Editorial: Box score -- 24 percent
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (June 29, 2012) Credit: Getty Images
That's the percentage of senior officials in the financial services industry who said such pros may need to do unethical or illegal things to succeed. And 26 percent said they'd observed or had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing. The poll, of 500 bankers and other high-level financial types in the United States and Britain, was sponsored by a law firm for whistleblowers and portrays the industry as ethically challenged; 16 percent of respondents admitted they'd commit illegal insider trading if they could get away with it.
