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Savers tell UK’s biggest mutual to curb directors’ pay

Nationwide told to cap executive rewards while savers suffer low interest rates

By Steve Lodge |
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If they were ‘on our side’, there would not be bonuses or pay rises of 30 per cent: it would be more like three per cent

Alan Debenham, secretary, Building Societies Members Association

Savers are pressuring the Nationwide building society to show restraint over executive pay by curbing directors’ salary increases and bonuses.

The Building Societies Members Association (BSMA) argues that Nationwide, the UK’s biggest building society, and other customer-owned mutuals should also have binding annual votes on executive pay, in line with government plans for shareholder-owned companies.

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