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New York - American International Group Inc is set to pay out about $100m in a fresh round of bonuses to employees of its financial products division, the unit whose risky bets helped sink the company leading to a $180bn government bailout, according to reports published on Tuesday.
AIG agreed to cut the retention bonuses by $20m but will still hand out $100m on Wednesday, The New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the negotiations.
The Washington Post, also citing people familiar with the situation, said the retention payments are for employees at the division who agreed to accept 10% to 20% less than AIG had initially promised them two years ago. In return, they are getting their money more than a month ahead of schedule.
AIG is still due to pay out tens of millions of dollars more in March, mostly to former employees who did not agree to the concessions, the Post reported.
A message was left with an AIG spokesperson seeking comment.
New York-based AIG faced intense public and congressional criticism last March when it paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in retention bonuses to employees months after receiving the government bailout.
When the credit crisis hit in the fall of 2008, the US government rescued AIG from the brink of collapse in exchange for an 80% stake in the insurer. AIG's near collapse was not due to its traditional insurance operations, but instead risky derivatives contracts written by the financial products division.
- AP