[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 23921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6181]


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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 Web site at http://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 May 19, 2006.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Anne McEwen, Financial 
Specialist) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. HSBC Holdings plc and HSBC Overseas Holdings (UK) Limited, both 
of London, United Kingdom, and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
HSBC North America Holdings, Inc., HSBC Investments (North America), 
Inc., HSBC North America Inc., all of Wilmington, Delaware, and HSBC 
USA Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, to convert their limited purpose and 
non-depository trust bank subsidiary, HSBC Trust Company (Delaware), 
N.A., Wilmington, Delaware, into a full service bank.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Alpha Bancorp, Inc., and Metropolitan Bank Group, Inc., both of 
Chicago, Illinois; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Community Bank of DuPage, Westmont, Illinois (in organization).
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. First Fidelity Bancorp, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Apex Mortgage Company, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Edmond Bank and Trust, both of Edmond, 
Oklahoma.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 20, 
2006.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6-6181 Filed 4-24-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S