[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 18, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 58807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23677]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank 
HoldingCompanies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board 
forapproval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 
U.S.C. 1841et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 225), and 
allother applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding 
companyand/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or 
the powerto vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of 
the banks andnonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, 
including thecompanies 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 Web site at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applicationsmust be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Boardof Governors not later than October 11, 2002.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (PhillipJackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois60690-1414:
    1. Fidelity Company,Dyersville, Iowa; to acquire 100percent of the 
voting shares of Worthington Bancorporation, Worthington,Iowa, and 
thereby indirectly acquire State Bank, Worthington, Iowa.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 
12,2002.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 02-23677 Filed 9-17-02; 8:45 am]
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