The major banks’ recent effort, led by Citigroup, to convince the US Congress to repeal a key provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that would have pushed much of their short-term trading to distant affiliates (which are not too big to fail) reinforces this interpretation. The banks know that they will receive more business if they run their trading desks from the part of their corporate group that has the strongest government backing.
衡量短期债务增长并不容易。但数量很有可能非常大。最近，以花旗集团为首的大银行说服国会撤消了2010年多德-弗兰克华尔街改革和消费者保护法（Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act）的一项关键条款。该条款要求银行将大量短期交易划归关系疏远的附属机构（不在“太大而不能倒”之列）。大银行的这一做法强化了这一解读。银行知道，如果它们在受政府支持最大的公司集团中运营交易部门，将能够获得更多业务。