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[edit] Question: When did the ID Theft commercials first come around?

I've only recently seen them, yet an article dated 2004 mentions them. (Article: here)

[edit] Question: Where is the Y ?

[edit] Question: What NA stands for in citibank NA?

The Bank was originally the "National City Bank of New York", as seen in the articly. This can be neatly shortened to "Citybank". But it was shortened to "Citibank". Does anyone have an explanaition for that ? I'm puzzled. This is what they have to say:

"1976 - The First National City Corporation holding company changes its name to Citicorp to better suit its global businesses."
Source: Citigroup Website

I suppose they refer to the shortening of the name and dropping of "national" as better suiting, as i can not conceive how the y>i-change should make any change in citicorps global businesses. I would greatly appreciate an answer. Thank you in advance.--83.189.43.162 23:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reason for reversion to stub

That wonderfully complete article was actually compiled by combining copyrighted material from multiple websites. I went looking and found blocks of text copied directly from [1], [2], [3]. At that point I stopped looking. I assume that ALL of the new text is copyvio. I left a message on the contributor's talk page explaining why I was going to undo his edit, then reverted to the last non-copyvio version -- a stub. SWAdair | Talk 10:24, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC) Citibank NA means Natinal associated —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.193.221.141 (talk) 06:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What's the deal with Aziz?

Did Citibank have some nefarious role in making him PM of Pakistan? That seems to be what the article insinuates, but no evidence is given. - Sekicho 22:46, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)

I agree, this is not NPOV: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I've removed this claim from the article -- if someone has evidence that Citibank actually played a role in him becoming PM, please re-add the claim along with some evidence for it. Neilc 17:35, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Citibank History

Citibank bought CalFed back in 2002. I think it was for 5.8 billion dollars? Dunno the exact amount. - Allyunion 10:04, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism section needed

Aside from Enron and WalMart, isn't Citibank like the most often criticized company in America?

--LegCircus 04:28, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)


What about Citibank's connection to the Enron Nigerian Barge scandal? There's nothing on the page about that. Anybody have anything about it? Tnek46 06:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walter Wriston

Walter Wriston's name should be mentioned in this article. He led the bank through the development of the ATM and through the creation of the new consumer banking culture.

McDogm Apr 28 2005 0946 est usa

[edit] Largest Bank?

According to WikiPedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_the_United_States and the source listed there http://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/nicweb/Top50Form.aspx Citigroup is the largest bank in the world with both Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase & Co. behind it. This page says it is the third largest citing: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763206.html. Which source is right? I'm more willing to trust the government page over the infoplease site. Perhaps it needs to be changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.239.10.103 (talk • contribs)

From what I am gathering, the new page stating citi as number 3 is referring to individual branch holdings (probably from acquisitions) as those branches are not those bank's HQs. I am wondering why the revision with deletion of the old article??? the old one had much more info even though somewhat POV. Citigroup is still considered of the top publically traded company in the world maybe he sees a big difference between citi group and bank but forbes does not(i'll get a link supporting when I get a chance have to run). Axedmt 20:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC) here is a link for 2007 international 2000 http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/18/biz_07forbes2000_The-Global-2000_Rank.html#cooliris Axedmt 21:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

This wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking gives an accurate ranking of world financial institutions in various categories. As Citigroup/Citibank is first or second in most categories, while no other bank is ranked consistently this high in all the categories, I think it is accurate to describe Citibank as 'arguably' the largest financial organization of its kind, depending on ranking used.

Note also that a previous edit of this article stated the Industrial Bank of China as the largest in the world - but this is not the case as its assets and other metrics are not number one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.15.249.123 (talk) 02:28, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subsidaries Correctness and completness

The Subsidaries section of the article doesn't reflect the same info that the FDIC website has. For example Citibank N.A. (Nevada) still exists, as does Citibank N.A. (No state -- the original NYC bank) Also Citigroup has an new credit card bank subsidiary called Department Stores National Bank that issues credit cards for Macy's, Bloomingdales, etc.. So I tagged it with the unverified tag.. Its almost correct, but not quite. —Cliffb 22:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Urgent Revision

This article requires revision, as CEO Chuck Prince has resigned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7078251.stm Beck13 09:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)