Citigroup Pay Proposal Rejected By Shareholders
Citigroup's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year continues.
The big bank last month suffered the ignominy of having the Federal Reserve nix its plan to raise its dividend from the nominal penny per share. And on Tuesday Citi shareholders rejected its pay plan for top executives, including nearly $15 million in pay-and a $40 million bonus--for CEO Vikram Pandit.
The say-on-pay vote, a feature of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law,
isn't binding on Citigroup. But that slap on the face, with only 45 percent of investors approving Citi's pay plan, stings nonetheless.
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