[Federal Register: July 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 128)]
[Notices]
[Page 38930-38931]
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 July 30, 2005.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant
Vice
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President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Associated Banc-Corp, Green Bay, Wisconsin; to merge with State
Financial Services Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and thereby
indirectly acquire State Financial Bank, National Association, Hales
Corners, Wisconsin.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
1. First Centralia Bancshares, Inc., Centralia, Kansas; to acquire
voting shares of Century Capital Financial, Inc., Kilgore, Texas, and
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Century Capital Financial-
Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, and City National Bank, Kilgore,
Texas.
2. Morrill Bancshares, Inc., Merriam, Kansas; to acquire directly
and indirectly a majority of the voting shares of Century Capital
Financial, Inc., Kilgore, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire voting
shares of Century Capital Financial-Delaware, Inc., Wilmington,
Delaware, and City National Bank, Kilgore, Texas.
3. Davis Bancorporation, Inc., Davis, Oklahoma; to acquire voting
shares of Century Capital Financial, Inc., Kilgore, Texas, and thereby
indirectly acquire voting shares of Century Capital Financial-Delaware,
Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, and City National Bank, Kilgore, Texas.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community
Affairs Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
1. First Banks, Inc., Hazelwood, Missouri; and its subsidiary bank
holding company, The San Francisco Company, San Francisco, California;
to acquire 100 percent of International Bank of California, Los
Angeles, California.
D. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director,
Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco,
California 94105-1579:
1. Beverly Hills Bancorp, Inc., WFC Inc., and Wilshire Acquisitions
Corporation, all of Calabasas, California; to become bank holding
companies by acquiring 100 percent of First Bank of Beverly Hills,
Calabasas, California.
In connection with this application, Beverly Hills Bancorp, Inc.,
and WFC, Inc., have also applied to acquire Wilshire Acquisitions Trust
1, and thereby indirectly acquire WCICC, Inc., WFICC, Inc., Wilshire
Mortgage Funding IV, Wilshire Mortgage Funding V, and Wilshire Mortgage
Funding VI, all of Calabasas, California, and thereby engage in
extending credit and servicing loans, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1)
of Regulation Y.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 29, 2005.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05-13210 Filed 7-5-05; 8:45 am]
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