The view from the top may be blinding, but even the so-called Millionaires Factory isn’t immune to scrutiny. Macquarie Group’s hubris is now colliding with its growing litany of regulatory failures.
At Thursday’s annual shareholder meeting, the bank was slapped with its first-ever remuneration report strike after shareholders were urged by two leading proxy firms, CGI Glass Lewis and Ownership Matters, to vote against multimillion-dollar executive pay in response to the company’s ongoing compliance and risk-related breaches.