these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "Act" means the Financial Institutions Act, 2004; "affiliate" in respect of a financial institution means any entity, corporate or unincorporated where five per cent or more of any class of its voting shares or other voting participation is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by that financial institution or is held by it with power to vote; "associate" means- (a) in relation to a natural person- (i) where the relationship is through marriage and includes wife, husband, mother or father in law, sister or brother of the wife or husband; (ii) where the relationship is through consanguinity, includes father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandson or granddaughter, maternal or paternal uncle or aunt or
cousin; (iii) any company of which that person is a director; or (iv) any person who is an employee or partner of that person; (b) in relation to a company, any company which enjoys common shareholding or common shareholders with another company directly or indirectly; and (c) in relation to trusts, the trustees of any settlement in which that person is a beneficiary; "conglomerate group" means a group of two or more companies with significant financial and non-financial businesses including one or more financial institutions; "consolidated supervision" means an overall evaluation both qualitative and quantitative of a financial institution and the group to which it belongs to ensure that all risk exposures of the financial institution and its subsidiaries, or a financial institution belonging to a financial or conglomerate group, are taken into account, whether the risks arise in the financial institution itself, or in a parent, subsidiary, affiliate or associate; "control" means the relationship between the parent undertaking and a subsidiary undertaking or similar relations between an individual and an undertaking or the power to determine the financial and operational policy of a financial institution under its charter or to an agreement, or direct or indirect influence by a person over decision-making and the management of a financial institution; "financial group" means a group of two or more companies that engage predominantly in financial institution business and securities business;
"holding company" means a company, the subsidiary undertakings of which are either exclusively or mainly other companies or financial institutions, where at least one of the subsidiaries is
a financial institution; "parent undertaking" means an undertaking which effectively exercises a dominant influence over another undertaking.
"subsidiary company" means-
(a)
a company whose holding company is a member of the subsidiary company and controls the composition of its board of directors;
(b)
a company whose holding company holds more than half in nominal value of the equity share capital of the subsidiary company;
(c)
an undertaking over which a parent undertaking effectively exercises a dominant influence; or
(d)
a company which is a subsidiary of a subsidiary company.