horizon, through its subsidiaries, offers various financial services in the United States. It offers general banking services for consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments; mortgage banking services; transaction processing, such as credit card merchant processing, nationwide check clearing services, and remittance processing; trust, fiduciary, and agency services; and credit card products, as well as offers fixed-income securities underwriting services; mortgage loans; advisory services; equity sales, trading, and research; and various investment banking services.

Fondiaria SAI
Fondiaria - SAI SpA (formerly known as SAI - Societa Assicuratrice Industriale). The group provides of all types of insurance (including life assurance), along with the provision of financial services, trading in securities and the management of property. It also offers financial and banking services to both individuals and businesses activities. The group has subsidiaries located in Italy and Europe. In September 2002 the company acquired La Fondiaria Assicurazioni.

Foreign & Colonial Eurotrust
F&C Management Limited (F&C) is a leading pan-European asset manager and currently manages over Euro 92.5 billion/ billion* in assets for both institutions and individuals world-wide. The Trust invests predominantly in Continental Europe, with a focus on France, Germany and the Netherlands. Its portfolio conatins holdings in such companies as Nokia, Total Fina and Alcatel. Investment can be made through an ISA or pensions plan.

Fortis
Fortis is an international provider of banking and insurance services to personal, business and institutional customers. The company delivers a total package of financial products and services through its own high-performance channels and via intermediaries and other partners.

Franklin
Franklin Resources, doing business as Franklin Templeton Investments, operates as an asset management company. It operates in two segments, Investment Management and Related Services, and Banking/Finance.

Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac, a financial services company, provides funds for residential mortgages. It conducts its business primarily by buying mortgages from lenders, packaging the mortgages into securities, and selling the securities to investors.

Great Eastern Holdings
GE, incorporated in 1908, is Singapore's oldest life assurance company. Its 20,000-strong agency force sells every main type of life, personal accident and health insurance to individuals. GE also partakes in lending, fund management and other related financial services. It has subsidiaries in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) is an industrial holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956.

H&R Block
H&R Block covers a comprehensive list of financial services, including brokerage services, annuities, mutual funds, and IRAs.

Hana Securities
Hana Securities provides active cost reduction, contracts labour force and departments at the headquarters and branches and supports future trading department.

Hartford
Hartford, together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and financial services in the United States and internationally. It is involved in life and property and casualty insurance businesses.

Helical Bar
Helical Bar plc is a property development and investment company. Our objective is to maximise growth in assets per share using a recurring stream of development and trading profits to build up the investment portfolio.

Hellenic Exchanges
The companies of the HELEX Group operate the cash and derivatives markets, carry-out the clearing and settlement of transactions and provide the Greek capital market with information technology solutions.

Helphire Group
Helphire was founded in 1992 to help motorists involved in accidents where they were not to blame. We work with the UK's top insurance companies to provide replacement vehicles after accidents making sure innocent parties stay mobile until their own vehicles are repaired or a cheque is received in the case of a write-off.

Henderson Group
HHG plc was created in 2003 when the UK-based businesses of AMP Limited demerged. They are a major financial services group with businesses in the UK, Europe and the US.HHG is listed on the London and Australian stock exchanges and is a member of both the FTSE 250 and the ASX 100 indices.

Henderson Investment
The company is a holding company and member companies of the group, whose principal activities are in Hong Kong, are active in the field of property development & investment, investment holding, retailing and hotel business.

HG Capital Trust
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) is one of the world's largest investment management organisations with ò50 billion of assets under management as at 31 March 2005. MLIM, and the companies from which we have developed, has over 50 years' experience in helping clients to achieve their financial goals. We provide a broad spectrum of innovative products for institutional, mutual fund and private investors, including active, passive, quantitative, hedge funds and private equity funds.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) operates the stock exchange and futures exchange in Hong Kong and their related clearing houses.

Hua Nan Financial Holdings
Hua Nan Financial Holdings Company (HNFHC) is ranked number one among all 14 financial holding companies in Taiwan.

ICAP
ICAP provides a specialist intermediary broking service to commercial banks, investment banks and other liquidity providers in the wholesale financial markets. As an integrated and increasingly technology based business ICAP is the largest operator of liquidity pools in these markets.

IKB Dt.Industriebank
IKB Deutsche Industriebank Ag specializes in long term financing. It is the only German bank focusing exclusively on small and medium sized, family run companies which is active nationwide, according to its own accounts. The institute intends to maintain its specialization in granting long term loans in future.

Infrastructure Development Finance Company - IDFC
Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited is engaged in managing venture capital funds registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, and providing financing services to infrastructure projects.

ING Groep
ING Group is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management to over 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients in 60 countries.

Interhyp
Interhyp was founded in 1999 and has quickly become Germany's leading independent distributor of residential mortgages.

Intermediate Capital Group
Incorporated in 1989, Intermediate Capital Group Plc arrange and provide intermediate mezzanine capital funding services.

Intrum Justitia
Intrum Justitia is Europe's leading Credit Management Services (CMS) company. Intrum Justitia has more than 90,000 clients and around 2,800 employees in 22 European countries. The Intrum Justitia share has been listed on Stockholmsb糳en (Stockholm Exchange) since 2002.

Investec
Investec plc are a specialist banking group providing a wide and diverse range of financial products and services to a niche client base in two principal markets, the UK and South Africa

Investor AB
Investor AB has been making venture capital investments and actively working with its portfolio companies to maximize their value for almost 100 years. Investor is Sweden's largest industrial holding company and a substantial, long-term shareholder in a number of global public companies. These Core Holdings are ABB, AstraZeneca, Atlas Copco, Electrolux, Ericsson, Gambro, OM, Saab AB, Scania, SEB and WM-data. In addition, Investor has over USD 3 billion dedicated to venture capital investments.

IP Group
IP Group (formerly IP2IPO) is an intellectual property (IP) company that specializes in commercializing university technology.

Itochu
Itochu Enex Company (formerly Itochu Fuel Corporation). is a wholesale distributor of petroleum and related products including liquefied petroleum gas.

Janus
Janus and its subsidiaries engage in the sponsorship, marketing, and provision of investment advisory, distribution, and administrative services to mutual funds and separate accounts in the United States and internationally. The company primarily operates in two segments, Investment Management, and Printing and Fulfillment.

Jardine Matheson
With a broad portfolio of market-leading businesses, the Jardine Matheson Group is an Asian-based conglomerate with extensive experience in the Region. Its business interests include Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors Group, Hongkong Land, Dairy Farm, Mandarin Oriental, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Jardine Lloyd Thompson.

JPMorgan American Investment Trust
The Trust specialises in listed North American companies, with the investment emphasise being on capital growth rather than income.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase has assets of approximately $1.1 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and businesses, financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management and private equity.

Julius Baer Holdings
The Julius Baer Group is one of Switzerland's leading banking institutions and manages substantial assets for private and institutional clients from all over the world. The Group's services consist mainly of asset management and investment counselling, investment funds for private and institutional investors, institutional brokerage and securities and foreign exchange trading.

Kensington Group
Kensington Mortgages is a market leading provider of mortgages to borrowers that fall outside the lending criteria of traditional lenders.

KeyCorp
Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $91 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally

Kiatnakin Finance
Kiatnakin Finance provides financial services, securities brokerage and investment advice.

Kim Eng Securities
One of Taiwan's leading investment house which recently established a strong presence in Thailand.

Kotak Mahindra Bank
Kotak Mahindra is one of India's leading financial institutions, offering complete financial solutions that encompass every sphere of life. From commercial banking, to stock broking, to mutual funds, to life insurance, to investment banking, the group caters to the financial needs of individuals and corporates.

