The Commissioner may prescribe rules governing the activities of merchant banks and implementing this chapter pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2. The rules shall take into account the objective of merchant banks to provide needed capital to businesses and the nondepository nature of merchant banks.
D.C. Code § 26-831.22
Financial institutions organized under federal law, application of District law, see § 26-710. Secured transactions, sales of accounts and chattel paper, security interest, attachment and enforceability, transactions remain subject to this chapter, see § 28:9-203. .