banker's credit

The buyer, instead of taking a mere book-credit, might have given a bill for the amount, or might have paid for the goods with bank-notes borrowed for that purpose from a banker, thus making the purchase not on his own credit with the seller, but on the banker's credit with the seller, and his own with the banker.

As in the case of foreign loans previously described, the banker's credit and the banker's credit only is the basis of the whole operation.