---
kind: "unit"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
key: "ch17"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 17"
heading: "Bank Holding Companies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/ch17"
sections_count: 14
---

# Chapter 17 — Bank Holding Companies

Title 12 — Banks and Banking

## Sections

- [§1841. Definitions](/usc/12/1841.md)
- [§1842. Acquisition of bank shares or assets](/usc/12/1842.md)
- [§1843. Interests in nonbanking organizations](/usc/12/1843.md)
- [§1844. Administration](/usc/12/1844.md)
- [§1845. Repealed.](/usc/12/1845.md)
- [§1846. Reservation of rights to States](/usc/12/1846.md)
- [§1847. Penalties](/usc/12/1847.md)
- [§1848. Judicial review](/usc/12/1848.md)
- [§1848a. Repealed.](/usc/12/1848a.md)
- [§1849. Saving provision](/usc/12/1849.md)
- [§1850. Acquisition of subsidiary and tying arrangement: Federal Reserve Board proceedings; application for authorization; competitor as party in interest and person aggrieved; judicial review](/usc/12/1850.md)
- [§1850a. Securities holding companies](/usc/12/1850a.md)
- [§1851. Prohibitions on proprietary trading and certain relationships with hedge funds and private equity funds](/usc/12/1851.md)
- [§1852. Concentration limits on large financial firms](/usc/12/1852.md)