Entries tagged "compensation"

Jones Day's Cornell on regulating exec comp

Jones Day partner John Cornell says that extending compensation control to non-TARP banks is wrong and could increase risk-taking.

Johnstone and Kruszewski on client trust

Davidson's William A. Johnstone and Stifel Nicolaus' CEO Ronald J. Kruszewski spoke about investor trust and compensation at the SIFMA annual meeting.

Pay czar shocks corporate world

Some lawyers say that the Obama Administration is back-pedaling on the President's pledge to ban only pay-structures that encourage employees to take too much risk.

The feds (sort of) crack down on pay

The news that the feds will come down hard on seven institutions that are current recipients of federal bailout money has generally elicited cheers.

Goldman Sachs' (too much) money problems

Who would think that a Wall Street bank would have a dilemma over too much money? But that's what Goldman Sachs has to deal with as it preps to pay year-end bonuses.

The compensation bubble

The 23 largest financial institutions are on track to pay employees record highs this year, or $140 billion in aggregate, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Some bankers still expect a bigger bonus

Even with all of the trash talking about bankers' bonuses, more than a third of Wall Street finance professionals expect their bonuses to increase for 2009.

AIG close to selling Taiwan unit

American International Group CEO Robert Benmosche may soon be bagging another asset sale.

Are the pay czar and the Fed frienemies?

Feinberg's been long expected to come to some sort of determination on executive pay, but what sticks out is the Fed is no longer interested in Feinberg's model.

Pay czar considers moving to Pluto

The Obama administration's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, is a little bit worried about turning in his first batch of compensation adjustments.

RBC shakes up bankers' pay structure

Royal Bank of Canada is shaking things up for its bankers, not by changing management but by adopting a new pay model.

Behind the Fed's move on compensation

The Federal Reserve plans to more aggressively review and regulate compensation plans at some 5,000 banks. The timing, as always, is interesting.

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