Banking Bonuses

How Many Barclays Staff Are Paid More Than £1m A Year?

PA | Posted 08.03.2013 | UK

More than 400 workers at banking giant Barclays were paid £1 million or more last year, including five who got more than £5m, despite a year of scan...

Charlie Thomas

‘I deserve my bonus – I’ve saved RBS for the sake of society and stakeholders’

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 11.02.2013 | UK

Stephen Hester, the chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has defended his forthcoming bonus by saying he should be judged on saving the...

RBS Boss To Receive £800,000 Bonus Despite Libor Scandal

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK

The boss of the taxpayer-funded Royal Bank of Scotland will be paid a bonus of almost £800,000 just weeks after his bank was fined £391 million for ...

Charlie Thomas

RBS Staff See Bonuses Clawed Back To Pay Libor Fines

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 06.02.2013 | UK

Thousands of staff across the Royal Bank of Scotland will lose their bonuses this year as the bank claws back money to pay fines for its part in the L...

This Issue Really Will Destroy The Coalition... Won't It?

Dave Cohen | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Politics
Dave Cohen

Clegg has, very publicly, ahead of the next budget, urged Chancellor George Osborne to speed up coalition plans to take the lowest earners out of income tax, and to pay for this by taxing richer people

Bread, Circuses and Stephen Hester

Lorna Fitzsimons | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Politics
Lorna Fitzsimons

I shed no tears for Stephen Hester, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland. But Hester's public humiliation - and, though the two individuals are very different, also that of Sir-no-more Fred Goodwin - was nothing but a modern-day version of the Roman games.

RBS Comes Under Pressure To Halve Chief Executive's Bonus To A Million

PA/Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Politics

Royal Bank of Scotland is said to be coming under pressure from the Government to halve chief executive Stephen Hester's bonus. The Treasury is exp...

Vote: Workers Should Have Their Say On Senior Executive Bonuses

Posted 19.11.2011 | UK

Business Secretary Vince Cable has pledged to crackdown on Britain's culture of excessive pay for senior executives. The Cabinet minister signalled mo...