July 3, 2014
American International Group Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc. told regulators they could divest units and halt policy sales to avoid taking a bailout in a future crisis. AIG, the insurer that repaid a U.S. rescue in 2012, and Prudential, which …
October 24, 2013
As the U.S. government closes in on a $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase & Co. over its mortgage practices, lawyers specializing in bank mergers are looking for ways to protect their clients from big losses in similar cases in …
December 13, 2012
To say taxpayers made money from their investment in AIG is to libel the very concept of profit. Come to think of it, it may well be a gross insult to the idea of investment too. The Treasury Department announced …
September 26, 2012
When Sheila Bair showed up for a meeting in then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s office in October 2008, the bank regulator had no idea she was about to be asked to guarantee the debts of the entire $13 trillion U.S. banking …
September 10, 2012
The U.S. Treasury Department said it will sell most of its stake in insurer American International Group Inc., making the government a minority investor for the first time since it rescued the company in the depths of the financial crisis …
April 16, 2012
Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the Federal Reserve was left with few good options when it stepped in to shore up the largest U.S. financial institutions during the 2008 crisis. Bernanke defended the central bank’s actions to support insurance …
November 2, 2011
A new report from the U.S. Government Accounting Office chronicles the government’s handling of AIG bailout in 2008. In all, the government had invested and made loans worth more than $182 billion for the insurer. The 152-page report, titled “Financial …
May 25, 2011
of American International Group Inc. fell 3.6 percent Wednesday after the insurer and the U.S. Treasury sold $8.7 billion worth of AIG stock. The Treasury sold 200 million shares, reducing its stake in the company to 77 percent from 92 …
April 5, 2011
Bailed-out insurer American International Group is working hard to invest cash it had set aside for a failed deal to buy assets from the Federal Reserve, Chief Executive Bob Benmosche said in an interview Tuesday. But AIG is still looking …
April 4, 2011
Compensation packages for the chief executives of bailed-out firms American International Group, Ally Financial and General Motors will not increase in 2011, the Treasury Department said late Friday. The Obama administration’s pay czar has reviewed the packages for the top …