U.S. derivatives regulators imposed and collected record penalties in fiscal 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Friday.

Enforcement results for fiscal 2015 show that the CFTC imposed a record US$3.14 billion in civil monetary penalties during the year. The CFTC also reports that more than US$2.8 billion in penalties was collected during the year, which is also a record.

“Integrity of the markets is at the core of our mission, and I am dedicated to ensuring that the agency has an aggressive enforcement program to protect customers and prevent fraud and manipulation,” said CFTC chairman, Timothy Massad, in statement.

In addition to the US$3.14 billion in civil monetary penalties, the CFTC was also awarded US$59 million in restitution and disgorgement orders during the year, bringing the CFTC’s total monetary sanctions for fiscal 2015 to over US$3.2 billion.

Approximately 90% of the CFTC’s major fraud and manipulation cases also involved parallel criminal proceedings, the regulator reports. During the year, there were indictments against 24 individuals and criminal judgments against 35 individuals and firms, resulting in sentences of up to 21 years in prison, restitution orders of over US$265 million, and almost US$4.2 billion in penalties and fines resulting from parallel actions taken against seven banks in connection with the forex and LIBOR manipulation cases.

The CFTC filed a total of 69 enforcement actions in fiscal 2015, focusing on market manipulation, spoofing, fraud, and compliance violations, the regulator notes. Among these cases, it continued to devote significant resources to litigating complex matters, and to enforcing the new authorities granted under the Dodd-Frank Act, including enforcement of the Commodity Exchange Act’s new anti-spoofing clause and new anti-manipulation authority. It also prosecuted benchmark rate manipulation cases, which generated the largest monetary penalty in CFTC history (US$800 million) against Deutsche Bank; along with the first cases charging attempted manipulation of forex benchmarks and the ISDAFix rate.

During the year, the CFTC issued approximately 200 requests for assistance to foreign regulators, and received approximately 30 assistance requests from foreign regulators, it reports.