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The First Banc Group, Inc. was formed in 1968 as a holding company for City National Bank and was used as a vehicle to acquire other banks. As Ohio began to gradually relax its very restrictive Great Depression era banking laws that had severely restricted bank branching and ownership, City National Bank, through its First Banc Group parent, started to purchase banks outside of its home county.
Becoming a bank holding company makes it easier for the firm to raise capital than as a traditional bank. The holding company can assume debt of shareholders on a tax free basis, borrow money, acquire other banks and non-bank entities more easily, and issue stock with greater regulatory ease.
A stock transfer agent, transfer agent, share registry or transfer agency is an entity, usually a third-party firm unrelated to security transactions, that manages the change in ownership of company stock or investment fund shares, maintains a register of ownership and acts as paying agent for the payment of dividends and other distributions to investors.
A bank holding company is a corporate entity that owns a controlling interest in one or more banks. While a bank holding company doesn’t offer banking services directly, it manages banks that do.
Banc One Corp. First USA: Bank One Corp. JPMorgan Chase: 1997 First Nationwide Bank California Federal Bank: California Federal Bank: $1.2 billion, 1st Nationwide rebranded as "Cal Fed." Citibank: 1998 NationsBank Corp. Barnett Banks, Inc. NationsBank Corp. Bank of America: 1998 First Union Corporation: CoreStates Financial Corp.
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A beneficial shareholder is the person or legal entity that has the economic benefit of ownership of the shares, while a nominee shareholder is the person or entity that is on the corporation's register of members as the owner while being in reality that person acts for the benefit or at the direction of the beneficial owner, whether disclosed or not.