A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself.
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Famous quotes containing the words bank, holding and/or company:
“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?” holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.””
—Plutarch (c. 46–120 A.D.)
“We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)