2 of the more significant changes in the Volcker 2.0 proposal would a) give banks more latitude to trade to help clients e.g. market make b) would scrap a presumption that trading positions held for fewer than 60 days are proprietary unless a bank can prove otherwise.
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US regulators begin major easing of Volcker rule
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said in 2012 that under the Volcker rule “if you want to be trading, you have to have a lawyer and a psychiatrist sitting next to you determining what was your intent every time you did something”.
