[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 111 (Tuesday, June 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34608-34609]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14537]


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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 Web site at http://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 July 3, 2003.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Betsy Buttrill White, Senior 
Vice President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. SAS rue la Boetie, Paris, France; to become a bank holding 
company by indirectly retaining, through its 70 percent owned bank 
subsidiary, Credit Agricole, S.A., Paris, France, control of Espirito 
Santo Bank, Miami, Florida.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Stephen J. Ong, Vice 
President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. NHB Financial, Inc., Newell, West Virginia; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Northern Hancock Bank and Trust Company, Newell, West Virginia.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Independence Bancorp, New Albany, Indiana. and Harrodsburg First 
Financial Bancorp, Inc., Harrodsburg, Kentucky; to acquire 100 percent 
of the voting shares of I-Bank, Louisville, Kentucky (in organization).

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    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (James Hunter, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Bank Vest, Inc., Denver, Colorado; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 76.5 percent of the voting shares BW Holdings, 
Inc., Castle Rock, Colorado, and thereby indirectly acquire voting 
shares of Bankwest, Castle Rock, Colorado.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 4, 2003.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 03-14537 Filed 6-9-03; 8:45 am]
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