[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4022-4023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01529]


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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 February 25, 2022.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (William Spaniel, Senior 
Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-
1521. Comments can also be sent electronically to 
[email protected]:
    1. OceanFirst Financial Corp., Toms River, New Jersey; to acquire 
Partners Bancorp (``Bancorp''), Salisbury, Maryland, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Bancorp's subsidiary banks, Bank of Delmarva, 
Seaford, Delaware, and Virginia Partner Bank,

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Fredericksburg, Virginia, through their merger with and into OceanFirst 
Bank, Toms River, New Jersey, a wholly owned subsidiary of OceanFirst 
Financial Corp.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Bank of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and BMO Financial 
Corp., Wilmington, Delaware; to acquire BancWest Holding Inc., and 
thereby indirectly acquire Bank of the West, both of San Francisco, 
California. Following the share acquisition, BMO Financial Corp. will 
merge with BancWest Holding Inc. with BMO Financial Corp. as the 
surviving entity.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 21, 
2022.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2022-01529 Filed 1-25-22; 8:45 am]
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