Company Participation Agreement Treasury CPP
 CPP Covered Period
 (1)
    
    No Golden Parachute Payments. The Company is prohibiting any Golden Parachute Payment
to you during any CPP Covered Period. To the extent any event occurs during the CPP
Covered Period that would otherwise trigger a Golden Parachute Payment, you will be
entitled to the lesser of (i) your rights under the Benefit Plans (as defined below) and
(ii) the maximum amount allowed under Section 111(b)(2)(C) of EESA.(2)
    
    Recovery of Bonus and Incentive Compensation.Any bonus and incentive compensation
paid to you during a CPP Covered Period is subject to recovery or clawback by the
Company if the payments were based on materially inaccurate financial statements or any
other materially inaccurate performance metric criteria.(3)
    
    Compensation Program Amendments.Each of the Companys compensation, bonus, incentive
and other benefit plans, arrangements and agreements (including golden parachute,
severance and employment agreements; collectively, Benefit Plans) with respect to you is
hereby amended to the extent necessary to give effect to provisions (1) and (2).In addition, the Company is required to review its Benefit Plans to ensure that they do
not encourage senior executive officers to take unnecessary and excessive risks that
threaten the value of the Company. To the extent any such review requires revisions to
any Benefit Plan with respect to you, you and the Company agree to negotiate and effect
such changes promptly and in good faith.(4)
    
    Definitions and Interpretation. This letter shall be interpreted as follows:
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    Senior Executive Officer is used with same meaning as in subsection 111(b)(3) of
EESA.
    
    Golden Parachute Payment is used with same meaning as in Section 111(b)(2)(C) of
EESA.
    
    EESA means the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as implemented by
guidance or regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury and as published in
the Federal Register on October 20, 2008, as in effect on the date hereof.




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    The term Company includes any entities treated as a single employer with the Company
under 31 C.F.R. § 30.1(b) (as in effect on the effective date of the Participation
Agreement). If you are also delivering a waiver pursuant to the Participation
Agreement, and, as between the Company and you, the term employer in that waiver
will be deemed to mean the Company as used in this letter.
    
    The term CPP Covered Period shall be limited by, and interpreted in a manner
consistent with, 31 C.F.R. § 30.11 (as in effect on the effective date of the
Participation Agreement).
    
    Provisions (1) and (2) of this letter are intended to, and will be interpreted,
administered and construed to, comply with Section 111 of EESA (and, to the maximum
extent consistent with the preceding, to permit operation of the Benefit Plans in
accordance with their terms before giving effect to this letter).
 (5)
    
    Miscellaneous. To the extent not subject to federal law, this letter will be governed
by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana without regard to
the provisions thereof that would apply the law of any other State. This letter may be
executed in two or more counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original. A
signature transmitted by facsimile shall be deemed an original signature.
  Very truly yours,WHITNEY HOLDING CORPORATIONBy: 
Name:
    
    /s/ John C. Hope, III

John C. Hope, IIITitle:
    
    Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
 
 /s/ R. King Milling

R. King Milling