merchant bank
noun
a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
merchant banker
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a word derived from
merchant bank.
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a word derived from
merchant banking.
merchant bankingnounthe business done by a merchant bank; the issuing of loans for commercial enterprises as a form of investment.
Example Sentences
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"I remember going to the Cheltenham races, and we were invited into a box and my father was talking to someone and he was a merchant banker," Felix says.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
Turnbull, a wealthy former merchant banker with a harborside mansion in Sydney, struggled to improve his party’s popularity ratings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
A social liberal and multi-millionaire former merchant banker, he has struggled to appeal to conservative voters and only narrowly won a general election in 2016.
From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2018
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former merchant banker with a personal fortune estimated at exceeding AU$200 million, said he had told Australia Post Chairman John Stanhope “that remuneration is too high.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2017
George Peabody, the successful merchant, banker, and philanthropist.
