[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 214 (Monday, November 5, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66463-66464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26930]


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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.)

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(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 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 November 30, 2012.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. First State Bancorp of Monticello, Employee Stock Ownership 
Plan, Monticello, Illinois; to acquire additional voting shares, for a 
total of 100 percent of the voting shares of First State Bancorp of 
Monticello, Inc., Monticello, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire 
voting shares of First State Bank, Monticello, Illinois, and First 
State Bank of Bloomington, Bloomington, Illinois.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 
President, Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. Sound Financial Bancorp, Inc., Seattle, Washington; to become a 
bank holding company through the conversion of Sound Community Bank, 
Seattle, Washington, from a federal stock savings bank to a state 
chartered commercial bank.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 31, 
2012.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2012-26930 Filed 11-2-12; 8:45 am]
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