[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55251-55252]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23523]


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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.)

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(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 October 10, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Betsy Buttrill White, Senior 
Vice President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. Bank of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 91.38 percent of the voting shares of Interbank of 
New York, New York, New York.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice 
President) 104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713:
    1. PCB Bancorp, Inc., Largo, Florida; to acquire 100 percent of the 
voting shares of Premier Community Bank of Southwest Florida (in 
organization), Lehigh Acres, Florida.
    2. Whitney Holding Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana; to merge 
with First Ascension Bancorp, Inc., Gonzales, Louisiana, and thereby 
indirectly acquire First National Bank of Gonzales, Gonzales, 
Louisiana.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 8, 
2000.
 Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-23523 Filed 9-12-00; 8:45 am]
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