Chanel owners pay themselves $3.4bn dividend – four times company’s net profit

Despite fall in revenues and profits last year, Alain and Gérard Wertheimer took double dividend they received in 2015

UK home to 80% of top-earning European bankers

Figures showing more than 4,000 City financiers were paid more than €1m in 2015 come as UK prepares for Brexit talks

Christopher Bailey: from Burberry chief executive to chief hatchet man

Fashion brand’s profit fall prompts bolder thinking from Bailey, who could use a retail specialist to help him turn things around

Grand designs: Burberry chief could receive £50m in share handouts

Fashion group’s outlay on designer Christopher Bailey unlikely to appease majority of shareholders who voted against his pay deal at 2014 AGM

Burberry cheque: Christopher Bailey wins over fashion world but not the City

He was hired on sight as the brand’s designer and plucked from college by Donna Karan, but investors ask if he is worth £20m

Burberry hands Christopher Bailey golden hello worth up to £7.6m

Clothing company’s new CEO receives payment of 500,000 shares after taking over from Angela Ahrendts earlier this month