Modern Practices
Known as “accepting and issuing houses” in the U.K. and “investment banks” in the U.S., modern merchant banks offer a wide range of activities, including issue management, portfolio management, credit syndication, acceptance credit, counsel on mergers and acquisitions, insurance, etc.
Of these two classes of merchant banks, the U.S. variant initiates loans and then sells them to investors. Even though some of these companies call themselves "merchant banks," they have few, if any, of the characteristics of former merchant banks.
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