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Is Vikram Pandit in Favor of Real Reform?

James Kwak | Posted 03.04.2010 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Tarp, Vikram Pandit, Elizabeth Warren, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Citibank, Cfpa, Financial Crisis, Jamie Dimon, Volcker Rule, Financial Regulation, Citigroup, Business News
James Kwak

Testifying today before the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, Vikram Pandit claimed that Citigroup is on the side of the angels -- in this case, the side of real financial reform.

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Fabulis: Citibank Shuts Down 'Objectionable' Gay Website's Bank Account

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 02.25.2010 | Business

Read More: Lgbt, Mark Maunder, Fabulis, LGBT Issues, Gay Rights, Gay Discrimination, Sexual Orientation, Citibank, LGBT Rights, Jason Goldberg, Sexual-Orientation-Discrimination, Citigroup, Business News

Update 5:54 PM ET Jason Goldberg, the CEO of fabulis, says that Citi issued "a good and sincere apology" to the company this afternoon. Here's an exc...

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Stealing Ideas From Inventors

Pat Choate | Posted 02.24.2010 | Business

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bancor, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Citibank, CEO Bank of America, Patents, Foley and Lardner, Datatreasury, Business News
Pat Choate

All of us know how the big Wall Street banks made a mess of Main Street. Now the banks are sticking it to the little guy in another way -- in the world of patents and intellectual property.

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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia

The Media Consortium | Posted 02.19.2010 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, President Obama, Carbon Emissions, Yvo De Boer, United Nations, Epa, The Southern Company, Loan Guarantees, Mexico2010, Jobs, Texas, Clean Energy, Nuclear, The Washington Indepedent, Alternet, Wind Turbine, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Wisconsin, RPS, Citibank, Georgia, Ingeteam, Gov. Rick Perry, Inter Press Service, China, Solar Power, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines ...

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Citigroup: Hedge Funds Led By George Soros, John Paulson Buying Huge Stakes In Troubled Bank

bloomberg.com | Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Whitney Kisling | Posted 02.17.2010 | Business

Read More: Citi, George Soros, John Paulson, Hedge Funds, Citi Stock, $C, Citibank, Eric Mindrich, Citigroup, Business News

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Firms run by John Paulson, Eric Mindich and George Soros purchased almost half a billion shares in Citigroup Inc. last quarter ...

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The Bigger The Bank, The Less People Trust Them: Survey

walletpop.com | Geoff Williams | Posted 02.14.2010 | Business

Read More: Fifth Third, Trust of Banks, Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan, Capital One, Bank Survey, Big Banks, Bank Trust, Business News

It's no revelation that big banks have an image problem these days. And to add proof to what we'd already suspected, a new report from Forrester Resea...

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Shahien Nasiripour

No Longer Too Big To Fail? Credit Rating Agency Thinks So

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 02.09.2010 | Business

Read More: Douglas Elliott, Tarp, Bondholders, Brad Miller, Bank of America, Cost-of-Tbtf, S&P, Obama Administration, Credit Rating Agencies, Standard and Poor's Ratings, Creditors, Tbtf, Citibank, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Citigroup, Business News

The giant credit rating agency Standard & Poor's issued a stark warning Tuesday to creditors of Citigroup and Bank of America, two firms that up until...

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All's Fair in War

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 02.08.2010 | Business

Read More: Aig, Goldman Sachs, Fear, Hollywood, Soul, Debt. Obama, Citibank, Economy, Business News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

I was having coffee with a friend, who finally opened up and admitted she was in dire financial straits. Her features were equal parts relief and misery -- she had spoken to almost no one about this.

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America's 7 Least-Trusted Banks: Is Yours On The List? (PHOTOS)

Posted 02.04.2010 | Business

Read More: Hsbc, TD Bank, Chase Bank, Capital One, Slidepoll, Bank of America, Move Your Money, Citibank, Fifth Third Bank, Forrester Research, Least Trusted Banks, Business News

According to a new report out this week, customers are much less likely to trust big banks than credit unions and regional banks. In its annual cus...

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How Big Banks, Lobbyists, And Lawyers Moved Dirty Money Into The US

Mother Jones | — Kate Sheppard | Posted 02.03.2010 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Lobbying, Crime, Lobbyists, Money Laundering, Business, Big Banks, Senate Report, Hsbc, Carl Levin, Senate, Bailout, Pierre Falcone, Teodoro Obiang, Cayman Islands, Citibank, Banks, Patriot Act, Shell Companies, Wachovia, Wall Street, Angola, Business News

Among Bank of America's 50 million customers, Pierre Falcone was far from ordinary. An infamous global arms dealer who illegally sold weapons to Angol...

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Citigroup 'Free' Checking Accounts: Bank Scraps Plan To Charge New Fees For 'Free' Checking Accounts

Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 02.01.2010 | Business

Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Citi Free Checking, Bank Fees, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Citibank, Move Your Money, Citigroup, Business News

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) has shelved plans to impose new fees on more than a million customers nationwide who took out "free ch...

