• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

KeyCorp, Capital One to receive cash infusion: source

WASHINGTON
Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:15am EDT

Stocks

   
The Capital One headquarters in McLean, Virginia, August 21, 2007. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - KeyCorp (KEY.N), Zions Bancorp (ZION.O) and Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) are some of the banks that will receive cash under the U.S. government's second round of capital infusions, a source familiar with the Treasury Department's thinking said on Sunday.

Housing Market  |  Crisis in Credit

Four banks, including PNC Financial Services Group Inc (PNC.N), have already announced they are participating in the second round of capital injections.

Under the government's $700 billion financial services rescue package, the Treasury Department will inject $250 billion of capital directly into banks in exchange for preferred shares and warrants.

Treasury is providing funds in a bid to revive the financial sector, which has suffered since lending dried up and many of the loans banks made have gone bad.

Treasury has already allotted $125 billion to nine of the nation's largest banks including Goldman Sachs (GS.N).

About 20 regional U.S. banks are expected to receive cash under the Treasury Department's second round of the bank recapitalization program.

It was not clear how much KeyCorp, Zions and Capital One will receive. The banks are expected to make the announcement as early as Monday.

(Reporting by Rachelle Younglai; editing Sue Thomas)



More from Reuters

Photo

Time Warner Cable, Fox at impasse; blackout looms

NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 13 million Time Warner Cable Inc subscribers were to lose most Fox programing at midnight on Thursday unless the cable service provider reached a last-minute deal to pay fees to News Corp to broadcast the shows.

A customer is served at a counter inside a foreign exchange store displaying a poster of various banknotes including the Chinese yuan or renminbi (RMB) in Hong Kong November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
OUTLOOK 2010:

Be careful what you wish for

Pressure on China to loosen its grip on the yuan will continue but the U.S. should tread carefully. Here are five world market issues to watch.  Full Article 

Clients work out on machines at the Bally Total Fitness facility in Arvada, Colorado June 15, 2009.  REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Get real with resolutions

We make them and we break them: The secret to keeping them is to avoid the impossible dream.  Full Article