The U.S. government on Sunday entered into an agreement with Citigroup to bolster the company with $20 billion in capital from the TARP pool. The treasury has also announced that it, along with FDIC, will provide protection against an asset pool of approximately $306 billion of loans and securities backed by residential and commercial real [...]
November 24th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Citi"
It’s Wachovia now, Citi acquires banking assets
Wachovia is the next big bank to fall and it’s banking assets have been acquired by Citi. Under the terms of the agreement, Citi will pay Wachovia approximately $2.16 billion in stock and assume Wachovia’s senior and subordinated debt, totaling approximately $53 billion. This will create a U.S. retail bank with 9.8% U.S. market deposit [...]
September 29th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued