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Merchant banking

The term "merchant banking", although not defined in U.S. federal banking and securities laws, is generally understood to mean negotiated private equity investment by financial institutions in the unregistered securities of either privately or publicly held companies. Both investment banks and commercial banks engage in merchant banking; the type of security in which they most commonly invest is common stock.
Banks that are solely merchant banks deal mostly in international finance, long-term loans for companies and underwriting. They do not provide regular banking services to the general public.
Merchant banks first arose in the Middle Ages, when small, usually family-owned Italian merchant houses began using their excess capital to finance foreign trade in return for a share of the profits. Because this trade consisted of dangerous sea voyages, the investments were very high risk. 
The center for merchant banking later shifted from the Italian states to Amsterdam and then, in the eighteenth century, to London. 
== References ==
Category:Banking
Mercuria Energy Group, Ltd

Mercuria is a Geneva, Switzerland-based trading firm focused on energy products and dry bulk commodities. The firm was founded in 2004 by two former Wall Street oil traders, Marco Dunand and Daniel Jaeggi. In March 2014, the firm purchased JP Morgan's physical commodities unit for $3.5 billion.
== History ==
Dunand and Jaeggi, two veteran traders, founded Mercuria in 2004 after having worked together for over 25 years at various firms, including Cargill, Goldman Sachs' J. Aron division, Phibro (during the years when it was controlled by Salomon Brothers), and Sempra Energy. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Dunand and Jaeggi were known as "Bambi and Godzilla" due to their good cop/bad cop routine on the trading floor.
After founding Mercuria with a capital infusion by the Polish oil firm J+S Group (a firm which was later raided by Polish authorities in an oil trading investigation), Mercuria quickly grew to become the world's fourth largest trading firm, with 2013 revenue topping $100 billion. By 2014 the firm employed over 1000 people in 28 countries.
In 2014, Mercuria purchased JP Morgan's physical commodities unit in a deal valued at $3.5 billion.
== Products and Services ==
Mercuria's first and primary activity is sourcing, supplying and trading crude oil and refined oil products. The company has since expanded its reach into biofuels, environmental products, natural gas and LNG, power, coal, iron ore, dry bulk commodities and agricultural products.
== Key People ==
*Marco Dunand, chairman and CEO
*Daniel Jaeggi, head of global trading
== References ==
Meredith Whitney

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Meredith Whitney is a well known banking analyst and founder of the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group. 
Whitney was in the papers for making bearish calls on the banking industry including an accurate prediction that Citigroup would cut dividends in 2008. She also joined Warren Buffett in raising alarms about the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market and it's potential for widespread defaults. 
Whitney said in September 2010 that the United States was in so much financial trouble that the Federal Reserve would have to inject about a trillion dollar stimulus package, for the third time, to fix the budget gap. She focused attention on the troubled finances of many municipalities, predicting that there would be a wave of municipal bond defaults. 
In 2013, Whitney launched a hedge fund, Kenbelle Capital LP, from Bermuda, where she owned a home, with $50 million capital from BlueCrest Capital Management. On June 10th, 2015 Whitney shut the hedge fund down after a lawsuit by BlueCrest, which sought to redeem its investments. 
== Background ==
Whitney began her career at Oppenheimer & Co. in 1993 as a research associate covering the oil and gas industry. She joined the company's Specialty Finance Group in 1995. In 1998, she took a job at Wachovia to lead financial institution research at the bank. She returned to Oppenheimer in 2004 but left five years later to start her own company, the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group. 
In November 2010, it was announced that the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group is seeking SEC approval to become a rating agency and brokerage firm, which would compete with the likes of Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's. 
In August of 2013, Whitney deregistered from FINRA, effectively closing the broker-dealer unit of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group following a decline in clients and staff. 
However, she is expected to start a hedge fund. Finra records show Whitney is a managing principal of Kenbelle Capital, a “long/short” fund based in Bermuda. 
== Education ==
Whitney graduated from Brown University.
== References ==
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Meredith Whitney Advisory Group

Meredith Whitney Advisory Group was founded in 2009 by Meredith Whitney, a former analyst at Oppenheimer. The company provides strategic information and research about the U.S. municipal bond market. 
== History ==
In November 2010, it was announced that she set up the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group as a rating agency to compete with Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's. 
== Products and Services ==
Meredith Whitney Advisory Group's services include, but are not limited to:
*Strategic Positioning and Competitive Analysis
*Acquisition/Disposition Advisory
*Private Placements
*Valuation in Fairness Opinions
*Crisis Management
*Investor Relations 
== Key People ==
Meredith Whitney, Founder and CEO
== References ==
Merger

