Facing heavy demand from clients to trade, the largest six US banks increased their trading book inventory in the second quarter without suffering negative consequences. After reporting eight regulatory value-at-risk exceptions in the first quarter, only Bank of America experienced a single breach of its VaR limit in Q2.
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