The practice of paying bankers guaranteed bonuses regardless of their performance is on the rise, raising concerns that banks are sidestepping new pay rules to poach staff from rivals.
Such bonuses, paid to new hires at the top investment banks, accounted for 8.5 per cent of the average bonus pool for 2010 at 51 leading financial institutions, according to a study to be published on Thursday by the Institute of International Finance, an industry lobby group.
That is up sharply from 5.5 per cent in 2009, at the height of public and political outrage over bankers’ pay, and 7.1 per cent in 2007, before the financial crisis struck.
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