This work investigates and compares the total risk attributable to holding and operating companies, using data from the … holding companies. The principal bases of stratification are issue size, bond maturity, and creditworthiness proxied by the … reject the null hypothesis that the operating companies have the same business risk as holding companies. When bond rating …

After the 2008 global financial crisis, U.S. bank holding companies needing to cover larger-than-expected loan losses … entities acquired by each holding company in the quarters prior to their mergers. As in the related literature, we fail to … finding suggests that holding companies built up provisions to some degree during the pre-crisis period to cover larger future …

Holding Companies (BHC) through compliance Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) 2009 and Comprehensive Capital …