FX Poll 1997: Taken aback by a leap forward
| Top 30 by % share of forex market | |||
| 97 | 96 | Bank | Estimated share (%) |
| 1 | 1 | Citibank | 8.30 |
| 2 | 4 | NatWest | 5.62 |
| 3 | 24 | Merrill Lynch | 5.18 |
| 4 | 9 | Deutsche Morgan Grenfell | 4.79 |
| 5 | 2 | Chase | 4.65 |
| 6 | 10 | SBC Warburg | 4.43 |
| 7 | 5 | JP Morgan | 4.40 |
| 8 | 14 | Goldman Sachs | 3.82 |
| 9 | 3 | HSBC Midland | 3.24 |
| 10 | 7 | BZW | 3.14 |
| 11 | 8 | Bank of America | 2.56 |
| 12 | 12 | Credit Suisse First Boston | 2.39 |
| 13 | 19 | Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi | 2.14 |
| 14 | 6 | Union Bank of Switzerland | 1.87 |
| 15 | 11 | ABN Amro Hoare Govett | 1.82 |
| 16 | 28 | Commerzbank | 1.78 |