The European Banking Authority (EBA) shared its latest count on Thursday, covering the year 2021, of bankers who have earned more than one million euros: there were 1,957 in total in the European Union (EU), a record, including 371 in France.
The year 2021 "
shows a significant increase in the number of people working for European banks and investment companies who have received remuneration of more than 1 million euros
", notes the EBA, which has been lending itself to the exercise since 2010.
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This increase is “
related to the good overall performance of the companies, in particular in the field of investment banking
”, completes the EBA, but also to the movement of certain teams from London to the EU since Brexit.
The year 2021 was marked by a strong recovery in activity after 2020, penalized by the health crisis and confinements.
French banking groups took the opportunity to sign results never seen in their history.
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This is the case of BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole, which had earned respectively 9.5 and 9.1 billion euros in net profit.
Societe Generale followed (5.6 billion euros), the Crédit Mutuel group (4.3 billion) and BPCE (4 billion).
With 371 salaries over one million euros, France logically comes second behind Germany (589) and ahead of Italy (351), among the 27 countries studied.