SEE ALSO: acquisitions and mergers and acquisitions
A merger of two companies, if the merger gains regulatory approval, means shareholders of both companies gain a roughly equal stake in the new company. This is unlike an acquisition, where one side either swallows the newcomer or parks it under a holding company. 
Mergers are generally handled by investment banks that earn significant fees from such deals through buying and selling the two companies' shares. This leads some critics to accuse such banks of conflicts of interest in pumping up such deals and creating inflated expectations for the deal. 
== The Human Factor ==
Although around 70 percent of all mergers (and combined M&As) worldwide fail to live up to promise, companies continue to seek them for several reasons, ranging from joining a competitor to boost market share to acquiring a loss-maker as a tax write-off.
Misplaced enthusiasm for the deal on both sides has sunk recent high-profile corporate mergers like AOL with Time Warner and Citigroup with Travelers, underlining the difficulties in getting mergers to work. Most flops are due to human foibles like failure to plan the transaction thoroughly, failure to think the merger through or a lack of objectivity, Wharton Business School reports, and losing good employees in the process is so common it is referred to as "merger syndrome". 
Meanwhile, rivals at Harvard Business School (HBS) have compiled a "nine deadly sins" list in typical merger failures and stressed the need establish an 'integration team' early on to avoid them. The HBS paper also points out that 70 percent of the corporate mergers that fail do so at the execution stage of the deal, not during its original planning. The key, HBS concludes, is "selecting the right person or people to lead the program integration team and track the plan's execution."
== History ==
*On December 20, 2007, Eurex and ISE announced that they had completed a merger. At the time, the collaboration was called the largest transatlantic derivatives marketplace. 
*On April 4, 2007, the New York Stock Exchange announced a merger with Euronext, which brought together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges. 
* In July 2007, the CME Group and the CBOT agreed to merge after nine months of back and forth as well as a surprise bid from ICE. The crosstown rivals merged and dominate the US futures market. 
*U.S. regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late July 2008 approved a merger between America's only two satellite-radio distributors, Sirius and XM, creating what some industry critics call an unfair monopoly. Shares of both companies, which had been battling the FCC for more than a year to merge, rose after the decision was announced but soon returned to their normal trading range.
*On February 9, 2011, NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse confirmed that they were in advanced talks on a possible merger. Also announced on the same day, advanced merger talks between the London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. 
== References ==
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Mervyn E. King

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Mervyn E. King is the deputy chairman of the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC), as well as a senior counsel and former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. 
King is currently the chairman of Strate, the settlement arm of trades in equities, money market instruments and bonds in South Africa. 
He teaches at the University of South Africa, the University of Pretoria, and the Rhodes Investec Business School.
== Background ==
King began working in commerce in 1980 after serving as the judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa for three years. 
During his career, he has directed and chaired companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges. For nine years, he served as the South African representative at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, and has continued his work in dispute resolution.
He began working in 1961 as an attorney, and later as a legal advocate. King was appointed as a senior counsel in South Africa in 1975 prior to his judicial appointment.
== Education ==
*Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of the Witwatersrand
*Higher Diploma Income Tax (Wits)
*PhD (hc) in Law
*B.A., LL.B. (Wits) (Cum Laude)
== Professional Organizations ==
*United Nations Committee on Governance and Oversight, Former Chairman
*Operation Hunger, Honorary Life President
== Awards ==
*World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) Award of Excellence (2011)
*International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Africa Excel Award for Excellence in Leadership Communication (2010)
*Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa (IIASA) Award for Significant Contribution to the Internal Audit Profession (2010)
== Publications ==
*Transient Caretakers (with Teodorina Lessidrenska), Pan Macmillan South Africa (2009)
*The Corporate Citizen, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated (2006)
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Mervyn King

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Mervyn King is Governor of the Bank of England and chairman of its interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee. It was announced in November of 2012 that he will be replaced in the position by Mark Carney in July of 2013.
== Background ==
King was previously Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1998 to 2003, and Chief Economist and Executive Director from 1991. He was a non-executive director of the Bank from 1990 to 1991.
== Education ==
King studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He taught at Cambridge and Birmingham Universities before working as a visiting professor at both Harvard and MIT. From October 1984 he was Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics where he founded the Financial Markets Group.
He is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of King’s and St. John’s Colleges, Cambridge and holds honorary degrees from Birmingham, City of London, Edinburgh, London Guildhall, London School of Economics, Wolverhampton, Cambridge and Helsinki Universities. 
King is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is on the Advisory Council of the London Symphony Orchestra, is Patron of Worcestershire County Cricket Club and is a Trustee of the National Gallery.
== References ==
Category:Bank of England
Category:Central Banks
Mesirow Financial

Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services company based in Chicago. Founded in 1937 as a one-person brokerage firm by Norman Mesirow, the company is privately owned.As of March of 2008, the company had $245 million in capital, $32.2 billion under management and more than $450 million in revenue. The company recently embarked on a new logo and branding program.
Meisrow is expected to move into a new 45-story office building to be completed in mid-2009. Mesirow plans to consolidate its two downtown Chicago headquarters to 13 floors of the downtown Chicago $400-million building.
In 2008, the firm chose to augment its corporate and municipal fixed-income group with the hiring of several individuals. This occured at the same time as layoffs of many industry veterans at Wall Street firms struggling with losses related to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.
 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
Divisions:
*Investment Management
*Investment Services
*Insurance Services
*Investment Banking
*Consulting
*Real Estate
== Key People ==
== News == 
*In January of 2003, Mesirow Financial Inc. acquired the asset management business of Lunn Partners LLC, adding more than $130 million in assets under management. 
*In September of 2004, Mesirow acquired the corporate restructuring practice of Big Four accountant KPMG LLP. 
*In September of 2006, Mesirow purchased a Dann Insurance Agency LLC for an undisclosed amount. The purchase allowed Mesirow to add to its property and casualty insurance, life insurance and employee benefits areas. 
== References ==
Category:Brokerages
MetalPrices.com

MetalPrices.com is a metal pricing utility geared toward anyone tracking the raw material value of any metal product.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
The company's services include an Alloy Calculator, historical database, daily snapshots, price tables, investment bank reports, customized price reports, inter-active charts, and price trigger alerts from terminal markets. It also offers Marley’s Heavy Melt, a weekly summary of the North American scrap steel market, and the Scrap Price Index (SPI), a national index for scrap steel prices that includes key cities in North America. MetalPrices.com is also a source for non-ferrous and minor metal prices.
MetalPrices.com is a licensed vendor for:
* LME (London Metal Exchange)
* CME - NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange)
* CME - COMEX (New York Commodities Exchange)
* SHFE (Shanghai Futures Exchange)
* Dow Jones Metals News
* Reuters Metals News
* SGX Iron Ore
== Key People ==
*Marc Dulin, President & Managing Director
*Patricia Cauley, Director of Business Development North America
*James van Bregt, Director of Business Development Europe, Middle East, & Asia
== References ==
Metal Bulletin

Metal Bulletin, a leading provider of information on the steel and metals business, was rebranded as Fastmarkets in October 2018. Its product range includes its flagship news and price services, bespoke consultancy, research reports, events/conferences and directories. 
It added new product coverage to its metals and mining foundation, including forest and agricultural products, when it was rebranded. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
Metal Bulletin also published a monthly magazine, Metal Bulletin monthly, which covered key commercial and technological developments throughout the ferrous and non-ferrous metal supply chains, from mine to end-user. 
Under its FastMarkets name, the company offers Fastmarkets MB, Fastmarkets AMM, Fastmarkets IM and Fastmarkets SPB (scrap price briefing) for metals and mining.
On the forestry products side, offerings include Fastmarkets RISI (pulp and paper, packaging, wood products, lumber, timber, biomass, tissue and nonwovens).
Agricultural commodity offerings include Fastmarkets AgriCensus (wheat, corn, soybeans, barley, vegoils, meals, crush margins and biofuels). 
Fastmarkets EnergyCensus covers the biofuels side. 
== Key People ==
== References ==
Metal Registration Ltd.

Metal Registration Ltd. is an independent consultancy that provides advice and facilitation to refiners and producers looking to register their metal production on international commodity exchanges and markets. 
== History ==
The company was founded in 2007 by Melanie Wells.
== Products and Services ==
The company provides:
*An application dossier review service that details any deficiencies in the brand application along with the necessary corrective actions.
*An application dossier compilation service, which provides templates to accelerate document compilation 
*Ad hoc consultancy assignments undertaken for commodity exchanges/markets or other industry participants.
== Key People ==
*Melanie Wells, founder
== References ==
Metals

