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Bank of America Offers to Pay Back Some Aid
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Bank of America is looking to pay back some of the billions in federal bailout aid it has received in an effort to get out from underneath the government's thumb, according to a published report.
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Sharon Lorimer |
Meanwhile, the government wants the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank to pay about $500 million to terminate a tentative pact in which the U.S. agreed to share losses on certain Bank of America assets, The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment Tuesday on the newspaper's report.
Shares of Bank of America [BAC
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Several banks, including JPMorgan[JPM
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] have already repaid aid they received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Doing so removed those firms from having their executive compensation packages approved by Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's pay czar.
Bankers worried that the pay rules put them at a competitive disadvantage in retaining talented employees. Bank of America is awaiting Feinberg's approval of its 2009 executive pay packages.
Bank of America isn't looking to pay back all of the $45 billion it received in TARP aid at once, according to the paper, but may give back the $20 billion it received in January to help it absorb teetering investment bank Merrill Lynch.
The government helped orchestrate the bank's acquisition of Merrill over the same weekend in September that another investment bank, Lehman Brothers, went under, setting off the most intense period of the financial crisis.
As CEO Ken Lewis showed trepidation about completing the deal, the government in January doled out the additional funds and promised to cover losses on more than $100 billion in risky assets.
In return, the bank gave the Treasury Department billions in preferred stock which paid annual dividends worth hundreds of millions. The government maintains that if Bank of America wants out of that loss-sharing deal, it is on the hook for a break-up fee of between $300 million and $500 million, according to the Journal.
A person close to the situation says the bank, which once balked at paying an exit fee, is now seeking "middle ground," the paper said.
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