Interbank Market

  

See: Interbank. See: Market.

Banks lend to other banks. They all live under the same regulatory rubric, and by having them all connected, like squid telepathically communicating with each other, it adds positive network externalities to broader issues, like theft and security and targeting of good, bad, and ugly would-be borrowers.

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