[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 14445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06033]


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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 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 15, 2016.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (William Spaniel, Senior 
Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-
1521. Comments can also be sent electronically to 
[email protected]:
    1. FSB Community Bancshares, MHC, and FSB Community Bancshares, 
both in Fairport, New York; to convert to stock form and form a de novo 
bank holding company, FSB Bancorp, Inc., Fairport, New York, in 
connection with the acquisition of 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Fairport Savings Bank, Fairport, New York.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Nadine Wallman, Vice 
President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566. Comments 
can also be sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Huntington Bancshares, Inc., Columbus, Ohio; to acquire 
FirstMerit Corporation, Akron, Ohio, and thereby indirectly acquire 
FirstMerit Bank, NA, Akron, Ohio. Huntingtown West Subsidiary 
Corporation, a de novo subsidiary of Huntington, will merge with 
FirstMerit, which will then merge into Huntington.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Stockgrowers State Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Ashland, 
Kansas; to acquire at least an additional 3 percent, for a total of 38 
percent of the voting shares of Stockgrowers State Bank, Ashland, 
Kansas, and Peoples Bank, Coldwater, Kansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 14, 
2016.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-06033 Filed 3-16-16; 8:45 am]
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