This is probably not a fair comparison because the illegal gains obtained from their bad behaviour was likely a very small fraction of their overall revenue. Fr

This is probably not a fair comparison because the illegal gains obtained from their bad behaviour was likely a very small fraction of their overall revenue. From the link I posted [0] in my other comment: "The CFTC and OCC orders for Citi have no profit figures at all. So we have one case of Citi making $99,000. The FCA order covers conduct over a six-year period, though that might be a bit generous. Figure 250 trading days a year and you get $150 million of profits for Citi if every single day was as "impressive" and "lovely" as the day singled out by the FCA as, one assumes, a particularly egregious example of manipulation. That's not the case: The CFTC order, for instance, recounts a fixing in which "the Citibank trader reported that he was 'hosed.'" The manipulation was not foolproof, and fools abounded. But take $150 million as an upper bound, and Citi paid about an order of magnitude more in fines than it made in manipulative profits." 0. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-12/banks-manipulated-foreign-exchange-in-ways-you-can-t-teach http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-12/banks-manip...