President Obama Meets With Banking Executives

U.S. President Barack Obama, second from right, meets with, clockwise from left, Ken Chenault, president and chief executive officer of American Express Co., obscured unknown, Ronald 'Ron' Logue, chairman and chief executive officer of State Street Corp., Robert 'Bob' Kelly, chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of New York Mellon Corp., obscured unknown, Christina Romer, chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., James 'Jim' Rohr, chairman of PNC Financial Services Group Inc., and Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. Obama said the nation's banks have an obligation to help accelerate the U.S. economic recovery after the government bailed them out of a crisis that was "largely of their own making." Photographer: Dennis Brack/Pool via Bloomberg