FX Poll 1997: Overall

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
17	–	Sumitomo Bank	1.69
18	–	Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank	1.68
19	17	Royal Bank of Canada	1.64
20	13	Standard Chartered	1.60
21	–	Morgan Stanley	1.43
22	25	First Chicago	1.41
23	–	AIG International	1.33
24	26	Société Générale	1.32
25	–	Sanwa Bank	1.19
26	27	Fuji Bank	1.17
27	22	Bankers Trust	1.16
28	16	S-E-Banken	1.08
29	–	Dresdner Kleinwort Benson	1.07
30	15	Banque Indosuez/Crédit Agricole	1.03

Top salespeople in foreign exchange
97	96	*Name, institution & city*	*Score*
1	–	Andreas Karthaus, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Frankfurt	8
2	–	Atsushi Kobayashi, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Tokyo	7
3=	–	Frank Tepedino, Merrill Lynch, New York	6
3=	–	Keith Bradshaw, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, London	6
3=	–	Stuart Alden, NatWest, London	6

How do you choose your forex bank?
97	96		*Score*
1	2	Price alone	146.

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