Barclays is considering paying about 1,000 senior bankers part of their bonuses in bonds that could convert to equity in times of stress, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
The move could help deflect criticism of the bank’s bonus payouts, which are expected to total around £2.5 billion this year, since bankers [...]
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Barclays Mulls Bonds for Bonuses
January 24th, 2011 by Financial Writer
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more...Bankers’ Pay on the Line Again
December 28th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Limiting the compensation of banking executives is not the best way to curb their risk-taking, but it might be the option most readily available, an economist writes.
Buy vs. Rent: An Update
Should you buy a home or rent one? An updated list of the relationship between home prices and rents in 55 metropolitan areas.
The Holiday [...]
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Mortgage delinquencies decline
December 18th, 2010 by Financial Writer
Fewer people were late on their mortgage payments during the third quarter of this year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. At the same time, there was an increase in the number of loans entering foreclosure.
The decrease in mortgage delinquencies is a sign of an improving economy, says Michael Fratantoni, the association’s vice president of [...]
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Why rampant insider trading was inevitable
November 24th, 2010 by Financial Writer
All of the ingredients were in place for industry-wide evidence of insider trading. Add a dash of deals and a new political zeitgeist and the recipe was complete.
A year ago the money manager Doug Kass predicted that we’d see a “broad-ranging sting” in 2010 which would surface “the existence of extensive exchange of information [...]
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Carney, Volcker see long haul to recovery
November 20th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The world economy faces a long, hard slog toward recovery and could slide into deflation and financial instability if leaders fail to deliver on promises of reform, top policy markers said on Friday.
At a conference in Calgary, White House special adviser Paul Volcker warned it would likely take years for the American economy to [...]
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What Is The Difference Between A "broker" And Mortgage "banker" Is?
November 18th, 2010 by Financial Writer
It seems that home buyers and brokers are many, “the question of the difference between a mortgage” broker “and mortgage” banker. May be some differences between the two of them, because I’ve been on both sides of the fence. I know the differences between them, but please, to see that it is much more [...]
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Financial reform diluted with bankers in mix
March 24th, 2010 by Financial Writer
For all the proposals stuffed into its 1,336 pages, the financial reform bill that’s headed to the full Senate soon will change very little for the banks that brought us the most dire financial system crisis since the Great Depression, critics say.
When proposed a year ago by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the [...]
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