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...head of the former line is beleaguered giant Citigroup, which is currently negotiating with the Treasury Department to swap common stock in the company for some of the $45 billion in preferred stock that the government has purchased so far to shore up the bank's finances. The advantages for Citi are that it wouldn't have to pay dividends on the common stock, and certain capital ratios would improve. In return, the government would get more of an upside if Citi were to return to health, plus effective control of the company. Whether the government's stake would rise...
...financial panic, markets for certain assets simply stop functioning, and relying on market prices to determine the health of banks would simply mean succumbing to the panic. Then again, relying on bank executives to accurately price their own assets is no good either. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner hopes to get around this by jump-starting a market for troubled mortgage securities, but he hasn't decided yet how exactly to do that. For the moment, determining the health of banks remains a government judgment call...
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...unclear, though, whether Fine's special access will translate into financial help. Geithner has said he will spend a certain portion of the remaining $350 billion in the Treasury program formerly known as TARP investing more money in the nation's banks. But he hasn't said whether he intends to use the money to shore up the larger troubled banks or as grants to some smaller banks that don't necessarily need the funds but could use the additional money to make more loans. The government is reportedly in talks with Citigroup to take ownership of as much...
Under the previous Administration, small banks complained they did not get the same access that large banks got to TARP funds. Some 600 small banks have filed applications to get financial-rescue funds, and they are still waiting for a response from Treasury. And that has driven up the resentment of large banks by their smaller competitors. "There is no future for the miserable eight," says Rusty Cloutier, the CEO of MidSouth Bank, a community bank in Lafayette, La., referring to the nation's largest banks. "No one is dealing with that. We can keep pumping money into them...