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Citi poised for cardholder acquisition push
Citigroup scales back overseas, beats 1Q profit estimates
Citi names Ida Liu new global head of private banking
Citi’s self-service portal helps big clients follow their own money
Citigroup fights for freeze on $500 million it sent in blunder
Citi hires Fincen’s Blanco as financial crimes compliance chief
Citi creates new investment banking unit in sustainability push
The move is part of a broader push at Citigroup to reduce carbon emissions. Jane Fraser, who took over as CEO on March 1, vowed on her first day that the bank would achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its financing activities by 2050. ]] ... Read full article
Citi hires Goldman's Erika Irish Brown to lead diversity efforts
Brown, who was most recently Goldman's chief diversity officer, will join Citigroup in the coming months as chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer and global head of talent. ]] ... Read full article
Big banks are scaling back fossil fuel lending, but for how long?
The Rainforest Action Network says the 2020 decline stemmed more from weak energy demand during the pandemic than banks’ pledge to reduce financing to firms that contribute to climate change. ]] ... Read full article
Citi, BNY Mellon earn top grades for pay gap disclosures
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase also received high marks for transparency in reporting how they are paying women and employees of color, but Goldman Sachs, KeyCorp and Citizens Financial Group still have work to do, according to the ... Read full article
Citigroup CEO bans Friday Zoom calls, encourages vacations
Citigroup Chief Executive Jane Fraser has barred internal video calls on Fridays and encouraged vacations in an effort to combat workplace malaise brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. ]] ... Read full article
Citi urges dealmakers to send more business to private bankers
Citigroup’s dealmakers have been keeping busy with family offices looking to get in on the blank-check frenzy. Now the lender wants to bring its private bank a piece of the action. ]] ... Read full article
Citi has more women on its board than any other big global bank
Women now account for half of Citigroup's 16-person board, the most of the 20 largest global banks, after Michael Corbat stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Jane Fraser. ... Read full article
Citi's Fraser says idea women don’t help women is ‘utter rubbish’
There’s a theory in corporate America that women in positions of power don’t help other women. Citigroup Chief Executive Jane Fraser doesn’t buy it. ... Read full article
Citi blocks firms with errant Revlon payout from debt deals
Citigroup is punishing investment firms that kept payments the bank accidentally sent to Revlon lenders by blocking them from certain new debt offerings led by the bank, according to people with knowledge of the matter. ... Read full article
Citigroup top lawyer who steered bank through mortgage crisis retiring
Citigroup’s general counsel, Rohan Weerasinghe, told the bank that he will retire by the end of the year after almost a decade in the role. ... Read full article
Citi’s $900 million mistake prompts banks to seek new safeguards
Banks have begun inserting new language into loan deals that would require investors to return accidental payments like the one Citigroup made to Revlon's lenders last year. ... Read full article
On Fraser’s first day as Citi CEO, a net-zero emissions pledge
Citigroup is one of the world's largest lenders to the fossil fuel industry, but CEO Jane Fraser vowed on Monday that the bank would achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions in its financing activities by 2050. ... Read full article
Citigroup restates earnings after writing down Revlon loan
Citigroup restated fourth-quarter results after writing down a portion of a loan to Revlon it now owns after losing a court battle. ... Read full article