Lancashire Holdings
Lancashire Holdings Limited, through its operating subsidiary, Lancashire Insurance Company Limited, is a Bermuda-based provider of reinsurance and insurance and is listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Law Debenture Corp
The Group invests in and facilitates the issue of debentures. The Group is recognised as an international general investment trust, with numerous subsidiaries providing its trustee activities

London Stock Exchange
The Group provide markets and services that enable the trading of corporate securities. LSE also provide access to a well-developed trading environment, as well as real-time pricing and reference information services. Market coverage includes equities, derivatives and fixed-interest securities for both UK and overseas companies

Lopro
Lopro Corporation (formerly Nichiei Co)provides financing services such as commercial note discounting and loans on notes and loan guarantees, mainly to medium- and small-sized firms through a network of 110 branches.

Man Group
Man Group is involved in the following business activity: Asset management, which provides alternative asset investment funds to the private client sector and institutional investors and Brokerage, which provides brokerage services for both institutional and private clients.

Marschollek, Lautenschlager & Partner - MLP
MLP AG is the leading private finance company in Europe for graduates. Customers include top-level executives from business and technology, engineers, IT specialists, freelancers and the self-employed, lawyers, doctors and pharmacists. The company has branches in almost every city in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands which has a university or other third-level institute.

Marsh & McLennan
The Group's principal activities are to provide clients with analysis, advice and transactional capabilities in the fields of risk and insurance services, investment management and consulting.

MBIA
MBIA, through its subsidiaries, is a leading financial guarantor and provider of specialized financial services.

McDonald's Holdings Japan
McDonald's Holdings Company (Japan), Ltd., promotes the group management with an emphasis on enhancing business efficiency and mobility in today's ever-changing economic environment. The Company seeks to develop new businesses and realize the efficient allocation of management resources, with the aim of strengthening the core McDonald's hamburger business and its strong brand, while at the same time developing an operational company group which meets the needs of the next generation of customers.

Mediolanum
Mediolanum is an Italian company born in the financial services sector, founded by Ennio Doris. Mediolanum is involved in investment funds, life assurance and the personal banking business.

Mellon
Mellon Financial operates as the holding company primarily for the Mellon Bank, N.A., which provides various banking and financial services to corporations, institutions, and high net worth individuals primarily in the United States and Europe. It operates through three divisions: Asset Management, Payments and Securities Services, and Treasury Services/Other.

Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is one of the world?s leading financial management and advisory companies, with offices in 36 countries and territories.

Merrill Lynch Euro Inv Tst
Merrill Lynch European Investment Trust Plc was launched during March 1994 and is managed by Mercury Asset Management Limited, an investment firm with roots dating back to the late 1800s. Until June 1999 the Trust invested in privatisation securities within the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, at which point it moved into a wider range of European stocks

MetLife
The Group offers life insurance, annuities, automobile and property insurance and mutual funds to individuals and group insurance, reinsurance, as well as retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions.

Mirvac Group
Mirvac Group is a leading diversified property group - listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of more than $3 billion - active in investment, development, and hotel and funds management.

Mitsubishi Corp.
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is Japan's largest general trading company with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide. MC has long been engaged in business with customers around the world in virtually every industry, including energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise.

Mitsui & Co.
Mitsui & Co. main businesses include sales, manufacture, export / import, international trade and services in the following fields: metal products and minerals, machinery, electronics and information, chemicals, energy, consumer products and services.

Moodys Corporation
Moodys Corporation is the parent company of Moodys Investors Service, a leading provider of credit ratings, research and analysis covering debt instruments and securities in the global capital markets.

Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley, a financial services company, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides various products and services to clients and customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. The company operates in four segments: Institutional Securities, Retail Brokerage, Asset Management, and Discover.

MPC
MPC Mmeyer Petersen Capital is the largest closed-end fund manager in Germany, and specializes in offering funds focusing on European real estate, private equity, life insurance, and ship investment. The firm offers nearly 180 investment funds through independent financial advisors and banks and has over 3 billion in assets under management. MPC Capital has nearly 80,000 clients and operates in Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Natexis Banques Populaires
Created through the merger of CCBP and Natexis, Natexis Banque Populaire is the Banques Populaires group's finance and investment bank.

National Bank Of Greece
The NBG Group provides a full range of financial products and services to corporate customers and private individuals alike, including retail and corporate lending, investment banking services, insurance, asset management, brokerage, leasing and factoring.

National City
National City, a financial holding company, provides commercial and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, consumer finance, and asset management services.

National Finance
National Finance Public Company Limited provides financial services which includes financial services including banking, securities, insurance, asset management, property management and hire purchase and leasing. It operates solely in the domestic market.

NETeller
NETELLER operates a secure online funds transfer service. One of the leading service providers in the industry, the firm has been providing secure online transactions since 1999. A NETELLER account acts as an e-wallet that enables members (individuals who open NETELLER accounts) to load, withdraw and transfer funds.

Nikko Cordial
Nikko Cordial Corporation (formerly Nikko Securities Co Limited) The Group's principal activities are capital market trading and investment banking.

Nippon Shinpan
Nippon Shinpan provides consumer financing services including loans, credit cards, shopping loans, credit guaranty, leasing and other business such as leasing, real estate and bill collection services, back-up servicer business in assets sensitization. fire and casualty insurance agencies, life insurance solicitation agencies and real estate leasing and management.

Nissin
Nissin is a provider of transportation services. Transportation services include port-harbor transport services, air passenger/freight and marine transport agency services, warehousing, land transport and other related services.

Nomura Holdings
Nomura Holdings Incorporated (formerly Nomura Securities Co Limited) provides investment and financing services with securities as the core business. The activities include securities brokerage, dealing, underwriting, distribution, assets management, advisory/consulting, financing and related services to diversified types of customers worldwide.

Northern Trust
Northern Trust operates as the holding company of The Northern Trust Company (bank), which provides financial services in the United States. The bank, through its subsidiaries, provides asset administration, asset management, and related services to corporate and public entity retirement funds, foundation and endowment clients, fund managers, insurance companies, and government funds.

OAMPS
OAMPS Limited is an Australia insurance brokerage company providing brokerage and financial services for insurance, risk management, workers' compensation and occupation health and safety, financial planning services and superannuation.

Old Mutual
Old Mutual provides financial services in South Africa, United States of America and the United Kingdom. It underwrites life assurance, asset management, banking and general insurance.

Orix
Orix provides direct finance leases, operating leases and instalment sales to corporations and individuals.

Paragon Group of Companies
Formerly known as National Loan Holdings Plc, Paragon Group Plc was established in 1989. The Group specialise in residential mortgage lending, car finance and personal finance

Paris Orleans
The Company is the Holding Company for the Rothschild Group of companies and has interests in the following sectors: Banking and financial services; Capital development (through SHM/Francarep); Wine production (through Les Domaines Barons de Rothschild).

Partners Group
Partners Group Holding is a Swiss financial company, investing in private equity, hedge funds and private debt.

Perpetual
Perpetual is one of the most trusted providers of financial products and services in Australia.

Ping An Insurance
Ping An Insurance Company of China Ltd provide life and general insurance to the chinese markets.

Platinum
Platinum and its subsidiaries provide reinsurance products and services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Property and Marine, Casualty, and Finite Risk.

PNC Financial Services
PNC comprises several distinct businesses designed to provide customers with the best in a broad range of financial products and services.

