pre-preferentially as the bank is acting as a top-tier creditor, like the scheme trustees or - on failure of the scheme, liquidators, and in particular the tax authorities.

pacifico > also, calm; indisputable, incontrovertible (the latter also in: Tom West III's ESP/AmE law dictionary); clear; obvious; patent (Collins Sansoni).

Qauere: acquiescent in the tacit sense?

Società in favore di propri fornitori : the Company giving undue or unfair (short of: fraudulent) preference to its own suppliers.