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• UPDATE 3-Citigroup bows to shareholder pressure, overhauls pay Thursday, 21 Feb 2013 | 9:56 PM ET

  NEW YORK, Feb 21- Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it has overhauled an executive pay plan that shareholders rejected last year as overly generous, revising it to tie bonus payments more closely to stock performance and profitability.

• UPDATE 2-Citigroup overhauls exec pay plan after shareholder vote Thursday, 21 Feb 2013 | 6:14 PM ET

  NEW YORK, Feb 21- Citigroup Inc said on Thursday it has overhauled the executive pay plan that shareholders rejected last year as overly generous, revising it to tie bonus payments more closely to stock performance and profitability.

• Scaremongers obscure limitations of Swiss "fat cat" pay vote Thursday, 21 Feb 2013 | 9:02 AM ET

  *Swiss to vote on limits to executive pay on March 3. ZURICH, Feb 21- The year is 2026. Switzerland is in a state of anarchy. Economiesuisse has cancelled the film's release, worried it could alienate voters ahead of a March 3 referendum asking the Swiss whether shareholders in public companies should have a binding vote on pay.

• Algebris' Serra: Everyone in Banking Is Over Paid  Thursday, 24 Jan 2013 | 4:00 AM ET

  

  Davide Serra, founding and managing director at Algebris Investments, tells CNBC that banks must cut compensation in order to build capital.

• Goldman Execs Get Nearly $100 Million in Stock Awards Friday, 18 Jan 2013 | 3:38 PM ET

  

  Goldman Sachs awarded a dozen senior executives more than 700,000 restricted shares worth nearly $100 million as part of their 2012 bonus awards.

• Are Bankers a Modern Day Tribe?   Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013 | 1:30 AM ET

  

  Joris Luyendijk, anthropologist and journalist at the Guardian discusses the social behavior of bankers and suggests that they are a form of 'tribe' and bonuses are the 'totem pole they dance around'.

• AIG board meets on possible lawsuit vs US gov't as public rages Wednesday, 9 Jan 2013 | 10:55 AM ET

  Jan 9- The board of American International Group Inc met on Wednesday to consider a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the terms of the company's bailout, a discussion directors defended as their responsibility but one that critics condemned as the height of ingratitude.

• Random House Rewards Staff With $5,000 Bonus  Friday, 7 Dec 2012 | 1:52 PM ET

  

  The CEO at Random House makes the holidays a little "greener" this season, promising all employees a $5,000 bonus to celebrate a profitable year - thanks to publishing, "Fifty Shades of Grey," by E.L. James. CNBC's Bob Pisani and John Carney, weigh in.

• Bosses, Take Note: Your Staff Wants a Holiday Bonus Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | 10:32 AM ET

  

  If you’re considering giving your staff a gift or throwing a party this holiday season, here’s a tip.

• ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Fears Probably Won’t Accelerate Bonuses Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 | 4:57 PM ET

  

  U.S. companies may be paying out big dividends, but they’re holding the line with executive bonuses.

• Accelerating Bonuses Ahead of Cliff?  Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 | 10:37 AM ET

  

  CNBC's Mary Thompson explains why many large firms are hesitant to pay employees an early bonus to avoid a bigger tax hit next year.

• Bonuses on Wall Street Expected to Edge Up Monday, 5 Nov 2012 | 5:36 AM ET

  

  Wall Street employees, whose paychecks have often been cut in recent years, are likely to get a slight bump in their bonuses this year. The catch: the increase will come on top of one of the worst years for bank pay in recent memory.

• Is This the Year of the Banking Cull?   Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 | 1:37 AM ET

  

  Squawk Box Europe anchor, Steve Sedgwick and Otto Dichtl, managing director at Knight Capital Group debate whether the banking industry is going through a mass front office cull, that will never come back.

• London's Luxury Firms Look East as City Bonuses Shrink Thursday, 20 Sep 2012 | 1:50 PM ET

  

  "In a normal year before 2008 you’d find 20 percent of the £2 million-plus market was  ‘City money’," says a London real-estate agent.

• Pay Bankers More in Fixed Income: Krawcheck Friday, 13 Jul 2012 | 11:15 AM ET

  The structure of compensation needs to change at the banks and paying bankers in fixed income securities may be one day to reduce risk, Sallie Krawcheck, former Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Global Wealth Management president, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday.

• Are CEO Bonuses Wrecking the Wider Economy? Friday, 27 Apr 2012 | 11:09 AM ET

  

  "Without knowing why or how, we seem to have hatched our own oligarchs, and we stand aghast and bewildered at this flock of monstrous cuckoos," author Ferdinand Mount writes.

• Barclays Investors Force Bonus Changes Friday, 20 Apr 2012 | 5:05 AM ET

  

  Shareholders in Barclays have forced the British bank to accept tougher bonus conditions and promise higher dividends, highlighting how the balance of power between investors and managers is shifting at some of the biggest global banks, the FT reports.

• Breaking News: Paulson & Co. Slashes Key Incentive Level  Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012 | 3:12 PM ET

  

  CNBC's Kate Kelly reports that Paulson & Company is slashing the key incentive level for employee bonuses.

• Bankers, Watch Your Bonus, It May Be Revoked Tuesday, 21 Feb 2012 | 9:22 AM ET

  

  The Lloyds Banking Group bankers forced to pay back some of their bonus payments are unlikely to be the last bankers made to repay remuneration, as claw-backs become increasingly popular.

• Breaking News: GM Lowers Bonuses  Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012 | 1:10 PM ET

  

  CNBC's Phil LeBeau has the details on GM cutting benefits for its workers.