Video: 06/04 Banks Try To Repay TARP

06/04/09 Banks raise money to repay the government bailout, the bailout one CEO referred to as the "scarlett letter."

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Video: Stress tests find 10 big banks need $75B more

Ten of the nation's largest financial firms need to raise $75 billion more capital to withstand losses that would come with a deeper recession, the gov't. said in a report card that found the banking system viable but still vulnerable.

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Video: Stress test results

The bank stress test results deliver clarity to investors.

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Video: Bank stress tests due out

The government is set to release the results of tests meant to find out what happens to 19 large financial firms if conditions were to worsen. AP Business Editor Mark Hamrick reports.

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Video: 05/01 Government to Delay Stress Test Results

05/01/09 The US government will delay the release of stress test results until May 7, after the market close, as banks dispute the findings.

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Video - Week Ahead: More from Bernanke

Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke is out on the speaking circuit in the week ahead, with talks expected on the economy and banking system.

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Video: 04/22 IMF Projects $4.1Trillion Bank Losses

04/22/09 The International Monetary Fund expects total bank losses world wide to top $4 trillion as the global recession deepens.

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Video - Geithner: Toxic asset plan almost done

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tells Charlie Rose in an interview that the toxic asset plan will provide low-cost government financing to private investors willing to purchase the bad assets on banks' balance sheets.

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Video: Bernanke calls for regulatory overhaul

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. financial regulatory system must be overhauled to strengthen oversight of banks, mutual funds and large financial institutions whose collapse would put the entire economy in peril.

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Video: Obama: Govt. should monitor bank risks

President Barack Obama says the government should monitor the scale and scope of the risks that financial institutions take.

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Video - Report: Gov't could take a bigger chunk of Citi

The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the situation, said late Sunday that Citigroup Inc. is negotiating with authorities to increase the U.S. government's stake in the teetering lender to as much as 40 percent.

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Video: How bank nationalization would work

The pros and cons of a possible US government takeover of increasingly troubled banks. The White House says it strongly believes in a privately held bank system but experts like NYU Professor Matthew Richardson say governmental control may be the only way to keep some banks from disappearing. Manoush Zomorodi reports from New York.

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Video: UBS deal tests Swiss bank secrecy

UBS agrees to hand over client data to the United States in a tax fraud case settlement, which some say could put an end to Switzerland's banking secrecy. Switzerland's biggest bank also agreed to pay $780 million as well as identify 250 American clients who held undeclared bank accounts to avert criminal charges. But the Swiss Finance Minister says banking secrecy remains.

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Video: Traders 'not moved' by Geithner speech

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday outlined plans to increase consumer lending and remove toxic assets from banks' balance sheets. But analysts said they were disappointed by the lack of details in the plans.

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Video: Private Sector to the Rescue?

02/10/09 The government may turn to the private sector to help bail out banks.

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Video: Banks And Your Money

Nearly 4 months after U.S. banks received a multi-billion dollar bailout from the government Sharyl Attkisson takes a look at just how each of those banks are spending taxpayer money.

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Video: Obama Blasts Banks Bonuses

President Obama blasted Wall Street bankers after a report that employees of financial companies in N.Y. collected nearly $18.5 billion in bonuses in 2008. As Chip Reid reports.

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Video - Jan 28: Stocks jump on plan for bad banks

The optimism is building on Wall Street. Surging financial stocks gave the market a huge boost Wednesday with the Standard & Poors 500 index enjoying its first four-day rally since late November.

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Video: Bailed out banks keep most top executives

To rescue the economy, the government is making a nearly $700 billion gamble: that the same executives who oversaw the banking industry's collapse can now be counted on to revive it.

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Video: Should U.S. Nationalize Banks?

Experts are worried the government may nationalize banks in an effort to rescue the economy. As Priya David reports, the action would not guarantee an economic upswing.

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