[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 157 (Friday, August 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 43714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21803]


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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 September 8, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. WFC, Inc.; Waukon, Iowa; to acquire 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Iowa State Bank, Oelwein, Iowa (in organization).
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Karen L. Grandstrand, Vice 
President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, P.O. Box 291, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Voyager Financial Services Corporation, Eden, Prairie, 
Minnesota; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of 
the voting shares of Voyager Bank, Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Voyager 
Bank currently operates as the Family Bank, f.s.b.
    In connection with this application, Applicant also has applied to 
acquire Voyager Mortgage Corporation, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and 
thereby engage in brokering mortgage loans for its own account and the 
account of others and activities usual in connection with brokering 
mortgage loans, pursuant to Secs.  225.28(b)(1) and (b)(2) of 
Regulation Y.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 10, 
1998.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-21803 Filed 8-13-98; 8:45 am]
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