[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 43 (Friday, March 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10663-10664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5422]


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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

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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 29, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Ameriwest Corporation, Omaha, Nebraska; to acquire 32 percent of 
the voting shares of Otoe County Bancorporation, Inc., Nebraska City, 
Nebraska, and thereby indirectly acquire Otoe County Bank & Trust 
Company, Nebraska City, Nebraska.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Reliance Bancshares, Inc., Des Peres, Missouri; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Reliance Bank, Des Peres, Missouri (in organization).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 1, 1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-5422 Filed 3-4-99; 8:45 am]
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