[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 15302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06398]


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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 April 15, 2016.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Boscobel Bancorp, Inc., Boscobel, Wisconsin; to merge with Rural 
Bancshares of Wisconsin, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire 
Livingston State Bank, both in Livingston, Wisconsin.
    2. Minier Financial, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan with 401(k) 
Provisions, Minier, Illinois; to acquire additional voting shares, for 
a total of 51 percent of voting shares of Minier Financial, Inc., and 
thereby indirectly acquire additional voting shares of First Farmers 
State Bank, both in Minier, Illinois.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacquelyn K. Brunmeier, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Ameri Financial Group, Inc., Stillwater, Minnesota; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Eagle Valley Bank, National Association, Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Gerald C. Tsai, Director, 
Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105-1579:
    1. BBCN Bancorp, Inc., Los Angeles, California; to merge with 
Wilshire Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire Wilshire Bank, 
both in Los Angeles, California.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 17, 
2016.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-06398 Filed 3-21-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 6210-01-P