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Carl Levin: “Did the banks, either of your banks, from these tens of millions of trades that were executed every year in your…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2014
Did the banks, either of your banks, from these tens of millions of trades that were executed every year in your accounts for the option basket and from the billions of dollars of profits earned in those accounts, did your banks receive any of the profits from the trading activity after you deducted what was owed to Renaissance?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin questions if banks profited from trading after payments to Renaissance.

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