Risk-taking is back for banks 1 year after crisis

Published September 12, 2009 4:00am ET



NEW YORK (AP) — A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation’s biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others — which have received tens of billions of dollars in federal aid — are once more betting big on bonds, commodities and exotic financial products, trading that nearly stopped during the financial crisis.

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