[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 150 (Friday, August 3, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 46437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18932]


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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.
    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, 2012.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Washington First Bankshares, Inc., Reston, Virginia, to merge 
with Alliance Bankshares, Inc., Chantilly, Virginia, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Alliance Bank Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. C-B-G, Inc., West Liberty, Iowa, to acquire up to 50.01 percent 
of Washington Bancorp, Washington, Iowa, and thereby increase its 
indirect interest in Washington Bancorp's subsidiary, Federation Bank, 
Washington, Iowa.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Equity Bancshares, Inc., Wichita, Kansas, to acquire, through 
its subsidiary EBI Acquisition IV, Inc., Wichita, Kansas, 100 percent 
of the voting shares of First Community Bancshares, Inc., Overland 
Park, Kansas, parent of First Community Bank, Lee's Summit, Missouri. 
Immediately thereafter, EBI Acquisition IV, Inc., Wichita, Kansas, will 
merge into First Community Bancshares, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas.
    2. Main Banc, Inc., to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Bank 1st Financial Corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire Bank 
1st, all of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 30, 2012.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2012-18932 Filed 8-2-12; 8:45 am]
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