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Bank holding company
Company with significant ownership of one or more banks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Bancorp" redirects here. For other uses, see Bancorp (disambiguation).
A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself.[1] The compound bancorp (banc/bank + corp[oration]) or bancorporation is often used to refer to these companies as well.