Promina Group
Promina Group Limited is a leading insurance and financial services organisation listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges. Its operations trace back to 1833 in Australia and 1878 in New Zealand.

Promise
Promise provides unsecured and unguaranteed loans to individuals. The Group has 630 manned, 1,155 unmanned branches, 1,651 automated contract machines and 2,208 automated cash dispensers and ATM's throughout Japan. The Group is also involved in credit sales, real estate rental/leasing and brokerage, the operation and management of ATM and computer peripheral equipment.

Provident Financial
Provident Financial's UK home credit division comprises Provident Personal Credit and Greenwood Personal Credit, both providers of home credit in the UK and Ireland supplying small and unsecured loans to consumers. The Insurance Division consists of Provident Insurance plc, specialising in motor insurance; and Colonnade Insurance Brokers.

Prudential Financial
The Group's principal activity is to provide insurance, investment management, securities and other financial products and services.

Rathbone Brothers
Rathbone Brothers provide investment management services for charities and pension funds. The Group has offices in the UK, Jersey, Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands.

Schroders
Schroders operates as an asset management company on a global level, providing services through four business divisions: Private Banking; Schroders Institutional Services;Investment Funds and a Buy-Outs and Venture Capital divsion.

Scottish Investment Trust
The Scottish Investment Trust Plc was established in Edinburgh in July of 1887. Initially the Trust was committed to discovering value in emerging markets, whilst also investing in companies in the UK.

Sechilienne-Sidec
Sechilienne-Sidec (formerly Sechilienne) holds investment in quoted and unquoted industrial companies, mainly in the Thermal Energy, Fossil Fuel Energy and Co-generation sectors; namely Ste Industrielle pour le Developpement de l'Energie Charbon et de la Cogeneration and Cie Thermique du Moule.

SFCG
SFCG Company Limited (formerly Shohkoh Fund & Co).provides financing services for small and medium-sized businesses, such as guarantor loans, secured loans and commercial bill discounting. The Group is also involved in leasing, real estate and insurance agency.

SGX - Singapore Exchange
SGX owns and operates the only integrated securities exchange and derivatives exchange in Singapore and their related clearinghouses. SGX's two exchanges have a presence and prominence that extends beyond the borders of Singapore.

Shin Kong Financial Holdings
Shin Kong Financial Holding Company (SKFHC) was established on Dec. 14, 2001, to provide total integrated financial services in response to globalizing trend in the financial services industry. As of the end of 2003, the company had a capitalization of approximately NT$24 billion.

Shinko Securities
Shinko Securities Co., Ltd., a member of the Mizuho Financial Group, provides a full range of comprehensive financial services.

Shore Capital Group
Shore Capital is a UK investment banking group focused on services to entrepreneurial clients, on mid/small cap stockbroking, market-making and corporate finance, and on managing alternative asset class funds.

SinoPac
SinoPac Holdings is the foremost paradigm merger of banking and securities businesses run by professional managers in Taiwan. Since January 2004, SinoPac Holdings has reorganized itself to fully integrate its banking, securities and other subsidiaries focusing on customer-centric orientation.

SLM
SLM, through its subsidiaries, provides education finance in the United States. It engages in funding, delivering, and servicing support for education loans primarily through its participation in The Federal Family Education Loan Program. The company provides various financial services, processing capabilities, and information technology for educational institutions, lenders, students and their families, and guarantee agencies.

SNAI
The SNAI Group provides technology and services, creating computerised data transfer networks, and designing dedicated Internet gambling platforms to the design and production of satellite television channels, the conception and development of gaming venues and hardware and software specialisation in the IT sector; from the organisation of sports and other events to the marketing of all products dedicated to the gaming and betting market, including integrated communications launches.

Softbank Corp.
Softbank Corp. is a provider of capital for investments, focusing on the technology sector.

Standard Life
Standard Life (formerly The Standard Life Assurance Company), is a diversified financial services group, engaged in Life & Pensions, Healthcare & General Insurance, Investment Management and Banking.

State Street
State Street operates as the holding company for State Street Bank and Trust Company, which provides various products and services for institutional investors worldwide. The company operates in two lines of businesses, Investment Servicing and Investment Management.

Storebrand
The Storebrand Group is a leading player in the Norwegian markets for pensions, life- and health insurance, banking and asset management.

Sumitomo Corporation
Sumitomo Corporation conducts commodity transactions in all industries utilizing worldwide networks, and provides related customers with various financing, serves as an organizer and a coordinator for various projects, and invests in businesses from the information industry to the retailing industry.

Suncorp-Metway
The Suncorp Group is one of Australia's leaders in banking, insurance, investment and superannuation and focuses on retail customers and small to medium businesses.

SVG Capital
Formerly Schroder Ventures International Investment Trust, SVG Capital invests in more than 20 private equity funds for high net worth individual investors as well as small institutional investors.

Swiss Life
The Swiss Life Group operates in a variety of areas such as banking, property and asset management and insurance.

SVG Capital
Formerly Schroder Ventures International Investment Trust, SVG Capital invests in more than 20 private equity funds for high net worth individual investors as well as small institutional investors.

Swiss Life
The Swiss Life Group operates in a variety of areas such as banking, property and asset management and insurance.

Swiss Prime Site
Swiss Prime Site is one of the leading Swiss property investment companies. The company was founded in May 1999 and has been listed on the SWX Swiss Stock Exchange since April 2000. Swiss Prime Site sets standards for investment criteria, transparency and risk-optimised performance and is the top address for equity-based property investments.

Synovus
Synovus, a holding company, provides various financial services. It operates in two segments, Financial Services and Transaction Processing Services (TPS).

T Rowe
T. Rowe operates as an investment management firm in the United States and internationally. It provides an array of mutual funds, sub-advisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The company also offers various investment planning and guidance tools.

Taishin Financial Holdings
Taishin Financial Holding Company was formed on February 18, 2002, and has emerged as one of the most successful "new" banks after completion of the first successful and market-driven merger in Taiwan's banking industry by acquiring Dah An Commercial Bank.

Takefuji
Japan's most profitable consumer finance company.

Temple Bar Inv Tst
Temple Bar is one of the oldest investment trusts, having been launched in 1926. It is an independent company with a board of directors whose responsibility is to seek the best investment returns for its shareholders

Templeton Emerging Markets IT
Franklin Templeton Investments is part of a worldwide group established in the United States, and listed as Franklin Resources Inc. on the New York (NYSE: BEN) and London Stock Exchanges.

Textron
Textron engages in the manufacturing and finance operations worldwide. It operates through four segments: Bell, Cessna, Industrial, and Finance.

Torchmark
Torchmark Corporation, based in Birmingham, AL, is a diversified financial services organization that is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (TMK) and an industry leader in supplemental insurance.

UBS
UBS is a global, integrated investment services firm and the leading bank in Switzerland. UBS Business Groups are in the top echelons of their core businesses and have become one of the ten largest world banks, active in over 95 cities in 50 countries with a workforce of 71, 000

UFF - Union Financiere de France Banque
The company provides investment management products to private individuals and companies, comprising of unit trusts, life assurance, retirement and company savings plans and real estate.

Van der Moolen Holding
Van der Moolen is an international trading firm active in equities, bonds and related instruments such as warrants, options and futures.

Washington Mutual
Washington Mutual, a thrift holding company, provides various financial services to consumers and small to mid-sized businesses in the United States. The company primarily operates through three segments: the Retail Banking and Financial Services, the Mortgage Banking, and the Commercial.

WCM
WCM is a financial holding company concentrating on the following two business fields - residential real estate and corporate shareholdings. The company's core competence lies mainly in the area of shareholdings.

