[andrewstuart]

They're talking in percentage terms because you'd be shocked if they were talking cash.

Traders get million pound bonuses. or more. Goodness knows what a bonus is worth, but I'd be extremely happy with 50% of whatever it is.

It might seem odd to be paying bonuses at all, but to be fair, mega bonuses are part of the culture of share trading and if you have no bonuses then you have no traders, they'll go elsewhere.

[nxm]

Colleague worked in the London office at Credit Suisse and all exotic car dealerships had cars lined up for sale outside the office on bonus day in early 2000s.

[conductr]

Trickle down economics at its best

[mrguyorama]

Shouldn't other companies be wary of hiring traders from a firm with such terrible results?

[nxm]

How much is it the trader and how much is it the company? Hard to gauge