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  • Cash-strapped Credit Suisse considers halving its bonus pool following £1.7bn loss

    Credit Suisse

    Credit Suisse is considering cutting its bonus pool by 50 per cent as the embattled investment bank seeks to cut costs, Bloomberg has reported. The Swiss asset manager faced a challenging 2022 when its share price sunk 67 per cent. In the nine months to September 2022, Credit Suisse swung to a pretax loss of [...]

  • City bosses more Santa than Scrooge this Christmas as it rains parties, presents and bonuses in London

    Christmas handouts

    Despite economic difficulties, London bosses are still planning to give their staff Christmas parties, presents, or bonuses.  London employers appear to be going bigger on bonuses, with 56 per cent of London staff expecting a Christmas bonus, compared with just 23 per cent of those in both the South East and South West, and only [...]

  • Former City minister: Scrapping bonus cap could have waited ‘a little longer’

    JOHN GLEN SPEAKS

    John Glen, the former City minister, has said the decision to scrap the bankers’ bonus cap should have waited amid a cost of living crisis. Glen told the Following the Rules podcast that the removal of the cap, announced last week by new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, “was something that I would have deferred for a [...]

  • Govt defends unlimited City bonuses: ‘Finance jobs should be in London, not in New York or Paris’ 

    September 26, 2022

    The government defended its intention to lift the bankers bonus cap this morning, saying it wants to protect and attract job creation in the City and Canary Wharf, rather than other finance hubs taking over. “We want finance jobs to be here, to be in London, not in New York or Paris,” said  Work and Pensions [...]

  • Scrapping bankers’ bonus cap is only a signal, but it is a signal nonetheless

    September 21, 2022

    AN UNPOPULAR politician is usually a short-lived phenomenon. It appears Liz Truss is hoping that by the time the impacts of her unpopular decisions will be felt, the benefits will be so obvious the electorate will forget their initial teeth-gnashing. She may well be right. Even this column would accept that removing the bankers’ bonus [...]

  • Bird & Bird hands staff £1,000 each to deal with UK’s cost-of-living crunch

    July 5, 2022

    London law firm Bird & Bird is set to pay £1,000 bonuses to more than 300 of its staff to help them deal with the cost-of-living crisis. The law firm said it will give £1,000 “cost of living allowance” payments to all employees who earn less £50,000 per annum this month, to help them manage [...]

  • Lloyds Bank to pay staff extra £1,000 each to deal with UK’s cost-of-living crisis

    June 13, 2022

    Lloyds Bank is set to pay £1,000 bonuses to the vast majority of its UK staff to help them deal with the cost-of-living crisis. The UK’s biggest retail bank is set to give one-off, £1,000 bonuses to more than 64,000 of its rank-and-file staff, according to an internal memo seen by City A.M. The bank [...]

  • Chief executive pay at FTSE 100 firms bounces back to pre-pandemic levels

    May 30, 2022

    The sums paid out to chief executives at the City’s major listed firms have bounced back to pre-pandemic levels, after jumping 30 per cent over the previous year to five year highs of £3.62m. The pay packages mark a return to levels last seen before the pandemic and a 30 per cent increase on the [...]

  • Goldman Sachs boosts junior bankers’ pay to over $110k after 95-hour work week complaints

    August 3, 2021

    Goldman Sachs has become the last of the Wall Street banking giants to bump up pay for its junior investment bankers, after analysts at the bank sent a presentation to management revealing colossal workloads. First-year analysts at the bank will now make between $110,000 and $150,000. Upon their second year at the bank, analysts’ base [...]

  • Limits on City bonuses could be scrapped under post-Brexit plans

    August 2, 2021

    Ministers are reportedly considering removing caps on bankers’ bonuses, in a bid to make the City a more atttractive business hub post-Brexit. The preliminary plans to remove all existing restrictions and EU rules are in their initial stages and are yet to be part of any public consultations, The Times reports. Ministers are reportedly wary [...]

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