NEW YORK, Jan 31- Morgan Stanley said it is nearly doubling Chief Executive James Gorman's salary to $1.5 million a year, to bring it more in line with other big bank chiefs.
Jan 29- Jefferies Group Inc paid Chief Executive Richard Handler $45.2 million in 2012, making him one of Wall Street's most highly compensated executives, according to a securities filing on Tuesday. Handler's pay package included $1 million in salary, a $5 million bonus and $39 million in stock grants that would cover 2013 to 2015, according to the filing.
Jan 24- Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman received lower compensation for 2012 after a difficult year for the bank in which profits declined.
Jan 18- Goldman Sachs Group Inc awarded 22 senior executives and board members more than 736,000 restricted shares worth nearly $104 million as part of their 2012 bonuses, according to securities filings on Friday.
Jan 18- Goldman Sachs Group Inc awarded a dozen senior executives more than 700,000 restricted shares worth nearly $100 million as part of their 2012 bonus awards, according to securities filings on Friday.
*Raises stakes with White House news conference. At a White House news conference called to promote his position on the budget, Obama vowed not to trade cuts in government spending sought by Republicans in exchange for raising the borrowing limit.
*Goldman veteran has ability to work across bank-insiders. Jan 14- In 2004, Harvey Schwartz, who was then head of the financing business at Goldman Sachs Group Inc's investment bank, came up with a new way for the bank to make money from a seemingly mundane activity: helping companies buy back their shares.
LONDON, Dec 20- Private clients who have stood by UBS through repeated scandals will have their faith tested by the Swiss bank's admission of rate rigging, investors say.
A cross-section of executives from companies including DuPont Co, Saks Inc, Aetna Inc and 3 M Co on Wednesday warned that the standoff adds an element of uncertainty to an already tepid U.S. economy.
*Goldman Sachs chief says low marginal rates preferable. WASHINGTON, Nov 28- Chief executives from corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Deloitte LLP met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday and offered support for resolving U.S. fiscal problems with an approach that included higher tax rates for wealthy Americans.
*Lawmakers ``playing with nitroglycerin''- Honeywell CEO. The Business Roundtable on Tuesday kicked off a print, radio and online ad campaign on which it plans to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars featuring the chiefs of Honeywell International Inc, Xerox Corp and United Parcel Service Inc calling on lawmakers to resolve the issue.