[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57432-57433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28450]


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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. Once the application has been accepted 
for processing, it will also 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, including whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company can 
``reasonably be expected to produce benefits to the public, such as 
greater convenience, increased competition, or gains in efficiency, 
that outweigh possible adverse effects, such as undue concentration of 
resources, decreased or unfair competition, conflicts of interests, or 
unsound banking practices'' (12 U.S.C.      1843). Any request for a 
hearing must be accompanied by a statement of the reasons a written 
presentation would not suffice in lieu of a hearing, identifying 
specifically any questions of fact that are in dispute, summarizing the 
evidence that would be presented at a hearing, and indicating how the 
party commenting would be aggrieved by approval of the proposal. 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 November 29, 1996.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (James A. Bluemle, Vice 
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690:
    1. New Asia Bancorp, Chicago, Illinois; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of NAB Bank, 
Chicago, Illinois.
    2. Wintrust Financial Corporation, Lake Forest, Illinois (formerly 
known as North Shore Community Bancorp, Inc., Wilmette, Illinois); to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Barrington Bank & Trust 
Company, N.A., Barrington, Illinois.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166:
    1. First Commercial Corporation, Little Rock, Arkansas; to merge 
with W.B.T. Holding Company, Memphis,

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Tennessee, and thereby indirectly acquire United American Bank, 
Memphis, Tennessee.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Karen L. Grandstrand, Vice 
President) 250 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480:
    1. Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis Minnesota; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Central Bancorporation, Inc., Fort 
Worth, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire Central Bank and Trust 
Company, Fort Worth Texas.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth R. Binning, 
Director, Bank Holding Company) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105:
    1. City National Corporation, Beverly Hills, California; to merge 
with Ventura County National Bancorp, Oxnard, California, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Ventura County National Bank, Oxnard, California, 
and Frontier Bank, N.A., La Palma, California.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 31, 
1996.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 96-28450 Filed 11-5-96; 8:45 am]
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