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Byline: George Yacik Receiving Wide Coverage ... It's good to be king: Citigroup, which raised Michael Corbat's 2017 pay by 48% to $23 million, and Goldman Sachs, which increased Lloyd [...]

Bank of America awarded Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan $20 million for his work last year, raising his compensation 25 percent. Moynihan received $18.5 million in stock grants for [...]

Byline: Alan Kline At 63, Lakeland Financial's (LKFN) longtime chief executive Michael Kubacki is two years away from the company's mandatory retirement age. Far from waiting until the last minute, [...]

Banker compensation trends were mixed last year, particularly among the nation's largest institutions. Average CEO compensation at the nation's four largest banks rose 10% in 2013, compared to a year [...]

Byline: Andy Peters Wells Fargo (WFC) shareholders approved compensation for John Stumpf, the chairman and chief executive, at the company's annual meeting Tuesday and also rejected a proposal to split [...]

Byline: Chris Cumming Citigroup (NYSE: C) is overhauling its rules for executive pay to tie compensation more closely to the company's performance. It will link pay to specific targets it [...]

Executive compensation offered in the banking industry has increased. While the level of senior pay increased by approximately 30% in the US in 1996, banking industry analysts believe that bank chief executive officer salaries have increased fivefold in the last ten years. Increases in executive pay have also seen a shift in the compensation structure from cash to equity. One banking industry observer believes that banks calibrate executive pay in terms of excellence; the highest pay will attract the best talent., When it comes to recruiting top talent for banking and financial services, the best costs more than ever. It's also a lot harder to find and hold on to. Mergers. [...]

Byline: Richard S. Cupp In an American Banker Viewpoint last June I noted what problems face the new chief executive of a troubled or otherwise challenged bank - those Main [...]

Byline: Matthew Monks Dividend increases, acquisitions and loan growth - three things big banks and their shareholders have been longing for - could be in the cards for 2011, chief [...]

Byline: Credit Union Journal Though some credit union CEOs continue to express dismay at NCUA in the wake of its announced plan to expand its budget - and many employees' [...]

Byline: Paul Davis, Heather Landy and Matthew Monks No. 1 - Oh, No Henry Meyer is No. 1 and Dowd Ritter No. 2 on a roster neither of them will [...]

A survey of chief executives by American Banker/Heidrick & Struggles finds that most bank officers want their salaries to reflect their bank's performance rather than personal achievements. Banking consultants, however, say the compensation system needs overhauling before effective change can start. Bank accounting systems do not regulate compensation as well as they should because of changing regulations. Boards of directors must offer less employee incentives, such as stock options, and focus more on executive base salary development., When it comes to compensation, chief executive officers of banks believe they should be rewarded for the performance of their banks, not for their personal performance. That's the key finding [...]

Bank CEOs' total compensation increased 1% this year, compared with a 4.7% increase last year, according to a survey released Thursday. Crowe Horwath LLP's 2009 Comprehensive Financial Institution Compensation Survey, [...]

John Thain, the Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. chairman and chief executive officer under fire for suggesting that its board's compensation committee pay him a multimillion-dollar bonus, will be going [...]

Wachovia Corp. said the salary of its chairman, president, and chief executive, Kennedy G. Thompson, was unchanged last year from a year earlier, at $1.09 million, because the company failed [...]

The average salary for chief executive officers at community banks rose 5.2% this year, to $213,000, according to the annual compensation and benefits survey America's Community Bankers released Wednesday. The [...]

WASHINGTON -- After soaring for years, compensation packages for the chief executives at the Federal Home Loan banks declined slightly last year. The packages - including annual salary, bonuses, and [...]

Citigroup Inc. chairman and chief executive Charles O. Prince earned $26 million last year, a 13% increase, according to a filing late Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. [...]

Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, John Sununu of New Hampshire, and Mel Martinez of Florida say they want explanations for why big bonuses were approved for top executives at [...]

Asta Funding Inc., an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., buyer of distressed consumer receivables, approved salary increases for its top executives and directors. The company said last week in a filing to [...]

WASHINGTON -- In the three decades that America's Community Bankers has been publishing its annual bank compensation and benefits survey, one consistent trend has been that executive salaries generally rise [...]

Little more than a week after Countrywide Financial Corp. confirmed that its longtime chief would be staying on, the fast-growing rival it spawned two decades ago said its leader would, [...]

MasterCard Inc. awarded chief executive Robert W. Selander 287,341 restricted shares and the option to buy 192,300 shares at the initial public offering price of $39 each. Seven other executives [...]

