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Wells Fargo Will Pay Back $25B, Exit TARP

Bank plans $10.4B stock sale; move will boost EPS

(Newser) - Wells Fargo will repay $25 billion in federal bailout funds, becoming the last major national bank to square its TARP account. Part of the money will come from a stock sale that's expected to yield $10.4 billion, the New York Times reports. "We’re ready to fully repay...

Pay Czar Cuts Compensation at Bailout Firms

Hundreds at Citi, AIG, GM and GMAC will see pay shaved

(Newser) - White House “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg announced new compensation restrictions that will cut into the checks of hundreds of highly-paid executives at bailed out firms. Except in a handful of cases, employees at Citigroup, AIG, GM, and GMAC will have their base compensation capped at $500,000, CNNMoney reports....

Pay Czar to Cap More Executive Salaries

Banks scramble to repay feds, free themselves from pay curbs

(Newser) - Treasury Department "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg plans to start capping the salaries of second-tier execs at firms that received government assistance, according to company and government officials. The $500,000 cap, already imposed on top exec salaries, may now be applied to hundreds of other employees. The move has...

Volcker to Bankers: 'Wake Up, Gentlemen'

Former Fed chief blasts them on pay, 'innovation'

(Newser) - Former Fed chair Paul Volcker had some harsh words for international bankers and regulators about the poor practices that led to the global financial crisis—and continue to this day. Volcker, who advises President Obama, surprised a forum in Britain with this broadside on pay: “Has there been one...

US Will Let AIG Execs Skirt Pay Cap

Pay czar Feinberg will make exceptions after 5 threaten to quit

(Newser) - Treasury pay czar Kenneth Feinberg will exempt some AIG executives from a $500,000 salary cap, after at least five threatened to quit, sources tell Bloomberg . Feinberg is preparing to make a ruling on pay limits for 75 of the company’s top executives. Five threatened to resign last week...

TARP Payback a Huge Win for BofA, Lewis
 TARP Payback a Huge Win for BofA, Lewis
ANALYSIS
Dec 3, 2009 10:58 AM CST

TARP Payback a Huge Win for BofA, Lewis

Outgoing CEO proves critics wrong and paves way for successor

(Newser) - Bank of America’s move to repay $45 billion in TARP funds marks a triumph for the rehabilitated institution and especially beleaguered CEO Ken Lewis. Wooing a replacement for the retiring Lewis was proving exceedingly difficult as candidates declined to try to run the company with government scrutiny of executive...

Goldman Hustles Investors on Soaring Bonuses

Bank privately meeting with large shareholders to shore up support

(Newser) - Goldman Sachs has been holding private meetings with its top shareholders in an effort to stave off proposals that would reign in its ginormous bonuses. It’s a first for Goldman, which normally doesn’t feel compelled to justify its pay, no matter the public outcry. But shareholders have the...

UK Weighs Super-Tough Bank Bonus Laws

Banks to be ordered to reveal numbers of millionaire staff

(Newser) - British bankers will soon face the toughest bonus rules in the world, according to the author of a report the government is pushing to implement. Bonus payments will be delayed for up to 5 years under the planned legislation, and banks will have the power to "claw back" bonuses...

Goldman Bonuses Irk Investors, Too

Shareholders question need for $20B in bonuses

(Newser) - With Goldman Sachs on course to hand out the highest bonuses in its history, it's not only furious populists who are complaining; investors, too, are getting into the act. Major shareholders, who have stayed out of the executive compensation controversy until now, are calling for the bank to cut back...

Annoyed by Feds, AIG CEO Threatens to Quit

Benmosche, just 3 months in, is 4th CEO in 18 months

(Newser) - Just 3 months after taking the job, AIG CEO Robert Benmosche is threatening to storm out in a huff. At a directors’ meeting last week the voluble Benmosche, formerly of MetLife, told colleagues he was “done” with trying to operate the 80% taxpayer-owned company under federal supervision, particularly with...

