Federal Reserve Bank Applications for Bank Holding Company Approval

Regs.gov: Federal Reserve System

Published March 18th, 2026

Detected March 19th, 2026

Summary

The Federal Reserve Board has published a notice of applications received for approval to become a bank holding company or to acquire a bank or bank holding company. Interested parties can submit comments on these applications by April 20, 2026.

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The Federal Reserve Board has published a notice detailing companies that have applied for approval to become bank holding companies or to acquire banks and other financial entities. These applications are made pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and Regulation Y. The notice lists specific applications, including one from Columbia Bank MHC to convert from mutual to stock form, which would result in Columbia Bank becoming a subsidiary of a newly-formed Maryland corporation.

Interested parties are invited to submit written comments on the applications by April 20, 2026. Comments received will be made publicly available without modification. The applications and related filings are available for inspection at the indicated Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors' offices.

What to do next

Review applications for potential impact on business operations.
Submit comments on applications by April 20, 2026, if applicable.

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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 public portions of the applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, if any, are
available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at the offices of the Board of Governors.
This information may also be obtained on an expedited basis, upon request, by contacting the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank
and from the Board's Freedom of Information Office at https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/request.htm. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)).

Comments received are subject to public disclosure. In general, comments received will be made available without change and
will not be modified to remove personal or business information including confidential, contact, or other identifying information.
Comments should not include any information such as confidential information that would not be appropriate for public disclosure.

Comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors, Benjamin W. McDonough, Secretary of the Board, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20551-0001,
not later than April 20, 2026.

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 Comments.applications@phil.frb.org:

Columbia Bank MHC, Fair Lawn, New Jersey; to convert from mutual to stock form. As part of the conversion, Columbia Bank MHC, and Columbia Financial, Inc., Fair Lawn, New Jersey, an existing mid-tier savings and loan holding company, would cease to exist and Columbia Bank, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Financial, Inc., Fair Lawn, New Jersey, a newly-formed Maryland corporation, which has applied, pursuant to section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, to acquire Columbia Bank, a covered savings association.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Michele Taylor Fennell, Associate Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 2026-05414 Filed 3-18-26; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P