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Is this really the moment to scrap bankers’ bonuses?

24 September 2022

9:00 AM

24 September 2022

9:00 AM

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng – keen to sharpen the City’s competitive edge, we’re told – wants to remove the legislative cap, imported from Brussels in 2014, that limits bankers’ bonuses to 100 per cent of their base salary, or up to 200 per cent with shareholder approval. That raises interesting questions.

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