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MFG: Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial services in Japan and internationally. The company offers retail banking services, including housing and personal loans, credit cards, deposits, investment products, and consulting services; and corporate banking services comprising loans, syndicated loan arrangements, structured finance, advisory services, other banking services, and capital markets financing services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), middle-market corporations, local governmental entities, and other public sector entities. It also provides derivatives and other risk hedging products; and securities services to individuals and corporate customers, as well as involves in proprietary trading, such as foreign exchange and bond trading, and asset and liability management. In addition, the company offers wholesale securities services; and trust and asset management services, as well as engages in the investment banking services comprising advisory services for financial and capital strategies, bond underwriting and structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, and financial advisory services. Further, it provides wealth management services; products and services related to trust, real estate, securitization and structured finance, pension and asset management, and stock transfers; advisory services to financial institutions; and information technology services, including system integration and outsourcing services, as well as consulting services related to environmental issues. The company serves large corporations, financial institutions, public sector entities, foreign corporations, foreign governmental entities, individuals, SMEs, middle-market corporations, local governmental entities, and other public sector entities. As of March 31, 2011, the company had 434 branches in Japan. Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

CM: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce provides various financial products, services, and advice to individual, small business, commercial, corporate, and institutional clients in Canada and internationally. The company offers retail markets services comprising personal banking, business banking, and wealth management services, as well as investment management services to retail and institutional clients. It also provides wholesale banking services, including credit, capital markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and research products and services to government, institutional, corporate, and retail clients. The company provides its services through its branch network, automated bank machines, mobile banking, and online banking site. As of June 3, 2011, it operated approximately 1,100 branches and 4,000 automated bank machines in Canada. The company was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

BMO: Bank of Montreal, together with its subsidiaries, provides various retail banking, wealth management, and investment banking products and services in North America and internationally. It offers personal banking products and services, including deposit and investment services, mortgages, consumer credit, business lending, credit cards, and other banking services to individuals, and small and mid-sized businesses; and commercial banking products and services comprising lending, deposits, treasury management, and risk management services to small business, medium-sized enterprise, and mid-market banking clients. The company also provides investment and wealth advisory services; self-directed investing services; private banking services to high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients; investment fund solutions to institutional, retail, and high net worth investors; record-keeping and administrative services to pension plan sponsors; and creditor insurance, life insurance, and annuity products and services. In addition, it offers investment and corporate banking services, which include advice and execution on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and recapitalizations, valuation and fairness opinions, debt and equity underwriting, loan and debt products, balance sheet management solutions, treasury management services, trade finance, and risk mitigation services to corporate, institutional and government clients. Further, the company provides trading products, such as debt, foreign exchange, interest rate, credit, equity, securitization, commodities solutions, debt and equity research, and institutional sales to institutional, commercial, and retail clients; and new product development, proprietary trading, and origination services, as well as funding and liquidity management services. As of October 31, 2011, it maintained approximately 1,600 bank branches in Canada and the United States. The company was founded in 1817 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.