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The article reports on the Top 10 Reasons to Choose a Credit Union Over a Bank, a credit union listing established by CO-OP Financial Services Inc., as an aid to consumers for choosing a primary financial institutions (PFI) aside from banks.

The article reports that Tompkins Financial Corp., a financial services company, ranks tenth on the list of top performing banks for 2009 by the American Bankers Association (ABA) in the U.S.

The article reports on the latest rankings of the Tompkins Financial Corp. as provided by three monitoring groups, namely, Sandler O'Neill & Partners, The Staton Institute, and U.S. Banker. For two consecutive years, Sandler O'Neill included Tompkins in its Sm-All Stars list of the top performing publicly-traded small-cap banks and thrifts in the country. Tompkins is recognized by the Staton Institute for holding the third longest consecutive record in legitimate earnings growth.

The article informs that KeyBank has joined DiversityInc magazine's pre-eminent list of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity in 2005, debuting 13th overall and second among financial institutions, based on excellence in diversity advocacy and management; chief executive officer (CEO) commitment; human capital; corporate communications; and supplier diversity. Like Key, many of the listed companies reported high employee retention rates; diversity funding increases, with executive compensation tied to diversity; responsibility for diversity held one direct report to one direct-report-removed from the CEO: and corporate vision statements clearly incorporating diversity' s importance.