Britain’s biggest banks have paid their bosses more than £177million in the decade since the financial crisis. Chief executives at Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds have pocketed vast sums while millions of families have struggled in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The bank chiefs have shrugged off money laundering and mis-selling scandals, taxpayer rescues and fraud probes to keep their gravy train going. Ten years on from the run on Northern Rock in 2007, some are even being paid more now than they were before the crisis.
— source thisismoney.co.uk 2017-09-09