The top 10 US banks which were bleeding and took over 80 billion dollars survival loan from the US government nearly a year back, at the height of the financial crisis.

Now it is pay back time for the US government, with most of these banks set to return over 68 billion dollars of the TARP loan. All these banks have been able to raise new capital from the capital market which has helped them to work on repaying the TARP loans.

One key reason for repayment of TARP loans by these banks, is to help them get out of the stringent control on executive pay packets, by the US government, ever since the TARP loans were issued to them.