Compensation

Where's your motivation?

Discussion about incentives to promote good risk management is increasingly gaining relevance for Basel II advanced measurement approach applicants, as well as for banks adopting the standardised approach

Remuneration: it's payback time

Disgruntled taxpayers and their political representatives are set on revenge, making bankers pay for their mistakes through compensation taxes and restrictions. But a more constructive approach will be needed to sustainably reform such a complex and…

Paying by the rules

As the US Treasury’s special master for executive compensation, Kenneth Feinberg has the task of overseeing pay for the top 100 employees at firms receiving exceptional government aid. In an exclusive interview, he discusses progress on pay reform,…

Questioning the compensation carrot

Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have demanded that bank compensation packages are adjusted for risk. A variety of proposals have been released by individual supervisors, but they are simpler – and in some cases, more draconian – than many were…

Dutch banks take a new look at risk

Dutch banks were considered to be among the best and safest in the world, but now they are reducing their global presence and concentrating primarily on their home market. Boris Agranovich looks at what went wrong and at the local risk management…

Solvency abuse

Giovanni Cucinotta, head of research at Italian insurance regulator Isvap, talks to Alexander Campbell

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