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Big Figure
Swaps slashed
Large US banks eliminated $24.3 trillion of derivatives notionals in the last three months of 2018, cutting the size of their swaps books by 11% in aggregate. Total notionals reported by the eight US global systemically important banks stood at $196.3 trillion at end-December.
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