First National Bank Owns a Data Processing Company That Sells

First National Bank owns a data processing company that sells financially related data processing services to various businesses in the community. Daniel Tyler, a loan officer, is negotiating a loan to a local CPA firm. He would like to make the loan conditional on the CPA firm's use of the subsidiary data processing firm. May he do so?

A) Yes, because it is not a bank service.
B) Yes, because it is not related to pricing.
C) No. It is an illegal tie-in.
D) No, unless the company was planning to obtain a new data processing service provider anyway.

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