Wendel Investissement
Marine-Wendel is a holding company with the following equity interests: CGIP a holding company with interests in Cap Gemini, Valeo, Wheelabrator Allevard, Bureau Veritas, Biomerieux Alliance, Trader.com and Orange Nassau; AOM group - air transport (AOM, Air Littoral and Air Liberte); Fortel - local radio loop; Stallergenes - treatment of allergies through specialist immunotherapy; Compagnie Financiere de la Trinite - development capital; Simfor - holding and services company.

Yuanta Core Pacific Securities
Yuanta Core Pacific Securities (Yuanta) has been the leading securities firm in Taiwan for the past decade, serving a Pan-Asian client base. Yuanta is also the largest shareholder of Kim Eng Holdings with which it has a strategic alliance that combines the resources and expertise of the two businesses

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Aareal Bank
Aareal Bank Ag is a real-estate bank mainly focusing on the business divisions ofStructured Finance, Asset Management, Consulting and Real-Estate Loans.

ABN AMRO Holding
ABN AMRO Holding is an internationally operating bank which was formed following a merger in 1990 of the two largest publicly quoted banks in the Netherlands namely ABN and AMRO Bank; the objective of the group is to provide all kinds of banking services in the Netherlands & abroad. The bank provides worldwide services to certain customer groups in specific fields such as corporate finance, securities, treasury products and facilities, trade and commodity financing, leasing and private banking.

ABSA
Absa Private Bank is the country's leading provider of wealth solutions to South Africa's affluent and high net worth individuals. Absa Private Bank is the country's only truly, global private bank.

Adelaide Bank
Adelaide Bank Limited is a publicly listed company with its head office in South Australia, providing financial services through their distribution network and through national alliances.

Affin Holdings
Affin Holdings is involved in commercial banking, stock-broking, discount house services, money banking & asset management business.

Akbank
Akbank is a private-sector bank in Turkey, providing consumer, commercial and private banking products and services, as well as international trade financing.

Alliance & Leicester
Alliance & Leicester provides a comprehensive range of personal financial services in the United Kingdom and the provision of a wide range banking and financial services to business and public sector customers.

Allied Irish Banks
AIB Group is Ireland's leading banking and financial services organisation. It operates principally in Ireland, Britain, Poland and the USA. It employs almost 25,000 people worldwide in more than 800 offices

Alpha Bank
Alpha Bank, founded in 1879, is the second largest Bank in Greece. With 450 Branches, Alpha Bank Group is also active in the international banking market, with presence in Cyprus and Southeastern Europe as well as in New York, London and Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Anglo Irish Bank
Anglo Irish Bank was founded in 1964 and became a publicly quoted company in 1971. Anglo Irish Bank is a focused business bank with a private banking arm. The bank provides business banking, treasury and wealth management services.

Australia And New Zealand Banking Group - ANZ
General banking services, hire purchase and general finance, life assurance, property development, mortgage lending and other financial services.

Banca Antonveneta - delisted
Taken over by ABN Amro. Antonveneta Group is one of the leading Italian banking groups

Banca Intesa
The integration between Cariplo and Banco Ambrosiano Veneto (1998), the aggregation of Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e Piacenza and Banca Popolare FriulAdria (1999) and the subsequent merger with Banca Commerciale Italiana (2001) are the milestones of a process which has made IntesaBci the top Italian banking group and one of the protagonists in the European financial arena.

Banca Lombarda
The structure of the Banca Lombarda Group is a result of the merger of CAB SpA with Banca San Paolo di Brescia SpA in 1998, and the acquisition of majority interests in, among others, Banca Cassa di Risparmio di Tortona SpA in 1999 and Banca Regionale Europea SpA in 2000.

Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena
Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena is an Italian banking group providing traditional banking services, asset management and private banking, including life insurance, pension funds and investment trusts.

Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is one of the major Italian banking groups and ranks amongst the first 100 banks in the world. BNL was founded in 1913 as the Istituto di Credito per la Cooperazione and adopted its current name in 1929.

Banca Popolare Di Bergamo
Banca Popolare di Bergamo - C.V. Group is a multi-functional bank working on financial and insurance needs in the both the retail and corporate markets.

Banca Popolare di Milano
Banca Popolare di Milano was incorporated in 1865 is an inter-regional commercial bank which offers, directly or through subsidiary companies, retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, private banking and insurance and assurance products.

Banche Popolari Unite (BPU Banca)
Banche Popolari Unite is formed from the merger mid 2003 of Banco Popolare di Bergamo, Banca Popolare Comercio et Industria and BPLV. The group provide insurance and financial services. Other than the traditional banking services, it also provides asset management, investment banking, bank-insurance and e-banking.

Banco BPI
The BPI Group - headed by Banco BPI - is a universal financial and mutli-specialist group, focusing predominantly on commercial banking business and on domestic activity, to which are allocated 95% of its capital.

Banco de Oro Universal Bank
Banco de Oro Universal Bank (BDO) provides a wide range of corporate, commercial and retail banking services in the Philippines. These services include traditional loan and deposit products, as well as treasury, trust banking, investment banking, cash management, insurance, remittance, retail cash cards and credit card services.

Banco De Sabadell
Banco Sabadell heads the fourth banking group in Spain by volume of assets. The Group comprisses Banco Atlantico and Sabadell BancaPrivada, outstanding brands such as Banco Herrero, Solbank and ActivoBank

Banco Espirito Santo
Banco Espirito Santo offers a full range of financial services for the Portuguese market. The group is active in every area of banking via its numerous specialized subsidiaries providing asset management and investment banking among others.

Banco Popular Esp
Founded in 1926, Grupo Banco Popular is the third largest banking group in Spain with over 2,400 correspondent banks around the world.

Banco Santander Central Hispano
Santander Central Hispano is the leading financial group in Spain and Latin America, one of the foremost banks of the Euro zone and among the twenty largest in the world by stock market capitalisation. The Group is present in 40 countries and has a staff of approximately 115,000 professionals and 9,817 branches at the service of its 39 million customers.

Bangkok Bank of Commerce
Bangkok Bank of Commerce Public Company Limited is a bank holding company operating 167 branch offices throughout Thailand. 42 branches are located in the Bangkok Metropolis and 125 are located in the provinces. The company offers a wide range of services including loans, deposits, credit card facilities and foreign exchange.

Bank Austria
Bank Austria Creditanstalt is the clear number one in the Austrian banking sector. With total assets of approx. EUR 145 billion, it is about twice as large as Austria's second biggest bank. Four out of five large companies use Bank Austria Creditanstalt's services. Every fifth Austrian is a customer of Bank Austria Creditanstalt. With 429 offices, the Bank Austria Creditanstalt Group is represented throughout all of Austria and enjoys a leading position in many business segments.

Bank Danamon Indonesia
Established in 1956, PT Bank Danamon Indonesia Tbk is the second largest private national bank and the fifth largest commercial bank in Indonesia, with a 5% share of the domestic system loans and deposits. Danamon has the widest geographic distribution network of all Indonesian banks with 500 branch offices, 790 ATMs and is well-supported by more than 13,000 employees.

Bank Mandiri
Established in October 1998, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998, Bank Mandiri is a product of a merger of four state-owned banks: Bank Bumi Daya, Bank Dagang Negara, Bank Ekspor Impor and Bank Pembangunan Indonesia.

