Citigroup

Citigroup, or Citi, is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. The company was formed by the merger of banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group in 1998. It owns Citicorp, the holding company for Citibank.

In 2018, policy research and development entity Financial Stability Board named Citigroup amongst the list of 29 banks worldwide that they considered "systemically important financial institutions", that is, financial organisations whose size and role meant that any failure could cause serious systemic problems. 

Citi sets up an Infrastructure Financing & Capital Solutions Group

The new group is under the Debt Capital Markets (DCM) function of Citi.

Citi names Goldman Sachs banker as head of healthcare for ANZ

Ben Bartholomaeus’ past work includes the stake sale of Novotech and a A$1.6b DBG Health investment.

Citi and DEG provides $76m loan to Shriram Finance for underserved lending

It will be used for MSMEs, EVs, food security, and women lending.

Citi invests in Japan’s Sakana AI

Citi says the investment will help Sakana AI in its international expansion.

Citi forms AI Infrastructure Banking team to tap $3t financing opportunity

The team aims to provide debt financing to fund data centres and other infra capacity.

Citi names Thai Nguyet Minh as markets head and country treasury for Vietnam

She joins from Maybank, where she was the Vietnam head of global markets.

Citi launches Korea desk in Chicago to back Korean firms’ US expansion

Citi Korea opened its first Korea desk in New York in 1993.

Citi hires Kriss Pachauri to lead ANZ global asset manager coverage

Citi says it has a “strong pipeline” in the financial sponsors segment.

Citi rolls out evergreen private market funds for HNW clients

It has partnered with Blackstone, Blue Owl, and KKR to launch the funds.

Citi foresees more Asia M&A deals on healthcare and multinational moves

In 2026, Citi already led two M&A biopharma deals in China.

Weekly Global News Wrap: Trump floats 10% card rate cap; Citi to cut 1,000 jobs

And Credit Agricole wins ECB approval to lift Banco BPM stake above 20%.

Citi names four new managing directors across Asia Pacific

Investment banking revenue in Japan more than doubled, it said.

Citi names Ryan Ellis as head of markets sales for ANZ

Ellis will continue to be responsible for the ANZ rates sales franchise.

Citi names Soonwok Kwon as head of market sales for South Korea

Kwon used to work at UBS AG and Credit Suisse AG in Seoul.

Citi names Minh Ngo as Citi Country Officer & Banking Head in Vietnam

She is the first Vietnamese national to assume the CCO role in 32 years.