G. Thomas Bowers

First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, First Niagara Bank, N.A., provides a wide range of retail and commercial banking as well as other financial services to individuals, families and businesses across Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. It operates through two segments: Banking and Financial Services. The Banking segment includes all of its retail and commercial banking operations. The financial services segment offers a wide range of insurance products and consulting services to help both its retail and commercial customers achieve their financial goals. The company was founded in April 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

First Niagara Bank NA provides financial and banking services to individuals, families and businesses throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. It offers residential and commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans, wealth management products, as well as retail and commercial deposit products. The company was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Part of Columbia Bank MHC, Columbia Bank (Fair Lawn, New Jersey) is an American banking company that has been serving customers since 1927. Columbia Bank offers personal and business banking services to its customers. Thomas J. Kemly has been the CEO of the company since 1981.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka is a federally chartered company, which engages in the provision of credit and banking services. The firm's primary business engages in making collateralized loans and providing other banking services to member institutions and qualifying non-members. It promotes housing and community development in the public interest by serving as an economical source of credit and by providing the services and rate of return necessary to attract and retain borrowing stockholders. The company also offers advances, derivative transactions, letters of credit, wire transfer and consolidated obligation direct placement services, correspondent services, such as safekeeping, wire transfers, derivative intermediation, and cash management. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka was founded on October 13, 1932 and is headquartered in Topeka, KS.