Timothy Geithner

Six years after the U.S. government takeover of insurer AIG, a lawsuit reveals another potential buyer and raises the question of whether the bailout was even needed.

In his recent book, the Former U.S. Treasury Secretary makes a case for dramatic government intervention during the financial crisis.

U.S. banks are urging financial regulators to soften new international bank liquidity rules as the sector faces a collective deficit of $1,400 billion for complying with them.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was the keynote speaker at Delivering Alpha, a joint conference organized by Institutional Investor and CNBC. Here’s the full text of his interview.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has called for global minimum standards for margins on uncleared derivatives trades.

U.S. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner is seeking new global rules to govern the $600 trillion derivatives market.

U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Michel Barnier, the European Union’s commissioner for internal markets and services, jointly announced their commitment to stricter capital requirements adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, reports Reuters.

Timothy Geithner and Dominique Strauss-Kahn seem a million miles apart this month, but they’re both connected by one issue: Ireland.

Officials from the Chinese government have issued a statement urging the global economic leader to protect the interest of investors in the country’s debt after the outlook on its credit rating was downgraded, according to Reuters.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has called on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to put implementation of Dodd-Frank on hold until foreign countries pass similar measures, reports The Hill.