Commentary: Payouts for whistleblowers aren’t enough. Workers need to know they can make a difference

Recently, a former employee of Deutsche Bank hit the jackpot. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission awarded this publicly unnamed whistleblower almost $200 million for supplying “specific, credible, and timely original information” that aided the agency in its investigation into the illegal rigging of inter-bank interest rates. This was the largest whistleblower payment in history.

The former bank employee now joins a select group of whistleblowers who not only spoke out and were heard by the authorities, but also were rewarded