TARP in the US worked exactly the same way with the banks, BTW. Banks which took TARP money had their dividends reduced to a penny per share maximum until the

TARP in the US worked exactly the same way with the banks, BTW. Banks which took TARP money had their dividends reduced to a penny per share maximum until the money was repaid. Here you can see that for Bank of America, it took until 2014(!) for their dividend to go above that: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/bac/dividend-history https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/bac/dividend-h...