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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.

Stocks retreated as investors cashed in on their profits a day after Wall Street rallied on new details regarding Washington’s bank-rescue plans.

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said 15 of the top 20 bonus recipients in A.I.G.’s financial products division had returned their bonuses.

The Obama administration, after months of criticizing Wall Street, has been scrambling to woo top bankers and financiers to back its latest bailout plan.

Investors respond positively to plan to remove up to $1 trillion in bad assets from banks' books.

Workmen rolled up their sleeves at American International Group Inc this weekend to take down the most prominent sign at the downtown Manhattan offices of the embattled insurer.

Washington Mutual Inc, the failed U.S. savings and loan, has sued the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp for well over $13 billion in connection with the loss of its banking operations, which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Documents turned over to the Connecticut attorney general show that American International Group Inc paid out over $218 million in bonuses, more than the previously disclosed $165 million, published reports said on Saturday.