[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69369-69370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26327]


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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

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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 application also will 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). Unless otherwise noted, 
nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than December 23, 2004.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Community First Bancshares, Inc., Harrison, Arkansas; to acquire 
20 percent of the voting shares of White River Bancshares Company, 
Fayetteville, Arkansas (in organization), and thereby indirectly 
acquire voting shares of Signature Bank of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 
Arkansas (formerly First Bank of South Arkansas, Camden, Arkansas).
    2. Home Bancshares, Inc., Conway, Arkansas; to acquire 20 percent 
of the voting shares of White River Bancshares Company, Fayetteville, 
Arkansas (in organization), and thereby indirectly acquire voting 
shares of Signature Bank of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas (formerly 
First Bank of South Arkansas, Camden, Arkansas).
    3. White River Bancshares Company, Fayetteville, Arkansas; to 
become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Signature Bank of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas (formerly 
First Bank of South Arkansas, Camden, Arkansas).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 23, 
2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-26327 Filed 11-26-04; 8:45 am]
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