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The FBI is looking into a report that Freddie Mac improperly deferred billions of dollars of losses incurred from 2001 through 2004.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp. to not discuss its increasingly troubled plan to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. -- a deal that later triggered a government bailout of BofA -- according to testimony by Kenneth Lewis, the bank's chief executive.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday that most U.S. banks have enough capital to keep lending but a pile of bad debts is fostering doubts about their health and slowing a recovery.

Obama administration officials have determined they can avoid asking Congress for more bank bailout funds by converting existing loans to the largest U.S. banks into common stock, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

A West Virginia bank has become the first to completely cut its ties to the federal government's $700 billion financial rescue ...

The executive chosen to lead Fannie Mae through a government takeover has been tapped to oversee the $700 billion rescue of the ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday he would consider forcing out chief executives of banks that receive government bailouts if they were not managing their businesses properly.

Bailed-out banks take notice after Obama adopts hard line with Detroit, forces GM CEO to resign.

A top executive at troubled insurer AIG publicly resigns and says he will donate his entire bonus to charity.

The bank holding company wants to return funds to taxpayers, but it will not do so before the stress test.