(1) It is likely to call for banks to retain more capital and for some form of clawback if firms perform less well than expected.
(2) "If the same individual maximises the pension tax relief – they can put in up to £245,000 of their salary and get relief – then the cost of the tax relief clawback will be around £51,000.
(3) "If you listen to what Lloyds said in 2011 when they took the initial £3.2bn charge – that was used for a pretext for making a clawback on 12 executives.
(4) When they are paid next year the G20 deal brokered by Barack Obama and Brown means that a proportion of bonuses will be deferred and payments will be subject to clawback provisions.
(5) Any Treasury clawback will only serve to take resources still further from the frontline.
(6) Given that clawback has only been possible since 2010, attention focused on former chief executive Michael Geoghegan and Sandy Flockhart, the former boss of Mexican operations, who left this month due to ill health, as likely candidates for clawback.
(7) This includes monitoring sales to ensure that colleagues have met customer needs appropriately and communicated important information clearly … We also have clawback mechanisms in place for any colleagues who make inappropriate sales."
(8) And as the provisions continue to rise, Gordon believes the bank could look at further clawbacks against its executives.
(9) Such clawbacks may be a feature of the bonus season because of the waves of scandal to hit the industry ranging from payment protection insurance mis-selling in the UK to fines for Libor fixing and money laundering.
(10) Lagarde added that the IMF’s research suggests bonuses should be tied to longer-term, rather than short-term gains; and that banks should use “clawback”, to force staff who have hit their firm’s performance to pay back part of their bonuses.
(11) Hampton won't give numerical details, but explains that RBS is regularly recovering payments from previous years: We've done quite a lot of clawback in the last couple of years, on a variety of issues.
(12) (Carriers had a "clawback" clause in case customers abandoned the contract.)
(13) Osborne says the Britain has been leading the way on bankers remuneration in recent years, on transparency and clawbacks.
(14) "The Walker report has left in a reference to 'clawback' but it is not clear whether it means asking for the money back once it has been paid or forfeiture of the deferred, but as yet unpaid bonuses," said Alistair Woodland, a partner at Clifford Chance.
(15) If the regulator is allowed to cap retail electricity bills, a "clawback" mechanism, already used by some states in the US, would have to be incorporated based on future movements in wholesale energy markets.
(16) As of next April, the new lower threshold for clawback of working tax credit on income over £3,850 will mean that I will lose 48% of a proportion of my state pension and also of any small profits I might make in my business.
(17) Apparently this clawback arrangement will incentivise me to work.
(18) Ideally, these should be subject to clawback over the long-term.
(19) The bank is keen to avoid a fresh revolt at this annual meeting after its report outlining directors' pay and the clawback provisions is published next month.
(20) Bonuses must be spread over a longer period; they must be subject to clawback; more of the spoils must be paid in shares; and more information must be published about who gets what.
Flatterer
Definition:
(n.) One who flatters.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
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(5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
(6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
(7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
(10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
(11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
(12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
(14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
(15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
(16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
(18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
(19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
(20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.