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Board Actions | Actions under delegated authority
Applications and reports received:
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Actions under delegated authority

Actions taken during the week ending September 24, 2011


Bank Branches, Domestic

San Francisco
East West Bank, Pasadena, California -- to establish a branch at 3969 Spring Mountain, Las Vegas, Nevada.
-Approved, September 22, 2011

Cleveland
Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio -- to establish a branch at 6651 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, Florida.
-Approved, September 23, 2011

Minneapolis
Merchants State Bank, Freeman, South Dakota -- to establish a branch at 209 West Main Street, Irene.
-Approved, September 22, 2011

Bank Holding Companies

Kansas City
American State Bancshares, Inc., Great Bend, Kansas -- to acquire Rose Hill Bancorp, Inc., Rose Hill, and Rose Hill Bank.
-Approved, September 23, 2011

Atlanta
Blue Ridge Holdings, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia -- to acquire SAGE Southeastern Securities, Inc., Atlanta, and thereby engage in investment advisory activities.
-Approved, September 23, 2011

Chicago
C-B-G, Inc., West Liberty, Iowa -- to acquire shares of Washington Bancorp, Washington, and thereby increase its indirect interest in Washington's subsidiary bank, Federation Bank.
-Approved, September 21, 2011

Bank Mergers

San Francisco
Bay Commercial Bank, Walnut Creek, California -- to merge with Global Trust Bank, Mountain View.
-Approved, September 23, 2011

St. Louis
Community First Bank of the Heartland, Mt. Vernon, Illinois -- to merge with First State Bank of Dix, Dix, and to retain the acquired facilities as branches.
-Approved, September 21, 2011

Change in Bank Control

Atlanta
Hometown Community Bancshares, Inc., Braselton, Georgia -- change in bank control of Hometown and its subsidiary bank, Hometown Community Bank, Braselton.
-Permitted, September 19, 2011

Kansas City
RCB Holding Company, Inc., Claremore, Oklahoma -- to retain control of RCB and its subsidiary bank, RCB Bank, Claremore.
-Permitted, September 23, 2011

Extensions of Time

Director, BS&R
Morgan Stanley, New York, New York -- one-year extension of time to divest or conform certain impermissible nonbanking activities and investments.
-Granted, September 21, 2011

Dallas
Woodforest Financial Group Employee Stock Ownership Plan (with 401(k)Provisions), The Woodlands, Texas, and Woodforest Financial Group Employee Stock Ownership Trust -- extension to December 16, 2011, to become a bank holding company and to acquire shares of Woodforest Financial Group, Inc., The Woodlands, and indirectly acquire Woodforest National Bank, Houston; and to acquire a savings association through Woodforest Financial Group, Inc., and indirectly Woodforest Bank, FSB, Refugio.
-Granted, September 22, 2011

Release dates | Full version (300 KB PDF)
Board Actions | Actions under delegated authority
Applications and reports received:
Boston | New York | Philadelphia | Cleveland | Richmond | Atlanta
Chicago | St. Louis | Minneapolis | Kansas City | Dallas | San Francisco