Bank Millennium
Bank Millennium SA is a nation-wide, universal commercial bank offering its services to individual clients and institutions through four business lines: Millennium, Millennium Biznes, Millennium PRESTIGE and Regional Corporate Business Centers. The Bank is the leader of the Bank Millennium Capital Group which includes: the brokerage house Millennium Dom Maklerski (brokerage services), BEL Leasing (leasing) and the Millennium Investment Fund Company.

Bank NISP
Bank NISP is the fourth oldest bank in Indonesia, providing banking services including public deposits, loans and other related financial services and securities brokerage services.

Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services

Bank of Ayudhya
Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited (BAY) was established in 1945. The Bank's Ordinary Shares have been publicly listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since September 26, 1977 and registered as a public limited company in Thailand on September 28, 1993 with an authorized share capital of Baht 8 billion and an issued and paid-up share capital of Baht 4 billion.

Bank of Baroda
Bank of Baroda is a provider of banking services in India, including personal banking and business banking.

Bank of China
Bank of China is a Chinese bank that has presence in all major continents. The Company offers financial services through its global network of over 560 overseas offices in 25 countries and regions.

Bank of China (Hong Kong) - BOC
Established in 2001, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (referred to as Bank of China Hong Kong or BOCHK) is a locally incorporated licensed bank. It has combined the businesses of ten of the twelve banks in Hong Kong originally belonging to the Bank of China Group. In addition, it holds shares in Nanyang Commercial Bank Limited and Chiyu Banking Corporation Limited, both of which are incorporated in Hong Kong, as well as BOC Credit Card (International) Limited.

Bank of Communications - BoCom
Bank of Communications (BoCom provides corporate banking, retail banking and investment banking. Other activities include provision of corporate deposits, corporate loans, foreign exchange business, savings deposits, consumer credit and bank cards.

Bank of Cyprus
Bank of Cyprus Public Company Ltd (the Bank) has a dominant position in its home market and, since the early 1990s, the Bank has been expanding rapidly in Greece. The Bank's operations in Greece are ranked 7th in terms of loans and deposits in the Greek Market. Internationally the Group seeks to serve the expatriate Greek and Cypriot communities. The Group has an established banking presence in the United Kingdom and expanded to Australia in late 2000.

Bank of East Asia
The Bznk of East Asia Group offers a full range of wholesale and retail banking services through the Bank's corporate banking, personal banking, investment banking and China services units. Products and services range from deposit-takings, foreign currency savings, premium banking services, mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit cards, Cyberbanking, Mandatory Provident Fund services, trade finance, syndication loans, remittances and foreign exchange margin trading.

Bank of Fukuoka
Bank of Fukuoka provides banking and other financial products and services including time deposits, ordinary deposits, current deposits, deposits at notice, to individuals and corporate clients. Other activities includes leasing, guaranty, credit cards, help supply services, systems development, real estate management and data processing.

Bank of Ireland
Bank of Ireland provides a broad range of financial services in Ireland to the personal, commercial, industrial and agricultural sectors. The Group's Head Office is in Dublin, and its operations extend geographically throughout Ireland and in the United Kingdom.

Bank of New York
The Bank of New York, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and other financial services to corporations and individuals worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Institutional Services, Private Bank & BNY Asset Management, Retail & Middle Market Banking, and Corporate and Other.

Bank of Queensland
Bank of Queensland, one of Queensland's oldest financial institutions, is a full-service retail bank with a growing network of branches throughout rural, regional and metropolitan Queensland.

Bank of the Philippine Islands - BPI
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is the oldest bank in South East Asia and is the second largest commercial bank in the country in terms of assets, deposits, loans and capital base.

Bank of Yokohama - BOY
Bank of Yokohama (BOY) is a provider of banking products and services to individual and corporate customers, primarily in Japan.

Bank Pekao
Bank Pekao is a Warsaw-based financial institution providing retail banking, corporate banking and other banking and financial services.

Bank Polski SA
Polski Bank Rozwoju S.A. (PBR) - Polish Development Bank (PDB), established in 1990, is one of Poland's larger banks. It is active in all fields of corporate and institutional banking, in particular the preparation and management of securities issues.

Bank Zachodni WBK
Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. is a universal commercial bank that renders a wide range of bank services for natural persons and legal entities, both in domestic and foreign dealings.

Bankgesellschaft Berlin
Bankgesellschaft Berlin is a listed bank based in the German capital. Since December 2001, the Bank has been implementing an ongoing process of reorientation and restructuring with the objective of establishing the new Bankgesellschaft Berlin on the basis of four pillars: as an innovative, customer-oriented bank with an excellent position in retail banking and regional corporate banking, with selected activities in capital markets business and real estate financing throughout Germany geared towards investors and residential construction companies.

Bankinter
Bankinter was founded in June 1965, as a Spanish industrial bank as a joint venture by Banco de Santander and Bank of America. It was listed on the Madrid stock exchange in 1972, at which time the bank became fully independent of its founders and transformed itself into a commercial bank.

Barclays
Barclays business activities are carried out through the following business groups: Personal Financial Services, Woolwich, Barclays Private Clients, Barclaycard, Business Banking, Barclays Capital and Barclays Global Investors.

Bayerische HypoVereinsbank - HVB Bank
Bayerische HypoVereinsbank AG is the second largest banking group in Germany. By positioning itself through its strategy as "Bank of the Regions in Europe" and in this context opening up the attractive, rapidly growing regions of Europe, the company has become Number One amongst the foreign banks active in Central Europe.

BB&T
BB&T, through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial services in the United States. It offers noninterest-bearing checking accounts, interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money rate savings accounts, investor deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts.

BBVA
BBVA is the second largest bank in Spain. BBVA is established in 37 countries in total, mainly in Europe and Latin America. It has almost 9,000 branches, over 100,000 employees and 35 million customers.

BCA - Bank Central Asia
Bank Central Asia provides commercial banking, money changing, remittance, consumer loan and financing services.

BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is made up of three core businesses: Corporate and Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management, and also BNP Paribas Capital which spearheads the Private Equity business.

BPH Bank - Bank Przemyslowo - Handlowy
Based in Crakow, Bank BPH is the third largest bank in Poland, and specialises specializes in the provision of underwriting, leasing, factoring and other financial services.

BPVN - Banca Popolare di Verona e Novara
BPVN offers a range of banking products and services, including current and savings accounts, online banking, telephone banking, investments, mutual funds, financial advice, credit and debit cards and insurance. Headquartered in Verona, The bank has over 1,170 branches both throughout Italy and Internationally.

Bradford & Bingley
Bradford & Bingley plc was converted from a building society to plc in December 2000 and floated on the London Stock Exchange. The Group supply a full range of financial services and mortgage brokers through their network of a high street branches and independent financial advisors and offers insurance, investment, mortgage and various loan products.

BRE Bank
BRE Bank S.A. is a Polish financial institution offering banking and financial services for corporate, institutional and private banking and other clients.

BRI - Bank Rakyat Indonesia
Bank Rakyat Indonesia provides national and international banking services, along with fund distribution to small and medium sized ernterprises.

Bumiputra Commerce Holdings - BCB
Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings (BCHB) Berhad or BCB is one of the largest local bank in Malaysia. It is owned by CIMB.

Canara Bank
Canara Bank provides networked automated teller machines, anywhere banking, telebanking, remote access terminals Internet, and mobile banking and debit cards.

Capitalia
CAPITALIA Banking Group is born from synthesis of two existing banking groups, Bancaroma and Bipop-Carire Group. Capitalia is the Holding Company for the new banking group and is responsible for defining the strategic guidelines for the operating subholdings and drafting the Group industrial plan.

Chang Hwa Bank
Chang Hwa Bank provides commercial banking, savings and trust services, international banking and overseas branch operations.

