[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 11108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04272]


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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 March 24, 2014.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Yvonne Sparks, Community 
Development Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. BancorpSouth, Inc., Tupelo, Mississippi; to merge with Ouachita 
Bancshares Corporation and thereby indirectly acquire Ouachita 
Independent Bank, both in Monroe, Louisiana.
    2. Bear State Financial Holdings, LLC, Little Rock, Arkansas and 
First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc., Harrison, Arkansas; to 
become bank holding companies by acquiring 100 percent of the voting 
shares of First National Security Company, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Heritage Bank, N.A., Jonesboro, Arkansas, 
and First National Bank, Hot Springs, Arkansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 24, 
2014.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2014-04272 Filed 2-26-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P