A COMÉDIA DOS BÓNUS AOS MILHÕES NA BANCA CONTINUA. A POPULAÇÃO ANDA TODA ESCANDALIZADA COM ISTO.
QUEM NÃO ESTÁ NADA INDIGNADO SÃO OS MANDARINS EM WESTSMINSTER.
ALÉ DISSO, O RBS ANUNCIOU HÁ DIAS UM PREJUÍZO ENORME DE 2 BILIÕES DE lIBRAS ESTERLINAS. ELES QUEREM MESMO DEITAR O BANCO ABAIXO, MAS DAQUI ATÉ LÁ VÃO MUDANDO UNS MILHÕES BONS PARA AS CONTAS PRIVADAS DAS CHEFIAS.
RBS chairman makes plea as £2bn loss is announced
Hampton says bank must run on commercial grounds if taxpayers are to get their £45bn investment back
Email"Royal Bank of Scotland pleaded to be treated as a fully commercial business as it confirmed it is paying out £785m in bonuses despite recording another loss – of £2bn – last year."
BONITO! MUITO BONITO!
8 March 2013 Last updated at 20:08
Barclays and RBS disclose number of staff paid £1m-plus
A total of 428 employees of Barclays and 93 at RBS earned more than £1m last year, the banks have disclosed.
Five members of staff were paid more than £5m, the Barclays said, but they did not include the chief executive, Antony Jenkins, who received £2.6m.
At RBS, total pay for top directors and eight executives was £21m, which the bank said was 16% down on 2011.
New rules mean banks must be more transparent on pay, but the figures are still likely to be controversial.
The banks have been hit by scandal, including attempts to rig the Libor interest rate and the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
The Libor scandal forced the resignation of Barclays' previous chief executive, Bob Diamond, and chairman Marcus Agius in August.
Barclays' new management team has pledged to address the "aggressive" culture at Barclays and improve accountability.
Top earners
The pay details released include salaries, bonuses and the value of long-term share awards given to all of Barclays' 145,000 staff.
Among the top earners, 50 people were paid between £2.5m and £5m last year, while a further 373 were paid between £1m and £2.5m.
The pay details were published in Barclays' annual report.
The chief executive of RBS, Stephen Hester, waived his bonus, but his total package for the year was worth £3.27m, including basic salary, plus benefits and shares awarded under a long-term incentive plan.
RBS disclosed that one of the bank's most senior executives earned £4.8m, including long-term incentive shares that will pay out if certain future targets are met.
Its annual report also showed of the 93 employees in the millionaires' club, 36 earned between £1.5m and £5m and one was paid more than £5m.
The average salary across RBS, 82%-owned by the UK taxpayer, was £34,000.
Penny Hughes, chair of RBS's remuneration committee, said the committee had "spent a great deal of time challenging and taking action in response to past events and considering how remuneration can help to drive appropriate behaviours at RBS in future".
Transparent
However, Labour MP John Mann criticised the payouts. "It's one rule for bankers and another rule for every other part of British industry. There will be a lot of angry small businessmen out there tonight," he said.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said the additional information on pay provided in the annual reports was a positive development.
"This type of disclosure allows shareholders to properly hold institutions to account for how they pay their staff," he said. "This government is committed to ensuring that the UK has the most transparent banking sector in the world."
"This type of disclosure allows shareholders to properly hold institutions to account for how they pay their staff," he said. "This government is committed to ensuring that the UK has the most transparent banking sector in the world."
Earlier this month, another major bank, HSBC, gave details of the amounts it had paid its top earners last year.
HSBC's 16 top executives received an average of £3.25m each.
Globally, 204 HSBC employees were paid more than £1m last year, of which 78 were in the UK, where the group has its headquarters.
Barclays' 428 millionaires 'no surprise'
The 428 employees at Barclays earning more than £1m is "no surprise" to banking analyst and chairman of the Financial Services Club Chris Skinner.
Mr Skinner told BBC News that the bank had a large investment division and if it wanted to retain the best people, global market conditions dictated paying them high salaries.
It is the first time the bank has published details of its pay, following a pledge to improve transparency
Folhinha's comment: Chris Skinner's talking bullshit: He's adamant saying that it's fine and utterly correct that these fellers get telephonic number salaries and fat bonuses topping them up. He carries on bla bla bla that the blokes are market high flyers and nobody knows the investment underworld better than them they.
We don't trust these people. They're the ones that brought the economy down! If they were so good why are their banks in the doldrums, touching rock bottom now?
They've been placing bets in a casino-like economy, gambling in bubble markets, very murky waters, mate, a real money quagmire. The whole thing was engulfed by a kind of tsunami and the economies just went to the dogs, down the drain. THEY JUST DIDN'T SEE IT COMING, DID THEY? We just won't swallow this praise Chris Skinner puts on them!
We really need a different type of economy underpinned by solid foundations instead of depending on speculation!
