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Types of companies
Extracted from the Wikipedia article List of legal entity types by country.
Federally chartered
Of the few types of companies that may exist under a federally issued charter, the bulk are banks, , and similar depository institutions. Such institutions are distinguished from state-chartered banks by including a key word in their formal names. For a bank, the key word is "national". A bank chartered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) must have the word "national" in its name. A bank chartered by a state cannot have "national" in its name.