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Show Him the Money Riggs National Corp. earned a reputation as a big spender long before regulators sanctioned it for its failure to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act. Expenses [...]

Total compensation for Fannie Mae's top five executives jumped 52% last year, to $36.3 million, even though the government-sponsored enterprise came under increasing scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers. Fannie disclosed [...]

Though Bank of America Corp.'s chief executive got no increase in salary or bonus last year, the $40 million he took home was about double his 2002 compensation, because of [...]

Since Congress lifted limits on the pay of the 12 Federal Home Loan Bank presidents five years ago, their compensation has soared even in years when financial performance soured. But [...]

Bonuses and stock-based compensation returned with a bang last year, as bank chief executives got credit for boosting shareholder returns after a dismal 2002. However, compensation consultants said bank directors [...]

Byline: tom fredrickson After managing bank branches for 18 years, Dianne Gartelman is coming into her own. The manager of Independence Community Bank's $160 million branch in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, has [...]

Chief executives of community banks got their biggest pay increases in at least seven years in 2002, thanks largely to a refinancing boom that led to record earnings for many [...]

Those bankers lucky enough to have avoided pink slips in this horror of a year for Wall Street now face another grim sign of the times-severely reduced salaries and bonuses. [...]

Seeking to make managers accountable for growth tied to shareholder value, the holding company National Commerce Financial Corp. has pegged 2002 bonuses to cash earnings-per-share growth. Management will receive no [...]

Last year may have been the year everyone on Wall Street shared in the wealth, but this year the goodies are concentrated at the top. As the market muddles through [...]

A little-noticed by-product of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act has been a dramatic improvement in the personal bottom lines of the Federal Home Loan banks' presidents. Gramm-Leach-Bliley freed boards to give their [...]

Five million of the old Canadian dollar bills laid flat, side by side, would carpet seven football fields, end zones included. It's enough to buy 15 comfortable homes in Toronto [...]

Maybe 'plastics' wasn't such good career advice after all. The average salary for corporate chief financial officers in 1999 rose 9.3%, to $175,870, and many other finance specialists' pay had [...]

John B. McCoy, CEO Bank One $12.01M Walter V. Shipley, CEO Chase $11.16M Frank N. Newman, co-CEO Bankers Trust $11.0M Sanford I. Weill, co-CEO Citigroup $10.18M John S. Reed, co-CEO [...]

MEMPHIS - Ralph Horn, chairman and chief executive officer of First Tennessee National Corp., received about $1.24 million in salary and bonus in 1999, about 13% more than in 1998. [...]

To recruit and retain talent, Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., is trying to make its executive stock option program more attractive. Currently, the $6.2 billion-asset bank holding company may [...]

Wall Street pay practices have improved somewhat since the global financial crisis of 2008, but banks still aren't tying compensation to long-term gains in performance, a white paper commissioned by [...]