Bonuses: Bounty hunter

This is not the year for bonus one-upmanship, but bankers still crave solace that they have not fallen right to the bottom of the pay charts. Now even the sorriest structured finance geek can feel schadenfreude at the latest news coming out of the bonus ticker. Dresdner Kleinwort staff who were expecting to share in a E400m bonus pot as recently as two months ago have just been told the pot is now empty. Dresdner Kleinwort tried to rush through bonuses in the same controversial way that Merrill...