[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 229 (Friday, November 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70869-70870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-28046]


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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 applications will also be available 
for inspection at the offices of

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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 December 23, 2014.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Nadine Wallman, Vice 
President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
    1. First Southern Bancorp Stanford, Kentucky; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of First United, Inc., Central City, 
Kentucky and thereby indirectly acquire First National Bank of 
Muhlenberg Kentucky, Central City, Kentucky.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Colette A. Fried, Assistant 
Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Chemical Financial Corporation, Midland, Michigan; to merge with 
Monarch Community Bancorp, Inc., Coldwater, Michigan, and thereby 
indirectly acquire control of Monarch Community Bank, Coldwater, 
Michigan.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacquelyn K. Brunmeier, 
Assistant Vice President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. First National Bank in Wadena, Minnesota; Employee Stock 
Ownership Plan and Trust, to acquire 30.95 percent of the voting shares 
of FNB Acquisition Holding Corporation, Wadena, Minnesota and thereby 
indirectly acquire ownership of The First National Bank, in Wadena, 
Minnesota.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 21, 
2014.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2014-28046 Filed 11-26-14; 8:45 am]
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