61.   Kleinwort Benson Group Plc is by far the most British of all the U.K. merchant banks in the City of London.

62.   Korean merchant banks were born.

63.   Last month, Swiss Bank Corp. agreed to acquire the S.G. Warburg Group, the largest and most ambitious British merchant bank.

64.   LEESON FLIES TO HIS ARREST Nicholas Leeson, the British trader whose losses shattered the venerable merchant bank Barings, arrived in Singapore from Frankfurt and was immediately arrested.

65.   Lloyds, which has said it is not interested in acquiring a merchant bank, will get control of Hill Samuel as a result of the merger.

66.   Mehdi Varzi of Kleinwort Benson, a merchant bank, predicts that nobody will be willing to surrender their share of the market.

67.   Merchant banks are the first to feel the full force of bankruptcies sweeping corporate Korea.

68.   Merchant banks tend to specialize in short-term lending.

69.   Merchant banks typically extend loans without securing sufficient collateral.

70.   Merchant banks, which are smaller than commercial banks, primarily lend to small businesses.