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Citigroup Inc. said Monday it is repaying $20 billion in bailout money it received from the Treasury Department, in an effort ...

The plight of homeowners unable to refinance despite massive aid to banks is a volatile political issue.

President Barack Obama singled out financial institutions for causing much of the economic tailspin and criticized their opposition to tighter federal oversight of their industry....

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday moved to extend the government's $700 billion bailout fund into October 2010 and pledged to deploy no more than $550 billion of it.

Five senior executives at American International Group told the insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was cut significantly by the U.S. pay czar, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

The Obama administration, buoyed by a resurgent Wall Street, plans to cut the projected long-term cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program by more than $200 billion, in a move that could smooth the way for the introduction of a new jobs program.

The United Arab Emirates central bank said it stood behind domestic and foreign banks operating in Dubai after a recent announcement about Dubai World’s debt.

The U.S. Federal Reserve this month asked banks that were part of "stress tests" conducted earlier this year that have not yet repaid money injected under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to submit plans to do so, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

Federal regulators involved in the rescue of insurer AIG may have overpaid other banks when cutting a deal, a report says.

The head of the largest U.S. labor federation urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to use the $700 billion Wall Street bailout fund to help cash-starved small businesses as a way to stem rising joblessness.