[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 11017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5249]
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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 April 2, 2004.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Richard Walker, Community
Affairs Officer) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02106-2204:
1. Seacoast Financial Services Corporation, New Bedford,
Massachusetts; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of, and
thereby merge with Abington Bancorp, Inc., Weymouth, Massachusetts, and
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Abington Savings Bank,
Abington, Massachusetts.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
1. Capital One Financial Corporation, McLean, Virginia; to become a
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of
Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virginia.
In connection with this application, Applicant also has applied to
acquire Capital One, F.S.B., McLean, Virginia, and thereby engage in
operating a federal savings association, pursuant to section
225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation Y; and thereby indirectly acquire
Capital One Auto Finance, Inc., Plano, Texas, and thereby engage in
automobile financing, including direct loans and sales finance
contracts, and in servicing of those loans, pursuant to section
225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; North Hill Advisors, Inc., Boston,
Massachusetts, and thereby engage in providing investment management
and advisory services, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(6)(i) of
Regulation Y; New Moon, LLC, Plano, Texas, and thereby engage in
facilitating sales of motor vehicle receivables to third parties,
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; The Westmoreland
Agency, Inc., Boise, Idaho, and thereby engage in debt collection,
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(2)(iv) of Regulation Y; AmeriFee LLC,
Southboro, Massachusetts, and thereby engage in consumer finance
activities, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; COSI
Receivables Management, Inc., McLean, Virginia, and thereby engage in
holding liquidating balances of consumer installment loan receivables,
pursuant to section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y; and Community
Historic Credit Fund V Limited Partnership, Raleigh, North Carolina,
and thereby engage in making investments in entities that own or lease
properties eligible to claim federal historic tax credits, pursuant to
section 225.28(b)(12)(i) of Regulation Y.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 3, 2004.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 04-5249 Filed 3-8-04; 8:45 am]
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