AIG to repay $6 billion to U.S. government following AIA share sale

American International Group Inc. (AIG) will use $6 billion following the sale of AIA Group Ltd. shares to repay some of the $182.3 billion in bailout funds it received from the United States government. According to a sales document, this insurance company, based in New York, is majority owned by the government, and is selling approximately 1.7 billion shares of AIA at between HK $27.15 and HK $27.50 per share, to unidentified institutional investors. The same document revealed that approximately 19 percent of the AIA stock will still be held…

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AIG continues to pay its debt to the U.S. Treasury despite financial turmoil

The U.S. Treasury has received another payment from the American International Group (AIG), one of the nation’s largest insurance organizations. The payment is the latest in a series coming from AIG as part of its massive debt owed to the federal government. To date, the company has repaid $18 billion of the $182 billion provided during 2008’s financial crisis. The company still owes the federal government approximately $50 billion it received from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. This week’s payment totaled $972 million. The insurer has been treading troubled…

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AIG makes a $2.15 billion dent in its bailout repayments

American International Group Inc. (AIG) has made a payment of $2.15 billion to the U.S. Treasury Department as a partial repayment of the total $182 billion it was provided through the 2008 financial crisis bailout package. The repayment funds were drawn from the proceeds that the company made from the company’s sale of its Taiwan subsidiary called Nan Shan Life Insurance Company Shan to Ruen Chen Investment Holding Co. Nan Shan has been available for sale from AIG since the middle of 2009, when the government of Taiwan halted its…

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AIG files suit against Bank of America, looking to recover $10 billion in losses

American International Group (AIG), the U.S. largest insurer that has been steeped in controversy, has filed a lawsuit against Bank of American Corp. The insurer is looking to recover over $10 billion in losses from what it is calling “massive fraud.” The lawsuit is spurred by allegations of mortgage fraud stemming from the bank’s deals leading up to the 2008 economic recession. The suit claims that Bank of America misrepresented its mortgages as being of a higher quality than they actually were. According to the suit, filed with the New…

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