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• Reining in executive pay | Michael Meacher

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The top pay commission is a paper tiger and offers no real solution to runaway executive salaries. More force is needed The House of Commons public administration select committee has just called for a top pay commission as a solution to the outrage of runaway pay at the top. It would certainly help, but its no ...
  9 hours ago

• Barclays hands out pay rises to investment bankers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • 23,000 Barclays Capital staff to receive individual rises • Bob Diamond makes £5m after selling bank shares Up to 23,000 investment bankers at Barclays have been handed pay rises in the last few days in a move that may inflame the ongoing row about City pay. It comes as the bank revealed that high-profile ...
  22 hours ago

• Barclays chief reveals £5m share disposal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Barclays president cashed in 1.8m shares worth £5m • 23,000 Barclays Capital bankers get hefty pay rises Bob Diamond , president of Barclays, has sold £5m of shares in the high-street bank in recent days in what is his first disposal of shares since joining the board of the bank four years ago. His ...
  1 day ago

• Letters: Public sector pay rise will be a bonus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Your report suggests public sector workers have false expectations about pay rises in 2010 ( State workers expect decent pay rises despite curb , 22 December). The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development report says that 57% of public sector workers expect a pay rise that is equal to or greater than that in ...
  1 day ago

• Justice in pay packets starts at the top. Across the board

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Finally, moves are afoot to restrain out-of-control salaries – in the public sector. But the contagion comes from private firms At last! The House of Commons public administration select committee yesterday called for a top pay commission . About time, you might think, to restrain out-of-control salaries that ...
  2 days ago

• Bailout pay czar OKs $4.3-million boost for AIG exec

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 132
  Bailed-out insurer American International Group today got permission to award $4.3 million in compensation to an employee who agreed to stay with the firm. The employee, who wasn’t named, currently draws an annual salary of $450,000. The pay boost approved by Kenneth Feinberg , the Obama administration’s pay ...
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• Supertax on bonuses unfair on fund managers in banks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • HMRC guidelines exempts stockbrokers and asset managers • Supertax proposal unlikely to breach Human Rights Act The government was being warned last night that its supertax on bonuses could discriminate against fund managers and private equity experts working inside banks, as more guidance was issued about ...
  3 days ago

• Salary, bonus rise for Laclede’s Yaeger

  
  Mound City Money — Authority: 470
  Laclede Group Chief Executive Douglas Yaeger saw his total compensation rise 32 percent in fiscal 2009, according to a proxy statement filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but much of the rise came from an increase in pension…
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• Taxing bankers bonuses does not breach their human rights

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Committee of MPs and peers concludes that new tax is compatible with European law When it emerged that Alistair Darling was planning to announce a tax on bankers bonuses in the pre-budget report, some figures in the City seemed to think that their human rights were about to be infringed. Bill Dodwell, the head of ...
  3 days ago

• Who needs casino bankers? | Stephanie Blankenburg

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  If the bonus tax sends a few traders and investment bankers abroad, so what? We must take power back from the risk-takers Andy Haldanes comments on the BBC World Service in defence of the bonus supertax on banks are important, not because the supertax will do much to get us out of the worst economic crisis for a ...
  6 days ago

• Is an exodus of bankers a price worth paying?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Andy Haldane, the banks head of financial stability, says he would accept a mass movement of bankers abroad if it facilitated lasting reform of the sector
  6 days ago

• Banking exodus a price worth paying, Bank official says

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Andy Haldane said that the effort to reform the City should not be delayed A senior Bank of England official says that bankers moving overseas to avoid the bonus supertax could be a price worth paying to achieve lasting reform of the sector. Andy Haldane, the banks head of financial stability, also said that banks ...
  6 days ago

• Banks called on to cut discretionary distributions to boost capital

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Bank of England calls on banks to hoard profits • Reducing discretionary distributions could boost capital Pressure on banks to rein in their bonus payments this year was ratcheted up today with a call by the Bank of England for them to hoard profits and bolster capital rather than make "discretionary" ...
  6 days ago

• Bankers plot for voluntary contributions to oust tax on bonuses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Bankers to suggest raising £2bn to avoid bonus tax • Alistair Darlings £550m target may be an underestimate Some of the most senior bankers in Britain are planning to convince the Treasury to drop the new 50% tax on bonuses by dangling the prospect of a combined contribution to the exchequer of £2bn. The ...
  1 week ago

• We need to talk about banks | John McFall

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Future of Banking Commission will widen the discussion on bank practices, to include the public and keep the debate alive We can see worrying signs that the banks are going back to business as usual. Yet their customers seem to have slipped below the radar. A barrage of reports and reviews – Turner , De ...
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• Upwards in brightness and joy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Steve Bells If ...
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• Punch investors vote down pay report

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  55% oppose big bonuses at Punch Taverns in face of huge losses Britains biggest pub landlord suffered a huge shareholder revolt todayas investors showed their anger at boardroom pay levels. More than 55% of shareholders voted against the Punch Taverns pay report at the groups annual meeting in protest at huge grants ...
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• Someone is going offshore!

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Steve Bells If ... Steve Bell
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• Viewpoint: RBS head complains of politicisation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  What a relief, the board of Royal Bank of Scotland never threatened a mass resignation, says chairman Sir Philip Hampton, and the directors are "wholly committed to their legal and other duties and will remain so". Hold on, theres a sub-clause – "on the basis that they are able to discharge them". Hampton was ...
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• RBS head bullish over commercial bonuses after 1,000 bankers leave

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sir Philip Hampton stresses need to keep top staff, but stops short of threatening a mass board resignation The chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland today insisted that it needed to pay "commercial" bonuses despite attempts by the government to crack down on City pay practices. Speaking at a sparsely attended ...
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