[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 165 (Thursday, August 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51618-51619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-21591]


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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 September 18, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc., Calabasas. California, and 
its subsidiaries, Countrywide Financial Holding Company, Inc., 
Calabasas, California, and Effinity Financial Corporation, Alexandria, 
Virginia; to become bank holding companies by acquiring 100 percent of 
the voting shares of Treasury Bank, Ltd., Washington, D.C.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice 
President) 104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713:
    1. RCK, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of CenterBank of 
Jacksonville, N.A. (in organization), Jacksonville, Florida.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Mercantile Bancorp, Inc., Quincy, Illinois; to acquire 20 
percent of the voting shares of New Frontier Bancshares, Inc., St. 
Charles, Missouri,

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and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of New Frontier Bank (a de 
novo bank), St. Charles, Missouri.
    2. New Frontier Bancshares, Inc., St. Charles, Missouri; to become 
a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
New Frontier Bank (a de novo bank), St. Charles, Missouri.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (JoAnne F. Lewellen, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. CommunityOne Bancshares, Inc., Plymouth, Minnesota; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Community Bank of Plymouth (a de novo bank), Plymouth, Minnesota.
    E. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Maria Villanueva, 
Consumer Regulation Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 
94105-1579:
    1. BOU Bancorp, Inc., Ogden, Utah; to become a bank holding company 
by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Bank of Utah, Ogden, 
Utah.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 18, 
2000.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-21591 Filed 8-23-00; 8:45 am]
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