holding company

noun

: a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies compare investment company

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The family’s holding company, Concordia, is planning to file a tender offer for Rothschild & Co’s shares at €48 apiece, a premium of 19 percent over the closing price on Friday, according to a statement Monday. —

BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023 However, in a letter to the judge, prosecutors alleged that Bankman-Fried had attempted to contact former employees of FTX and its holding company, Alameda, through email and the encrypted messaging app Signal. —

Justin Klawans, The Week, 28 Jan. 2023 Chinese regulators forced Ant to register as a financial holding company and to separate its payment app from its financial services. —

Claire Fu, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023 Senator Elizabeth Warren last year urged the Fed to revoke Wells Fargo’s status as a financial holding company and require it to separate its traditional banking activities from nonbanking activities. —

Allison Morrow, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022 Ant will ultimately become a financial holding company overseen by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC). —

Zennon Kapron, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022 The authorities halted Ant’s $34 billion-plus IPO in 2020 at the 11th hour and are forcing the technology firm to reorganize as a financial holding company regulated by China’s central bank. —

James Freeman, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Triumph Bancorp is a financial holding company with $442 million in annual revenue and business units spanning insurance to backoffice technology. —

Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2022 The disgraced founder of FTX had a 90% stake in Emergent Fidelity Technologies, and Wong owned 10% of the holding company. —

Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 9 Feb. 2023 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of holding company was in 1906

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