1. The big bank holding company said the thrift, based in Las Vegas, has $ 1. 8 billion in assets.

2. Star Banc is a bank holding company with about $ 9. 7 billion in assets.

3. First City Bancorp., bank holding company, Houston, $ 66, 925.

4. Wells Fargo is the eighth-largest bank holding company in the United States with 2, 110 branches in 11 Western states.

5. The voluntary investment bank holding company regime has ended.

6. They comprise two-thirds of the bank holding company assets in the United States, the Fed said in a fact sheet.

7. Conversion to a bank holding company will limit the amount of leverage that Goldman Sachs can take in its business. It will have to keep more capital on hand and borrow less.

8. Ford Motor CredIt'spokesman said company did not bank holding company restructuring plans.

9. The GMAC allowed to become a bank holding company also plans to rescue the powerful added.

10. Goldman Sachs converted to bank holding company status only last fall so it could gain access to cheap money from the Federal Reserve. It has a negligible retail banking presence.

11. Long Wall Street's largest investment bank before it recently became a bank holding company[], Goldman answered a series of questions from Reuters about the bailout funds.

12. Based on information provided by CIT and its primary regulators, the Fed judged in December that the lender's capital, management and future prospects qualified it as a bank holding company.

13. GMAC has received $12.5 billion of government aid since December, when it became a bank holding company, to combat mounting mortgage losses as well as falling vehicle sales.

14. If the banks fail to engineer satisfactory loopholes to protect their profitable broker-dealer operations, they will then face a daunting choice – to be or not to be a bank holding company.

15. Morgan Stanley (MS, news, msgs), which converted to a bank holding company around the same time, had an even higher debt-to-equity ratio: 30-to-1.

16. GMAC received the Federal Reserve's approval to become a bank holding company last week, but that was contingent on putting into place a complicated debt-for-equity exchange by 11:59 p.m. EST Friday.

17. After Lehman Brothers collapsed, investors bet that Morgan Stanley, founded in 1935, would follow. But Morgan became a bank holding company and made plans to create a more conservative operation./bank holding company.html

18. So is Goldman Sachs (GS, news, msgs), which, because it is converting to a bank holding company, faces life with more regulation and less leverage than in the last economy.

19. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley became a bank holding company.

20. One question that remains is how far Obama will go in limiting banks from risk activities. Will a bank holding company be allowed to own a hedge fund, even if the regulated bank subsidiary cannot?

21. Weak trading results are expected to weigh on overall profitability at Morgan Stanley, which became a bank holding company and reduced risk as the credit crisis exploded last September.

22. Regulators know it would be difficult to break up Citigroup's complex bank holding company operations, for example, even if they wanted to.

23. Regulators also allowed Goldman to convert itself into a bank holding company, an extension of federal backing that let the firm avoid the fate of Lehman Brothers.