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Well that was my original point. In post 67 Simon said that filetravel would still be running the banking (having some control over the company, and hence acting as a MSC) - but this isn't how it was going to work at all. As you and Simon say now, it is the fact that they are providing MSC...
But they were running ir35 and non-ir35 separately. They were doing questionnaires and sending the contracts out for 3rd party assessment before advising anyone that they were outside the scope of ir35.
Since filetravel were proposing that contractors would have their own completely...
That's not what filetravel were trying to do at all for contractors outside ir35. They were setting up ltd. co's and offering to set up bank accounts at cater allen that they would have no control over. Payments would be made direct from the agency to the contractor's business bank a/c...