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  1. Additionally, investment banks provide liquidity for large clients and by fdefinition, taking something on your own books for the ebenfit of a client is a proprietary trade.

    It’s all such nonsense and Obama comes off looking like he doesn’t really understand any of it, which his advisors should have warned him about.

  2. denton…they’re already getting hung up in the definition of “ptoprietary trading.

    If you’re a bank engaging in businesses globally, you need prop trading the offset risks that you are exposed to.

    Doing agency business, GS oftentimes makes proprietary trades to spread the risk of super large trades it does for clients.

    That said, the truly proprietary stuff is still very, very profitable.

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