Merchant Banking

Merchant banking refers to some of the sub-classes of types of banking.

Unlike ordinary high street banking in merchant banking the loans are not held in the portfolio of the financial institution up until the point at which they mature.

There is market risk involved for the merchant bank because they invest their funds into alls orts of potentially risky transactions such as a variety of structured financial transactions.

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