An affiliated company refers to a business entity wherein one company owns less than a majority of the voting stock of the other, or both entities are subsidiaries of a third company. In banking, it involves organizations that a bank owns or controls through stock holdings, or where the bank's shareholders and officers hold significant control or interlocking directorships.
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