[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62246-62247]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-25214]


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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

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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 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than October 30, 2002.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Sue Costello, Vice President) 
1000 Peachtree Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470:
    1. Hazlehurst Investors, Inc., Hazlehurst, Georgia; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Bank of Hazlehurst, Hazlehurst, Georgia.
    2. Synovus Financial Corp., Columbus, Georgia; to merge with United 
Financial Holdings, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire United Bank 
and Trust Company, both of St. Petersburg, Florida, and United Bank of 
the Gulf Coast, Sarasota, Florida.
    B. 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 up to an 
additional 9.14 percent, for a total of 29 percent of New Frontier 
Bancshares, Inc., Saint Charles, Missouri, and thereby indirectly 
acquire New Frontier Bank, Saint Charles Missouri.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 30, 
2002.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 02-25214 Filed 10-3-02; 8:45 am]
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