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Morgan Stanley hikes bonuses for top UK investment bankers by 67%

The Wall Street bank has paid its material risk takers an average of £1.5m after a bumper 2024

Morgan Stanley has hiked bonuses for top London bankers after the scrapping of a long-standing UK cap
Morgan Stanley has hiked bonuses for top London bankers after the scrapping of a long-standing UK cap Photo: Mike Kemp/Getty Images

Morgan Stanley hiked bonuses for top staff in its UK investment bank by an average of 67% last year as performance improved. 

The bank paid average bonuses of £898,461 to 325 senior employees known as material risk-takers in its investment bank for 2024, according to numbers released in its Pillar 3 report earlier in April. 

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