OCC Reports Second Quarter 2025 Bank Trading Revenue — 2025-09-25

WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported cumulative trading revenue of U.S. commercial banks and savings associations of $16.6 billion in the second quarter of 2025. The second quarter trading revenue was $1.6 billion, or 10.7 percent, more than in the previous quarter and $355 million, or 2.2 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 2025: a total of 1,217 insured U.S. national and state commercial banks and savings associations held derivatives. four large banks held 87.3 percent of the total banking industry notional amount of derivatives. initial credit exposure from derivatives before netting increased in the second quarter of 2025 compared with the first quarter of 2025. Net current credit exposure increased $18.8 billion, or 7.6 percent, to $267.0 billion.