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# Actions under delegated authority

## Actions taken during the week ending March 3, 2012

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Bank Branches, DomesticKansas City          Country Club Bank, Kansas City, Missouri -- to establish a branch at One Ward Parkway, Kansas City, and to increase its investment in bank premises.            -Approved, February 29, 2012            Secretary          The Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois -- to establish a branch at 911 South Telegraph Road, Lake Forest.            -Approved, February 29, 2012            Dallas          PlainsCapital Bank, Dallas, Texas -- to establish a branch at 6100 Colleyville Boulevard, Suite 170, Colleyville.            -Withdrawn, February 27, 2012            Bank Holding CompaniesNew York          Arrow Financial Corporation, Glens Falls, New York -- to engage de novo in community welfare activities through Green Mountain Housing Equity Fund V, L.P., Burlington, Vermont.            -Approved, March 1, 2012            Minneapolis          MinnDak Bancshares, Inc., Park Rapids, Minnesota -- to become a bank holding company and to acquire Kent Bancshares, Inc., Kent, and thereby indirectly acquire Kent State Bank.            -Approved, February 28, 2012            Kansas City          New West Banks of Colorado, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan Trust, Greeley, Colorado -- to become a bank holding company and to acquire shares of New West Banks of Colorado, Inc., Greeley, and New West Bank.            -Approved, February 27, 2012            Secretary          Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc., Olney, Maryland, and Sandy Spring Bank -- for Sandy Spring Bancorp to acquire CommerceFirst Bancorp, Inc., Annapolis, and for Sandy Spring Bank, Olney, to merge with CommerceFirst Bank, Annapolis, and thereby establish branches at the site of CommerceFirst Bank's current branches.            -Approved, February 29, 2012            Minneapolis          State Bankshares, Inc., Fargo, North Dakota -- to acquire First Hawley Bancshares, Inc., Hawley, Minnesota, and thereby indirectly acquire First National Bank.            -Approved, February 28, 2012            Bank MergersChicago          The Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Galesburg, Illinois -- to purchase certain assets and assume certain liabilities of two Galesburg branches of Associated Bank, N.A., Green Bay, Wisconsin, and thereby establish a branch at 1865 Henderson Street, Galesburg, Illinois.            -Approved, February 27, 2012            Change in Bank ControlKansas City          Shattuck Bancshares, Inc., Shattuck, Oklahoma -- change in bank control of Shattuck and its subsidiary bank, The Shattuck National Bank, Shattuck.            -Permitted, March 2, 2012            Extensions of TimeAtlanta          Commerce Union Bancshares, Inc., Springfield, Tennessee -- extension to June 7, 2012, to become a bank holding company and to acquire Commerce Union Bank, Springfield.            -Granted, February 29, 2012            Financial Holding Companies Minneapolis          Ameriprise Financial, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota -- election to be treated as a financial holding company.            -Effective, February 27, 2012            Chicago          Modern Woodmen of America, Rock Island, Illinois -- election to be treated as a financial holding company.            -Effective, February 28, 2012            MembershipSt. Louis          Arkansas County Bank, De Witt, Arkansas -- to become a member of the Federal Reserve System.            -Approved, March 1, 2012            Regulations and PoliciesSecretary          Regulation YY (Enhanced Prudential Standards and Early Remediation Requirements for Covered Companies) -- extension of the comment period to April 30, 2012, on the proposed rule to implement the enhanced prudential standards and early remediation requirements in the Dodd-Frank Act.            -Approved, March 2, 2012            Savings and Loan Holding CompaniesPhiladelphia          Beneficial Savings Bank, MHC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- to acquire SE Financial Corp., Philadelphia.            -Approved, February 27, 2012            Philadelphia          Northeast Community Bancorp, MHC, White Plains, New York -- to establish, through Northeast Community Bank, an operating subsidiary, Northeast Insurance Agency, LLC, White Plains.            -Approved, February 28, 2012            
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