[Federal Register: July 28, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 144)]
[Notices]
[Page 45058-45059]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 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 (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 http://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 August 23, 2004.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Sue Costello, Vice President)
1000
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Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303:
1. Vision Bancshares, Inc., Gulf Shores, Alabama; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of BankTrust of Florida, Wewahitchka,
Florida.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick Wilder, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Wintrust Financial Corporation, Lake Forest, Illinois; to merge
with Town Bankshares, Ltd., Delafield, Wisconsin, and thereby
indirectly acquire voting shares of Town Bank, Delafield, Wisconsin.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. Citizens Bancshares Co., Chillicothe, Missouri to acquire up to
12 percent of the voting shares of First Community Bancshares, Inc.,
Overland Park, Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire First Community
Bank, Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 22, 2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-17122 Filed 7-27-04; 8:45 am]
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