The five largest U.S. investment banks churned out their best securities trading performance in five years to report combined revenues just shy of $24 billion for the first quarter of 2018. We capture the trends in securities trading revenues for each of these investment banks over recent years in detail as a part of our interactive model. We highlight key observations related to their trading revenues below. TrefisThe table below details the trend in total securities trading revenues (equity as well as fixed-income) for each of these banks in the last five quarters. This, coupled with the ban on proprietary trading activities under the Dodd-Frank Act, has pushed Goldman lower in the list as the investment bank made a significant chunk of its securities trading revenues from its proprietary trading desks.

Source: Forbes May 07, 2018 16:07 UTC