Had the banks and European governments been good at their jobs, Europe would be producing computers, TVs, mobile and smart phones, tablets, you name it. Soon we'll lose all our design and manufacturing know-how of anything! We're more than one generation behind South Asian Countries in virtually any state of the art electronic gizmo making. Blame nobody else than our useless rulers and investors. No vision at all beyond their own bank accounts!
This's been happening because our education systems have lost their edge and the money has been used gambling to generate more money and not placed in research and in production! We just can't carry on living in a predominantly etonian-oxbridge society. These guys and their dinosaurous old school tie network and nepotist system have failed this country and our peoples.
We really don't need neither these kind of bankers nor the present rulers and decision-makers! And we'd definitely be much better off without them! The actual policies are not sustainable and they're a perfect blueprint for sheer failure and disaster! What a mess! They've been screwing up all along the line!
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE SHOWS THAT EUROPE IS WAKING UP TO LOST GROUND IN RESEARCH. BETTER LATER THAN NEVER! WILL EURORE CATCH UP? IT'S LAGGING TOO FAR BEHIND!
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE SHOWS THAT EUROPE IS WAKING UP TO LOST GROUND IN RESEARCH. BETTER LATER THAN NEVER! WILL EURORE CATCH UP? IT'S LAGGING TOO FAR BEHIND!
European Commission
Press release
Brussels, 9 July 2012
€8.1 billion investment in research and innovation to create growth and jobs
The European Commission has today announced the final and biggest ever set of calls for proposals for research under its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). In total, €8.1 billion will support projects and ideas that will boost Europe's competitiveness and tackle issues such as human health, protecting the environment and finding new solutions to growing challenges linked to urbanisation and managing waste. The funding – which is open to organisations and businesses in all EU Member States and partner countries - makes up the lion's share of the EU's proposed €10.8 billion research budget for 2013. This announcement comes just days after EU leaders emphasised the importance of research and innovation in the Compact for Growth and Jobs.
European Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said: "Knowledge is the currency of the global economy. If Europe wants to continue to compete in the 21st century, we must support the research and innovation that will generate growth and jobs, now and in the future. The high level of competition for EU funding makes sure that taxpayers' money goes to the best projects that tackle issues that concern all of us."
The calls target both innovation and a range of societal challenges, building a bridge to Horizon 2020, the next funding programme for EU research from 2014-2020. In total €4.8 billion is dedicated to thematic research priorities. Industrial innovation will be supported through close-to-market activities such as piloting, demonstration, standardisation and technology transfer. Special attention will be given to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in a package worth up to €1.2 billion. Around €2.7 billion will help cement Europe's place as a world class destination for researchers, mainly through individual grants from the European Research Council (€1.75 billion), and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (€963 million) for research training and mobility.
To help spread excellent research more widely, a new "European Research Area Chairs" initiative is being prepared. A €12 million pilot call will select a total of five ERA Chairs, to be hosted by universities or other eligible research institutions in less developed regions in five different EU countries. To host an ERA Chair, institutions must demonstrate their ability to support excellence through providing the necessary facilities and complying with European Research Area principles such as open recruitment.
Most of the calls for proposals (invitations to bid for funds) will be published on 10 July, with some further specific calls to follow in the autumn.
Background
Innovative thematic research priorities in this FP7 call include: around €155 million for "Oceans of the future", to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors; around €365 million for technologies that will transform urban areas into sustainable "Smart Cities and Communities"; some €147 million to combat the rise of drug-resistant bacteria; and nearly €100 million dedicated to innovative solutions for managing fresh water resources.
The calls also support the Digital Agenda's ICT research funding targets, with almost €1.5 billion going to the thematic area of information and communication technologies.
There will be around €970 million of financing for SMEs under the thematic research priorities. Other measures include an extra €150 million for guarantees to leverage €1 billion in loans for SMEs and mid-caps (slightly larger firms up to 500 employees).
The €8.1 billion announced today is expected to leverage an additional €6 billion of public and private investment in research, and estimated to increase employment by 210,000 in the short-term and generate, over a 15 year period, an additional €75 billion in growth1.
The FP7 framework programme, launched in 2007, has a total budget of €55 billion for research and innovation. It has so far supported some 19,000 projects involving over 79,000 participants (universities, research organisations and businesses) across all EU Member States, with a total EU investment so far of €25.3 billion. By 2013 it is estimated that FP7 will also have directly supported some 55,000 individual researchers' careers.
The EU's total research budget includes funds that are not included in the calls announced today. These include funding under the Euratom treaty covering nuclear energy research (€993 million), or to help support "joint technology initiatives" with industry (€751 million) or "joint programmes" set up between Member States. The total budget also includes funding for the Commission's Joint Research Centre and the Commission's contribution to the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF), managed by the European Investment Bank Group.
See also MEMO/12/528
Innovation Union: http://ec.europa.eu/innovation-union
Europe 2020: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020
Horizon 2020: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm
Digital Agenda: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda
Contacts:
Monika Wcislo (+32 2 298 65 95)
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