Chiba Bank
Chiba Bank provides traditional banking services to individuals and businesses. The company is headquartered in Chiba, Japan.

China Construction Bank - CCB
China Construction Bank is a leading commercial bank in China providing a comprehensive range of commercial banking products and services.

China Merchants Bank
China Merchants Bank is a commercial bank offering financial services to both corporate and individual clients.

China Minsheng Banking
China Minsheng Banking Corporation is engaged in corporate, institutional and personal banking sectors in the People's Republic of China.

Comdirect bank
With more than 600,000 customers, comdirect bank is Germany's market leader in Online Investment.

Commerce Bancorp
Commerce Bancorp, Inc. operates as a multibank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking services, as well as corporate trust services for consumers, and small and midsized companies in the United States.

Commerzbank
Commerzbank AG, based in Frankfurt am Main and founded in 1870, is one of Germany's - and Europe's - leading private-sector banks. Apart from the parent bank, Commerzbank AG, the Group consists of numerous subsidiaries in Germany and abroad.

Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
Commonwealth Bank Of Australia provides integrated financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, superannuation, life insurance, general insurance, funds management, and broking services.

Compass Bancshares
Compass Bancshares operates as the holding company for Compass Bank (bank), which provides various financial products and services in the United States. It accepts deposit products, including savings, demand, time, and certificates of deposit. The bank provides commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; real estate construction loans; commercial real estate mortgage loans; residential real estate mortgage loans; equity lines of credit; and equity loans.

Corporation Bank
Established in 1906, Corporation Bank is an Indian banking company, with over 835 branches throughout India, offering savings and current account products and term deposits.

Credit Agricole
The Crꥩt Agricole Group has a strong presence in corporate and investment banking, the capital markets and international business through its network of offices in 60 countries. It is expanding rapidly in the asset management and private banking markets, in France, Europe and across the world.

Credito Emiliano
Credito Emiliano is a bank group with business in investment banking, asset management and in some of the most prestigious insurance companies such as Euromobiliare and Abaxbank. The company is present in 18 Italian regions, in Switzerland and in Luxembourg.

Credito Valtellinese
The company operates in the North of Italy offering banking and other related financial services. The company has branches located in Lombardy, in Rome and in Lugano (Switzerland). The bank is the holding of Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, which is formed by six companies: Stelline Servizi Immobiliari (real-estate company), Bankadati (data processing company), Banca Popolare di Rho, Banca Popolare Santa Severa, Bancaperta and Deltas (consultancy and professional training company).

D. Carnegie & Co
Carnegie is an independent Nordic investment bank with a strong position in stockbroking, investment banking and asset management.

DAB Bank
Being an e-broker, DAB bank provides a comprehensive range of services revolving around the topics of capital information and asset gathering. With its products, DAB bank supplies solutions for savers, investors and traders alike. DAB bank is also the partner of Registered Investment Advisors (RIA), Independent Financial Advisors (IFA) as well as banks and institutions.

Dah Sing Banking Group
Dah Sing Banking Group Limited is a Hong Kong based company providing banking, financial and other related services.

Danske Bank A/S
Danske Bank is the largest bank in Denmark and a leading player in the Scandinavian financial markets.

DBS Group Holdings
DBS Group Holdings Ltd is the holding company of DBS Bank and is one of the largest companies in terms of market capitalisation whose shares are listed on the Singapore Exchange. DBS Group Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries form one of the largest banking groups in the region in terms of shareholders' funds and total assets. With its acquisition of Dao Heng Bank in June 2001, DBS is the fourth largest bank in Hong Kong by assets.

DEPFA Bank
DEPFA BANK is a leading provider of global financial services to public sector clients worldwide. DEPFA exclusively serves public sector authorities by providing for their financial needs with a broad range of products and services, from budget financing to the funding of public infrastructure products and investment banking solutions for public-sector authorities.

Deutsche Postbank
Deutsche Postbank is a Germany financial services provider, and is the largest private client bank in Germany, operating through retail banking, business / corporate banking.

Dexia
Created by the November 1999 alliance between Dexia Belgium and Dexia France, Dexia is a multi-specialized European banking group. Its activities are carried out by three operating companies: Dexia Credit Local de France (CLF), Credit Communal de Belgique (CCB) and Banque Internationale Luxembourg (BIL).

EFG Eurobank Ergasias Bank
EFG Eurobank Ergasias was first established in 1990 as Euromerchant Bank. Today, it offers a full range of banking products, aimed at individuals, corporations and institutions.

EFG International
EFG International, the holding company of EFG Bank - the fifth largest bank in Switzerland - and its sisterbanks.

Emporiki Bank
Emporiki Bank established its first 2 branches in Cyprus in 1994, its immediate objective being the gradual expansion in the major cities of the island.

Equitable PCI Bank
EBC and its subsidiaries provide a wide range of commercial, corporate, and retail banking and financial services. Such services include lending and deposit taking, branch banking, international banking, electronic banking, trade finance, cash management, and trust and treasury services.

Erste Bank Austria
Erste Bank Austria is a financial services group providing banking, investment, loans and insurance services, and focuses on consumers and small to medium-sized companies.

Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bancorp, through its subsidiaries, provides retail and commercial banking, and investment advisory services in the United States. The bank accepts demand, interest checking, savings, money market, and other time deposits, as well as certificates of deposit.

Finansbank
Finansbank was incorporated by H졖zye᪮, one of Turkey's leading bankers. The bank began its activities on October 26, 1987. Today, with its 173 local branches and its international subsidiaries and affiliates, Finansbank operates in 10 countries (Turkey, Switzerland, Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Romania, Ireland, Bahrain). Finansbank is the most international Turkish bank in terms of its international investments and network.

FirstRand
FirstRand is an integrated financial services group. The group provides a comprehensive range of products and services to the South African market and niche products in certain international markets.

Foreningssparbanken - Swedbank
ForeningsSparbanken is one of the largest banking groups in the Nordic area. At the turn of the year 2002-2003, the group had approximately 16,000 employees, of which 9,700 in Sweden. The group has about 4.1 million private customers in Sweden and 3.2 million in the Baltic States. Independent savings banks and partly owned banks have an additional 1.7 million private customers.

Fubon Financial Holdings
Fubon Financial Holding, operating through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in the areas of investment consulting, securities, and banking.

Garanti Bank
Turkiye Garanti Bankasi is a bank in Turkey, providing retail banking, including deposit accounts, investment products, credit cards, overdraft facilities, and other banking services through a network of 418 branches.

Golden West
Golden West operates as the holding company for World Savings Bank, FSB, which offers retail banking services in the United States. The company engages in generating deposits and originating loans. The company?s deposit activities include passbook, checking, and money market deposits. It offers real estate, mortgage, and consumer loans, as well as home loans over the telephone and through the Internet.

Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals.

Greek Postal Savings Bank
The Greek Postal Savings Bank has over a century's experience in the banking business. During this period of rapid modernization, the Bank's presence spans over 64 cities all over Greece with 136 branches, 820 offices of the Hellenic Post (ELTA) and a speedily evolving ATM network.

Hang Seng Bank
Hang Seng Bank is a principal member of the HSBC Group, which is among the world's largest financial services organisations and holds a 62.14% equity interest in the Bank

Hansabank
Hansabank is a bank operating in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania owned by the F糥ningsSparbanken/Swedbank, a Swedish bank.

HBOS
HBOS provides retail banking such as consumer credit businesses and personal banking services, business banking, corporate banking, insurance and investment including long-term savings and personal lines insurance services, and treasury such as management of wholesale funding activities, liquidity and risk management, sale of treasury products and proprietary trading.

