[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 55 (Monday, March 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13297-13298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6270]


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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

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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 15, 2004.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Michael E. Collins, Senior 
Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-
1521:
    1. National Penn Bancshares, Inc., Boyertown, Pennsylvania; to 
merge with Peoples First, Inc., Oxford, Pennsylvania, and thereby 
indirectly acquire The Peoples Bank of Oxford, Oxford, Pennsylvania.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Nadine W. Wallman, Assistant 
Vice President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. Fifth Third Financial Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Fifth 
Third Bancorp, Cincinatti, Ohio; to acquire 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Franklin Financial Corporation, Franklin, Tennessee, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Franklin National Bank, Franklin, Tennessee.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 16, 
2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-6270 Filed 3-19-04; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S