[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 206 (Thursday, October 24, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65354-65355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-27065]


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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

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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 November 18, 2002.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Stephen J. Ong, Vice 
President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. KeyCorp, Cleveland, Ohio, and Buffalo Acquiror Sub, Inc., 
Cleveland, Ohio; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Union 
Bankshares, Ltd., Denver, Colorado, and thereby indirectly acquire 
voting shares of Union Bank & Trust, Denver, Colorado.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Backlund Investment Co., Peoria, Illinois; to merge with Astoria 
Investment Company, Astoria, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire 
Farmers State Bank, Astoria, Astoria, Illinois; Bartonville Investment 
Co., Peoria, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire Bartonville Bank, 
Bartonville, Illinois; Backlund-White, Inc., Peoria, Illinois, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Glasford State Bank, Glasford, Illinois; 
Backlund-Scott Company, Wyoming, Illinois and thereby indirectly 
acquire Wyoming Bank & Trust Company, Wyoming, Illinois.
    2. Backlund Investment Co., Peoria, Illinois; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Dunlap Bank, Dunlap, Illinois.
    3. Backlund Investment Co., Peoria, Illinois; to acquie at least 25 
percent of the voting shares of Hopedale Investment Company, Hopedale, 
Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire Community Bank of Hopedale, 
Hopedale, Illinois.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1.First Banks, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; to acquire 100 percent of 
the voting shares of Bank of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Maria Villanueva, 
Consumer Regulation Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 
94105-1579:
    1. BankWest Nevada Corporation, Las Vegas, Nevada; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Alliance Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, 
Arizona, (in organization).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 18, 
2002.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 02-27065 Filed 10-23-02; 8:45 am]
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