[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48713-48714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20142]


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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 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 will be conducted throughout the United States. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained

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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 September 5, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Betsey Buttrill White, Senior 
Vice President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. M&T Bank Corporation, Buffalo, New York, and Olympia Financial 
Corp., Buffalo, New York; to acquire and thereby merge with Premier 
National Bancorp, Inc., Lagrangeville, New York, and thereby indirectly 
acquire Premier National Bank, Poughkeepsie, New York. In connection 
with the acquisition, M&T Bank Corporation has applied to acquire an 
option to purchase up to 19.9 percent of the voting shares of Premier 
National Bancorp, Inc.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 4, 
2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-20142 Filed 8-8-00; 8:45 am]
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