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