71.   Most other large British merchant banks in the last decade have found it impossible to make it on their own.

72.   Nearly half the money was owed to merchant banks.

73.   Nonetheless, the share sale would likely be oversubscribed to by domestic merchant banks, he said.

74.   Norris was the first of nine senior executives of the failed merchant bank to be disciplined.

75.   Non-bank creditors, such as merchant banks oppose the accord.

76.   News reports said merchant banks had a separate meeting yesterday to denounce the decision as being against fair trade rules.

77.   Prior to that, she worked for five years as an equity research analyst covering media and entertainment companies for the British merchant bank S.G. Warburg.

78.   Santander is awaiting American approval to operate as a merchant bank in the United States.

79.   Schroder Investment Management and Argentine merchant bank Mildesa this week will start two open-ended funds to invest in Latin American equities, a company official said.

80.   Sent to Europe as agent for a Boston merchant, he settled in England and eventually became a partner in Baring Brothers merchant bank.