Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 44 / Friday, March 6, 2015 / Notices 12175 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Shawn Woodhead Werth, 

Secretary and Clerk of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05441 Filed 3–4–15; 04:15 pm] 

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Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of 

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than March 

23, 2015. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of 

Minneapolis (Jacquelyn K. Brunmeier, 

Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin 

Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 

55480–0291: 

1. Merchants Financial Group, Inc., 

Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 

Winona, Minnesota; to retain voting 

shares of Merchants Financial Group, 

Inc., Winona, Minnesota, and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of 

Merchants Bank, National Association, 

Winona, Minnesota. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice 

President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. Justine Hurry, Glenbrook, Nevada; 

to acquire control of Premier Bank, 

Denver, Colorado. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 2, 2015. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05182 Filed 3–5–15; 8:45 am] 

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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 applications will also 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. 

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 April 2, 2015. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 

(Yvonne Sparks, Community 

Development Officer), P.O. Box 442, St. 

Louis, Missouri 63166–2034: 

1. BancorpSouth, Inc., Tupelo, 

Mississippi; to merge with Central 

Community Corporation, Temple, 

Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire 

First State Bank Central Texas, Austin, 

Texas. 

2. BancorpSouth, Inc., Tupelo, 

Mississippi; to acquire, through merger, 

Ouachita Bancshares Corporation, and 

thereby indirectly acquire Ouachita 

Independent Bank, both in Monroe, 

Louisiana. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice 

President), 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. Ironhorse Financial Group, Inc., 

Muskogee, Oklahoma; to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of Benefit 

Bank, Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 3, 2015. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05220 Filed 3–5–15; 8:45 am] 

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Notice of Proposals To Engage in or 

To Acquire Companies Engaged in 

Permissible Nonbanking Activities 

The companies listed in this notice 

have given notice under section 4 of the 

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12 

CFR part 225) to engage de novo, or to 

acquire or control voting securities or 

assets of a company, including the 

companies listed below, that engages 

either directly or through a subsidiary or 

other company, in a nonbanking activity 

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y 

(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has 

determined by Order to be closely 

related to banking and permissible for 

bank holding companies. Unless 

otherwise noted, these activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Each notice is available for inspection 

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. 

The notice also will be available for 

inspection at the offices of the Board of 

Governors. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

question whether the proposal complies 

with the standards of section 4 of the 

BHC Act. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding the applications must be 

received at the Reserve Bank indicated 

or the offices of the Board of Governors 

not later than March 23, 2015. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice 

President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: 

1. NebraskaLand Financial Services, 

Inc., North Platte, Nebraska; to acquire 

100 percent of the voting shares of NFS 

Holdings LLC, North Platte, Nebraska, 

and to continue to engage in lending 

and servicing of loans, pursuant to 

section 225.28(b)(1). 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 2, 2015. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05183 Filed 3–5–15; 8:45 am] 

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