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Equity investments by well-governed merchant-banking subsidiaries in local businesses boost capital formation; those from private-equity companies all too often favor high-risk speculation.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

Rothschild Holdings Inc., a merchant-banking operation that became a top underwriter of initial public offerings in the 1980s but was felled in the 1987 stock-market crash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2016

But as Rajaratnam and Trehan focused on the nuts and bolts of Voyager, Gupta seemed taken with more grandiose concepts, like turning the fund into a platform on which to build an Asian merchant-banking business.

From New York Times • May 17, 2013

The fund's merchant-banking parent BTG Pactual is already buying stakes in Brazilian enterprises.

From Reuters • Jun. 28, 2011

The bank has raised some $6 billion by calling in loans and selling its London-based merchant-banking subsidiary.

From Time Magazine Archive