[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 127 (Wednesday, July 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39563-39564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16652]


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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

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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 July 28, 2003.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Alpha Financial Group, Inc., Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 
Toluca, Illinois; to acquire an additional 6.7 percent, for a total of 
39.38 percent, of the voting shares of Alpha Financial Group, Inc., and 
thereby indirectly acquire Alpha Community Bank, both of Toluca, 
Illinois.
    2. Heartland Financial USA, Inc., Dubuque, Iowa; to acquire 80 
percent of Arizona Bank & Trust (in organization), Mesa, Arizona.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 
Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105-1579:
    1. Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California; to acquire 100 
percent of Pacific Northwest Bancorp, Seattle, Washington, and thereby 
indirectly acquire its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pacific Northwest Bank, 
Seattle, Washington.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 26, 2003.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 03-16652 Filed 7-1-03; 8:45 am]
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