[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50037-50038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20564]


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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), and interested persons 
may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in 
section 4. Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be 
conducted throughout the United States.
    Comments regarding each of these applications must be received at 
the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors, 
Ann E. Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th and Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20551-0001, not later than October 24, 2019.
    A. 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 the 
outstanding voting shares of Walcott Trust & Savings Bank, Walcott, 
Iowa, pursuant to section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act. In 
connection with this application, Central

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Bancshares, Inc., has applied to acquire Hail, Inc., Walcott, Iowa, and 
thereby engage in the sale of insurance in a town of less than 5,000 in 
population pursuant to section 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act and 12 
CFR 225.28(b)(11)(iii)(A).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 18, 
2019.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2019-20564 Filed 9-23-19; 8:45 am]
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