[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 12009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-5463]


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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. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    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 31, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Lois Berthaume, Vice President) 
104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713:
    1. First Sterling Banks, Inc., Kennesaw, Georgia; to merge with 
Main Street Banks, Incorporated, Covington, Georgia, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Main Street Bank, Covington, Georgia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Home Bancshares, Inc., Conway, Arkansas, and its subsidiary, 
North Little Rock Bancshares, Inc., Conway, Arkansas; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of First Western Bank and Trust Company, 
Rogers, Arkansas. North Little Rock Bancshares, Inc., also has applied 
to become a bank holding company.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Oswego Community Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Oswego, 
Illinois; to become a bank holding company by retaining shares and 
acquiring up to 30 percent of the voting shares of Oswego Bancshares, 
Inc., Oswego, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire additional 
voting shares of Oswego Community Bank, Oswego, Illinois.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 1, 2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-5463 Filed 3-6-00; 8:45 am]
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