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Dates: during 1990-1999
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By now most large banks and brokerages in the western hemisphere have moved into some form of private banking, with Citibank using its peerless retail network to develop business among local elites around the world. Most of the private-banking departments offer trusts and accounts in Switzerland, the Caymans and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Hide Me The Money | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

It is perhaps no surprise that in such an intensely competitive business, some of the newer private banks are running into trouble. Citibank was only one of several private banks that, according to investigators, could have more strictly observed a central tenet that private bankers call KYC. It stands for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Hide Me The Money | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

The problem for Amy Elliott at Citibank was not so much what she did but whom she did it for--at least in the view of the Mexican authorities who have brought criminal charges against Raul Salinas. In addition to getting Salinas Broadway theater tickets and managing his portfolio, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Hide Me The Money | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Demands for justice from Holocaust survivors like Lee are steadily mounting. In August, Switzerland's two largest banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle wartime claims against them. Since then no fewer than 10 class actions have been filed against European companies that do business in the U.S. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restitution, But At What Price? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

The best way to get rid of excess iron is through periodic bloodletting. That usually means giving up a pint every week or two for a year, and then once every few months or so. (Unfortunately, most blood banks won't accept the donation, more as a precaution than anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overdosed on Iron | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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