Known as “ accepting and issuing houses ” in the U. K. and “ investment banks ” in the U. S., modern merchant banks offer a wide range of activities, including issue management, portfolio management, credit syndication, acceptance credit, counsel on mergers and acquisitions, insurance, etc.

It held responsibility for a wide portfolio of social services.

Opera claims that the acquisition will enable it to expand its current messaging product portfolio and deliver cross-platform messaging to a wide range of devices.

In this portfolio she worked closely with then Winnipeg Mayor Susan Thompson on a wide variety of inter-provincial issues such as the Shoal Lake aqueduct agreement and the Municipal / Provincial / Federal Infrastructure Agreements.

Kechiouche's portfolio of roles encompasses a wide spectrum of characters in short and feature films, plays and TV series.

While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan ( in places where SBP does not have a presence ) it has diversified its business portfolio and is today a major lead player in the debt equity market, corporate investment banking, retail and consumer banking, agricultural financing, treasury services and is showing growing interest in promoting and developing the country's small and medium enterprises and at the same time fulfilling its social responsibilities, NBP headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan with over 1, 250 branches country wide.

Signs that liquidity is lacking in an election stock market include wide spreads ( large differences between bid and ask prices ) and arbitrage opportunities ( where the sum of bid prices exceeds the value of a unit portfolio, or where the sum of ask prices is lower than the value of a unit portfolio ).

He now has a wide portfolio of investments from leisure centres and betting shops to pubs and nursing homes.

Wärtsilä has a wide portfolio services portfolio in the industry.

Specialising in transport media, CBS Outdoor have a UK wide network of poster sites, the largest out of home digital portfolio and in depth insight to consumers ’ attitudes and travel patterns.

Advanced Media Ventures Group still works with a wide range of television and music production clients, with three main areas of business: Consulting / Business Advisory, Corporate Training and its portfolio of investments.

In late 2010 it emerged Arcadia was considering a further wide review of its property portfolio, similar to those undertaken under the " Townprint " and " BrandMAX " schemes, to look again at the firm's store distribution ; this was sparked by the fact that several hundred of the firm's existing store leases expire over the coming three to five years.

Over the years, Tan has gathered a wide portfolio of medical experience, having worked at various hospitals ( both international and local ), private practice clinics as well as a short period in the Royal Malaysian Army.

If one constructs a portfolio by including a wide variety of equities, it will tend to exhibit the same risk and return characteristics as the market as a whole, which many investors see as an attractive prospect, so that Index Funds have been developed that invest in equities in proportion to the weighting they have in some well known index such as the FTSE.

The company ’ s portfolio encompasses a wide variety of products used in dental laboratories and dental practices.

Each contributes something different, and something important: Ruth Peale, her wide experience in church work ; ;

Decompositions of this kind are interesting and important for a wide variety of reasons.

The most important crops are wheat, corn, sunflower, potato, sugar beet, canola and a wide variety of fruits ( notably apple, peach, pear, grape, watermelon, plum etc .).

Several types are existent in Qing dynasty and used in dishes of stewing hams ( 火腿炖肘子 ), and vegetables, or for a wide variety of soup and important soup stocks.

Note that a device designed primarily as a comparator may be better if, for instance, speed is important or a wide range of input voltages may be found, since such devices can quickly recover from full on or full off (" saturated ") states.

Visual elements have become an important part of the poet's toolbox, and many poets have sought to use visual presentation for a wide range of purposes.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

This feature is useful if target detection over a wide range of angles is more important than target location in three dimensions.

) The colleges are named for university historical figures and benefactors, and while there is wide variation in their appearance, facilities, and dates of founding, are an important source of identity for Rice students, functioning as dining halls, residence halls, sports teams, among other roles.

Perhaps because of its wide attendance, Sukkot became the appropriate time for important state ceremonies.

* Panels: moderated discussions on important topics, with expert panelists chosen by the organizers to provide a wide range of perspectives.

It is important to note that ancient precedent existed for alternative theories and developments which prefigured later discoveries in the area of physics and mechanics ; but in the absence of a strong empirical tradition, dominance of the Aristotelian school, and in light of the limited number of works to survive translation in an era when many books were lost to warfare, such developments remained obscure for centuries and are traditionally held to have had little effect on the re-discovery of such phenomena ; whereas the invention of the printing press made the wide dissemination of such incremental advances of knowledge commonplace.

The most important crops are wheat, corn, sunflower, potato, sugar beet, canola and a wide variety of fruits ( notably apple, peach, pear, grape, watermelon, plum etc .).

The 120 ° layout also produces an engine which is too wide for most automobile engine compartments, so it is more often used in racing cars where the car is designed around the engine rather than vice-versa, and vibration is not as important.

Water plays an important role in the world economy, as it functions as a solvent for a wide variety of chemical substances and facilitates industrial cooling and transportation.

Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and noteworthy films about a wide variety of subjects were made during that era.

