[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58853-58854]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-20421]


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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 November 13, 2007.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. First Interstate BancSystem, Inc., Billings, Montana; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of First Western Bank, Wall, South 
Dakota, and The First Western Bank of Sturgis, Sturgis, South Dakota.
    2. Ramsey Financial Corporation and Affiliates Employee Stock 
Ownership Plan; to become a bank holding company by acquring additional 
voting shares, for a total of at least 50.7 percent, of the voting 
shares of Ramsey Financial Corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire 
voting shares of Ramsey National Bank and Trust Company of Devils Lake, 
all of Devils Lake, North Dakota.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. The Jarrel Morris Jones Family, LLC, to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 35.4 percent of the voting shares of Triad 
Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Triad 
Bank, National Association, all of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
    2. Lone Star State Bancshares, Inc., Lubbock, Texas; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100

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percent of the voting shares of Lone Star State Bank of West Texas, 
Lubbock, Texas, a de novo bank.
    3. A.N.B. Holding Company, Ltd., and The ANB Corporation, both of 
Terrell, Texas, to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of DNB 
Bancshares, Inc., Dallas, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire voting 
shares of DNB Delaware Financial Corporation, Dover, Delaware, and 
Dallas National Bank, Dallas, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 12, 
2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E7-20421 Filed 10-16-07; 8:45 am]
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