[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 16 (Monday, January 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3966-3967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01269]


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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

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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 20, 2015.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Chapelle Davis, Assistant Vice 
President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30309:
    1. Business First Bancshares, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana; to 
merge with American Gateway Financial Corporation, Port Allen, 
Louisiana, and thereby indirectly acquire American Gateway Bank, Baton 
Rouge, Louisiana.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Central Bancshares, Inc., Muscatine, Iowa; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Buffalo Prairie State Bank, Buffalo 
Prairie, Illinois, and simultaneously merge Buffalo Prairie State Bank 
with and into Central Bancshares, Inc.'s wholly-owned bank, Central 
State Bank, Muscatine, Iowa.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 21, 
2015.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2015-01269 Filed 1-23-15; 8:45 am]
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