Trading Desks Trade Less, Lend More
What does the trading business of a big bank do? One crude model might be: In the olden days, perhaps 20 years ago, the trading division did trading. It did customer facilitation trading (dealing, market making): buying securities that customers wanted to sell, selling securities that customers wanted to buy, using the bank’s balance sheet and collecting a spread for that service. And it did........
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