[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 7, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5719-5720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1986]


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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

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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 5, 2007.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Andre Anderson, Vice President) 
1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
    1. Encore Bancshares, Inc., Houston, Texas; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of voting shares of Encore 
Bank, Naples, Florida, upon Encore Bank's conversion from a federal 
savings bank to a national bank.
    2. First NBC Bank Holding Company, to become a bank holding company 
by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of First NBC Bank, both 
of New Orleans, Louisiana.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. First Colorado Financial Corp., Paonia, Colorado; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring of 100 percent of the voting shares 
of First National Bank of Paonia, Paonia, Colorado.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 2, 
2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E7-1986 Filed 1-6-07; 8:45 am]
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