The Queen did want to acknowledge all the work he’s done, though, so she threw the government worker a bone he can collect a few years from now.
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC is awarding its chief executive officer a bonus of a bonus of around £963,000 ($1.5 million), paid fully in shares that will be deferred until 2014, capping weeks of public wrangling over bonus payouts at the U.K. bank. The bank said Thursday that Stephen Hester, CEO of the 83% government-owned lender, is being rewarded by its board for progress in shrinking RBS’s once large and risky balance sheet and returning most businesses to profitability. Mr. Hester took the helm in late 2008 as the bank was on the brink of collapse. The bonus is about half of what he received for 2010. The bonus— made up of shares currently valued at £963,000—is in addition to his 2011 salary, which was £1.2 million. “A safer and more valuable RBS is in the interests of our customers, shareholders and the UK economy and we are progressing well towards this goal under the leadership of Stephen Hester, ” Philip Hampton, the bank’s chairman, said in a statement.
[WSJ]
RBS Sucks
Is that all?
At least the queen threw this clown a little bit of jing for coke and whores
Hey Queen, how bout a little help over here?
- G-Love
you screwed up but gave it all back. +1 for ethics, -1 for stupidity = 0.
Good thing he sold his stock, as his bonus = 2012 profits
I'll pay Stephen Hester more to walk my poodle.
How hard is it to return business units to profitability…just tell everyone to do the oposite of what they would normally do
There's a silver lining here – at least somebody believes RBS will exist till 2014
Of course it will still exist. It just might be renamed to "Her Majesty's Treasury" if RBS ever becomes over 80% owned by the UK government.
Oh wait .. maybe somebody just forgot to rename RBS.
its crazy about the bonus thing but you never get to see the details of previous contracts. the bonus issue needs to be sorted but it won't happen over night.