HDFC Bank
Incorporated in August 1994 as HDFC Bank Limited, the bank now has a wide network of over 531 branches across 228 cities in India, and over a thousand networked ATM's. The bank was incorporated in August 1994 in the name of 'HDFC Bank Limited', with its registered office in Mumbai, India. HDFC Bank commenced operations as a Scheduled Commercial Bank in January 1995.

Hokuhoku Financial Group
Hokuhoku Financial Group Incorporated Formerly known as Hokugin Financial Group Incorporated. The company provides a wide range of banking and other financial services.

Hong Leong Bank
Hong Leong Bank provides consumer and business banking from branches throughout Malaysia.

HSBC Hldgs
HSBC is a leading provider of banking and related financial services. It operates in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa through the following business groups: Personal Financial Services; Commercial Banking; Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets and Private banking.

Huntington
Huntington operates as the holding company for The Huntington National Bank. The bank provides commercial and consumer banking services in the United States. It offers mortgage banking services, automobile financing, equipment leasing, investment management, trust services, and brokerage services.

Hypo Real Estate Group
Hypo Real Estate Group is one of the largest providers of finance to commercial real estate customers in Germany and, as such, one of the largest real estate finance institutions in Europe.

ICICI Bank
ICICI Bank is India's second-largest bank providing retail-banking, corporate banking, cash management and treasury management services.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China - ICBC
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) provides banking, financial and other financial related services.

Industrial Development Bank of India - IDBI
Industrial Development Bank is an Indian financial institution. Headquartered in Mumbai, IDBI operates through a network comprised of a number of zonal offices and branch offices throughout the country.

ING Vysya Bank Limited
Ing Vysya Bank Limited (formerly Vysya Bank) provides banking services in India, including retail banking, corporate banking, and commercial banking.

IS Bank - Turkiye is Bankasi
Turkiye is Bankasi is Turkey's largest publicly traded bank, providing standard banking services, including commercial lending and retail banking. Isbank operates more than 860 domestic branches, as well as about 10 more in the UK, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and Bahrain.

Kasikornbank
The Bank provides consumer, commercial and corporate banking services, with branches throughout Thailand.

KBC Bancassurance Holdings
KBC Bancassurance Holding Company is a financial services company, which provides retail banking & insurance, asset management and corporate and market activities. In Belgium it is a top-3 bankinsurer. Via a network of branches, subsidiaries and representative offices KBC is present in more than 30 countries worldwide. KBC has approximately 45,000 employees and 9 million customers.

Komercni Banka
Komer鯭 banka ranks among the most important banks both in the Czech Republic and the Central and Eastern European region.

Korea Exchange Bank
Korea Exchange Bank is a Korean financial and banking service provider, with over 286 domestic branches.

Krung Thai Bank
Krung Thai is the second-largest bank in Thailand, providing deposit services, current accounts, savings accounts, savings promotional accounts and fixed accounts.

Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers Holdings is engaged in global investment banking, raising capital through underwriting and placements, merchant banking, corporate finance services, securities trading and commodities.

Liu Chong Hing Bank
Liu Chong Hing Bank Limited provides corporate and retail banking, treasury and foreign exchange and other related financial services. Operations are carried out in Hong Kong, Mainland China and America through corporate and retail banking, and treasury and foreign exchange.

Lloyds TSB Group
Lloyds TSB Group provides a comprehensive range of banking and financial services through branches and offices in the United Kingdom and overseas.

London Scottish Bank
London Scottish Bank is a Specialist Financial Services Company. It has been Established for over a century. Over 2000 staff provide services to the Public and Private sectors, as well as the consumer, through a nationwide network of over a 100 Branches and a state of the art Call Centre.

M&T Bank
M&T Bank is considered one of the country's most highly regarded regional banks. We were founded more than 145 years ago in Western New York, where we are still headquartered.

Macquarie Bank
Macquarie Bank is a pre-eminent provider of investment banking and financial services. In Australasia, Macquarie provides a full range of investment, financial market and advisory products and services.

Macquarie Goodman Group
Macquarie Goodman Group offers industrial property investment products primarily owning stakes in warehouse or distribution centers, industrial estates, and business parks

Marshall & Ilsley
Marshall & Ilsley, a multibank holding company, offers various banking and financial services in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Banking and Data Services.

Maybank
Maybank is Malaysia's largest banking group, providing consumer and banking services in Malaysia, including internet banking.

Mediobanca
Mediobanca was established immediately after World War II on the initiative of Banca Commerciale Italiana in the first instance, immediately followed by Credito Italiano (now UniCredito Italiano) and later by Banco di Roma (now part of Banca di Roma). Mediobanca''s objects, as defined in BCI''s 1945 Annual Report, were to meet the medium-term financing requirements of manufacturing enterprises and to form a direct link between the investment community and the financing needs involved in rebuilding Italian industry.

Mega Financial Holding
Mega Financial Holding Company (formerly CTB Financial Holding Company) was formed by Chiao Tung Bank Co., Ltd. (CTB) and International Securities Co., Ltd.

Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company
Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (MBT) is a universal bank incorporated in the Philippines on 05 September 1962. Since its foundation, MBT diversified its business and provided a broad range of banking and collateral services to all sectors of the country.

Millennium BCP
Millenium BCP (previously Banco Comercial Portuges) is the biggest Portuguese private bank, represented in all continent with different brands, created specially to operate in different markets.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and UFJ Holdings have been integrated into Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group on October 1, 2005.

Mitsui Trust Holdings
Mitsui Trust Holdings, is the holding company for The Chuo Mitsui Trust & Banking Co., and Mitsui Asset Trust and Banking Co.

Mizuho Financial Group
Mizuho Trust & Banking Company Limited, formerly known as Mizuho Asset Trust & Banking Company Limited. The Group's principal activity is the trust and commercial banking and other financial services. Operations include deposits, loans, domestic exchanges, foreign exchanges, trust, pension fund management, real estate buying/selling and brokerage, real estate appraisal and stock transfer agency.

Mizuho Trust & Banking
Mizuho Trust & Banking Company Limited (formerly Mizuho Asset Trust & Banking Company) provides commercial banking and other financial services. Operations include deposits, loans, domestic exchanges, foreign exchanges, trust, pension fund management, real estate buying/selling and brokerage, real estate appraisal and stock transfer agency.

National Australia Bank Group - NAB
National Australia Bank Group provides a comprehensive and integrated range of financial products and services through their group of banks.

Nedbank
Nedbank Group Limited (previously Nedcor Limited) is a bank holding company that, through its principal banking subsidiary, Nedbank, together with the other members of the group, operates as one of the four largest banking groups in South Africa.

Nishi-Nippon Bank
Nishi-Nippon Bank provides financial products and services for domestic and international markets.

Nordea
Nordea originate from four Nordic banks: Merita Bank, Nordbanken, Unibank, and Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse, from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway respectively. Since December 2001 all operations have been conducted under the brand name of Nordea. Nordea today is the largest financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region.

North Fork
North Fork Bank corporation operates as the holding company for North Fork Bank, a retail bank. It provides a range of banking products and financial services to middle market and small business organizations; local government units; and individual retail customers.

Northern Rock
Northern Rock Plc was created during 1965 through the merger of the Northern Counties and Rock Permanent buildings societies. The Company operates as a financial institution and mortgage lender within the United Kingdom.

Orco Group
Developer, investor, and asset manager, Orco is today a major player on real estate and hospitality market in Central Europe.

