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...government to take partial ownership of nine leading banks and offer to buy pieces of hundreds of others. On Oct. 13, the nine bank bosses, assembled in the Treasury's imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares each from Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. In return for the capital, the U.S. would collect a 5% dividend in the first five years. Although Wells Fargo chairman Richard Kovacevich resisted, Paulson gave the bankers no choice. It's partial nationalization, although in announcing the bailout Oct. 14, Paulson...
...banking industry. But the three aren't always in perfect alignment. As guarantor of Americans' $4.5 trillion in deposits spread around in some 8,500 U.S. banks, Bair is trying to balance both the needs of depositors like the storied Mrs. Lobsiger and those of big-name players like Citigroup who help generate much of the economy's torque...
...Citibank, the consumer and corporate banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup, terminated its loan program for graduate students at Harvard last week, according to University officials...
...Citigroup representatives declined to comment yesterday, saying that the bank’s special arrangements with schools are confidential...
...Citigroup lost its bid to merge with faltering bank Wachovia to Wells Fargo last week. The company will be one of the nine major banks to receive an injection of federal funds as part of the Bush administration’s $250-billion plan to rescue frozen credit markets...