Citi cuts multiple CFO roles as part of broad restructuring
CFO Dive
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The bank’s biggest restructuring in a decade is hitting group finance chiefs as Citi seeks to trim expenses over the next two years.
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CFO Dive
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The bank’s biggest restructuring in a decade is hitting group finance chiefs as Citi seeks to trim expenses over the next two years.
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The bank is simplifying its business into four spheres and has tapped its chief risk and compliance officer, Pam Kaur, to become its next finance chief.
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The regional bank will aim for low-level expense growth and conduct some measure of organizational restructuring as it looks to position itself to weather a mild recession, CFO Zach Wesserman said.
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The rattled corporation faces a rocky road through a wide-ranging restructuring, but some analysts see a more competitive company emerging. The decision, which was intended to help Anglo focus on its restructuring, swung the company from a net profit of $1.26 The restructuring itself is a complicated affair.
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and Canadian banks are all but certain to cut personnel costs as the COVID-19 shock gives way to more long-term economic problems, even though the CEOs of some banks pledged this past spring to not lay off employees, per sources as reported by Reuters on Friday (Aug. His firm invests in J.P.Morgan Chase and other banks.
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The big transactions recently between insurers and asset managers in Europe are only the most obvious sign of industry consolidation and restructuring. As the private debt markets evolve into new areas like asset-based lending and equipment leasing, large asset managers will increasingly be leading the way.
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HSBC will be restructuring its commercial banking business in Britain which will result in 300 job cuts, according to Reuters. The cuts come as part of Europe's largest bank's larger restructuring effort from earlier this year, with HSBC looking to cut costs worldwide as the ability to boost revenues becomes more difficult.
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The pandemic has fueled the need for European banks to restructure following years of poor performance. HSBC CEO Noel Quinn said 35,000 of the bank’s 235,000-member workforce will be cut in much of Europe to refocus on its more profitable lines. This is not the first time Europe’s FIs have talked about restructuring.
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Germany’s Deutsche Bank reported a net loss below market expectations amid a restructuring plan that includes about 18,000 layoffs, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Oct. This is the second quarterly loss for Deutsche Bank, which triggered a 7.9 Last month, Deutsche Bank announced it had acquired a 4.9
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Banks from the United States to Europe are closing bank branches as consumers embrace digital banking amid the pandemic. These are just some of the financial institutions that are reducing their brick-and-mortar footprints: Deutsche Bank intends to shutter 20 percent of bank offices in Germany, the Financial Times reported.
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The disagreement began when Brigade Capital Management , which is a $28 billion money manager for Citigroup, disagreed with the bank over Citigroup's aid to billionaire investor Ron Perelman in his restructuring of corporate loans for his company Revlon. The break is unusual for the two companies.
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Deutsche Bank (DB) – The German bank’s U.S.-traded in the premarket, following a report by RBC Capital that said Deutsche Bank’s restructuring progress has been overlooked by investors. Nonetheless, the stock rose 1% in the premarket. traded shares added 2.4% in the premarket, on top of its 28.9%
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Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (June 4) it has restructured its Commercial banking business. In a press release , Wells Fargo said Kyle Hranicky, a twenty-five year veteran of the company will head up the Commercial Banking Business. They will provide industry expertise, customized services, and local support to its customers.
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After a reporting error that caused the exit of its chief executive and chairman in 2019, Metro Bank has announced that it is scaling back its expansion efforts and moving away from lending for mortgages, according to a report by the Financial Times. After the error was revealed, the bank was forced to raise $484 million in new shares.
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HSBC’s CFO Ewen Stevenson said the bank plans to restructure its loss-making businesses after announcing an 18% year-on-year drop in pre-tax profit in Q3 on Monday. The Hong Kong-listed bank reported pre-tax profit of US$4.8 billion average of the banks’ analyst estimates. billion, compared with the US$5.3
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Losses at some HSBC businesses are causing the bank — Europe’s largest — to restructure, CNBC reported Monday (Oct. HSBC group CFO Ewen Stevenson announced plans to restructure the businesses with the greatest losses, its U.K. We haven’t yet sized what that means in terms of the restructuring.”. businesses.
PYMNTS
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London-based Lloyd’s plans to cut roughly 730 additional jobs as part of its ongoing restructuring plan, which had been put on hold earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the bank intends to create 300 new jobs, it will eliminate more than 1,000. The bank employed roughly 63,000 in 2019.
PYMNTS
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Former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has been banned from ever working in the banking industry again by the U.S. million for his role in a scandal at Wells Fargo involving millions of fake accounts created to meet the bank’s sales quotas. government, according to a report by CNBC. He will also have to pay $17.5
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HSBC Holdings, led by CEO Georges Elhedery, is undergoing a major restructuring that heavily affects investment banking roles across Europe, the UK, and the Americas. The overhaul is expected to have a substantial impact on the global workforce as the bank aims to cut expenses by at least $3 billion.
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Silvergate — Shares of the crypto-focused bank tumbled more than 42% after Silvergate disclosed massive customer withdrawals during the fourth quarter. The bank said it $3.8 The company said it is exploring financial options including restructuring, seeking additional capital or selling assets, in addition to a potential bankruptcy.
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Banks want that a restructured MSME account under the Covid package be considered NPA from the latest date and not from the date prior to restructuring. This will give some relief to banks as it would lessen their provisioning burden.
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Citigroup — The bank stock gained 1.4% after Bank of America reiterated it as a buy. The firm said the stock has an “interesting” risk/reward for investors looking for a “restructuring story.”
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The bank said it will offer a “six-month principal repayment moratorium” for small to medium-sized business (SMB) property loans. These initiatives will be available upon application to customers with good repayment histories,” the bank stated. The institution said more details would be shared on its website beginning Feb.
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A trial has begun against the financial institution Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) brought by a small business owner and former RBS client suing the bank for damages related to RBS’s disgraced Global Restructuring Group (GRG). Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Oct. Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Oct.
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government is broadening the ability of small businesses (SMBs) to lodge complaints against their banks, according to Financial Times reports Tuesday (Oct. ” said Kevin Hollinrake, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking. The bank schemes leave the bank as judge, jury and executioner.
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billion by 2040 and the region will account for over 60% of global output, according to a 2024 World Bank report. Bank funding will continue to play an important role, but this will be compounded by external financing via bilateral or multilateral efforts. In the event of a debt restructuring, they will receive the same treatment.
PYMNTS
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Reuters reported the New York-based multinational investment bank and financial services corporation filed its third suit in the U.S Southern District of New York Court to recoup $900 million it mistakenly sent to lenders of Revlon Inc.
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