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Financial Crisis: Change of the Bonus Culture

Constanze TressFebruary 23, 2009

If there's one aspect of the financial crisis that has angered the public across the industrialised world, it's the billions of euros in bonuses paid to bankers whose risk-taking helped to trigger the crisis. As Folker Hellmeyer just said, banks weren't able to handle the freedom. Now, a combination of new legislation and some self-examination is changing the bonus culture.

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