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WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported cumulative trading revenue of U.S. commercial banks and savings associations of $16.3 billion in the first quarter of 2026. The first quarter trading revenue was $1.7 billion, or 11.4 percent, more than in the previous quarter and $862 million, or 5.6 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 first quarter of 2026:
- a total of 1,192 insured U.S. national and state commercial banks and savings associations held derivatives.
- four large banks held 79.1 percent of the total banking industry notional amount of derivatives.
- initial credit exposure from derivatives before netting increased in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the fourth quarter of 2025. Net current credit exposure increased $84.1 billion, or 34.8 percent, to $325 billion.
- derivative notional amounts increased in the first quarter of 2026 by $88.4 trillion, or 42.5 percent, to $296.5 trillion.
- derivative contracts remained concentrated in interest rate products, which totaled $203.2 trillion or 68.5 percent of total derivative notional amounts.