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With the wiring of nearly $10 billion to the Treasury, U.S. Bancorp and BB&T became the first large financial institutions to announce that they have repaid the government in full.
U.S. officials on Tuesday gave 10 of the nation's biggest banks approval to pay back a combined $68 billion of taxpayer money pumped into them to combat the credit crisis.
Citigroup will lend up to $5 billion in TARP funds in a municipal program to help finance construction of schools, airports, hospitals and other infrastructure products.
Banks that want to pay back their federal bailout funds and free themselves from government restrictions on compensation and dividends will have to sever their ties to another financial assistance program.