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Information Technology And Non-Legal Sanctions In Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
Information Technology And Non-Legal Sanctions In Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Essay investigates the effect of advances in information technology on the private institutions that businesses use to resolve information asymmetries in financing transactions. The first part of the Essay discusses how information technology can permit direct verification of the information, obviating the problem entirely; the Essay discusses the example of the substitution of the debit card for the check, which provides an immediate payment that obviates the need for the merchant to consider whether payment will be forthcoming when the check is presented to the bank on which it is drawn.
The second part of the Essay discusses how …