[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 17 (Friday, January 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5442-5443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-01542]


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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 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 February 21, 2013.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90

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Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291:
    1. State Bankshares, Inc., Fargo, North Dakota; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Business Bancorporation, Inc., and 
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of The Business Bank, both in 
Minnetonka, Minnesota.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 
President, Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. Columbia Banking System, Inc., Tacoma, Washington; to merge with 
West Coast Bancorp, and thereby indirectly acquire West Coast Bank, 
both in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
    In connection with this application, Applicant also has applied to 
acquire West Coast Trust Company, Portland, Oregon, and thereby engage 
in trust company activities, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(5).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 22, 
2013.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2013-01542 Filed 1-24-13; 8:45 am]
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