[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 172 (Friday, September 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 53063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21171]


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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 October 2, 2014.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Yvonne Sparks, Community 
Development Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Hartland Financial, Inc., Hartford, Kentucky; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of Citizens Bank, Hartford, 
Kentucky.
    2. Home BancShares, Inc., Conway, Arkansas; to acquire, through 
merger, Broward Financial Holdings, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Broward Bank of Commerce, Fort Lauderdale, 
Florida.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline K. Brunmeier, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Mackinac Financial Corporation, Manistique, Michigan; to 
acquire, through a merger with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of 
Mackinac, PFC Acquisition, LLC, Manistique, Michigan, (``Mackinac'') 
100 percent of Peninsula Financial Corporation, Ishpeming, Michigan and 
thereby indirectly acquire Peninsula Bank, Ishpeming, Michigan. In 
connection with this application, Mackinac has applied to become a bank 
holding company.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 2, 
2014.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2014-21171 Filed 9-4-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P