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Measuring the Move: $20 Million and Counting

Jamie Chase | Posted 02.02.2010 | Business

Read More: Citibank, Move Your Money, Banks, Credit Debt, Debt Relief, Great Depression, Credit Unions, Business News
Jamie Chase

Healthy pride feeds our desire to create our own solutions -- and to send a strong message to mega-banks that we won't be their prey. That's why credit unions are a logical move.

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Shoving Your Money Under Your (Bank's) Mattress

Loral Langemeier | Posted 01.20.2010 | Living

Read More: Banks, Making Money, Entrepreneurship, Interest, Bank of America, Economy, Citibank, Living News
Loral Langemeier

There your money lays, wasting away as climbing inflation turns it to dust. Or at least whatever dust is worth. How much is that, exactly?

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Citigroup Lost $7.8 BILLION In Fourth Quarter

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 01.19.2010 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Vikram Pandit, Citigroup Stock, Citgroup 4Q Earnings, $C, Citibank, Financial Crisis, Banks, John-Gerspach, Citigroup, Business News

NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. became the latest bank to take a cautious view of consumers' credit problems, reporting a $7.77 billion fourth-quarter...

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Haiti: Act of Nature or Act of Man?

Alan Singer | Posted 01.18.2010 | New York

Read More: New York Yankees, Haiti Earthquake, Brooklyn, Citibank, Aid, Imperialism, Frantz Fanon, Reparations, Reverend Al Sharpton, Charles Barron, Duvalier, New York News
Alan Singer

This is not a good time to assign responsibility for what happened and is happening in Haiti. People are too upset. But there is never a good time to assign responsibility.

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Citigroup Bonuses To Be Capped At Under $100,000: Report

ft.com | Francesco Guerrera | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Bank Tax, Citibank, Financial Crisis, Obama Bank Tax, Citigroup Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Windfall Profits Tax, Citigroup, Business News

Citigroup is to cap cash bonuses for bankers at below $100,000, according to people close to the situation. The move is aimed at defusing the public i...

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Shadow Elite: Are They Responsible For The Subprime Mortgage Crisis?

Jack Blum | Posted 03.18.2010 | Books

Read More: Janine Wedel, Lobbyists, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Citibank, Shadow Elite, Housing Industry, Books, Housing Crisis, Flexians, Antitrust, Mortgage Crisis, Arianna's Reading, Books News
Jack Blum

The approach of looking to the roles, activities, sponsors, and networks of players--be they organized crime figures, politicians, experts, influencers, or some combination thereof--is today, more than ever, imperative.

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Arthur Delaney

California Woman Moves Her Money After Being Blocked From Her Own Account

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Checking Accounts, Citibank, Savings Accounts, Move Your Money, Banks, Credit Cards, Business News

Last spring, Sandee Molenda says she was told by a doctor that her 75-year-old mother, ill with cancer and a systemic infection, didn't have long to ...

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What Caused the Financial Collapse of America?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Citibank, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Lehmann, Business News
Francine Hardaway

I'm reading Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail, and it is making me sick.

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Credit Cards Fees: Banks Implement New Fees, Higher Rates Ahead Of New Laws

ABC News | DAVID MUIR and SADIE BASS | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: credit.com, Credit CARD Act, Bank of America, Citibank, Credit Card Rates, Credit Card Regulations, Credit Card Fees, Business News

Consumer advocates say the race is on, as banks and credit card companies look for ways to make up the estimated $50 billion they're about to lose whe...

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Under Stimulated: Building Trains and Other Stuff We Need Rather Than What Wall Street Dictates

Joel Epstein | Posted 03.18.2010 | Los Angeles

Read More: Upper East Side, Vice President Biden, New Year's, President Obama, Gm, Christmas, Park Avenue, Maccabees, High Speed Rail, Facebook, Los Angeles, High Speed Internet, Chanukah, Japan, Aig, Neoconservatives, Infrastructure, Economic Stimulus Package, Berkeley, Citibank, Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, New York Times, San Francisco, Timothy Geithner, Google, Mass Transit, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.

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Citigroup Hacked, FBI Reportedly Investigating

AP | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Citibank, Citigroup Hacker, Fbi, Citibank Hacker, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Jo...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Trading Profits Up 11 Percent For Banks; JPMorgan Chase Leads The Way

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Occ, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Wells Fargo, Profits, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Comptroller of the Currency, Financial Crisis, Banks, Paul Volcker, Trading, Wall Street, Citigroup, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Despite controversy surrounding the financial instruments known as derivatives -- and legislation that might finally start to regulate them -- the nat...

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Home For The Holidays: Citi Suspends Foreclosures For 30 Days

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Citi, Forclosures, Foreclosure Suspension, Foreclosure Halt, Citibank, Citi Foreclosure, Stop Foreclosure, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON — Citigroup Inc. will suspend foreclosures and evictions for 30 days in a temporary break for about 4,000 borrowers during the holida...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Citigroup Stock Sale DELAYED By Treasury Department

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Vikram Pandit, Treasury Department, Citigroup, TARP Repayments, Citigroup Secondary Offering, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Citibank, $C, Citi Stock, IRA Advisory, Tarp, Christopher Whalen, Financial Crisis, Business News

The Treasury Department is backing off its plans to help Citigroup free itself from partial government ownership after the markets priced Citi's share...

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