[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 217 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63029-63030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-24875]


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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 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 the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)).
    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 15, 2021.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Ivan Hurwitz, Senior Vice 
President) 33

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Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001. Comments can also be 
sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Valley National Bancorp, New York, New York; to acquire Bank 
Leumi Le-Israel Corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire Bank Leumi 
USA, both of New York, New York.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Erien O. Terry, Assistant Vice 
President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Comments 
can also be sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Business First Bancshares, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana; to 
merge with Texas Citizens Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire 
Texas Citizens Bank, N.A., both of Pasadena, Texas.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Chris P. Wangen, Assistant 
Vice President), 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291. 
Comments can also be sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. First Interstate BancSystem, Inc., Billings, Montana; to merge 
with Great Western Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire Great 
Western Bank, both of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 9, 
2021.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2021-24875 Filed 11-12-21; 8:45 am]
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