0 a bank that does business with companies rather than with people
1 a bank that does business with large companies and governments, providing them with finance and with advice relating especially to shares, bonds, etc. and takeovers (= occasions when one company buys another):
Those estate agents are interested in selling not only properties but the insurance policies of the merchant bank.
The merchant bank provides many services to its clients.
I have not touched on the great merchant bank frauds.
He hoped that everything would carry on as normal, except with a different merchant bank.
I am a director of a merchant bank which does export business.
We know how a merchant bank works, and presumably a super-merchant bank will work in much the same way.
So far as the ordinary merchant bank is concerned, as he said, it has to take orders from its clients and work that way round.
The case concerned a merchant bank, which has many dealings, where the investment income is part of the normal income of the partnerships.