The Salon de la Section d ' Or at the Galerie La Boétie in Paris, October 1912, was arguably the most important pre-World War I Cubist exhibition ; exposing Cubism to a wide audience.

* Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: LLNL ’ s Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ( CAMS ) develops and applies a wide range of isotopic and ion-beam analytical tools used in basic research and technology development, addressing a spectrum of scientific needs important to the Laboratory, the university community, and the nation.

Video signal generators are available for a wide variety of applications, and for a wide variety of digital formats ; many of these also include audio generation capability ( as the audio track is an important part of any video or television program or motion picture ).

As an intaglio method of printmaking, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains in wide use today.

Experiences in Groups was an important guide for the group psychotherapy and encounter group movements beginning in the 1960s, and quickly became a touchstone work for applications of group theory in a wide variety of fields.

# Contradictions as the most important feature of society: Society is dominated by a wide range of contradictions that call for varying strategies.

The drag mechanism is a very important component on modern reels as it allows for a wide range of fish sizes to be caught on one set-up.

They also provide an important habitat to a wide variety of fish and crustaceans.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

The use of personal names as rhymes continued into the late 20th century, for example " Tony Blairs " meaning " flares ", as in trousers with a wide bottom ( previously this was " Lionel Blairs " and this change illustrates the ongoing mutation of the forms of expression ) and " Britney Spears ", meaning " beers ".

In the latter part of the 20th century, this has been further revolutionized by the development of vast warehouse-sized, out-of-town supermarkets, selling a wide range of food from around the world.

The varied meanings of lesbian since the early 20th century have prompted some historians to revisit historic relationships between women before the wide usage of the word was defined by erotic proclivities.

Like Susan Sontag, Jameson served to introduce a wide audience of American readers to key figures of the 20th Century Continental European intellectual Left, particularly those associated with the Frankfurt School, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism.

As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found ( including a 14th century structure one of Germany's oldest ), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Theorists generally agree that a significant reason for the revival of the study of rhetoric was the renewed importance of language and persuasion in the increasingly mediated environment of the 20th century ( see Linguistic turn ) and through the 21st century, with the media focus on the wide variations and analyses of political rhetoric and its consequences.

Neither term gained wide acceptance until decades later ; scientist became a common term in the late 19th century in the United States and around the turn of the 20th century in Great Britain.

However, the Adventist Church adopted the Trinity early in the 20th century and began to dialogue with other Protestant groups toward the middle of the century, eventually gaining wide recognition as a Protestant church.

* Twentieth-century theatre – wide range of movements in the theatrical culture of the 20th century, including Naturalism, Realism, Expressionism and Experimental theatre.

Originally suggested in the 19th century, the hypothesis enjoyed wide acceptance among linguists into the mid 20th century.

Vacuum became a valuable industrial tool in the 20th century with the introduction of incandescent light bulbs and vacuum tubes, and a wide array of vacuum technology has since become available.

In a democratic society, wide agreement on a given law as punishing a " victimless crime " will eventually lead to that law's abolishment, as has been the case with most laws regarding homosexuality or sodomy law, abolished in most democratic countries in the later 20th century.

The Pierrot bequeathed to the 20th century had acquired a rich and wide range of personae.

For example, the Lanmadaw Road is followed by-wide 17th and 18th streets then the medium Sint-Oh-Dan Road, the 30-foot 19th and 20th streets, followed by another wide Latha Road, followed again by the two numbered small roads 21st and 22nd streets, and so on.

It gained wide popularity in the early 20th century as it was used by the Serbian Army in World War I.

Bushidō developed between the 9th and 20th centuries and numerous translated documents dating from the 12th to 16th centuries demonstrate its wide influence across the whole of Japan, although some scholars have noted " the term bushidō itself is rarely attested in premodern literature.

Pre-tribulation rapture theology was developed in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.

* 9 × 19mm Parabellum: Invented for the German military at the turn of the 20th century, the wide distribution of the 9 × 19mm Parabellum cartridge made it the logical choice for the NATO standard pistol and SMG round.

20th Century music brought a new freedom and wide experimentation with new musical styles and forms that challenged the accepted rules of music of earlier periods.

Walthamstow has a wide variety of housing stock, but the vast majority of residential property was built in the early 20th century.

The Museum also holds James Lafayette's society portraits, a collection of over 600 photographs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries and portraying a wide range of society figures of the period, including bishops, generals, society ladies, Indian maharajas, Ethiopian rulers and other foreign leaders, actresses, people posing in their motor cars and a sequence of photographs recording the guests at the famous fancy dress ball held at Devonshire House in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Nationally, Laren is well known for its history as a late 20th century art colony, preserved in the museum Singer Laren, as well as its wide array of shops.

He also acquired a swath of land 450 feet wide from his property up First Hill to a box of land about 10 acres in size full of timber spanning what is today 20th to 30th Avenues.