How to Use merchant bank in a Sentence

merchant bank

noun
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  • The tech that helps stores track us often comes from card-swipe machines and the merchant banks that process transactions for them.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2019
  • But he’s been tied to it ever since Goldman’s merchant bank set up the side project several years ago.
    — Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The global merchant bank joins A+E Networks as a backer of the indie studio.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Macron joined Rothschild & Company, the merchant bank, in 2008.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Just a few years ago, Gordon Sondland was best known as the founder of a successful chain of hotels and a merchant bank in the Pacific Northwest.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Point-of-sale systems and retailer banks The tech that helps stores track us often comes from card-swipe machines and the merchant banks that process transactions for them.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Imagine investors now include Raine, a media-focused merchant bank that has put in at least $125 million.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That was true before Whataburger sold its majority stake to a Chicago merchant bank this summer.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Yes, in theory, the Communist Party of China—acting through the central bank—could place restrictions on who is eligible for loans made by retail and merchant banks.
    — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2019
  • A decade ago, a company couldn’t do much in Italy without hiring Mediobanca Spa, the merchant bank whose network of shareholdings in the country’s biggest corporations gave it commanding influence.
    — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Scepter Partners, a merchant bank that touted its access to wealthy families throughout Asia, was willing to put as much as $3 billion in Mr. Dougan’s venture and other international investments.
    — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
  • For almost forty years, his traditional merchant bank and boutique advisory firm has been helping companies at every stage of their lifecycle.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • Former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz shelved plans to launch a crypto fund in December, shifting his efforts to a merchant bank focused on cryptocurrencies and ventures based on related technologies.
    — Bloomberg.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Raine, a New York merchant bank focused on media, technology and telecommunications, invested $100 million.
    — Juliet Chung, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Matthew Popper, previously a managing director in Goldman’s merchant bank, will oversee investments in financial and information services.
    — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 23 May 2021

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