[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 11017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5249]


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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 April 2, 2004.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Richard Walker, Community 
Affairs Officer) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02106-2204:
    1. Seacoast Financial Services Corporation, New Bedford, 
Massachusetts; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of, and 
thereby merge with Abington Bancorp, Inc., Weymouth, Massachusetts, and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Abington Savings Bank, 
Abington, Massachusetts.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Capital One Financial Corporation, McLean, Virginia; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virginia.
    In connection with this application, Applicant also has applied to 
acquire Capital One, F.S.B., McLean, Virginia, and thereby engage in 
operating a federal savings association, pursuant to section 
225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation Y; and thereby indirectly acquire 
Capital One Auto Finance, Inc., Plano, Texas, and thereby engage in 
automobile financing, including direct loans and sales finance 
contracts, and in servicing of those loans, pursuant to section 
225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; North Hill Advisors, Inc., Boston, 
Massachusetts, and thereby engage in providing investment management 
and advisory services, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(6)(i) of 
Regulation Y; New Moon, LLC, Plano, Texas, and thereby engage in 
facilitating sales of motor vehicle receivables to third parties, 
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; The Westmoreland 
Agency, Inc., Boise, Idaho, and thereby engage in debt collection, 
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(2)(iv) of Regulation Y; AmeriFee LLC, 
Southboro, Massachusetts, and thereby engage in consumer finance 
activities, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; COSI 
Receivables Management, Inc., McLean, Virginia, and thereby engage in 
holding liquidating balances of consumer installment loan receivables, 
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; and Community 
Historic Credit Fund V Limited Partnership, Raleigh, North Carolina, 
and thereby engage in making investments in entities that own or lease 
properties eligible to claim federal historic tax credits, pursuant to 
section 225.28(b)(12)(i) of Regulation Y.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 3, 2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-5249 Filed 3-8-04; 8:45 am]
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