[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 134 (Tuesday, July 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 37883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18742]


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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 August 7, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Bodcaw Bancshares, Inc., Stamps, Arkansas; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Bodcaw 
Bank, Stamps, Arkansas.
    2. Arvest Bank Group, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas; to merge with 
Ameribank Corporation, Shawnee, Oklahoma, and thereby indirectly 
acquire United Oklahoma Bankshares, Inc., Del City, Oklahoma; American 
National Bank & Trust Company of Shawnee, Shawnee, Oklahoma; and United 
Bank, Del City, Oklahoma.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, President) 
2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. First National Bank Group, Inc., Edinburg, Texas; to acquire 51 
percent of the voting shares of Nueces National Bank, Corpus Christi, 
Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 9, 1998.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-18742 Filed 7-13-98; 8:45 am]
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