Same Name, New Businesses: Evolution in the Bank Holding Company

Nicola Cetorelli and Samuel Stern

No 20150928, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: When we think of banks, we typically have in mind our local bank branch that stores deposits and issues mortgages or business loans. Prima facie there is nothing wrong with this image. After all, there are still almost 6,000 unique commercial banks in the United States that specialize in deposit-taking and loan-making; when we include thrifts and credit unions, this number more than doubles. What we typically forget, however, is that most commercial banks are subsidiaries of larger bank holding companies (BHCs), and in fact nearly all commercial bank assets fall under such BHCs. This post presents a first in-depth analysis of the evolving organizational structure of U.S. bank holding companies over the last twenty-five years. We present a unique new database that details BHC structure at a level previously unavailable in any systematic way.

Keywords: Organizational structure; Bank holding companies; Subsidiary types (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09-28
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