[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 16 (Friday, January 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 3531]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1574]


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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 February 18, 2003.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Stephen J. Ong, Vice 
President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. McCreary National Bancorp, Inc., Corbin, Kentucky; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
McCreary National Bank, Whitley City, Kentucky.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Forest Merger Corporation and FBR TRS Holdings, Inc., both in 
Arlington, Virginia; to become bank holding companies by merging with 
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc., and FBR Asset Investment 
Corporation, both in Arlington, Virginia, and thereby indirectly 
acquiring FBR Bancorp, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, and FBR National Bank 
and Trust, Bethesda, Maryland. After the merger, Applicants would be 
renamed Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc.
    Applicants also have applied to acquire indirectly more than 5 
percent of the voting shares of Bancorp Rhode Island, Inc., Providence, 
Rhode Island, and thereby indirectly acquire Bank Rhode Island, East 
Providence, Rhode Island; The Banc Corporation, Birmingham, Alabama, 
The Bank, Warrior, Alabama; and Pacific Union Bank, Los Angeles, 
California.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 17, 
2003.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 03-1574 Filed 1-23-03; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S