Board Actions

Actions taken during the week ending October 22, 2011

Bank Holding Companies

Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia -- to engage in certain nonbanking activities in the United States through the acquisition of JOHCM (USA) General Partner Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, and its foreign parent company, J O Hambro Capital Management Limited, London, England.
-Approved, October 18, 2011

Change in Bank Control

First Region Bancshares, Inc., Richlands, Virginia -- to retain control of First Region and its subsidiary bank, First Sentinel Bank, Richlands.
-Permitted, October 14, 2011
(A/C)

Enforcement

Community Banks of Colorado, Greenwood Village, Colorado -- appointment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for the bank.
-Announced, October 21, 2011

Porter Bancorp, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky -- written agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
-Announced, October 18, 2011