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merchant bank|ˈmɜːtʃənt bæŋk|
[merchant a. 1 + bank n.3 7.]
A bank whose main business is the providing of long-term credit and the support and financing of trading enterprises. So merchant banker, a member of such a bank (also pl., the bank as a firm); merchant banking vbl. n., the activity undertaken by a merchant bank.
1904H. T. Easton Hist. Banks xxi. 215 The chairman of the London and Westminster Bank stated some time ago that ‘acceptances drawn by mercantile firms abroad is [sic] part of the business that ought to be carried on by a merchant or merchant-banker’. 1924L. Le M. Minty Eng. Banking Methods ii. 51 The Merchant Bankers..are a class of large importing and exporting firms that, in addition to their regular business in trade, carry on an accepting business... Many firms referred to as ‘merchant bankers’ are merchants no longer. 1926W. Leaf Banking vii. 184 Several of the great merchant banking houses of the Continent found it worth their while to transfer their international offices to London. 1928Daily Mail 25 July 18/1 Dr. David Jochelman... Merchant Banker. 1930S. E. Thomas Princ. Banking ii. 18 In a sixth class [of banks] are the various concerns in the City which are known as ‘merchant bankers’ or ‘merchant banks’. Most of these function mainly as ‘accepting houses’. 1933B. Ellinger This Money Business ii. 16 Merchant Bankers or Accepting Houses, whose business it is to accept bills for other people and earn a commission by doing so. 1940T. S. Eliot East Coker iii. 10 They all go into the dark..The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters. 1959Chambers's Encycl. II. 100/2 Mention may also be made of the London merchant bankers. Their traditional function has been to facilitate the finance of international trade by ‘accepting’ (guaranteeing) bills of exchange. 1961M. Spark Prime of Miss Jean Brodie vi. 161 A successful business man who varied in his line of business from canned goods to merchant banking. 1965J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 276/1 Many foreign merchant bankers found it convenient to transfer their headquarters to London—hence the number of merchant banks in England with foreign names. 1965Perry & Ryder Thomson's Dict. Banking (ed. 11) 375/1 Merchant bank. The great merchant banking houses of today have evolved from the merchants who, coming to this country in the early or middle years of the eighteenth century, built up their business by lending their names to bills financing particular transactions and by accepting such bills made them first-class bills freely discountable. 1966Times Rev. Industry Oct. 99/1 When I became chairman of Lazards last year I was able to put down my occupation as ‘merchant banker’ instead of the less reputable ‘company director’... I certainly was not a ‘merchant’ and not really a ‘banker’. 1972Accountant 19 Oct. 500/2 The work of an accountant in the field of merchant banking or taxation are [sic] worlds apart from the work in manufacturing industry or in practice. |