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Elmhurst is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bounded by Roosevelt Avenue on the north; the Long Island Expressway on the south; Junction Boulevard on the east; and the New York Connecting Railroad on the west.
East West Bank, the primary subsidiary of East West Bancorp, Inc., is the largest independent bank headquartered in Southern California, United States. It was founded in 1973 in Los Angeles to serve the Chinese American community in Southern California. It is a premier bank focused exclusively on the United States and Greater China markets and operates over 125 locations worldwide, including in the markets of California, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Texas and Washington. In Greater China, East West Bank's presence includes full service branches in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shantou and Shenzhen, and representative offices in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, and Xiamen. Forbes magazine has named East West Bank among the top 15 of "America's 100 Best Banks" since 2010. In 2018, Forbes ranked East West Bank number five of "America's 100 Best Banks".
U.S. Bancorp is an American bank holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and incorporated in Delaware. It is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, which is the 5th largest bank in the United States. The company provides banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services products to individuals, businesses, governmental entities, and other financial institutions. It has 3,106 branches and 4,842 ATMs, primarily in the Western and Midwestern United States, and has approximately 74,000 employees. The company also owns Elavon, a processor of credit card transactions for merchants and Elan Financial Services, a credit card issuer that issue credit card products to US Bank and other financial institutions.
National City Corporation was a regional bank holding company based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, founded in 1845; it was once one of the ten largest banks in America in terms of deposits, mortgages and home equity lines of credit. Subsidiary National City Mortgage is credited for doing the first mortgage in America. The company operated through an extensive banking network primarily in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Wisconsin, and also served customers in selected markets nationally. Its core businesses included commercial and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, consumer finance, and asset management. The bank reached out to customers primarily through mass advertising and offered comprehensive banking services online. In its last years, the company was commonly known in the media by the abbreviated NatCity, with its investment banking arm even bearing the official name NatCity Investments.
The National Bank of Detroit (NBD), later renamed NBD Bank, was a bank that operated mostly in the Midwestern United States. Following its merger with First National Bank of Chicago, the bank was ultimately acquired and merged into Bank One, at which point the NBD name was discontinued. Today, what was once NBD is owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Cathay Bank is a Sino-American bank based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1962, it has since expanded its network throughout California and into Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada, Maryland, and Hong Kong. Additionally, it has representative offices in Shanghai and Taipei.
Cathay United Bank is one of the largest commercial banks in Taiwan, with a capital value of TW$67 billion and more than 165 branches located throughout Taiwan. It is part of the Cathay Financial Holding.
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Sky Financial Group, Inc., was a diversified financial services holding company that operated in the Midwestern United States from 1998 until its 2007 acquisition by rival bank Huntington Bancshares. Its largest subsidiary was Sky Bank, a commercial and retail banking company headquartered in Salineville, Ohio, that operated 330 financial centers and over 400 ATMs in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia. Other wholly owned subsidiaries included investment, trust, and insurance services.
Firstar Corporation was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based regional bank holding company that later became U.S. Bancorp, a nationwide bank corporation in the United States. In 2001, Firstar acquired U.S. Bancorp and assumed its name, moving its headquarters to Minneapolis.
First Citizens Bancshares, Incorporated is a bank holding company based in Raleigh, North Carolina that operates First Citizens Bank. First Citizens operates in 18 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, concentrated in the Southeastern United States, Southern California, and Washington.
Mercantile Bancorporation was the largest bank holding company in Missouri when it was acquired by Firstar Corporation in 1999.
First Federal Bank of the Midwest is a bank based in Defiance, Ohio. It is the primary subsidiary of First Defiance Financial Corp., a bank holding company.
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Cathay General Bancorp is the holding company for Cathay Bank, a California state-chartered commercial bank. Founded in 1962, Cathay Bank offers a wide range of a wide range of financial services. The bank has branch offices in Southern California, Northern California, New York, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, and Hong Kong and a representative office in Shanghai and in Taipei.
United Financial Bancorp, Inc. United Bank, headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, is a Connecticut state-chartered bank with $7.34 billion in assets, over 800 employees and 58 banking locations throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. United Financial Bancorp, Inc., the Bank’s Holding Company, trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market under the ticker symbol “UBNK.” In September 2017, Fortune Magazine ranked United Financial #39 on their 100 Fastest Growing Companies List.
North Valley Bancorp was a bank holding company headquartered in Redding, California. In October 2014, the company was acquired by TriCo Bancshares.
There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, and subsequently in turn spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens.
Star Banc Corporation was a Cincinnati, Ohio-based regional bank holding company that became Firstar in 1998 and eventually became U.S. Bancorp in 2001. The company can trace its origins back to 1863 when it was first founded as the First National Bank of Cincinnati.
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- ↑ Asia Bank, National Association in Flushing, New York (NY), MD
- ↑ "Cathay General Bancorp And Asia Bancshares Enter Into Definitive Agreement For Merger" (Press release). PR Newswire. January 21, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
