First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. ( FNFG) is a bank holding company operating local banks in upstate and eastern New York.

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This rule allows a foreign holding company to receive dividends from operating subsidiaries and transfer the proceeds to other foreign subsidiaries without U.S. taxation.

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Bakrie is actually the listed holding company for a number of operating companies in the conglomerate's three main lines of business: rubber plantations, telecoms and oil-industry infrastructure.

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BT's plans to turn itself into a holding company and several quasi-independent operating companies is that they have taken so long to appear.

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