Temple Associates

Compensation based on share price development? This is contrary to all sensible pay schemes and one of the main contributing factors to exce...

I could not agree more. With the arrival of Peer-to-Peer Lending, Robo-Advisers, Internet Banking and more stringent (suffocating?) Regulati...

That is what a former Wimbledon Champion would probably say to the psychopathic politicians and regulators (including reckless Bank of Engla...

When the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) proclaims that women on average receive a lower bonus than men one has to wonder what purpos...

One may agree with this policy  ( EU casts wider net for Bank Bonuses, CNBC ) or not - but there will be many side-effects, intended or not...

A poll conducted by Handelsblatt comes to the conclusion that German Managers favour limiting pay in the banking industry but not in their...

The lengthy - and ridiculously expensive - Salz Report has to be seen in the long English tradition of conducting expensive and lengthy enq...

The European (Dis?) Union is on the slippery road to serfdom (Hayek) when professional agitators like Sven Giegold (read his CV carefully, ...

I doubt it. When regulators don't regulate properly and management runs the ship aground it is not obvious why 6,500 staff should pay th...

Having just handled the beginning of the mass cull of employees in the most unprofessional way one could think of, the top management of UBS...

We are not surprised  ( Financial Times ). Who would commit the word to email or voice mail, let alone a printed document? That person reall...

Control freaks in Brussels and various capitals in 'democratic' Europe are having a field day planning ever-more convoluted regulati...

Andrew Haldane, an otherwise sane Bank of England official, has suggested that bonus deferral and claw-back periods should be extended to 10...

while I agree with you that we have to incentivize banks to go back to their basic mission of collecting savings and using those to fund the...

What really drives financial market regulation is not logical thinking but a mishmash of misguided ideology as well as a reversion to good o...

Despite our recent positive comment on Barclays Bank we have to put out a critical comment about the compensation practices at the leading ...

Are all bankers overpaid? This seems to be the conclusion when reading the news on a daily basis. But reports that hundreds of headteachers ...

Asks Gillian Tett ( FT ). When even the shares of Goldman Sachs , the company that is supposed to be the Gold Standard for banks, are at be...

Seeing Kweko Adoboli as the lonely accused in the Courtroom creates a certain amount of sympathy for the young man. It is easy for senior U...

News that another major bank has been entangled in a tax dispute with the British tax authorities as it has been caught with a tax avoidance...