[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 243 (Monday, December 20, 2010)] [Notices] [Pages 79376-79377] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2010-31851] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 application 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. 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 14, 2011. 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., Raleigh, North Carolina; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Community Bank of Rowan, Salisbury, North Carolina. B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001: 1. Commerce Bank and Trust Holding Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Topeka, Kansas; to acquire an additional 3.78 percent, for up to 35.8 percent of the voting shares of Commerce Bank and Trust Holding Company, and thereby indirectly acquire additional voting shares of CoreFirst Bank & Trust, both in Topeka, Kansas. [[Page 79377]] Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 15, 2010. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 2010-31851 Filed 12-17-10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210-01-P