Talk:Merchant bank

Merchant Bank vs Investment Bank
I know someone is working on cleaning up this article from Project Galatea - can I just add my tuppence worth that "Investment Bank" in today's lexicon is quite a different thing to a "Merchant Bank", and indeed I would say the latter is dying out as a concept. An Investment Bank will tend to be a full-service, full scale operation combining Advisory (initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets issuance); Asset Management, Principal Investment, Trust and agency services and Brokerage/Trading (fixed income, currency, commodities, equity, debt and derivatives sales and trading) functions.

Examples are Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc. A Merchant Bank traditionally was more restricted to Advisory and Principal Investment, and was common in the city of London prior to the "big bang" in 1986, at which point Brokerage and Advisory functions were no longer required legally to be separated. Larger British retail banks and American investment banks arrived, and consolidated the existing merchant banking operations into their operations. Philip Augar has written a very good book "The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism" which describes the process of the Big Bang in London. ElectricRay 11:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree. "Merchant Bank" is not a synonym for "Investment Bank," or even a quaint, archaic term for it.HedgeFundBob 14:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I was interested in knowing the difference between merchant banks and investments, and merchant banks and commercial banks. The main article does not try to explain the real differences. 210.176.70.2 (talk) 09:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that the article needs clarification, but I'm not expert enough to do it myself. However, I will add investment bank as a "see also". Honbicot (talk) 16:07, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Is a Merchant Bank the same as a Equity Bank or equity banking? WjtWeston (talk) 18:55, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Par Excellence
The red link to Par Excellence in 2nd paragraph of history could be a link to Wiktionary entry for Par Excellence. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/par_excellence Whileworth (talk) 10:22, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

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