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Almost half of Wall Street employees expect their year-end bonuses to be higher this year than they were a year ago, according to an eFinancialCareers.com survey. Bloomberg / October 8, 2012 READ ARTICLE

On Wall Street, sometimes the bottom shapes the top. Consider J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (US:JPM) . On Friday, reports surfaced that two more executives, Irene Tse, one of the executives in charge of trading and Barry Zubrow, the bank’s regulatory affairs chief, will step down in the wake of the “London whale” trading scandal……

It’s a little hard to look at Wall Street without cringing these days. The nation’s richest financiers have been moping around midtown east like Eeyore, despondent about their stock prices, their return-on-equity figures, and the fact that the president won’t read their grandkids’ poetry manuscripts… Yes, there have been layoffs at financial firms. Lots of them. And yes,…

Morgan Stanley became the latest bank to announce more layoffs to shrink expenses as Wall Street prepares for an extended period of weak global economic growth and low trading and dealmaking volumes… Rivals including Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America Corp, and Deutsche Bank AG are also embarking on fresh rounds of staff cuts…

Wall Street bankers are bracing for another round of job cuts as a downturn in the global economy cuts into earnings from dealmaking, capital raising and lending… “If things don’t get better, then I would expect staffing levels to come down for sure,” said Alan Johnson, chief executive of Wall Street compensation consulting firm Johnson…

New projections call for moderate 2012 bonus increases across all financial services sectors, with fixed income showing some of the largest potential incentive-pay gains—as much as 25 percent in some cases. May 17, 2012

Wall Street is getting its first high-profile opportunity to prove it is serious about recovering pay from executives whose blunders waste shareholder treasure. J.P. Morgan ChaseJPM +0.69% & Co., the nation’s biggest bank by assets, is expected to try to claw back some of the pay it awarded to executives and traders at the unit at the…

Big banks are expected to use a larger portion of profits for employee bonuses this year, despite extensive job cuts and a recent outcry from shareholders over excessive pay, according to a closely watched survey of Wall Street compensation… Johnson Associates said 2012 bonuses are expected to be constrained for top executives whose compensation packages…

Bonus payouts by traditional and alternative money management firms look set to rise “moderately” in 2012, as market appreciation makes up somewhat for stagnant net flows, according to a report Wednesday by compensation consulting firm Johnson Associates. In a telephone interview, Alan M. Johnson, managing director, called the environment for money management firms so far…

Jamie Dimon, awarded $23 million for running JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) last year, earned 67 times the average amount set aside for his investment bankers and traders, the widest gap among firms that report divisional pay. Bloomberg / April 16, 2012 READ ARTICLE