The Dutch finance ministry is considering easing parts of the country’s limits on variable pay in a move that could be designed to support banks while seeking to mitigate the risk of a public backlash ...

The Dutch government wants to cap the population of the Netherlands at 20 million people by 2050 and will have to cut immigration by about 100,000 people a year to hit the target.

Any softening of the Dutch bonus cap would be the first time the government makes changes favored by banks since introducing the regulation a decade ago. The cap is far more stringent than ...