As banks reported third quarter numbers last month, investors’ attention was already shifting to the potential for their FICC revenues and profits to revive in the fourth quarter as volatility returned with a vengeance to foreign exchange markets in September and to rates and credit in October. JPMorgan chief financial officer Marianne Lake noted “higher levels of market volatility and client volumes than anticipated”, adding that “the green shoot and the potential upside to our performance that we’ve being seeing in early September did in fact materialize and our reported markets revenues were up 1% year-on-year, despite a strong third quarter last year, in which we significantly outperformed.
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