Private Sector Banks Should Rein In Bonuses Too, Says Ed Miliband
Private sector banks, as well as the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, have a responsibility to rein in big bonuses, Ed Mi...
Private sector banks, as well as the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, have a responsibility to rein in big bonuses, Ed Mi...
With bankers' bonus season in full swing, and thanks to relatively recent European rules, we at least get to see exactly the sort of pay deals being awarded to the top bankers in the City. RBS chief executive Stephen Hester's bonus, which he eventually turned down following public outrage, will be followed by a series of other bonus announcements in the coming weeks.
If, when they rescued bankrupt institutions from the consequences of their own folly in 2007-09, governments had insisted on some sort of conditionality, (for example, they had insisted that "too big to fail" institutions were broken up, that bonuses be capped and that banks started behaving in vaguely responsible ways), this need not have happened.