[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7341-7342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02780]


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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

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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 7, 2016.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Ivan Hurwitz, Vice President) 
33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001. Comments can also be 
sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Tokyo, Japan (``MHFG''), and 
Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (``MHBK''), seeks approval to form 
Mizuho Americas LLC (``MHA''), as a bank holding company that will be a 
wholly-owned subsidiary of MHBK, and to transfer the ownership 
interests of MHFG's banking subsidiaries, Mizuho Bank (USA), New York, 
New York, and Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. (USA), New York, New York, to 
MHA.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. First Wyoming BanCorporation, Laramie, Wyoming; to merge with 
First Express of Nebraska, Inc., Gering, Nebraska, and thereby 
indirectly acquire voting shares of Valley Bank and Trust Co., 
Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 8, 
2016.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-02780 Filed 2-10-16; 8:45 am]
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