"merchant community" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to reference a group of merchants, as in, "The local merchant community has grown substantially in recent years."
The presence of a large European merchant community was especially profitable for Christians in Aleppo, who often served as commercial agents and translators.
Liberalization, coupled with tentative moves at decentralization under Anwar Sadat, Nasser's successor, revived calls by the merchant community for greater financial autonomy.
In 1852 he was transferred to Senegal as deputy director of engineers and soon impressed the local merchant community as a capable and energetic administrator.
New York's merchant community led the nonimportation program that forced repeal of the measure in 1766, even as the assembly refused to deliver food and cider to British soldiers quartered in the city.
A Roman town, Arrabona, originally succeeded a Neolithic settlement and a Celtic merchant community; Győr continued for centuries as a prosperous agricultural centre with special focus on horse breeding, viticulture, and grain production.
Bancorp is not among those banks, but Visa and MasterCard could eventually come under pressure from the big banks or the merchant community to reduce what it pays all banks, no matter their size.
The version of Bazaar Malay used in Chinese merchant communities in Malaysia is called Baba Malay.
Meanwhile, merchant communities had attached themselves to the more-accessible castle towns and dioceses in northern Italy and on the main routes to the Rhineland and Champagne.
However, you implied that firms managed along the lines of traditional merchant communities such as the Marwari baniyas are unprofessional or void of meritocracy.
In the early 18th century, trade began with the interior of the island, and strong links were built up with the merchant communities in Fuzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian province on the Chinese mainland.
The seminar highlights new findings from often overlooked archives (for instance, those relating to Jewish and Italian merchant communities), focusing on a specific time-period: from the arrival of European merchants in Cape Verde through the first decade of the seventeenth century (roughly 1460 1610).
