Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• MERCHANT BANK - A British term for a bank that specializes not in lending out its own funds, but in pro...
  
  
• MERCHANT PROCESSOR - service provider for credit card payments
  
  
• MERCOSUR - The "Common Market of the South," which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay in...
  
  
• MERGED CREDIT REPORT - A credit report that contains information from three credit repositories. When t...
  
  
• MERGED CREDIT REPORTS - Information issued by one credit reporting company that receives credit history...
  
  
• MERGER - Two or more independent companies can consolidate or pool their businesses in a number of diff...
  
  
• MERGER ARBITRAGE - In the context of hedge funds, a style of management that involves the simultaneous ...
  
  
• MERGER-CONVERSION - a transaction in which a mutual thrift institution converts to stock form and simul...
  
  
• MERIDIAN - One of a set of imaginary lines running north and south used by surveyors for reference in l...
  
  
• MERIDIANS - Used in government survey method, lines which form the north-south portion of the grid.