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A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated in ancient Babylonia, Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenicia and Rome.
Merchant Ivory Productions was founded in 1961 by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory [5] in India to produce English language films. [6]After early, modest successes with films such as The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah, and Bombay Talkie, Merchant and Ivory suffered a lean period during the 1970s.
A merchant account is a type of bank account that allows a seller, known as the merchant, to accept payments by debit or credit cards.A merchant account is established under an agreement between an acceptor and a merchant acquiring bank for the settlement of payment card transactions.
Merchant services is a broad category of financial services intended for use by businesses. [1] In its most specific use, it usually refers to merchant processing services that enables a business to accept a transaction payment through a secure (encrypted) channel using the customer's credit card or debit card or NFC / RFID enabled device.
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with a large merchant vessel Wednesday night in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea. "The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS ...
A merchant bank is historically a bank dealing in commercial loans and investment. In modern British usage, it is the same as an investment bank . Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in commodities, particularly cloth merchants .
merchant fleet Hong Kong's shipping registry is widely regarded for its safety and regulatory standards, executives and lawyers say, allowing its ships to pass easily through foreign ports.