Citi to boost China staff, small business lending
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Citigroup Inc.  plans to increase  its China headcount by one-third in 2007, as it opens new  branches and boosts its small and medium-sized enterprise  business, the top U.S. bank said on Wednesday.
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China&#39;s banking regulator said it will provide &quot;active consideration and prior approval&quot; for overseas banks wanting to buy stakes in lenders based in the country&#39;s northeast.
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Citigroup is expected to announce on Tuesday 4,000 additional job cuts, a steep cut in its stock dividend, and another boost from foreign investors.
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Citigroup Inc. refinanced a $1.18 billion credit facility for Cinram International Inc., the world&#39;s second-biggest maker of digital video disks, that will reduce the company&#39;s borrowing costs, the company said.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday that moves by some banks, including Citigroup , to bring off-balance sheet investments tied to subprime mortgages back onto their books would help ward off a widespread credit crunch.
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China on Monday announced a $20 billion capital injection into China Development Bank, one of the country's three policy lenders, as part of a long-planned transformation of the state-owned company into a commercial bank.
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Citigroup Inc. C.N, the world's  largest financial services company, on Friday said it will  consolidate its capital markets funding business into two  parts, and simplify the company's legal structure.
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Citigroup Inc  said on Monday it had received approval to list shares in Tokyo early next month, as the largest U.S. bank continues to boost its presence in the world's second-largest economy.
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China raised interest rates on Thursday  for the sixth time this year, the latest of a series of  tightening steps to cap inflation and prevent the world's  fourth-largest economy from overheating.
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Citigroup Inc.  could make as  much as $24 billion in writedowns and lay off 20,000 workers as  part of a plan to cut costs and boost capital, CNBC said on its  Website in a report dated on Sunday.
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Citigroup Inc  and Merrill Lynch  & Co Inc  said they raised another $20 billion of  capital from investors in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere,  as the subprime mortgage crisis forced additional massive asset  write-downs and devoured more of banks' capital.
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A consortium led by Citigroup Inc.  has won final regulatory approval for its $3.1 billion purchase of 85.6 percent of Guangdong Development Bank (GDB), the China Banking Regulatory Commission said on Monday, paving the way for a restructuring of the troubled southern China lender.
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China has decided to raise its benchmark one-year lending rate to 5.58 percent from 5.31 percent with effect, the first such move in nearly a decade, the central bank said.
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China's central bank has pledged to strengthen efforts to effectively manage the amount of cash in the financial system, according to the summary of a meeting held earlier this week that was published on Wednesday.
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China's central bank on Thursday raised  interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade in a  surprise move that was the boldest so far aimed at guiding a  heated economy onto a path of slower growth.
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The New York Yankees will send coaches,  scouts and marketing personnel to China and train Chinese  players at facilities overseas in a bid to boost baseball in  the world's biggest market, top executives said on Tuesday.
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Citigroup plans to eliminate about 1,000 jobs at its corporate and investment bank, according to a person close to the company, the latest signal that the company is placing a renewed emphasis on cutting costs and bolstering shareholder returns.