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The number of UK bankers earning at least '1m (£833,200) rose to more than 2,700 last year, in a new City pay explosion. The figure is 12 times more than [...]

Byline: Jill Treanor The financial rewards handed to the City's highest-paid bankers rose by a third last year - and more than 2,700 of them were paid more than euros [...]

Byline: Nick Goodway and Jonathan Prynn THE number of UK bankers earning at least [euro]1 million soared to more than 2,700 last year, in a new City pay explosion. The [...]

ON Wall Street, most bankers are paid a convoluted formula of cash and stock that's determined by committee. At the boutique brokerage firm Sandler O'Neill, it's old school: Everyone gets [...]

Soon after the financial crisis, international regulators identified Wall Street's lush pay packages as one of the culprits and proposed an overhaul that was meant to apply equally to employees [...]

Byline: Terry Macalister An EU crackdown on bankers' bonuses in the City of London is doomed to failure and will just lead to a surge in basic salaries and other [...]

The German banking giant Commerzbank has expressed anger after the Court of Appeal upheld a decision that more than 100 London investment bankers should receive '52m (£44m) in unpaid bonuses. [...]

Byline: Gideon Spanier MORE than 100 London investment bankers who sued Commerzbank for [euro]52 million (£44 million) over unpaid bonuses today won a landmark victory when the Court of Appeal [...]

Byline: Juergen Baetz brussels The European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favor of reforms to strengthen the bloc's financial sector, including a new law to cap bankers' bonuses. The rule [...]

8:57 p.m. | Updated LONDON -- British banks have been suffering amid dismal earnings, scandals and regulatory investigations, but three of the country's largest financial firms handed out seven-figure pay [...]

London I was talking the other day to a U.S. banker who works in the City for a British bank. He was complaining about a decision-making process that was cumbersome [...]

March 05--BoNY-headed: Anybody think Bank of New York Mellon might be dealing with a teensy-weensy morale problem these days? Thursday last, the banking giant paid more than 100 managers bonuses [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBRUSSELS -- The British finance minister, George Osborne, is expected Tuesday to urge his European Union counterparts to water down proposed rules restricting the size of bankers' bonuses. The [...]

Byline: Ian Traynor and Nicholas Watt David Cameron was put on notice last night that no other EU leader is likely to support his campaign to rewrite the terms of [...]

LONDON Europe is pushing to cap bankers' bonuses, but the bankers, once again, may be a step or two ahead of the rule makers. Like a thunderclap, the European proposal [...]

BRUSSELS -- The European Union took a big step Thursday toward putting strict limits on the bonuses paid to bankers, hoping to discourage the risk-taking behavior that set off the [...]

There is a stretch limousine that drives around the City of London every evening of the week. It is picking up top traders and bankers and taking them to the [...]

Byline: Jonathan Prynn, Pippa Crerar and Nicholas Cecil BORIS JOHNSON today slammed proposals from Brussels for strict new caps in bankers' bonuses as 'a boost for Zurich, Singapore and New [...]

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, yesterday warned that 'corrosive' inequality was hindering the world's economic recovery. In a combative speech to an audience of some of the [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF COMMENT & ANALYSIS / GLOBE UNLIMITED / ROB INSIGHT News that Mark Carney will receive total annual compensation of £890,000 ($1.4-million), including a pricey housing allowance, to [...]

Byline: PAUL WALDIE PUBLIC FINANCE LONDON -- Mark Carney is discovering that the Bank of England governor's job comes with a lot more scrutiny than he is used to. The [...]

Byline: George Hay; Reuters REUTERSBREAKINGVIEWS Bank shareholders have claimed another scalp. Earlier this week, over half of Citigroup's shareholders voted against the U.S. bank's executive pay plan. Now Barclays, which [...]

Byline: Simon Bowers The former boss of Greggs, who built the bakery business into one of the UK's most successful high street chains, has become the first senior executive to [...]

Byline: Nick Goodway BANKERS at Credit Suisse are set to take the biggest cut in bonuses so far in the 2011 bank reporting season. Across the group, which employs thousands [...]

Byline: Nick Goodway Feb. 09--Bankers at Credit Suisse are set to take the biggest cut in bonuses so far in the 2011 bank reporting season. Across the group, which employs [...]

CARSTEN Kengeter, head of investment banking at UBS, has given up his bonus for last year after the Swiss bank lost more than $2 billion (£1.26 billion) following alleged fraud [...]

The banks are doing this to be nice to their littlest bankers but also to spare the feelings of their big kid bankers. Credit Suisse has in recent weeks increased [...]

Barclays Plc is planning to raise pay for junior investment bankers as the bank seeks to retain talent, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Some Barclays junior employees [...]

The kind you can use to buy stuff today, rather than the look-but-don't-touch-until-we-tell-you variety the firm was partial to several years back. James Gorman's bank is paying its workers more [...]

FRANKFURT -- For Philipp M. Hildebrand, it was a reminder of what happens when you get between bankers and their bonuses. Mr. Hildebrand, the president of the Swiss central bank, [...]

I HAVE a solution for the problem of bankers who take risks that threaten the general public: Eliminate bonuses. More than three years since the global financial crisis started, financial [...]

Byline: Jill Treanor, City editor Bankers' pay should be radically overhauled, according to one of the Bank of England's most senior policymakers, who last night called for a closer link [...]

Pirc, the corporate governance group, is unimpressed by the news that Royal Bank of Scotland staff sold hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of shares on Monday, on the first [...]

Byline: Richard Wachman in Amsterdam Britain has a rival when it comes to bashing bankers. After a furious row over pay packages at Amsterdam-based ING in which thousands of customers [...]

Compensation for bank bosses is creeping back to the bad old days. Sure, nearly all of them now pocket a smaller amount each year than either they or their predecessors [...]

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has accused bankers of being "tainted" by their huge bonuses. He called the payments "indefensible" at a time when Britain faced a struggle […]

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has accused bankers of being "tainted" by their huge bonuses. He called the payments "indefensible" at a time when Britain faced a struggle […]