[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 224 (Monday, November 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 83243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-27955]


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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 December 13, 2016.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (David L. Hubbard, Senior 
Manager) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034. Comments can 
also be sent electronically to [email protected]:
    1. Central Bank and Central Acquisition Sub, Inc., both in Little 
Rock, Arkansas; to become bank holding companies through the merger of 
Central Acquisition Sub, Inc. with and into Pinnacle Bancshares, Inc., 
Rogers, Arkansas. Simultaneously with the merger, Pinnacle Bank, 
Rogers, Arkansas, will be merged with and into Central Bank.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Equity Bancshares, Inc. and Prairie Merger Sub, Inc., both in 
Wichita, Kansas; for Prairie Merger Sub, Inc. to become a bank holding 
company for a moment in time by acquiring Prairie State Bancshares, 
Inc., and thereby indirectly acquiring State Bank, both in Hoxie, 
Kansas. Immediately thereafter, Prairie State Bancshares, Inc. will 
merge into Equity Bancshares, Inc.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 16, 2016.
Yao-Chin Chao,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-27955 Filed 11-18-16; 8:45 am]
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