Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

Federal Register: March 12, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 47)

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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 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

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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 April 6, 2009.

1. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice

President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528: 1. Premier Financial Bancorp, Inc., Huntington, West Virginia, to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Abigail Adams National

Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire The Adams National Bank, both of Washington, D.C., and Consolidated Bank and Trust Company,

Richmond, Virginia.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 9, 2009.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

FR Doc. E9-5366 Filed 3-11-09; 8:45 am

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