 EASTON, Md., Sept. 27, 2021 PRNewswire -- Shore Bancshares, Inc. the Company or Shore NASDAQ:SHBI, the holding company of Shore United Bank, announced today that it has received regulatory approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to convert Shore United Bank to a national bank and, for Severn Savings Bank, FSB to be merged with and into Shore United Bank, National Association on the terms and subject to the conditions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 3, 2021, by and between the Company and Severn Bancorp, Inc. Severn. 