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The government is looking to curb them as soon as possible, while banks want to pay the performers who bring in the profits, but is it morally wrong to pay big bonuses so soon after being bailed out f ...

After more than a year of hollowing out, at least some financial employers appear interested in refilling long-empty seats. Yet many observers report those intrepid firms are much more interes ...

With both trading profit and underwriting business rebounding in many markets, the newspapers are rife with stories about the return of boom-era paydays. Goldman allocated $11.36 billion for compen ...

The broad dimensions of the Obama administration's regulatory overhaul set for release this week have been sketched out in media reports. According to The Wall Street Journal, the administration w ...

Are the US government's much-ballyhooed bank stress test results improving transparency, risk management, and therefore building confidence in the ultimate solvency of the system's largest institution ...

If there’s a French trader in your vicinity, he or she is probably looking a little down in la bouche. In a TV appearance last week, President Sarkozy accused equated traders at French banks wit ...

Would the world be better off if most financiers weren't such alpha types? Do we really need our bankers to be among the smartest, best-educated people around? Or, would society as a whole make out ...

They used to be well down the totem pole. But today they rule the roost as never before. Might your career benefit from rubbing shoulders with them for a year or three? We're talking about regulato ...

The bosses of Ford and General Motors have offered to work for salaries of $1 a year if Congress approves the $27bn aid package they’re asking for. It’s difficult not to draw a compari ...

Would you be a banker if most of your pay was at risk for three to five years rather than a maximum of one year? UBS just decided to make itself the test case for overhauling incentive pay. Its ne ...

In de microfoons van Reuters gaf Rijkman Groenink het toe. De gewezen ABN Amro-topman zag een terugkeer wel zitten. Die functie die hij voor zichzelf in gedachten heeft, is er één die we een jaar gele ...

US banks aren't exactly known for a glasnost-style approach to employees who talk openly to the press. But when it comes to blogging they err even more on the side of despotism than usual. Back in ...

De Nederlandse banken en verzekeraars blijven slechts met moeite overeind. Toch vallen er –zeker in vergelijking met de ons omringende landen- weinig ontslagen. Zelfs de geplande ontslagen wegens de w ...

What’s worse for your career (and your ego) – being thrown on the redundancy scrapheap, or having your salary slashed by a quarter? That was the dilemma faced by CLSA staff who were told to ta ...

Terwijl de staat miljarden investeert om de vaderlandse banken te steunen, richt het publieke debat zich slechts op luttele bedragen: de bonussen van de top en subtop van ING, Fortis en ex-ABN Amro. ...

Touted as possible sanctuaries from the problems crippling the Western financial system, do the Middle East or Asia really offer ample job opportunities or even any shelter from redundancies? ...

Na een stressvolle nacht hijs je je in je pak en sleep je jezelf naar kantoor. Als je toegangspasje niet werkt, hoop je een paar seconden dat het weer eens een technische storing betreft. Maar eigenli ...

Now that it's that time of year again when you used to salivate about getting paid… is your biggest year-end purchase going to be a tighter belt? Whether on Wall Street or the City, government honc ...

Speculeren gebeurt niet langer op de beursvloer. Tegenwoordig hebben we daar de werkvloer voor. Talloze bankiers over de hele wereld vragen zich af: ‘Voor wie werk ik nou eigenlijk? En voor hoe lang n ...

When a government has to step in to nationalise one ailing bank, it’s big news. When a government steps in to nationalise two ailing banks, it’s even bigger news. But when a government tries to splash ...