Network Rail, has cut the annual bonuses it pays to its senior executives from a potential 160% of their salary to a maximum of 20%.
But that is an inevitable result of the firm's leadership position on Wall Street, the vast profits (and bonuses) it generates, and, frankly, its aggressive approach to doing business.
In addition to its high defense bonuses, it has a special attack, that hits up to 250 damage points.
The investment bank has tended to cause controversy at RBS because of the bonuses it pays to many of its staff.
The firm began cutting the bonuses it paid to policy-holders in an attempt to keep its costs down.
Not a single sporting federation publishes the per diem payments and bonuses it gives to senior officials, or has term limits for its president.
In order to achieve that, however, he will have at least temporarily to let go of the maillot jaune, with all its accompanying pressure, and, with the help of time bonuses, it is a burden the sprinters Jaan Kirsipuu and Stuart O'Grady will seek to remove from his shoulders today.
But in the case of British banks and their bonuses, it isn't.
What mattered to me at the time wasn't bonuses; it was my lunch, so I said so.
While this deal lull may be bad for investment bankers' bonuses, it could help JPMorgan stay on top for awhile.
Wilson said: "When it comes to bonuses, it has to be looked at in terms of legal obligations".
