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...early October, Citigroup sold its commodities-trading division Phibro to energy company Occidental Petroleum. Citi was motivated to dispose of the unit because of pressure from regulators to curtail the pay of Phibro's top trader Andrew Hall, who made $100 million last year, and reportedly has a contract that would award him roughly the same amount in 2009. Oxy declined to comment on Hall's compensation. But the energy giant says Hall will remain with the unit at Oxy. Hall had threatened to leave Citi if his pay was cut, which means Oxy is probably honoring his contract. Says...
...Citi, the controversy surrounding Hall's pay was about whether a bank that has received $45 billion in government assistance should be turning around and handing over big bags of cash provided by taxpayers, most of whom won't make one-tenth of Hall's annual salary in their entire lifetimes, to its employees. But now that Hall has left Citi, a larger question remains: Is anyone really worth $100 million a year, and what exactly do you have to do to deserve that much...
...these days it looks like much more is on the block at Citi than the bank is letting on. Citi is reportedly considering a plan to either sell off or close a number of its retail branches. At just over 1,000, Citi has a much smaller branch network than its rivals. Bank of America, for example, has 6,000 branches nationwide. Citi is reportedly considering closing or selling its bank branches in cities such as Boston, Philadelphia and other areas of the country where it does not have a significant presence. Citi has denied any such intention.(See pictures...
...Then there is Phibro. Based in Westport, Conn., the unit was originally included among the businesses that Citi wanted to hang on to. And for good reason: Phibro has been profitable every year since 1997, averaging a gain of nearly $400 million a year for the past half-decade. But earlier this year, it was revealed that the head of that unit, Andrew Hall, had been paid $100 million for his work in 2008 and was set to get a similarly large check for 2009. Citigroup is subject to government-imposed pay caps as a term of the financial...
...Citi executives are taking a different path out of the financial crisis than many of its rivals, which at times has been a benefit to those rivals. With the acquisition of Citi's Salomon Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley now has the largest brokerage force in the nation. And while Morgan has gotten out of some trading businesses, it is expanding its retail banking business. Executives at Bank of America and Wells Fargo say there are no plans to sell off major pieces of those banks...