[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 114 (Monday, June 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32662-32663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15841]
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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 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. 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 July 10, 1998.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III, Assistant
Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
1. First Region Bancshares, Inc., Richlands, Virginia; to become a
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of
First Sentinel Bank, Richlands, Virginia.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
1. Mercantile Bancorporation Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, and its
wholly owned subsidiary, Ameribanc, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; to
acquire and thereby merge with Financial Services Corporation of the
Midwest, Rock Island, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire The Rock
Island Bank, N.A., Bettendorf, Iowa.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies,
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri
64198-0001:
1. Financial Bancshares, Inc., Holton, Kansas; to acquire 18.18
percent of the voting shares of Arizona Bancshares, Inc., Flagstaff,
Arizona, and thereby indirectly acquire First State Bank, Flagstaff,
Arizona, a de novo bank. Comments regarding this application must be
received not later than July 6, 1998.
2. Gold Banc Corporation, Inc., Leawood, Kansas; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of Northwest Bancshares, Inc., Colby,
Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire Peoples State Bank, Colby,
Kansas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 10, 1998.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-15841 Filed 6-12-98; 8:45 am]
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