[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 97 (Friday, May 18, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29643-29644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12044]


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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 will also 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

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noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United 
States.
    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 June 14, 2012.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. King Kalispell, LLC, to remain a bank holding company by 
continuing to control King Family GNB, L.P. and King Family VB, L.P. 
and thereby indirectly control Great Northern Bancshares, Inc., and its 
subsidiary, Three Rivers Bank of Montana, and Valley Bancshares, Inc., 
and its subsidiary, Valley Bank of Kalispell, all in Kalispell, 
Montana.
    In connection with this application, King Family GNB, L.P., will 
remain a bank holding company by continuing to control Great Northern 
Bancshares, Inc., both in Kalispell, Montana.
    In addition, King Family VB, L.P., will remain a bank holding 
company by continuing to control Valley Bancshares, Inc., both in 
Kalispell, Montana.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Valliance Financial Corp., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of Valliance Texas Financial Holdings, 
Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Valliance Bank, 
both in McKinney, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 15, 2012.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2012-12044 Filed 5-17-12; 8:45 am]
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