But share prices are also imperfect gauges of bank performance.
Morgan's chief treasurer in Sao Paulo, continue a marked improvement in the central bank's performance since Arminio Fraga took over as its president in February.
While acknowledging the bank's past anti-money-laundering and sanctions failings, he said the bank's performance had been strong enough to allow it to increase its dividend by 10%.
Another scheme is the use of contracts for difference, in essence bets on the bank's performance, which reward employees according to the level of profit made by their business unit.
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The initial impetus for the link-ups has been the weak performance of bank shares in the UK in the past year.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people )'s Charles Prince, under pressure for months because of the bank's lackluster performance, quit Sunday.
Citigroup 's (nyse: C - news - people ) Charles Prince , who has been under pressure for months because of the bank's lackluster performance, is set to become the latest casualty.
Don't bank on a repeat performance though.
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There are also reports on bank and corporate restructuring, macroeconomic performance and business confidence, most from official sources: the IMF, central banks, the World Bank.
In the World Bank's 2010 Logistics Performance Index, it ranks a lowly 75th, well below Thailand, Malaysia and even the Philippines.
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Last year he was the head of the country's second-largest bank, Laiki, whose performance was a major factor in Cyprus' near financial collapse.
And as a consequence we know that we are bound to pay people, to some extent, regardless of the performance of the bank.
It is encouraging to see that you recognise this issue is of paramount importance to the performance of the bank and in offering these suggestions I am certainly not discouraging this initiative but recognising its value.
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This morning Robyn Karnauskas, the biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank argues that strong sales performance by Lucentis in Europe (where the drug is sold by Novartis, which reported earnings this morning) bode well for Eylea in an eye disease call diabetic macular edema.
Lest we forget, until the great crash of 2007-8, it was widely believed that the Bank of England's performance had been world class: inflation was in check, providing the necessary price stability for businesses, households and government to make rational investment and spending decisions.
The bank was helped by a solid performance at its securities and investment banking divisions.
What is particularly striking is the resilient performance of the investment bank.
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You might not have noticed but there was another big bank telling the world about its performance in the second quarter today, and it was pretty impressive.
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The prime minister added in his weekly press conference from Downing Street that bonuses could be "clawed back" if a bank employee's improvement in performance was not sustained.
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He could still be entitled to his long-term incentive plan, which is broadly based on the bank's long-term performance and is worth up to 400% of his salary, if the Barclays remuneration committee awards him one.
He was ousted last fall suddenly amid dreadful performance as shares of the bank fell 90% under his watch.
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Citigroup's new CEO proposed more-rigorous ways to track the performance of individual executives and the bank as a whole.
The sweet spot for an owner, of course, is hiring a coach who can significantly improve a team's performance--without breaking the bank to do it.
In Mr Winters' case, he is currently conducting an internal review for the Bank of England into one aspect of its performance since the 2008 financial crisis.
With his trusty notebook computer, the new CEO of South Korea's Housing and Commercial Bank is going around the country monitoring the performance of HCB's 446 branches and 54 offices.
The central bank has, therefore, been trying to boost performance in the other sectors of the economy.
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Icici Bank is also worth a look, though its technical performance is currently weaker.
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Wells Fargo, less exposed to trading performance and European issues than its big-bank peers, was 1.4% lower.
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