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...The article caught the eye of Al King, then director of Citibank’s trust division in New York, and he recruited Mr McDowell to run the bank’s South Dakota office....
...The authorities control everything from loan pricing to fee income,” said Michael Na, analyst at Nomura....
...Citibank Korea has quietly closed 22 branches in the first nine months of this year, the bank confirmed on Monday, taking the total number to 196....
...Citibank suffered a 69 per cent drop in pre-tax profit over the same period. HSBC announced in July that it would shut down its South Korean retail banking operations....
...Last March three South Korean banks succumbed to malicious code attacks – blamed by Seoul on North Korea – while last month it was revealed that records had been stolen from the local subsidiaries of Citibank...
...injunction applicable to Belgian entities acting on Belgian soil, this Court could contravene a Belgian court’s definitive interpretation of Belgian Defendants’ obligations under Belgian law… We imagine Citibank...
...Citibank. Technically it’s Citibank’s Argentine branch....
...Citibank of the US this month sold its Brazilian consumer finance units to Itaú-Unibanco. According to media reports, BCI pipped Banco do Brasil to the City National Bank acquisition....
...Their two casinos generated gaming revenues of $5.9bn in 2011, according to Citibank, just behind the $6.1bn earned by casinos in Las Vegas, though both suffered a fall in revenues last year after the Singapore...
...beyondbrics: China first quarter GDP results, Brazil’s trade balance, Turkey’s monetary policy meeting, Russian unemployment figures; The China-Africa Business Summit takes in Johannesburg; earnings for Citibank...
...US dollar deposits receive no interest, for example, but those in South African rand earn at least 1.5 per cent....
...Singapore’s two casinos generated gaming revenues of US$5.9bn in 2011, according to Citibank, just behind the $6.1bn earned by casinos in Las Vegas, the US gambling capital....
...As David Cowan, chief economist for Africa at Citibank, says, “the tolerance of Chinese companies is very high....
...Now the board of creditors of Doe Run Peru, which bought the complex in a privatisation bid in 1997, has picked Citibank to manage the international sale of the metallurgical complex....
...But he is also an ex-banker at Citibank, whose former boss Sandy Weill says he hankers for the halcyon days of Glass-Steagall....
...Weisheng He, Asia forex strategist at Citibank, said that until the HKMA specified the exact rates on the facility, it would be hard to determine how much it would impact the market....
...Nomura estimates South Korea has spent $7bn defending its currency in recent weeks, while India, Indonesia and the Philippines have also been intervening....
...I protest that I’d rather endure any amount of tax and red tape in New York than live in South Dakota. Whitney stops smiling and leans across the table, big brown eyes narrowing....
...Citibank is working on plans to develop consumer banking services in Nigeria as it looks to tap into the fast growth of the Africa’s top oil producer and most populous nation....
...In addition to that, they took two vendor loans from Repsol, for $1.015bn and $626m, and a second bank loan, put together by Itaú, Credit Suisse, Citibank, Standard Bank and BNP Paribas, for $700m....
...Analysis by Citibank suggests that deficit will remain stable in the coming year, but notes that the size of the absolute deficit has increased to about $55bn – raising substantially the quantity of capital...
...foreign ministry office, Mrs Sirleaf handles questions deftly and with authority in an American-tinged accent that speaks to her many years spent outside Liberia, including in jobs at the World Bank and Citibank...
...Yes, I have a number of pensions: from Citibank, my work at the Blue Cross – where I make the maximum contribution – and a couple of small private plans....
...Daniel Lee, managing director at Citibank, said: “There are a number of opportunities for IHS. This is a business in growth mode....
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