BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favor of reforms to strengthen the bloc’s financial sector, including a new law to cap bankers’ bonuses.

The rule limits bonus payments at one year’s base salary, or double that if a large majority of a bank’s shareholders agrees. It will come into force next year and will also apply to European units of foreign banks and the employees of EU banks working overseas — in New York, for example.

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