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%.
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.
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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Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people )'s Charles Prince, under pressure for months because of the bank's lackluster performance, quit Sunday.
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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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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 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.
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.
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.
"For whatever reason, there's a predictable pattern where September has bad performance, " says Steven DeSanctis a strategist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch's equity research team.
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.
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.
The bank's plan, which relates to bonuses paid for performance in 2009, 2010 and 2011, rather than new awards, is expected to prove controversial despite being perfectly legal.
An analysis by Martin Barnes, of the Bank Credit Analyst, finds that if America's growth performance is instead measured by the gap between actual and potential output, it looks much less stellar.
Rod A. Lache, Deutsche Bank's auto analyst, believes Borg can boost its financial performance even if the U.S. auto market falls 5% to 10% next year.
HSBC's unusually detailed pay disclosures showed that in a scorecard measuring various aspects of his performance, he achieved full marks on rebuilding the bank's capital position, hitting dividend payout targets and pursuing stated strategic goals.
But MBf Finance apparently does not fulfill some of the other conditions of the central bank's CAMEL formula -- capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, earnings performance and liquidity position.
So it is unsurprising that much of the media - and many of you in the comments you leave here and on Twitter - say that it would be little short of a scandal if the bank's senior executives were to receive big pay awards when bonuses and longer-term performance rewards are decided early next month.
The bank's persistent failure, especially during 2002, to cut interest rates in response to sluggish economic performance across the euro area (and above all in Germany) has drawn criticism from within Europe as well as from America's Federal Reserve and international institutions.
Citigroup's new CEO proposed more-rigorous ways to track the performance of individual executives and the bank as a whole.
"While the broad picture emerging from the data is that Africa's economies have been expanding robustly and that poverty is coming down, the aggregate hides a great deal of diversity in performance, even among Africa's faster growers, " said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa.
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