[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 1346]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-29]


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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 applications 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 1, 2008.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice 
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Black River BancVenture, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee; to acquire 
9.90 percent of the voting shares of Cornerstone Bank, Moorestown, New 
Jersey.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community 
Affairs Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Community First Bancshares, Inc., Harrison, Arkansas; to acquire 
additional voting shares, for a total of not more 24.99 percent of the 
voting shares of White River Bancshares Company, Fayetteville, 
Arkansas, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Signature 
Bank, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. United Citizens 401(K) Savings Plan, Osseo, Wisconsin; to become 
a bank holding company by acquiring up to 56 percent of the voting 
shares of United Bancorporation, and thereby indirectly acquire voting 
shares of United Bank, both of Osseo, Wisconsin; Cambridge State Bank, 
Cambridge, Wisconsin; Lincoln Community Bank, Merrill, Wisconsin; Bank 
of Poynette, Poynette, Wisconsin; Clark County State Bank, Osceola, 
Iowa; Farmers State Bank, Stickney, South Dakota; and Farmers & 
Merchants State Bank, Iroquois, South Dakota.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Commerce Financial Corporation, Corpus Christi, Texas; to become 
a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Security State Bancshares, Inc., and indirectly acquire voting shares 
of Security State Bank, both of Stockdale, Texas. Comments regarding 
this application must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than January 28, 2008.
    E. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Tracy Basinger, Director, 
Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105-1579:
    1. Western Capital Corporation; to become a bank holding company by 
acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Western Capital Bank (in 
organization), both of Boise, Idaho.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 2, 
2008.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E8-29 Filed 1-7-08; 8:45 am]
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