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[edit] Question: Where is the Y ?
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:
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- "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)
The Y is at www.citybank.com a bank founded in 1974 two years before Citcorp renamed it's bank.
i think it's just an aesthetic choice, and that it's also to give it more of a proper name than "city bank". this way it's not the group/bank of a city, but rather just citibank as a whole name.24.232.74.200 (talk) 04:44, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] This is closer to the truth about the "Y"
Just MHO, but it has seemed since the Vietnam War that American companies wishing to expand around the world will often drop the English (or rather the American) spelling of their names. This is done, I believe, in the hopes of doing business with the large anti-American segment of European society while still leaving the name sounding phonetically correct to Americans. They pay large salaries to people with Phd's to work out the psychology of this stuff. It's really sad. Do I have proof? No, they wouldn't dare admit it. After all, us war-mongering Americans wouldn't like our largest financial institution trying to distance itself from us. It's just the opinion of someone who has watched America closely since the early 1950s.75.164.145.249 (talk) 15:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)dwargo
[edit] Z or S for organization
Organization is spelled with a Z, not an S. This is an American corporation we're talking about, and so it's completely appropriate to write with American spellings.
I hope the ghost of Noah Webster haunts any American who changes the spelling to "organisation." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chartreuse 1986 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 1 June 2007
How is this an "American" organization? It used to be, but when the single largest shareholder (between 60 and 70 percent) is Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, it makes it a Saudi Organisation! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.126.119 (talk) 03:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
It has been a long time since this has been an "American" company. It may have it's headquarters in NY, but that doesn't make it an "American" company.75.164.145.249 (talk) 15:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)dwargo
[edit] Business issues
For the criticisms section, it seems like its getting very long. Could we fork the section to "Business Issues at Citigroup"? Mbisanz (talk) 22:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
- I'm going to delete most of this section, until reliable sources are provided. Much of it is original research, and the parts that aren't lack any sort of references. All controversial content must provide reliable sources per Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and a criticisms section is very controversial by nature. In addition, it has been tagged as "Unreferenced" since August 2006.
--JKeene (talk) 00:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
