[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 21 (Thursday, February 1, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4709-4710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1636]


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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

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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 February 26, 2007.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Richard Walker, Community 
Affairs Officer) P.O. Box 55882, Boston, Massachusetts 02106-2204:
    1. Assabet Valley Bancorp, Hudson, Massachusetts; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares, and thereby merge with Westborough 
Bancorp, MHC, Westborough Financial Services, Inc. and the Westborough 
Bank, all in Westborough, Massachusetts.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 29, 
2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E7-1636 Filed 1-31-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S