[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 205 (Monday, October 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57457-57458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27725]


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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

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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 November 18, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. JD Financial Group, Inc., Evanston, Illinois; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Pan 
American Bank, Chicago, Illinois. Comment regarding this application 
must be received not later than November 5, 1999.
    2. Merchants Merger Corp., New Berlin, Wisconsin; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Pyramid Bancorp. Inc., Grafton, Wisconsin, and thereby indirectly 
acquire Grafton State Bank, Grafton, Wisconsin.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (JoAnne F. Lewellen, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, P.O. Box 291, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291:
    1. Truman Bancshares, Inc., Truman, Minnesota, and its wholly owned 
subsidiary, Martin County Fidelity Bancshares Company, Fairmont, 
Minnesota; to acquire 87.65 percent of the voting shares of Martin 
County National Bank, Fairmont, Minnesota. Martin Couty Fidelity 
Bancshares Company has also applied to become a bank holding company.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 19, 
1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-27725 Filed 10-22-99; 8:45 am]
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