Newsletter February 2010: Bear Stearns, Lehman show perils of pay schemes

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Subjects / Resolution and Recovery

Simon Turmaine | February 17, 2010

WASHINGTON - Pay arrangements at failed US investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, two of the most spectacular casualties of the global financial crisis, highlight the extent to which executives had an incentive to improve short-term results at the risk of an implosion later on, research led by Harvard Law School professor Lucian Bebchuk shows.*

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Return of geopolitics
Headaches for global banks

EMIR REFIT
Potential to trigger unintended consequences

Newsletter February 2010: Bear Stearns, Lehman show perils of pay schemes

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Return of geopolitics Headaches for global banks

EMIR REFIT Potential to trigger unintended consequences

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Return of geopolitics
Headaches for global banks

EMIR REFIT
Potential to trigger unintended consequences