Somerset Valley Bank

Based in Greenville, South Carolina, The South Financial Group, Inc. (TSFG) is a super-community financial services company operating one bank subsidiary, Carolina First Bank, which conducts banking operations as Carolina First Bank in North and South Carolina and Mercantile Bank in Florida. TSFG is the largest commercial bank based in South Carolina at year-end 2006. The TSFG franchise had approximately $14 billion in assets, 171 banking offices, 179 ATMs and 2,467 employees as of July 1, 2007.