NYT Reporting Obama Administration Considering Broad New Regulations on Executive Pay
On the New York Times site now, and undoubtedly in the Sunday paper is a story about federal plans to increase reporting requirements on executive pay at financial institutions and even all publicly traded companies. Also under consideration are regulations of executive pay tying compensation to company performance. From the article:
One proposal could impose greater requirements on the boards of companies to tie executive compensation more closely to corporate performance and to take other steps to assure that outsize bonuses are not paid before meeting financial goals.
The new rules will cover all financial institutions, including those not now covered by any pay rules because they are not receiving federal bailout money. Officials say the rules could also be applied more broadly to publicly traded companies, which already report about some executive pay practices to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last month, as part of the stimulus package, Congress barred top executives at large banks getting rescue money from receiving bonuses exceeding one-third of their annual pay.
Beyond the pay rules, officials said the regulatory plan is expected to call for a broad new role for the Federal Reserve to oversee large companies, including major hedge funds, whose problems could pose risks to the entire financial system.
