investment holding company

180a financial institution that satisfies all of the following conditions:

1. (1) its subsidiaries are exclusively or mainly investment firms or financial institutions;
1. (2) at least one of its subsidiaries is a MIFIDPRU investment firm; and
1. (3) its subsidiaries do not include a UK credit institution.

For the purposes of this definition, the subsidiaries of a financial institution are “mainly” investment firms or financial institutions where:

1. (a) more than 50% of the financial institution’s equity, consolidated assets, capital deployed, revenues, expenses, personnel or customers are associated with subsidiaries that are investment firms or financial institutions; or
1. (b) the group containing the financial institution and its subsidiaries has been structured in an artificial manner to avoid exceeding the threshold in (a).