Traditional banking is taking its lumps right now as low interest rates are squeezing the margins that banks earn on their loans. In the video below, Motley Fool banking analyst Matt Koppenheffer discusses the importance of fee-based and investment-banking businesses in this environment.
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Big Banks Once Again Turn to Trading
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Citigroup

With core banking troubled by low interest rates, the big banks are leaning on once-beleaguered fee-based business and investment banking and trading businesses for profits to offset challenges.
Matt Koppenheffer owns shares of Bank of America. The Motley Fool owns shares of Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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