[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 233 (Thursday, December 3, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78130-78131]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26622]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank 
or Bank Holding Company

    The notificants listed below have applied under the Change in Bank 
Control Act (Act) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and Sec.  225.41 of the Board's 
Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank or bank 
holding company. The factors that are considered in acting on the 
applications are set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 U.S.C. 
1817(j)(7)).
    The public portions of the applications listed below, as well as 
other related filings required by the Board, if any, are available for 
immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and 
at the offices of the Board of Governors. This information may also be 
obtained on an expedited basis, upon request, by contacting the 
appropriate Federal Reserve Bank and from the Board's Freedom of 
Information Office at https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/request.htm. 
Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards 
enumerated in paragraph 7 of the Act.
    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 Street and Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20551-0001, not later than December 18, 2020.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Ivan Hurwitz, Senior Vice 
President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001. Comments 
can also be sent

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electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Basswood Capital Management, LLC, on behalf of itself, as 
investment manager to the following funds: Basswood Opportunity 
Partners, LP, Basswood Financial Fund, LP, Basswood Financial Long Only 
Fund, LP, Basswood Opportunity Fund, Inc. and Basswood Financial Fund, 
Inc., and as investment adviser to certain managed accounts; Basswood 
Partners LLC, as general partner for certain funds; Matthew Lindenbaum 
and Bennett Lindenbaum, all of New York, New York; to acquire voting 
shares of Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc., and thereby indirectly 
acquire voting shares of Esquire Bank NA, both of Jericho, New York.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 30, 
2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2020-26622 Filed 12-2-20; 8:45 am]
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