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Actions under delegated authority

Actions taken during the week ending August 17, 2013


Bank Branches, Domestic

Kansas City
ANB Bank, Denver, Colorado -- to establish a mobile branch to operate in and around Johnson County, Kansas.
-Approved, August 16, 2013

Kansas City
CoBiz Bank, Denver, Colorado -- to establish a branch at 1099 18th Street, Denver.
-Approved, August 13, 2013

Chicago
G.W. Jones Exchange Bank, Marcellus, Michigan -- to establish a branch at 332 North Main Street, Watervliet.
-Approved, August 12, 2013

Chicago
Libertyville Bank & Trust Company, Libertyville, Illinois -- to establish a branch at 169 North Lake Street, Mundelein.
-Withdrawn, August 15, 2013

Bank Holding Companies

Dallas
Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., Athens, Texas -- to become a bank holding company by acquiring First State Bank, Athens; and for the Jane Austin Chapman Limited Partnership, L.P., Frankston, and JSA Family Limited Partnership, Jacksonville, to acquire shares of Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., Athens.
-Approved, August 13, 2013

Kansas City
B.O.E. Bancshares, Inc., Lawton, Oklahoma -- to acquire, through its subsidiary, B.O.E. Chickasha Corp., Lawton, Chickasha Bancshares, Inc., Chickasha, and Chickasha Bank & Trust Company.
-Approved, August 15, 2013

Kansas City
BancFirst Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- request to bid to acquire shares of preferred stock of Spirit Bankcorp, Inc., Bristow, at an auction sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
-Approved, August 15, 2013

Minneapolis
Dacotah Banks, Inc., Aberdeen, South Dakota -- to merge with Donnelly Bancshares, Inc., Morris, Minnesota, and thereby acquire United Farmers and Merchants State Bank; and for Dacotah Bank, Aberdeen, to merge with United Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Morris, and thereby establish branches in Morris and Chokio.
-Approved, August 14, 2013

St. Louis
The McGehee Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan, McGehee, Arkansas -- to acquire additional shares of Southeast Financial Bankstock Corp., McGehee, and thereby increase its indirect control of McGehee Bank.
-Approved, August 16, 2013

Philadelphia
Prudential Mutual Holding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Prudential Bancorp, Inc. -- to merge with and into Prudential Bancorp, Inc. (a new bank holding company), Philadelphia; and for the new Prudential to acquire Prudential Saving Bank, in connection with the reorganization of Prudential Mutual Holding Company from mutual to stock form.
-Approved, August 13, 2013

St. Louis
Renasant Corporation, Tupelo, Mississippi -- to merge with First M & F Corporation, Kosciusko, and thereby acquire Merchants & Farmers Bank.
-Approved, August 14, 2013

Atlanta
Savannah River Financial Corporation, Augusta, Georgia -- commitment relief request.
-Granted, August 15, 2013

St. Louis
Sigma Holdings, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas -- to become a bank holding company by acquiring The Bank of Rison, Rison.
-Approved, August 12, 2013

St. Louis
Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc., Poplar Bluff, Missouri -- waiver of application to acquire Ozarks Legacy Community Financial, Inc., Thayer, in connection with the merger of their respective subsidiary banks, Southern Bank, Poplar Bluff, and Bank of Thayer, Thayer.
-Granted, August 15, 2013

Chicago
Town Center Bancorp, Inc., New Lenox, Illinois -- to become a bank holding company by acquiring control of Town Center Bank, Frankfort.
-Withdrawn, August 15, 2013

Bank Mergers

St. Louis
Cross County Bank, Wynne, Arkansas -- to purchase certain assets and assume certain liabilities of the Brinkley branch of Evolve Bank & Trust, West Memphis, and to retain the acquired facility as a branch.
-Approved, August 15, 2013

Banks, State Member

Director, BS&R
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, New York, New York -- to make a public welfare investment.
-Approved, August 16, 2013

Change in Bank Control

Minneapolis
Dubois Bankshares, Inc., Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- to retain control of DuBois Bankshares, and its subsidiary, First State Bank of Sauk Centre, Sauk Centre.
-Permitted, August 15, 2013

Atlanta
Georgia Community Bancorp, Incorporated, Dawson, Georgia -- to retain control of Georgia Community Bancorp and its subsidiary, The Citizens State Bank of Taylor County, Reynolds.
-Withdrawn, August 14, 2013

Chicago
LWCBancorp, Inc., New Lenox, Illinois -- to retain control of LWCBancorp and its subsidiary, LincolnWay Community Bank, New Lenox.
-Permitted, August 16, 2013

Minneapolis
Maple Banc Shares, Inc., Maple Plain, Minnesota -- to retain control of Maple Banc Shares and its subsidiary, Bank of Maple Plain, Maple Plain.
-Permitted, August 15, 2013

Extensions of Time

Secretary
Ameris Bancorp, Moultrie, Georgia -- commenter's request to extend the comment period on the application to merge with The Prosperity Banking Company, St. Augustine, Florida, and thereby acquire Prosperity Bank.
-Denied, August 16, 2013

Secretary
United Bankshares, Inc., Charleston, West Virginia; George Mason Bankshares, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; and United Bank -- commenter's request to extend the comment periods on the applications by United Bankshares and George Mason Bankshares to acquire Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, and by United Bank, Fairfax, to merge with Virginia Commerce Bank, Arlington.
-Denied, August 16, 2013

Savings and Loan Holding Companies

Chicago
AJS Bancorp, MHC, Midlothian, Illinois -- to convert to stock form and to merge with AJS Bancorp, Inc., Midlothian; for AJS Bancorp, Inc. to merge into a new Maryland corporation named AJS Bancorp, Inc.; and for that company to become a savings and loan holding company by acquiring A.J. Smith Federal Savings Bank, Midlothian.
-Approved, August 12, 2013

Boston
SI Financial Group Inc., Willimantic, Connecticut -- waiver of application to acquire Newport Bancorp, Inc., Newport, Rhode Island, in connection with the merger of their respective subsidiaries, Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company, Willimantic, and Newport Federal Savings Bank, Newport.
-Granted, August 16, 2013

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