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...recent statement by Sanford I. Weill, the chairman of Citigroup, that he supports the acceptance of women for membership in the elite Augusta National Golf Club marks a small victory for women’s lobbying groups who have been attempting, unsuccessfully, to end gender discrimination at the club. Augusta National is the site of golf’s annual Masters Invitational tournament, and Weill is the first member to speak out against the club’s policy. Weill’s courage should serve as an example to other members of the club and to the wider golf...
...world's most powerful banker, came face-to-face with Eliot Spitzer, the toughest cop on Wall Street. Both were among the guests at a Sept. 10 lunch hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Their exchange was brief. But Weill, 69, CEO of Citigroup, indicated he was eager to talk about the ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense of urgency...
...head of Citi's subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney, marked the beginning of what is shaping up as a far-reaching peace treaty. Spitzer, who used a $100 million settlement with Merrill Lynch to reform stock research on Wall Street, wants a similar and more expensive pact with Citigroup to address systemic abuses in the way lucrative initial public offerings (IPOs) of stock have been showered on CEOs who sent investment-banking business to Citi. Spitzer is still digging for dirt, so any deal may be several weeks away. But the whole episode signaled a thaw in Weill...
...expose what he describes as a prestigious U.S. lender aggressively marketing financial instruments to governments that didn't really understand them. Tens of millions of dollars in excessive fees and interest, he says, have been diverted from poor Caribbean countries into the coffers of Citibank, now a unit of Citigroup. Until recently, no one really listened...
...with the unraveling of Enron and WorldCom and recent allegations of legal and ethical lapses at Citigroup, Seereeram's cries are finally being heard. As a result of his investigations, Trinidad's tiny island neighbor Dominica has filed suit against the Citibank unit, alleging that it secretly and aggressively overcharged the government of Dominica on a bond issue to finance the island's first international airport. "We believe the allegations are without merit," says Lula Rodriguez, a Citibank spokeswoman. Seereeram hopes Dominica's lawsuit will bring renewed scrutiny to a case closer to home: a 1993 deal to refinance...