[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 141 (Friday, July 24, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36711-36712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-17686]


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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

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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 August 20, 2009.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc., Chapel Hill, North 
Carolina; to become a bank holding company by acquiring up to 62 
percent of the voting securities of VantageSouth Bank, Burlington, 
North Carolina.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E. Ann Worthy, Vice President) 
2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Community Trust Financial Corporation, Ruston, Louisiana; to 
merge with First Louisiana Bancshares, Inc., and indirectly acquire 
First Louisiana Bank, both of Shreveport, Louisiana.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 21, 2009.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E9-17686 Filed 7-23-09; 8:45 am]
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