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Special Alert

December 4, 1995


 

TO: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 
SUBJECT: Entities That May Be Conducting Banking Operations 
In The United States Without Authorization 

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has advised that the following entities may be conducting a banking business in the United States illegally or without authorization. Any proposed transactions involving any of the listed entities should be viewed with extreme caution. 

Austria Merchant 
Bank (Melchizedek) 
315 Ecorse Road, #200 
Ypsilanti, MI 
 		First Bancorp Trust 
P. O. Box 7174 
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 
Business Bank International 
Huntingdon Beach, CA 
 		Old Dominion Guaranty 
and Trust, Ltd. 
17100 Gillette Avenue 
Irvine, CA 

Please forward any information concerning these entities to the FDIC's Special Activities Section, 550 17th Street, N. W., Room F-612, Washington, D. C. 20429. 

 Nicholas J. Ketcha Jr. 
 
 Acting Director 

Distribution: FDIC-Supervised Banks (Commercial and Savings) 

Last Updated 07/16/1999 communications@fdic.gov 
FIL-81-95

Last Updated: December 4, 1995