[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 251 (Thursday, December 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 72315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34724]


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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 January 28, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. First Business Bancshares, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; to acquire 
50.05 percent of the voting shares of Fox River Valley Bancorp, Inc., 
Appleton, Wisconsin, and thereby indirectly acquire First Business Bank 
of Fox River Valley, Appleton, Wisconsin, a de novo bank.
    2. First DuPage Bancorp, Inc., Westmont, Illinois; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of First 
DuPage Bank, Westmont, Illinois.
    3. Fox River Valley Bancorp, Inc., Appleton, Wisconsin; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares 
First Business Bank of Fox River Valley, Appleton, Wisconsin, a de novo 
bank.
    4. First Merchants Corporation, Muncie, Indiana; to merge with Jay 
Financial Corporation, Portland, Indiana, and thereby indirectly 
acquire First National Bank of Portland, Portland, Indiana.
    5. Standard Bancshares, Inc., Evergreen Park, Illinois; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of Norton Capital Corporation, Morris, 
Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire Exchange Bank, Gardner, 
Illinois.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 28, 
1998.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-34724 Filed 12-30-98; 8:45 am]
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