[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 54 (Friday, March 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13673-13674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7245]


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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. 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 April 13, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Paul Kaboth, Banking 
Supervisor) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. Community Trust Bancorp, Inc., Pikeville, Kentucky; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of Community Trust Bank of West 
Virginia, Williamson, West Virginia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. Northern Trust Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of TrustBank Financial Corporation, 
Denver, Colorado, and thereby indirectly acquire Trust Bank of 
Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
    C. 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; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of CBT Corporation, Paducah, Kentucky, 
and thereby indirectly acquire Citizens Bank & Trust Company of 
Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky; Bank of Marshall County, Benton, Kentucky; 
Graves County Bank, Inc., Mayfield, Kentucky; Pennyrile Citizens Bank 
and Trust Company, Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
    In connection with this application, Applicant also has applied to 
acquire United Commonwealth Bank, FSB, Murray, Kentucky, and thereby 
engage in operating a savings association pursuant to Sec.  
228.28(b)(4) of the Board's Regulation Y. Comments regarding this

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notice should be received not later than April 3, 1998.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. South Tulsa Financial Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Bank South, N.A., Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 16, 
1998.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-7245 Filed 3-19-98; 8:45 am]
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