WASHINGTON -- Running a financial trade association is getting more lucrative. The average pay for the top executive at 11 groups surveyed by American Banker climbed to $1.39 million in [...]

The struggling Irvine, Calif., subprime mortgage lender and real estate investment trust ECC Capital Corp. said its management team has agreed to take significant pay cuts. John Kohler, ECC's executive [...]

The compensation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. chairman William B. Harrison Jr. rose 38% last year, to $22 million, the company reported Friday. Chief executive officer James Dimon was paid [...]

KeyCorp's chairman and chief executive, Henry Meyer, got a 41% pay increase last year. Mr. Meyer, who has held those titles at the $93.1 billion-asset Cleveland banking company since 2001, [...]

Wachovia Corp. chief executive G. Kennedy Thompson's compensation fell about 6% last year, to $16.9 million, according to a securities filing Monday. Mr. Thompson's salary increased $90,000 from the $1 [...]

Richard M. Kovacevich, Wells Fargo & Co.'s chairman and chief executive, received a $7 million bonus for 2005, slightly less than in the preceding years, Wells disclosed Monday. In 2003 [...]

Fifth Third Bancorp chief executive George A. Schaefer Jr. received a pay cut last year for the third consecutive year. The $105.2 billion-asset Cincinnati company's compensation committee cut bonuses for [...]

Fannie Mae chief executive Dan Mudd made $3.6 million in cash last year and $8 million in restricted stock, the company announced late Wednesday in a Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

Mellon Financial Corp. revealed the compensation package for Robert P. Kelly, its new chairman, president, and chief executive. The Pittsburgh company said in a regulatory filing late Monday that Mr. [...]

Comerica Inc. said that chairman and chief executive Ralph W. Babb Jr. would receive a base salary of $927,025 this year, as well as a $2.21 million bonus for his [...]

Synovus Financial Corp. said the base pay of its president and chief executive, Richard E. Anthony, would increase 5% this year, to $819,000. The $27 billion-asset Columbus, Ga., banking company [...]

Some banking companies are changing elements of the chief executive's compensation packages to tie pay more closely to corporate performance. In recent weeks two of the nation's biggest banking companies [...]

G. Kennedy Thompson, Wachovia Corp.'s chairman, president, and chief executive has torn up his employment contract. The $532 billion-asset Charlotte company said Thursday in a filing with the Securities and [...]

Charles T. Fote gave up his job as First Data Corp.'s chief executive last week, but the Denver processor will pay him the same base salary, as a consultant: $1.1 [...]

Running a bank these days may be more demanding than ever before, but it appears that chief executives are at least being well compensated for their trouble. A survey released [...]

Some banking companies featured in a recent ranking of chief executives' pay packages are protesting the report's methodology. They say the report that SNL Financial LC released last week is [...]

Charles K. 'Chad' Gifford, who will retire as Bank of America Corp.'s chairman at the end of January, will be eligible for a bonus of up to $8 million this [...]

Freddie Mac has begun the process of unfreezing the compensation it owes its former chairman and chief executive officer, Leland C. Brendsel. The government-sponsored enterprise said Friday that it could [...]

What is a CEO worth? The J.P. Morgan Chase-Bank One deal raises the question anew. A New York Times story and a lawsuit apparently based on it say Bank One's [...]

(part 1 of 5) M.R. Greenberg American International Group Daniel P. Amos AFLAC Robert H. Benmosche MetLife Edward M. Liddy Allstate Jay S. Fishman St. Paul Travelers Brian Duperreault ACE [...]

For the second year in a row restricted stock formed a larger slice of the financial services chief executive compensation pie. Experts say that increase reflects a growing trend in [...]

(part 1 of 5) Salary Charles M. Cawley MBNA $3,000,000 Charles Prince Citigroup 638,636 Kenneth D. Lewis Bank of America 1,500,000 William B. Harrison Jr.J.P. Morgan Chase 1,000,000 Richard M. [...]

What some chief executives gave up last year in cash and stock options, they may actually have gotten back in the form of restricted stock grants. Such benefits are becoming [...]

A good chunk of the highest-paid bank and nonbank chief executives had the value of their own holdings of company stock dip in 2002 -- in some cases by more [...]

Compensation for the chief executive officers of financial institutions fell last year, reflecting the dampening effects of the market malaise, but investment bankers still took home more cash than most. [...]

On CEOs, Manhattan As the nation paused Wednesday to reflect on the events of Sept. 11 2001, two prominent New York bankers took time out to participate in a day [...]