[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4047-4048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-01623]


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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

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Governors not later than February 23, 2018.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528. 
Comments can also be sent electronically to 
[email protected].
    1. H Bancorp, LLC, Irvine, California; to acquire 7.5 percent of 
the voting shares of Old Line Bancshares, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Old Line Bank, Bowie, Maryland.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. First Mid-Illinois Bancshares, Inc., Mattoon, Illinois; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of First BancTrust 
Corporation, Champaign, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire First 
Bank & Trust IL, Paris, Illinois.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (David L. Hubbard, Senior 
Manager) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034. Comments can 
also be sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Saber Investments, Inc., Irvington, Kentucky; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring voting shares of Bancorp of Lexington, 
Inc., Lexington, Kentucky and thereby indirectly acquire Bank of 
Lexington, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.
    2. First Breckinridge Bancshares, Inc. Irvington, Kentucky; to 
acquire through its subsidiary, Saber Investment Inc., 81 percent of 
the voting shares of Bancorp of Lexington, Inc, Lexington, Kentucky and 
thereby indirectly acquire Bank of Lexington, Inc., Lexington, 
Kentucky.
    3. Meade Bancorp, Inc. Brandenburg, Kentucky; to acquire through 
its subsidiary, Saber Investment Inc., 19 percent of the voting shares 
of Bancorp of Lexington, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Bank of Lexington, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Equity Bancshares, Inc., Wichita, Kansas; to acquire, through 
its subsidiary, Oz Merger Sub, Inc., Topeka, Kansas, 100 percent of the 
voting shares of Kansas Bank Corporation, and thereby acquire First 
National Bank of Liberal, both of Liberal, Kansas.
    2. Equity Bancshares, Inc., Wichita, Kansas; to acquire, through 
its subsidiary, Abe Merger Sub, Inc., Jefferson City, Missouri, 100 
percent of the voting shares of Adams Dairy Bancshares, Inc., and 
thereby acquire Adams Dairy Bank, both of Blue Springs, Missouri.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 24, 
2018.
Ann E. Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2018-01623 Filed 1-26-18; 8:45 am]
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