[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 38 (Monday, February 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 9823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-2713]


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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 March 24, 2006.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community 
Affairs Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. First M&F Corporation, Kosciusko, Mississippi; to merge with 
Crockett County Bancshares, Inc., Bells, Tennessee, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Bells Banking Company, Bells, Tennessee.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Sundance State Bank Profit Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership 
Plan and Trust, Sundance, Wyoming; to acquire an additional .67 
percent, for a total of 26.73 percent, of the voting shares of Sundance 
Bankshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire additional voting 
shares of Sundance State Bank, all located in Sundance, Wyoming.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 22, 2006.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-2713 Filed 2-24-06; 8:45 am]
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