[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52946-52947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-21519]


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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

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Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve 
Bank indicated. The applications 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 September 14, 2010.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community 
Affairs Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Benefit Financial Group, Inc., Fort Smith, Arkansas; to become a 
bank holding company upon the conversion of its subsidiary bank, 
Benefit Bank, Fort Smith, Arkansas, from a federally chartered savings 
institution to a state chartered bank.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 25, 
2010.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2010-21519 Filed 8-27-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S