[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 148 (Thursday, August 2, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42411-42412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-14979]


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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

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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 August 27, 2007.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Anne MacEwen, Bank 
Applications Officer) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. Allied Irish Banks, plc, Dublin, Ireland; to acquire additional 
shares of M&T Bank Corporation, Buffalo, New York, for a total of 29 
percent, and thereby indirectly control M&T Bank, National Association, 
Oakfield, New York, and M&T Trust Company, Buffalo, New York.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Blue Ridge Financial Corporation; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Blue Ridge 
Bank of Walhalla, both of Walhalla, South Carolina.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (David Tatum, Vice President) 
1000 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
    1. FBC Bancorp, Inc., Orlando, Florida; to acquire 100 percent of 
the voting shares of Prime Bank, Melbourne, Florida.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice 
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Sidney Bancorp.; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 
100 percent of the voting shares of Sidney State Bank, both of Sidney, 
Michigan.
    E. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Mineola Community Mutual Holding Company, and Mineola Community 
Financial Group, Inc., to become bank holding companies by acquiring 
100 percent of the voting shares of Mineola Community Bank, S.S.B., all 
of Mineola, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 30, 2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E7-14979 Filed 8-1-07; 8:45 am]
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