Pay and Bonuses
Who are the UK’s highest paid wealth bosses?
Chief executives at SJP, Quilter and Rathbones enjoyed a pay bump in 2024 but still lag Wall Street’s wealth bosses
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TP ICAP boss secures £2m pay package boost despite proxy criticism
City broker hands bigger pay deal to long-serving CEO Nicolas Breteau
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Credit Suisse bonus ruling could see 1,000 bankers handed payouts
A Swiss court has ruled the government’s move to permanently curtail Credit Suisse banker bonuses was unlawful
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Citigroup increases bonuses for top UK investment bankers to $680k
The Wall Street bank has hiked average payouts for its material risk takers in the UK after improved revenue
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Barclays hikes CEO’s maximum pay to £14.3m
Shareholders wave through overhaul to CS Venkatakrishnan’s pay
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JPMorgan hikes bonuses for top UK investment bankers to $974k
The Wall Street bank increased average payouts to key UK employees by 19% last year
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Goldman Sachs wins shareholder vote over $80m executive bonuses
CEO David Solomon and president John Waldron set for bumper retention deals
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Morgan Stanley hikes bonuses for top UK investment bankers by 67%
The Wall Street bank has paid its material risk takers an average of £1.5m after a bumper 2024
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Big bonuses see women fall further behind men at Wall Street investment banks
Investment banks paid out bigger bonuses in 2024, and men have benefited more than women
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Dubai’s finance sector has boomed. Now it needs regulators
In high demand, compliance staff are tripling their salaries as the UAE rolls out the red carpet
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Banks lock in key staff with big retention bonuses as private credit circles
Senior investment bankers are being offered lucrative pay packets that will keep them at their firms for years. Can they stave off the appeal of private credit and private equity?
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A&O Shearman boss Hervé Ekué on skyrocketing pay rises: ‘We haven’t reached the top’
Ekué speaks to Financial News in his first sit-down interview since A&O’s mega-merger with Shearman & Sterling last year
Citi hands banking boss Raghavan $22.6m as ex-JPMorgan dealmaker looks to bolster returns
Raghavan was the second-highest paid executive at Citi last year
Kirkland & Ellis partner pay hits $9.2m
The law firm’s average equity partner profit passed $9m for the first time
Deutsche Bank top investment banker bonuses jump 50% as ranks of millionaires swells
The German lender paid more than 600 key employees average bonuses of €965,000 as investment bank revenue increased
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Latham & Watkins partner pay soars to $7.1m
US law firm’s revenue passes $7bn for the first time
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Santander cuts back senior investment banker bonuses by 8%
The Spanish lender has reduced average bonuses for so-called material risk takers within its investment bank to €841,893
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Paul Weiss partner pay hits $7.5m following London expansion drive
The US law firm grew profit and revenue in 2024
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Skadden eyes non-equity partner switch amid law firm talent battle
Elite US law firm mulls introduction of salaried partners
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