Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

Federal Register: January 30, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 19)

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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 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 February 26, 2009.

1. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Ivan Hurwitz, Bank

Applications Officer) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001: 1. Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., Dublin, Ireland, M&T Bank

Corporation, and First Empire State Holding Company, all of Buffalo,

New York, to acquire Provident Bankshares Corporation, Baltimore,

Maryland, and merge Provident Bankshares Corporation with and into

First Empire State Holding Company, and thereby indirectly acquire

Provident Bank of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.

In connection with this application, First Empire State Holding

Company has applied to become a bank holding company.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 27, 2009.

Robert deV. Frierson,

Deputy Secretary of the Board.

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