G20 finance ministers arrive for evening dinner

SHOTLIST 1. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arriving at G20 dinner 2. British Treasury chief and meeting host Alistair Darling arriving at G20 dinner 3. Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg arriving at G20 dinner 4. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arriving at G20 dinner 5. South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan arriving at G20 dinner 6. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde arriving at G20 dinner 7. South Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-Hyun arriving at G20 dinner 8. Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti arriving at G20 dinner 9. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck arriving at G20 dinner 10. Argentine Finance Minister Amado Boudou arriving at G20 dinner 11. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arriving at G20 dinner 12. Head of European Central Bank (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet arriving at G20 dinner STORYLINE Top finance officials on Friday met at a dinner after debating the next steps for the recovering global economy ahead of a Group of 20 summit in London. European countries at the meeting are pushing for a crackdown on bankers' bonuses while the U.S. stressed the need to boost bank reserves to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis. The Group of 20 countries were also discussing so-called exit strategies from the recent massive economic stimulus, although all agreed that withdrawing the massive amounts of money injected into the ailing world economy any time soon could risk a double-dip recession. Developing countries, meanwhile, used the gathering to press for reform of global financial governance, proposing shifts in voting power at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in favor of developing countries. Finance ministers and central bank officials from rich and developing countries representing 80 percent of world economic output are convening in London through Saturday amid mounting signs of at least a modest economic upturn, with Japan, Germany, France and Australia all recording growth in the second quarter. Britain is widely expected to do so in the third quarter. The G-20 includes 19 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, Britain and the United States. The European Union, represented by its rotating presidency and the European Central Bank, is the 20th member. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/6f4bbef8aea77880b56e628db1a0f8ec Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork