[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 68496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24852]


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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, 2022.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Ivan J. Hurwitz, Head of Bank 
Applications) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001. 
Comments can also be sent electronically to 
[email protected]:
    1. Provident Financial Services, Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey; to 
acquire Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., Oak Ridge, New Jersey, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Lakeland Bank, New Foundland, New Jersey.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. FSB Financial Services, Inc., Waterloo, Iowa; to acquire Scenic 
Community Bancshares Corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire Iowa 
Falls State Bank, both of Iowa Falls, Iowa.
    2. Scenic Community Bancshares Corporation, Iowa Falls, Iowa; to 
become a bank holding company by acquiring Iowa Falls State Bank, Iowa 
Falls, Iowa.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2022-24852 Filed 11-14-22; 8:45 am]
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