Sentence examples for paying traders from inspiring English sources

In 2008-09, there was widespread agreement that paying traders huge bonuses and loading up senior executives with stock options incentivized banks to take on too much risk.

Bonuses were up 50percentt, on average, in 2005 for traders, compensation specialists say, and banks were paying traders as much as $5 million in total compensation, with top traders at trading houses making more than twice that much.

In a bid to attract talent, Citigroup has been paying traders in London guaranteed bonuses totaling millions of dollars.

But UBS itself admitted in 2008 that while it thought it had been paying traders for their trading skills, it had in effect been rewarding them for shooting craps.

Brut, for example, borrowed a practice from the fixed-income side by paying traders to supply limit orders–a commitment to buy a stock at a specific price to draw sellers to the exchange.

In 2008, the bank admitted that while it thought it had been paying traders for their trading skills, it had merely been handing them money to take out low-interest loans, use them to buy high-yield subprime mortgages and book the difference as a profit.

When the New York Stock Exchange was the nation's dominant one, it did not need to pay traders to use its floor.

Do not pay traders based on their profit and loss on particular positions, irrespective of whether they or anyone else call that proprietary trading.

This is likely to exclude the highest paid traders and deal makers inside the banks, who are often not senior managers.

GIVEN the disaster a year ago, when highly paid traders at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein turned in a measly €128m ($161m) profit for the second quarter, their performance this year, at over €400m per quarter, looks quite respectable.

But despite pledges that salaries of the five highest paid executives outside the board would be published, this still allows the highest paid traders and dealmakers to be excluded.