Wells Fargo & Company, through its subsidiaries, provides retail, commercial, and corporate banking services principally in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Community Banking; Wholesale Banking; and Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement. The Community Banking segment offers deposit products, including checking accounts, savings deposits, market rate accounts, individual retirement accounts, time deposits, and debit cards. Its loan products include lines of credit, equity lines and loans, equipment and transportation loans, education loans, residential mortgage loans, and credit cards. This segment also provides receivables and inventory financing, equipment leases, real estate financing, small business administration financing, venture capital financing, cash management, payroll services, retirement plans, and merchant payment processing services; consumer and real estate loans to individuals; and loans secured by autos, as well as purchases sales finance contracts from retail merchants. The Wholesale Banking segment provides commercial and corporate banking products and services, including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, equipment leasing, mezzanine financing, high-yield debt, foreign exchange services, treasury management, investment management, institutional fixed-income sales, commodity and equity risk management, insurance, corporate trust fiduciary and agency services, and investment banking services. This segment also provides banking products for commercial real estate market, and mortgage brokerage services. The Wealth, Brokerage, and Retirement segment offers financial advisory, lending, fiduciary, and investment management services. As of December 31, 2009, Wells Fargo & Company provided its services through approximately 10,000 banking stores located in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., a financial holding company, provides various financial services worldwide. The company?s Investment Bank segment provides investment banking products and services, including advising on corporate strategy and structure, capital raising in equity and debt markets, risk management, market-making in cash securities and derivative instruments, and prime brokerage and research. This segment serves corporations, financial institutions, governments, and institutional investors. Its Commercial Banking segment provides lending, treasury services, investment banking, and asset management services to corporations, municipalities, financial institutions, and not-for-profit entities. The company?s Treasury and Securities Services segment offers transaction, investment, and information services. It also offers cash management, trade, wholesale card, and liquidity products and services to small and mid-sized companies, multinational corporations, financial institutions, and government entities. Its Asset Management segment provides investment and wealth management services to institutions, retail investors, and high-net-worth individuals. It also offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity, and liquidity products, including money market instruments and bank deposits; and trust and estate, banking, and brokerage services, as well as retirement services. The company?s Retail Financial Services segment offers retail banking and consumer lending services that include checking and savings accounts, mortgages, home equity and business loans, and investments through ATMs, online banking, and telephone banking, as well as auto dealerships and school financial-aid offices. Its Card Services segment issues credit cards and processes various credit card payments. JPMorgan Chase & Co. was founded in 1823 and is headquartered in New York, New York.