Oriental Bank of Commerce
Oriental Bank of Commerce provides banking products and services.

OTP Bank Rt
OTP Bank Ltd. is a universal bank with retail banking being its core business. Along with its subsidiaries it is the market leader in Hungary, and a major provider in the Central and Eastern European regions.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation - OCBC
The company is one of the largest local commercial banks in Singapore, providing banking and finance, financial services, investment, corporate finance, stockbroking, futures broking, asset management, venture capital, nominee and trustee services, property management, real estate owners and developing real estate.

Piraeus Bank Group
Founded in 1916, Piraeus Bank went through a period of state-ownership and management (1975-1991) before it was privatised in December 1991. Since then, it has continuously grown in size and activities.

Public Bank
Public Bank Berhad (PBB) is principally engaged in all aspects of banking and finance company businesses, which include Islamic banking and the provision of related financial services.

Punjab National Bank
Punjab National Bank is an Indian public-sector commercial bank offering banking products and services to corporate and commercial, retail and agricultural customers.

Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding
The RZB Group is owned and steered by Vienna-based, Raiffeisen Zentralbank ׳terreich AG (RZB), and consists of more than 100 business units. Besides RZB itself, Raiffeisen International forms the most significant unit of this group. RZB is Austria's third largest bank.

Regions Financial
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF), headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is a full-service provider of retail and commercial banking, trust, securities brokerage, mortgage and insurance products and services.

Resona Holdings
Hedquartered in Osaka, Japan, Resona Holdings is provides general banking, trust operation, credit card and financial services.

Royal Bank Of Scotland Group
The Group works as a financial services organisation, providing a range of financial services to personal, small business and corporate clients.

San Paolo-IMI
Sanpaolo IMI was created in November 1998 from the merger of the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino and the Istituto Mobiliare Italiano. San Paolo's origins date back to 1563 when it was founded as a charitable foundation and grew to be Italy's biggest bank. IMI was established in 1931 to provide medium and long-term lending in support of Italy's industrialisation.

Sberbank
Sberbank is a Moscow-based financial institution, providing banking services, including commercial, investment, merchant, mortgage and retail banking.

Shanghai Pudong Development
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, SPDB, incorporated on January 9, 1993 with the approval of the People's Bank of China (28th, August, 1992), is a joint-stock commercial bank with its headquarters located in Shanghai.

Shinsei Bank
Shinsei is a Tokyo based bank providing financial services for corporate and financial institutions.

Shizuoka Bank
Shizuoka Bank provides financial services through a network of 78 branches and three sub-branches, along with nine domestic consolidated subsidiaries.

Siam Commercial Bank
Siam Commercial Bank is a commercial bank providing personal and business banking products and services. It has 692 branch offices and 2,803 automated teller machines (ATMs) throughout the country.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken - SEB Group
The Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Group is a North European financial banking group that is focused on large companies, institutions and private individuals, with 672 branch offices around Sweden, Germany and the Baltic States. SEB has more than 4 million customers, of whom 1.3 million are e-banking customers. The Group is represented in some 20 countries around the world and has a staff of about 20,000.

Societe Generale A
Societe Generale is a global bank and the group's business revolves around 3 major divisions - retail banking, commercial and investment banking and asset management.

St George Bank
St.George is Australia's fifth largest bank and one of the top 15 publicly listed companies in Australia. Founded in 1937 as a housing based financial institution, St.George built a reputation as Australia's foremost building society, before achieving full banking status in July 1992.

Standard Bank
Standard Bank is a South African-based financial services company with a global presence. The bank operates from 17 African countries and 21 countries on other continents, including the key financial centres of Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered provides banking and other financial services.

State Bank of India
State Bank of India is a financial services group offering a range of services in the personal banking segment, including deposit, personal loan and others.

Sumitomo Mitsui FG
Management of the affairs of subsidiaries within the group and relevant ancillary.

Sumitomo Trust & Banking
Sumitomo Trust & Banking providers comprehensive financial services through a network of 53 domestic branches.

Sun Trust
SunTrust Banks operates as a financial holding company. It provides various financial services to consumer and corporate customers in the United States. The company operates through five segments: Retail, Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking, Wealth and Investment Management, and Mortgage.

Svenska Handelsbanken
Handelsbanken is a Nordic universal bank that offers all types of banking services to companies and individuals.Active throughout Scandinavia and mainly in China and the USA, it offers a variety of services: account management, savings, loans, life insurance and credit cards. It is also involved with everything to do with finance, portfolio management advice and brokerage and sells various investment products to private and corporate clients.

Taishin International Bank
Taishin International Bank provides general commercial banking services, which include commercial lending, checking and savings accounts, foreign exchange transactions and wire transfer services.

TSMC - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited manufactures and designs integrated circuits, mask and other semiconductor devices. The Group's operations are carried out in Taiwan and North America.

Unicredito Italiano
UniCredito Italiano was created in 1998 following the merger of Credito Italiano and Rolo Banca 1473 with Cariverona, Cassa di Risparmio di Torino and Cassamarca, during 1999 the Group also added the Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto and Cassa di Risparmio di Trieste.

Union Bank of India
Union Bank of India is an Indian scheduled commercial bank offering a range of deposit schemes.

UOB - United Overseas Bank
UOB, one of the Big Four local banks in Singapore, has a comprehensive global network, with 144 offices worldwide, including 74 locally. The Bank and its Group members (including Chung Khiaw Bank, Far Eastern Bank and Industrial & Commercial Bank) provide full commercial banking services.

TSMC - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited manufactures and designs integrated circuits, mask and other semiconductor devices. The Group's operations are carried out in Taiwan and North America.

Unicredito Italiano
UniCredito Italiano was created in 1998 following the merger of Credito Italiano and Rolo Banca 1473 with Cariverona, Cassa di Risparmio di Torino and Cassamarca, during 1999 the Group also added the Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto and Cassa di Risparmio di Trieste.

Union Bank of India
Union Bank of India is an Indian scheduled commercial bank offering a range of deposit schemes.

UOB - United Overseas Bank
UOB, one of the Big Four local banks in Singapore, has a comprehensive global network, with 144 offices worldwide, including 74 locally. The Bank and its Group members (including Chung Khiaw Bank, Far Eastern Bank and Industrial & Commercial Bank) provide full commercial banking services.

US Bancorp
U.S. Bancorp, with assets of $207 billion, is the 6th largest financial services holding company in the United States. The company operates 2,411 banking offices and 4,999 ATMs providing a full line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.

UTI Bank
UTI Bank Limited is a financial institution in India, offerings corporate banking.

Van Lanschot
Van Lanschot is an independent bank for high net-worth individuals, businesses and institutional investors

Wachovia
Wachovia operates as a bank holding company. It engages in capital management, the general bank, wealth management, and the corporate and investment bank businesses. The company provides various commercial and retail banking, and trust services through full-service banking offices in the United States.

Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance across North America and elsewhere internationally.

Westpac Banking Corporation
Westpac provides online banking, everyday transaction accounts, loans, credit cards, foreign exchange, insurance, and savings and investment services.

Wing Hang Bank
With over 50 branches and representative offices throughout Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China, the Group offers a diverse range of banking services

Wing Lung Bank
Wing Lung Bank is a commercial bank, providing retail and corporate banking, treasury and other related activities.

Zions Bancorp
Zions operates as the multibank holding company that offer various banking and related services in the United States. It offers a range of commercial and retail banking and mortgage lending products and services. The company offers commercial loans, lease financing, cash management, electronic check clearing, lockbox, customized draft processing, and other special financial services for business and other commercial banking customers.