Date: August 10th, 2006

By any other name, Part 2

10 August, 2006 (10:01) | Uncategorized |

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
If an Industrial Loan Company is really a bank in disguise, what public-policy risks does that entail?
 

No risks here.
 
1.       ILCs allow firms to skirt the separation of commerce and banking.  The reason for the division is a fear that banks lend to their industrial affiliates at preferential rates, say, or discriminate […]