The verdict matters much more than the punishment. On March 22nd the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ordered Deutsche Bank to pay €541,074 ($768,942) damages, plus interest, for failing to advise a middle-size client on the true risk of a complex swap transaction. Hardly life-threatening for Germany's biggest bank, but sobering for the industry. "Ille Papier-Service brings Deutsche Bank to its knees", crowed the plaintiff, a small paper company based near Frankfurt, on its website. Ille had twice been on the wrong side of decisions in lower courts but this time the judges "understood the nature of the transaction", said Jochen Weck of Rossner, the company's lawyers.
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机译：判决比处罚更重要。 3月22日，卡尔斯鲁厄联邦法院命令德意志银行（Deutsche Bank）支付541,074欧元（合768,942美元）的损失以及利息，原因是未能就复杂掉期交易的真实风险向中型客户提供咨询。对于德国最大的银行来说，这几乎没有生命危险，但对于银行业来说却是令人沉痛的。原告是法兰克福附近的一家小型造纸公司，在其网站上说：“ Ille Papier-Service使德意志银行屈服”。该公司律师罗斯纳（Rossner）的约克·威克（Jochen Weck）表示，伊勒曾两次在下级法院做出错误的决定，但这次法官“理解了交易的性质”。
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