AIG Executive Pay Rankles Banking Consumers

The Reuters headline reads “AIG Returns to Pre-Bailout Paydays for CEO, Top Executives,” and consumers were already ranting on Sunday on Facebook about entitled financial services giants cheating the taxpayer. Despite the night-and-day differences between retail banks and financial giants like AIG, consumers don’t follow such delineations and now may be the time for banks to market their brands to consumers as responsible, customer-first entities.

This may be especially true because that main article trending on Facebook, by Suzanne Barlyn of Reuters, includes a caution from her sources that AIG may be taking big financial risks again for short-term gain so that its new CEO can collect on the giant pay package listed below.

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