Bonuses at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Hit $30B
Bonuses at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Hit $30B
$250K APIECE
Nov 9, 2009 4:55 AM CST

Bonuses at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Hit $30B

Average payout will be five times median household income in US

(Newser) - Recession? What recession? Some Wall Street firms are not feeling any pain this year as record bonuses at just three of the top firms are likely to hit an eye-popping $30 billion. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, the three biggest banks to be bailed out by the feds,...

Wall Street Bonuses to Jump 40%
Wall Street Bonuses to Jump 40%
Nov 5, 2009 7:54 AM CST

Wall Street Bonuses to Jump 40%

Expect political storm as recovery juices incentive pay

(Newser) - The good times are back for much of Wall Street, with overall incentive pay set to jump 40% according to one key survey being released today. In businesses rebounding especially well, like fixed income and equities, the boost will likely be around 60%. That won’t quite bring them back...

Exec Pensions Soared as Stocks Tanked

Multi-million-dollar payouts escape pay watchdog scrutiny

(Newser) - Steep increases in the pensions of top execs passed largely unnoticed amid the recent uproar about pay and bonuses. The average pension for a top executive rose 19% last year even as share prices fell by an average of 37%. More than 200 execs saw pensions boosted by over 50%...

Pay Czar Cuts Bonuses, But Boosts Salaries

Feinberg beefs up base base to help firms retain talent

(Newser) - Base pay will increase for the majority of top execs in the finance and auto firms supervised by federal pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. Salaries are being bumped up—by hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases—as bonuses and other perks are slashed. Despite the salary hikes, all 136...

Ousted AIG CEO Builds AIG 2— With AIG Talent

Greenberg's new insurer poaches AIG employees at taxpayers' expense

(Newser) - Hank Greenberg built AIG into a $1 trillion behemoth that needed the biggest bailout in history—but quietly, the former CEO has begun a new insurance company, CV Starr, that is poaching some of AIG's leading talent. He just got an unintended assist from the Treasury: Tough new pay rules...

Get a Clue, Washington: You Can't Do Everything

Effort to restructure exec pay smacks of arrogance

(Newser) - Clamping down on arrogant, risk-taking execs with an overconfident attempt to overhaul private sector pay structures shows that the arrogance has migrated to the Obama administration, writes David Brooks. The government is trying to micro-manage compensation packages at a wide variety of firms when pay regulation should be done, humbly,...

New Pay Rules May Hurt Banks, but Protect Public
New Pay Rules May Hurt Banks, but Protect Public
Steven Pearlstein
Oct 23, 2009 8:33 AM CDT

New Pay Rules May Hurt Banks, but Protect Public

They'll discourage commercial banks from being investment banks

(Newser) - Steven Pearlstein isn't exactly wowed by the new salary rules being proposed for Wall Street. "Don't get carried away. By themselves, these measures won't prevent future crises, nor will they likely do much to lower the prevailing pay levels on Wall Street or in corporate America." But, he...

Fed Rolls Out Plan to Limit Bank Pay

It works in tandem with pay czar's new compensation rules

(Newser) - The Federal Reserve today officially announced a plan to regulate pay structures at banks, the same day the pay czar rolled out his plan to cap salaries at bailed-out firms. The administration’s double-whammy on compensation marks an unprecedented level of government involvement in the private sector, and the policies...

50% Pay Cuts for Bailout Execs Due Today

Warren confirms cuts to 25 top earners at 7 companies

(Newser) - The Treasury Department today is expected to order seven companies that have not paid back last year's US government bailouts to halve their top executives' average compensation. The cuts apply to the 25 highest-paid executives at banks and other companies that received the most assistance, with salaries being slashed by...

Pay Czar Slashes Top Salaries at 7 Bailed-Out Firms

175 top earners will see pay cuts averaging 50%

(Newser) - President Obama’s pay czar will cut compensation for the 25 highest-paid employees at seven companies that took large amounts of government aid. The 175 executives will face salary reductions of 90%, but with other compensation elements added in, the total reductions average 50%. Ken Feinberg also will require the...

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