[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 191 (Monday, October 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 53680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25725]


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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 (12 U.S.C. 1843). 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 October 29, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Betsy Buttrill White, Senior 
Vice President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole, Paris, France; to become, 
through its investment in Bespar-Sociedade Gestora de Participacoes 
Sociais, S.A., Lisbon, Portugal, and Banco Espirito Santo e Commercial 
de Lisboa, S.A. (``BESCL''), both of Lisbon, Portugal, a bank holding 
company as a result of the acquisition by BESCL of 100 percent of the 
voting shares of Espirito Santo Bank, Miami, Florida.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III, Assistant 
Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. South Branch Valley Bancorp, Inc., Moorefield, West Virginia; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Potomac Valley Bank, 
Petersburg, West Virginia.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 29, 
1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-25725 Filed 10-1-99; 8:45 am]
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