Recent European Compensation Developments: Financial Institutions and Beyond
Almost half a decade after the onset of the financial crisis, populist sentiment and the resulting political environment continue to fuel stricter regulation of executive and director compensation, with the latest wave in Europe including substantive restrictions on compensation in the financial services industry and “say-on-pay” initiatives (i.e., initiatives providing for shareholder approval of compensation). This memorandum describes these recent European compensation developments, namely:
- The so-called “banker bonus cap” – substantive limits on the amount of variable compensation that can be paid to certain employees at financial institutions; and
- Say-on-pay developments in the E.U. and Switzerland.
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