Actions under delegated authority

Actions taken during the week ending March 16, 2013

Bank Branches, Domestic

Dallas

Community Trust Bank, Choudrant, Louisiana -- to establish a branch at 384 East Stacy Road, Allen, Texas.
-Approved, March 11, 2013

Dallas

Northstar Bank of Texas, Denton, Texas -- to establish a branch at 2891 Cross Timbers Road, Flower Mound.
-Approved, March 7, 2013
(A/C)

Bank Holding Companies

San Francisco

Columbia Banking System, Inc., Tacoma, Washington -- to merge with West Coast Bancorp, Lake Oswego, Oregon, and thereby acquire West Coast Bank and to acquire Totten, Inc.; WCB Mortgage Company; West Coast Mortgage Co.; and West Coast Trust Company, Inc., Portland.
-Approved, March 15, 2013

Richmond

Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, and Crescent Financial Bancshares, Inc. -- to acquire ECB Bancorp, Inc., Engelhard, and thereby indirectly acquire The East Carolina Bank.
-Approved, March 15, 2013

San Francisco

Western Alliance Bancorporation, Phoenix, Arizona -- to acquire Centennial Bank, Fountain Valley, California, and thereby engage in industrial banking.
-Approved, March 13, 2013

Change in Bank Control

Minneapolis

N.A. Corporation, Roseville, Minnesota -- change in bank control of N.A. Corporation and its subsidiary, North American Banking Company, Roseville.
-Permitted, March 12, 2013

Extensions of Time

General Counsel

Banco Financiero y de Ahorros, S.A., Valencia, Spain -- extension of a temporary exemption to engage in certain nonbanking activities in the United States.
-Granted, March 11, 2013

Savings and Loan Holding Companies

Richmond

Hovde Private Equity Advisors LLC, Washington, D.C.; Financial Services Partners Fund I LLC; and Hovde Acquisition I LLC -- to acquire control of Carrollton Bancorp, Columbia, Maryland, upon Carrollton's conversion to a savings and loan holding company through a merger with Hovde's subsidiary, Jefferson Bancorp, Inc., Washington, D.C.
-Approved, March 14, 2013