From the outset , trade finance was a strong feature of the bank s business with bullion , exchange and merchant banking also playing an important part . additionally , the bank issued notes in many countries throughout the far east 自开业以来，一直以贸易融资为主要业务，黄金买卖、外汇及商人银行服务亦举足轻重。此外，该行还在远东许多国家发行钞票。
Midland was founded in 1836 in birmingham and had grown in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a series of mergers and amalgamations . in 1974 midland acquired the london merchant bank of samuel montagu , whose own distinguished history stretches back to 1853 米特兰于1836年在伯明翰成立，并在十九及二十世纪期间透过一连串合并扩展业务，包括在1974年收购伦敦商人银行samuel montagu 。
