Nancy Foster

CIT Group, Inc. is a financial holding company, which engages in the financing, leasing and advisory services. It operates through the following business segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, and Corporate. The Commercial Banking segment consists of four divisions, commercial finance, rail, and real estate finance and business capital. The Consumer Banking segment includes retail Banking, consumer lending, and SBA lending, which are grouped together for purposes of discussion as other consumer banking and legacy consumer mortgages. The Corporate segment refers to the businesses and portfolios that they no longer consider strategic. These portfolios include equipment financing, secured lending and leasing and advisory services to small and middle-market businesses. The company was founded by Henry Ittelson in 1908 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Park Sterling Corp. operates as a bank holding company for Park Sterling Bank. Through the Park Sterling Bank, it offers financial and banking solutions to individuals and companies. Its products include personal, business and non-profit checking accounts, interest on lawyers trust accounts individual retirement accounts, business and personal money market accounts, time deposits, overdraft protection, safe deposit boxes, and online and mobile banking. It also provides lending services such as real estate, construction, residential mortgage, home equity and consumer loans, as well as long-term residential mortgages; wealth management which covers investment management, personal trust services, and investment brokerage services; cash management, and others. The company was founded on October 6, 2010 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

The Risk Management Association was founded in 1990 and promotes an enterprise approach to risk management, with a focus on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. The non-profit company is based in Philadelphia, PA and has subsidiaries in the United States. RMA has 1,700 institutional members, including banks of all sizes and nonbank financial institutions, represented by 18,500 individuals located throughout the country and the Pacific. The company offers the largest offering of risk-focused resources for the financial services industry and maintains a strong community of risk professionals through events and courses that advance the understanding of risk management in financial services.

Park Sterling Bank provides banking services. It also provides banking products, including personal and business checking accounts, individual retirement accounts, business and personal money market accounts, certificates of deposit, overdraft protection, safe deposit boxes and online banking. The company’s lending activities include short to medium-term commercial, real estate, residential mortgage and home equity and personal loans. Park Sterling Bank was founded on September 8, 2006 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

ABN AMRO Bank NV, established in 1824, is an international bank based in Amsterdam ABN AMRO Bank NV, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABN AMRO Holding NV (XA: AABA; NYSE: ABN). The firm's investment banking business unit provides commercial clients in local markets as well as multinational corporations and financial institutions with advisory, financing and operational services. They have global expertise in the international capital markets and eco-markets, as well as for transaction banking, asset management and private equity.