The U.S. government's recent decision to save banking giant Citigroup Inc. may ultimately be remembered as the last high-profile bank rescue in the great financial crisis of 2008, but that doesn't mean it's business as usual in global markets. ...more

November 28, 2008

PNC Financial Services Group said Friday that it is acquiring National City Corp. for $5.58 billion in one of the first concrete signs of how banks could use fresh investments from a government bailout program. ...more

October 25, 2008

An off-duty Orlando police officer is gunned down after withdrawing money from an automated teller machine. Two armored truck guards are shot to death in northeast Philadelphia while servicing a bank ATM. A retired couple is accosted in their Jacksonville home and then forced to reveal their ATM numbers before being buried alive. ...more

November 19, 2007