The article analyses the activities of the Polish Industrial Credit Society (1921–1948), the inaugural institution of its kind in Europe. It was dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs, established with the objective of rebuilding and expanding Polish industry in the aftermath of the First World War. The Society was founded on a non-banking organisational model, drawing inspiration from land and urban credit societies. Instead, loans were granted by the Society, secured by mortgages on industrial real estate, machinery, and equipment. While this approach was effective in the case of land and urban properties, it is unclear whether such institutional arrangements provided genuine credit assistance and effectively put Polish factory owners out of debt. The article attempts to answer this question, which makes it fit into research on institutional forms of long-term credit, which have not always been and do not have to be the domain of banks.
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Roczniki Nauk Prawnych · ISSN 1507-7896 | eISSN 2544-5227 | DOI: 10.18290/rnp
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