[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 246 (Monday, December 22, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 78359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30244]



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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 
1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and all other 
applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company 
and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the 
power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the 
banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications also will be available 
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested 
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated 
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the 
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether 
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards 
in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, 
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than January 15, 2009.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Southern Bancshares, Inc., Mount Olive, North Carolina, to 
acquire up to 9.9 percent of the voting shares of ECB Bancorp, Inc., 
and thereby indirectly acquire up to 9.9 percent of the voting shares 
of East Carolina Bank, both of Englehard, North Carolina.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Steve Foley, Vice President) 
1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
    1. Raymond James Financial, Inc., to become a bank holding company 
by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Raymond James Bank, 
FSB, both of St. Petersburg, Florida, to be named Raymond James Bank, 
N.A., upon its conversion to a national bank.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 
President, Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. Castle Creek Capital Partners III LP, Castle Creek Capital III 
LLC, Eggemeyer Capital LLC, Ruh Capital LLC, and Legions IV Advisory 
Corp., all of Rancho Santa Fe, California, to acquire up to 19.9 
percent of the voting shares of Guaranty Bancorp, and thereby 
indirectly acquire voting shares of Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, 
both of Denver, Colorado.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 16, 
2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E8-30244 Filed 12-19-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S