[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35177-35178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16969]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Notice of Proposals to Engage in Permissible Nonbanking 
Activities or to Acquire Companies that are Engaged in Permissible 
Nonbanking Activities

    The companies listed in this notice have given notice under section 
4 of the Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 1843) (BHC Act) and 
Regulation      Y, (12 CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to acquire 
or control voting securities or assets of a company that engages either 
directly or through a subsidiary or other company, in a nonbanking 
activity that is listed in Sec.  225.28 of Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.28) 
or that the Board has determined by Order to be closely related to 
banking and permissible for bank holding companies. Unless otherwise 
noted, these activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
    Each notice is available for inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 
indicated. The notice also will be available for inspection at the 
offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their 
views in writing on the question whether the proposal complies

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with the standards of section 4 of the BHC Act.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding the applications must be 
received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of 
Governors not later than July 14, 1997.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Betsy Buttrill White, Senior 
Vice President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. Anteilsverwaltung-Zentralsparkasse and Bank of Austria 
Aktiengesellschaft, both of Vienna, Austria; to acquire Creditanstalt-
Bankverein, Vienna, Austria, and thereby indirectly acquire CA Trade 
Finance Services, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut, and thereby engage in 
export trade and lease finance activities, pursuant to Secs.  
225.28(b)(1) and (2) of the Board's Regulation Y; CA Tradeco, Inc., 
Greenwich, Connecticut, and thereby engage in community development 
activities, pursuant to Sec.  225.28(b)(12) of the Board's Regulation 
Y; Creditanstalt-A.W.T. Trade Finance Company, New York, New York, and 
thereby engage in export trade finance activities, pursuant to Secs.  
225.28(b)(1) and (2); Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc., Greenwich, 
Connecticut, and thereby engage in corporate finance and commercial 
lending activities, pursuant to Secs.  225.28(b)(1) and (2) of the 
Board's Regulation Y; Creditanstalt Equipment Leasing, Inc., Greenwich, 
Connecticut; and thereby engage in full payment lease financing, 
pursuant to Sec.  225.28(b)(3) of the Board's Regulation Y; 
Creditanstalt International Advisers, Inc., New York, New York, and 
thereby engage in securities brokerage, private placement and riskless 
principal activities, provides merger-acquisition, corporate finance 
and investment advice and research, pursuant to Secs.  225.28(b)(6) and 
(b)(7) of the Board's Regulation Y; See 76 Fed. Res. Bull. 761 (1990), 
77 Fed. Res. Bull. 183 (1991) and 80 Fed. Res. Bull. 828 (1994); 
Creditanstalt International Asset Management, Inc., New York, New York, 
and thereby engage in providing investment management and economic 
research, pursuant to Sec.  225.28(b)(6) of the Board's Regulation Y; 
and Creditanstalt Municipal Leasing Company, Limited Partnership, 
Greenwich, Connecticut, and thereby engage in full payout municipal 
leasing, pursuant to Sec.  225.28(b)(3) of the Board's Regulation Y.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Middleburg Bancorp, Inc., Middleburg, Kentucky; to acquire 
Lincoln Federal Savings Bank, Liberty, Kentucky, and thereby engage in 
the operation of a federal savings bank, pursuant to Sec.  225.28(b)(4) 
of the Board's Regulation Y. Comments on this notice must be received 
by July 24, 1997.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 24, 1997.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 97-16969 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]
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