An investment holding company is a financial institution the subsidiaries of which are exclusively or mainly investment firms or financial institutions, at least one of which is an investment firm which is not a financial holding company within the meaning of point 20 of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.
An EU parent investment holding company is an investment holding company in a Member State which is part of a group of investment firms and which is not itself a subsidiary of an investment firm authorised in a Member State or of another investment holding company in a Member State.
For the purposes of the first subparagraph, “financial institution” has the meaning given in point 14 of paragraph 1 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019.