[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 130 (Thursday, July 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41670-41671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17084]


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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 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 July 31, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Grant County State Bancshares, Inc., Employee Stock Ownership 
Plan, Swayzee, Indiana, to become a bank holding company by acquiring 
28 percent of the outstanding common stock of Grant County State 
Bancshares, Inc., Swayzee, Indiana, and thereby indirectly acquire the 
common stock of Grant County State Bank, Swayzee, Indiana.

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    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. FNB Financial Corporation, Las Vegas, New Mexico; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
First National Bank in Las Vegas, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Maria Villanueva, 
Consumer Regulation Group) 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 
94105-1579:
    1. Eggemeyer Advisory Corp.; WJR Corp.; Castle Creek Capital, LLC; 
Castle Creek Capital Partners Fund I, LP; Castle Creek Capital Partners 
Fund IIa, LP; Castle Creek Capital Partners Fund IIb, LP, all of Rancho 
Santa Fe, California; to acquire more than 5 percent of the voting 
shares of Ruidoso Bank Corporation, Ruidoso, New Mexico, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Ruidoso State Bank, Ruidoso, New Mexico.
    2. State National Bancshares, Inc., Lubbock, Texas; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of Ruidoso Bank Corporation, Ruidoso, New 
Mexico, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Ruidoso State 
Bank, Ruidoso, New Mexico.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 30, 2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-17084 Filed 7-5-00; 8:45 am]
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