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OCC’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities
http://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/capital-markets/financial-markets/trading/derivatives/dq411.pdfThe notional amount of derivatives held by insured U.S. commercial banks fell $17 trillion, or 7%, from the third quarter of 2011, to $231 trillion.
Derivatives are still here and we have never STOPPED it or changed the rules