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A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. [1] A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own stock of other companies to form a corporate group. In some jurisdictions around the world, holding companies are called ...
A bank holding company is faced with the costs of meeting the accounting, record-keeping and reporting requirements imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Other regulatory costs
Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, [7] Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, or Citigroup; more focused companies include IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft. These, and others, organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries, often with multiple levels of subsidiaries.
A corporate group is composed of companies. The general rule is that a company is a separate legal entity from its shareholders, that is the shareholder's liability for the subsidiary's debts is limited to the value of the shares, [3] and the shareholders cannot be required to perform the company's obligations.
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The following is a list of the world's largest publicly traded financial services companies, ordered by annual sales for the latest Fiscal Year in millions of U.S. dollars according to the Fortune Global 500. (Currently the top 50 public companies are included, while privately held companies are not included).
This is a non-exhaustive world-wide list of government-owned companies.The paragraph that follows was paraphrased from a 1996 GAO report which investigated only the 20th-century American experience.