0 someone with an important position at a merchant bank:
He had a job offer as a merchant banker after graduating.
He and his brothers were merchant bankers, and they were rolling in it.
The appointment of merchant bankers like this is a standard commercial practice when you are handling a sale as large and complex as this.
The regulators who police the rules know there is going to be change, and so do the merchant bankers who factor deals.
Even a merchant banker would struggle to afford to live there today.