[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 157 (Monday, August 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50382-50383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18675]


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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

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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 September 9, 2004.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Michael E. Collins, Senior 
Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-
1521:
    1. Sterling Financial Corporation, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; to 
merge with The Pennsylvania State Banking Company, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Pennsylvania State Bank, both in Camp Hill, 
Pennsylvania.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Cindy C. West, Banking 
Supervisor) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania; to merge with Riggs National Corporation, Washington, 
D.C., and thereby indirectly acquire Riggs Bank National Association, 
McLean, Virginia.


    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
    August 10, 2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-18675 Filed 8-13-04; 8:45 am]
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