Compensation

Chief executives of Wall Street's largest banks were awarded record pay packages last year as profits soared. Nearly 2,500 miles away, the CEO of a little-known online lender, born at the height of the dot-com bubble, quietly outearned them all.

Community banks are relying more on analytics, incentives and business partnerships in hopes of stemming an outflow of deposit relationships.

Tim Sloan took a beating as Wells Fargo's boss, but at least he won’t have to fight California freeway traffic or keep his own calendar in retirement.

Jamie Dimon remains the highest-paid chief executive, but his 5% pay raise was smaller than that of at least five of his counterparts. Here's what CEOs of 13 large and regional banks earned last year, based on recent proxy filings.

It was a 5.7% raise from the previous year. His total compensation was the smallest among the CEOs of the six biggest U.S. financial institutions, but his salary was the largest.