The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported cumulative trading revenue of U.S. commercial banks and savings associations of $15.8 billion in the second quarter of 2024. The second quarter trading revenue was $218 million, or 1.4 percent, more than in the previous quarter and $2.2 billion, or 16.0 percent, more than a year earlier.
In the report, Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities, the OCC also reported that as of the second quarter of 2024:
- a total of 1,231 insured U.S. national and state commercial banks and savings associations held derivatives.
- four large banks held 88.1 percent of the total banking industry notional amount of derivatives.
- credit exposure from derivatives increased in the second quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2024. Net current credit exposure increased $9.0 billion, or 3.4 percent, to $260.0 billion.
- derivative notional amounts increased in the second quarter of 2024 by $2 trillion, or 1.0 percent, to $208.1 trillion.
- derivative contracts remained concentrated in interest rate products, which totaled $145.0 trillion or 69.7 percent of total derivative notional amounts.
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Source: OCC
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