UK has 75 percent of EU’s millionaire bankers

More than 75 percent of Europe's banking millionaires are based in the UK, according to a report by the EU's bank watchdog, the European Banking Authority (EBA).

More than 2,700 UK-based bankers were paid more than €1 million in 2012, compared to a further 794 across the rest of the EU. Germany was a distant second with 212, followed by France with 177. Ten EU countries had no banking millionaires.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: European Banking Authority http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-european-banking-authority-eba/

http://www.eba.europa.eu/documents/10180/16145/EBA+Report+High+Earners+2012.pdf http://www.eba.europa.eu/documents/10180/16145/EBA+Report+High+Earners+2012.pdf

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