Corporate Applications:
May 2001
Vol. 14, No. 5
IN THIS ISSUE:
PLEASE NOTE: Interpretive Letters and No-Objection Letters reflect the views of the
Comptroller's legal staff. Corporate Decisions, CRA Decisions and Conditional Approvals
are from the office of Bank Organization and Structure. The list of CRA Ratings is
from the Communications Division. For copies of the CRA evaluations, you may either
contact the bank directly, or you may write to the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC) in any of three ways: by mail to the OCC, Attn: Public Information
Room, Mail Stop 1-5, Washington, D.C. 20219; by fax to (202) 874-4448; or by
e-mail to FOIA-PA@occ.treas.gov. You may also write to
the OCC for copies of enforcement actions and charters with standard conditions.
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Interpretive Letters
Letter No. | Topic |
907 |
Letter concludes that Housing Mortgage Finance Program Bonds issued by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority would qualify as Type I securities and therefore would be subject to a 20 percent risk-weight. WORD 02/01/2001 |
908 |
Letter confirms that trust preferred securities issued by the holding company for a bankers bank may be purchased and held as loans by national banks, subject to the lending limits of 12 U.S.C. 84 and the requirements of Banking Circular 181 (REV). WORD 04/23/2001 |
909 |
Letter concerns a non-controlling equity interest held by a national bank in a corporation that plans to provide employee benefit services and payroll services to small community banks and their small business customers. WORD 05/02/2001 |
Corporate Decisions
Letter No. | Topic |
2001-07 |
Applications by Exchange National Bank, Moore, Oklahoma, to establish a branch at 517 North Telephone Road, Moore, Oklahoma, and two operating subsidiaries to be named ENB Real Estate Company and ENB Finance Company. (Control Numbers 2000 SW 05 0163 & 2000 SW 08 0029), WORD 04/02/2001 |
2001-08 |
Application to purchase the assets and assume the liabilities of the Fredonia branch of Commercial Federal Bank, FSB, Omaha, Nebraska, by Community National Bank, Chanute, Kansas. (Control Number 2001 MW 02 012),
WORD 04/10/2001 |
2001-09 |
Application to charter a national bank with the title of "Security National Bank," Spartanburg, South Carolina. (Control Number 2000 SE 01 012), WORD 04/18/2001 |
2001-10 |
Application by Bank One, N.A., Columbus, Ohio, to expand the activities of its operating subsidiary, Congress Life Insurance Company, to include reinsuring credit life and credit-related health and disability insurance in connection with loans to customers made by the bank and affiliated and unaffiliated lenders. (Control Number 2001 ML 08 0005),
WORD 04/23/2001 |
Approvals with conditions enforceable under 12 U.S.C. 1818
Letter No. | Topic |
459 |
Application to charter World's Foremost Bank, National Association, Sidney, Nebraska. (Control Number 2000 MW 01 12),
WORD 03/23/2001 |
460 |
Significant change in the operating plan for California First National Bank, Santa Ana, California (formerly known as Hutton National Bank). (Control Number 1999 WE 01 0006),
WORD 04/03/2001 |
461 |
Application to establish a new national bank with the title of "BNC National Bank of Arizona," Tempe, Arizona. (Control Number 2001 MW 01 003),
WORD 04/04/2001 |
462 |
Applications to convert Treasury Bank, Ltd., Washington, DC, into a national banking association, to merge an interim national bank, Treasury Bank Interim, National Association, Washington, DC, with and into Treasury Bank Ltd., to relocate Treasury Bank Ltd. to Alexandria, Virginia and to change its name to "Effinity Bank, National Association." (Control Numbers 2000 NE 01 0026 , 2000 NE 02 0025 & 2000 NE 07 0037),
WORD 04/04/2001 |
463 |
Proposal to merge Peoples and Union Bank, Lewisburg, Tennessee, into First Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Columbia, Columbia, Tennessee. (Control Number 2000 SW 02 0043),
WORD 04/06/2001 |
464 |
Application by CNB National Bank, Lake City, Florida, to purchase two branches of Republic Bank, St. Petersburg, Florida. (Control Number 2001 SE 02 0003),
WORD 04/24/2001 |
465 |
Application to establish a full service national bank with the title of "American Home Bank, National Association," Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Control Numbers 2001 NE 01 001 & 2001 NE 08 004),
WORD 04/26/2001 |
466 |
Application to establish Boone National Bank, Burlington, Kentucky. (Control Number 2000 CE 01 011),
WORD 04/27/2001 |
Charters with standard conditions
Each of the following charter application(s) were approved with a standard
condition enforceable under 12 U.S.C. 1818 that requires the bank, during
the first three years of its operation, to provide notice to the OCC in
advance of any significant deviations or changes from its proposed
operating plan.
Letter No. | Topic |
467 |
First National Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, Oklahoma, (Control Number 2000 SW 01 0022),
WORD 04/10/2001 |
468 |
CommerceWest Bank, N.A., Newport Beach, California, (Control Number 2000 WE 01 026),
WORD 04/27/2001 |
Final Enforcement Actions
Enclosed is a copy of the OCC's news release number
2001-47, announcing the availability of
enforcement actions. Copies of the final actions are available by writing to the OCC, Public
Reference Room, Mailstop 1-5, Washington, D.C. 20219. When ordering, specify the
appropriate enforcement action number.
COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT (CRA) Performance Evaluations
Enclosed is a list of CRA performance evaluations that became public during the period of
April 15 through May 14.
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