A metal is an elementary substance, such as gold, silver or copper, that is crystalline when solid. Metals are characteristically opaque, ductile, conductive, and lustrous when freshly fractured.
In Chemistry, a metal is any such a substance in its pure state, and unalloyed. Metals are elements that yield positively charged ions in aqueous solutions of its salts.
See also base metal, precious metals and rare earth metals.
Precious metals, including gold, silver, platinum and palladium are traded in OTC markets, as well as futures markets around the world, including the CME Group, NYSE Liffe U.S., TOCOM, and others. 
Base metals, such as copper, lead, aluminum, nickel and others, also trade in OTC and futures markets, although the trade is concentrated at the London Metal Exchange.
== References ==
Metrixx

Metrixx is a market analysis firm that provides real-time analytics on futures as well as OTC instruments by offering statistical analysis, analytic functions and charting. In addition, the firm has integrated a social media component to its site, which allows participants to share ideas, news, trading and market information. 
The Metrixx platform works on two front-end trading systems - Trading Technologies and CQG. 
== History ==
The firm was founded in 2009 by Jim Marzano, a veteran of the Chicago Board of Trade bond trading pits and entrepreneur. Metrixx, which is majority owned by Applied Financial Management LLC, has developed software and pricing analytics for the fair pricing of various market instruments such as municipal bonds, secondary market bonds and others.
== Key People ==
*Jim Marzano, founder and CEO
*J. Patrick Marzano, director of operations
== Jim Marzano John Lothian News Interviews ==
Metrixx Founder Jim Marzano on the Intersection of Bond Analytics and Social Media
Jim Marzano was the first person to trade the Chicago Board of Trade’s 30-year bond contract in 1977. Today, he’s looking to create another first as the founder and CEO of Metrixx — a bond, fx and commodities analytics company that also integrates social media for the trading community. Marzano spoke with JLN editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf about Metrixx, what it brings to the analytics space and how social media can help replace some of that market knowledge that used to be on the trading floor. 
== References ==
Metrixx360 LLC

#Redirect: Metrixx
Metrixx360 is a firm that provides professional traders, hedge fund managers and portfolio risk managers with the calculation tools and market analysis to support trading strategies and complex algorithmic trading applications. Metrixx360 produces 1500 instrument-specific calculations on over 400 exchange-traded futures contracts. Currently available to CQG subscribers; Metrixx360 is expected to be available to Trading Technologies subscribers in the first quarter of 2011.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*James P. Marzano, Founder & CEO
== References ==
Category:Trading Analytics
Category:Trading Technology Connected Partners
MetroTrade

MetroTrade LLC is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as an introducing broker and is a member of the National Futures Association. The company is planning to offer access to the CME Group’s U.S. futures exchanges at its launch, anticipated for the summer of 2024. It will focus on both up-and-coming and seasoned retail futures traders.
MetroTrade was founded by David Klotz and Ingmar Mattus with the aim of creating a leading trading platform for their clients using state-of-the-art web and mobile technology. It is backed by the Swiss private equity firm Andromeda Capital.
MetroTrade said it will start with CME futures and then open up other markets over time.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
* Retail trading of U.S.-based futures
== Key People ==
*David Klotz, Co-founder and President
*Ingmar Mattus, Co-founder
== References ==
Metronome

Metronome (MET) is a cryptocurrency developed by Bloq.
== Overview ==
In 2017, Bloq announced Metronome, saying that it is designed to be transferred across multiple blockchains. The announcement said that Metronome would be designed to function "like a boxcar" atop blockchains - that it would eventually be transferrable across several blockchains without affecting its price. The announcement also said there would be an opening auction of 10 million MTN - 8 million of which would be available to the public, while 2 million would be set aside for Bloq as the principal development team. Proceeds of the sale, according to the announcement, would be used to support smart contracts that would distribute them to MET users "over decades." Garzik said at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas in October that year that MET was designed to build on the strength of existing blockchains, not supplant them.
In November 2019, the Metronome mobile wallet launched. In July 2019, developers of Metronome enabled MET holders to transfer MET tokens from the Ethereum blockchain to the Ethereum Classic blockchain and back at will. This feature was added in order to allow MET tokens to move from blockchain to blockchain while mitigating the risk of price volatility affecting the value of their tokens. This feature was also designed to make Metronome more decentralized by eliminating blockchain permanence through "chainhopping," or enabling the transfer of digital assets across different blockchains. 
On July 12, 2021, MET had a market capitalization of more than $34 million, and it was the 473rd largest cryptocurrency ranked by market capitalization. 
== Key People ==
*Jeff Garzik - CEO, Co-founder 
*Matthew Roszak - Chairman, Co-founder 
*Peter Vessenes - Chief Cryptographer
==References== 
Category:cryptocurrency
Category:blockchain
Category:fintech