[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 164 (Friday, August 23, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 52531]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20593]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Notice of Proposals To Engage in or To Acquire Companies Engaged 
in Permissible Nonbanking Activities

    The companies listed in this notice have given notice under section 
4 of the Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 1843) (BHC Act) and 
Regulation Y, (12 CFR part 225) to engage de novo, or to acquire or 
control voting securities or assets of a company, including the 
companies listed below, that engages either directly or through a 
subsidiary or other company, in a nonbanking activity that is listed in 
Sec.  225.28 of Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has 
determined by Order to be closely related to banking and permissible 
for bank holding companies. Unless otherwise noted, these activities 
will be conducted throughout the United States.
    Each notice is available for inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 
indicated. The notice also will be available for inspection at the 
offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their 
views in writing on the question whether the proposal complies with the 
standards of section 4 of the BHC Act.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding the applications must be 
received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of 
Governors not later than September 19, 2013.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Western Acquisition Partners LLC, Washington, DC; acquire at 
least 22 percent of the voting shares of Carrollton Bancorp, and 
indirectly acquire voting shares of Bay Bank, FSB, both in Lutherville, 
Maryland, and thereby engage in operating a savings association, 
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(4)(ii).
    In addition, Applicant also has applied to acquire at least 6 
percent of the voting shares of FirstAtlantic Financial Holdings, Inc., 
and indirectly acquire voting shares of FirstAtlantic Bank, both in 
Jacksonville, Florida, and thereby engage in operating a savings 
association, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(4)(ii). Western Acquisition 
Partners LLC, will be relocated and renamed H Bancorp, Columbia, 
Maryland.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Wintrust Financial Corporation, Rosemont, Illinois; to merge 
with Diamond Bancorp, Inc., and indirectly acquire Diamond Bank, FSB, 
both in Schaumburg, Illinois, and thereby engage in operating a savings 
association, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(4)(ii).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 20, 
2013.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2013-20593 Filed 8-22-13; 8:45 am]
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