merchant bank
noun [ C ]
ukus BANKING
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):
The company has called in a city merchant bank to advise on its options.
See also
investment bank
merchant banking
noun [ U ]
He spent a year in Bombay setting up HSBC's merchant banking division there.