[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 213 (Thursday, November 4, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67969-67970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-27867]


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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.
    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 November 29, 2010.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, 
Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Bigfork Bancshares, Inc., Bigfork, Minnesota; to merge with 
Kelliher Bancshares Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire Citizens State 
Bank of Kelliher, both of Kelliher, Minnesota.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E. Ann Worthy, Vice President) 
2200

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North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Veritex Holdings, Inc., Dallas, Texas; to acquire 100 percent of 
the voting shares of Fidelity Resources Company, and thereby indirectly 
acquire voting shares of Fidelity Bank, Plano, Texas.
    2. WCM Holdings, Inc., and WCM-Parkway, Ltd., both of Dallas, 
Texas; to acquire at least 5 percent of the voting shares of Veritex 
Holdings, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of 
Professional Bank, NA, both of Dallas, Texas.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 
President, Applications and Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. SKBHC Holdings, LLC, and SKBHC Hawks Nest Acquisition Corp., 
both of Corona del Mar, California; to acquire 100 percent of the 
voting shares of AmericanWest Bank, Spokane, Washington.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 1, 
2010.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2010-27867 Filed 11-3-10; 8:45 am]
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