[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 34 (Monday, February 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 8573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4212]


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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 March 18, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. Bloomfield Hills Bancorp, Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of The Bank of Rochester, 
Rochester, Michigan, a de novo bank.
    2. Goodenow Bancorporation, Okoboji, Iowa; to acquire 100 percent 
of the voting shares of Southwest State Bank, Windom, Minnesota.
    3. Midwest Bancorporation, Inc., Okoboji, Iowa; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Southwest State Bank, Windom, Minnesota.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Farm and Home Insurance Agency, Inc., Lyons, Nebraska; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Oakland Financial, Inc., 
Oakland, Nebraska, and thereby indirectly acquire Farmers and Merchants 
National Bank of Oakland, Oakland, Nebraska.
    In connection with this application, Applicant has also applied to 
acquire Tri-County Insurance, Inc., Oakland, Nebraska, and thereby 
engage in insurance agency activities in a place of less than 5,000, 
pursuant to Sec.  225.28(b)(11)(iii)(A) of Regulation Y.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 16, 
1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-4212 Filed 2-19-99; 8:45 am]
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