[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16393-16394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7605]


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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

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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 April 21, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Benchmark Bancorp, Inc., Aurora, Illinois; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Financial Institutions Inc., Port Washington, Wisconsin, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Valley Bank, Verona, Illinois.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (JoAnne F. Lewellen, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Hopkins Financial Corporation, Mitchell, South Dakota; to merge 
with The First Freeman Corporation, Freeman, South Dakota, and thereby 
indirectly acquire The First National Bank of Freeman, Freeman, South 
Dakota.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 23, 
2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-7605 Filed 3-27-00; 8:45 am]
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