He began making overtures to a number of merchant banks.

他开始主动同一些投资银行接触。

Many of the merchant banks are also acceptance houses.

商人银行大部分存在于伦敦及一些英联邦国家。

Credit risk is the major risk that Chinese merchant Banks face and is the main factor of Chinese financial risk at present.

信用风险是我国商业银行面临的主要风险，也是我国金融风险的主要因素。

That hurt the relationships with its merchant banks that processed those transactions, forcing it to switch from banks in Canada to Bahrain. It created subsidiaries designed to hide its identity.

这迫使它在把银行从加拿大换到巴林，同时还建立起子公司来掩盖其身份。

One of the great investment Banks of the 19th century, Barings, began life as a London outpost for the family's West Country wool business, operating as both merchant and banker.

巴林银行是十九世纪最大的投资银行之一。十九世纪最大的投资银行之一的巴林银行，最初是西部乡间家庭羊毛作坊在伦敦的前哨站，身兼经商与银行两职。