CS Holding is also the parent of Credit Suisse, the large Swiss banking conglomerate.

He also invoked the most recent incident cited by Mr. Dole's campaign: questionable contributions from an Indonesia-controlled banking conglomerate.

Nationsbank, the fast-growing banking conglomerate based in Charlotte, N.C., for example, lacks a large presence in California.

The world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of 2 Japanese banking conglomerates.

The Rumasa business and banking conglomerate, once Spain's largest private holding company, controlled more than 200 businesses and employed 60,000.

Democrats, whose returned donations came largely from Asian sources with ties to the Lippo Group, an Indonesian banking conglomerate, were quick to respond.

In June 2008, Rabobank, the Dutch cooperative banking conglomerate, acquired 35% shareholding in BPR.

The Swiss banking conglomerate will also be the only commercial banking company to control a big securities firm, since American law generally forbids banks to have such interests.

So plucky Sally steps in to keep the firm from being sold to a banking conglomerate by Daddy's unctuous, sleazy second-in-command, Adam Cunningham.

Bank lobbyists have contended that this would allow considerable cost savings by eliminating the duplicative boards of directors and corporate officers that banking conglomerates now maintain.