Agency slaps Citibank Japan with sales suspension

Authorities ordered Citibank's Japan unit to suspend all sales operations at its retail banking arm for one month after it failed to improve anti-money laundering measures that target crime syndicates and other shadowy groups.

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Troubleshooter: Charged twice for a hotel

We've been ripped off royally by an Internet travel agency and need your help. My husband and I took a trip to Grand Cayman a few months ago for our fifth anniversary.

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Greek terror group: Citibank attacked over crisis

A Greek militant group threatened in a statement published Thursday to continue its bombing campaign, saying recent attacks against Citibank were in response to the international financial crisis.

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Explosion outside bank in Greece; no injuries

A bomb exploded outside of a Citibank branch in Athens early Monday, causing some damage to the building but no injuries.

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Citibank's computers down, blocking account info

Customers of New York City-based Citibank have lost access to much of their account information because of a computer outage.

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Citi sells German retail banking for $7.7 billion

Citigroup will sell its German retail banking operation to France's Credit Mutuel for $7.7 billion in cash.

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Citibank Blocks Some Debit-Card Use Abroad

Citibank said Wednesday it has blocked the use of some of its PIN-based debit cards after detecting fraudulent cash withdrawals in three countries.

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Some of the largest and most successful corporations in America, are suddenly being accused of poor ethics. Ironically these are the places where you shop the most, eat the most, and bank most often. Is a change coming on the horizon?

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She's convinced that banks will improve their track record only if they're forced to make loans. "Until it's made a mandatory program, I think we will not see a significant drop in foreclosures," Thompson said.

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You probably don't know much about Sheila Bair, but she is looking out for you, and that is why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.

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Tehran - Four American banks, including Citibank and Goldman Sachs, have applied for opening a branch in Iran, an Iranian daily has reported.

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Vote: Is The Bank Meltdown Really The Second Manhattan Project?

In 1945, under the long-since destroyed spectator stands at the University of Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg Field, a group of atomic scientists led by Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and J.

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Olbermann: To all of you in the Corporate boardrooms.

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That statement carries considerable weight because in January, Whitney wrote that Citigroup's "core problem is that it simply doesn't make money in any of its businesses outside of Smith Barney."

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How on earth does a guy like Pandit drive share price down to almost zero, wiping out the investments of untold individuals, costing tens of thousands their jobs, and get paid an astronomical bonus of $38MM??

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As G20 finance ministers meet in London to discuss how to rescue the global financial system and prevent the next disaster, a new report by anti-corruption NGO Global Witness shows how some of the world's biggest banks have been dealing with some of the world's most corrupt r …

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Global Witness new report Undue Diligence names major banks who have done business with corrupt regimes / kleptocrats. By accepting these customers, banks assist those who are using state assets to enrich themselves or brutalise their own people.

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Can Citibank Sue Me?

Citibank is threatening to sue me. I've lost my job and can't afford to do a bankruptsy or consolidation. I'm wiped out. They've threatening to attach my wages and bank account. Is this just one of their tactics or can they really do this?

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There are two things worth saying on this. The first is that it's a useful moment when the interests of the stock market and the broader economy diverge. Citigroup's analyst is right to worry that shareholders would see smaller gains if Wal-Mart were unionized.

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WASHINGTON — America's five largest banks, which already have received $145 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, still face potentially catastrophic losses from exotic investments if economic conditions substantially worsen, their latest financial reports show.

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Congressional investigators are criticizing the Obama administration for failing to police deals in which banks participating in the $700 billion federal bailout lent billions of dollars overseas, highlighting the growing political tension over the extent of government involvemen …

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The Case Against "Nationalizing" Citibank and Bank of America

Amid the carnage from last week's pummeling of equities markets worldwide and the announcement of the largest one quarter loss in corporate history with AIG's announcement of $61 billion in red ink in Q4 2008 and a concomitant injection of an additional $30 billion of taxpayer fu …

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The Great Sucking Money Hole known as CitiBank is looking for more.

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However, there were also rumblings of worry over certain provisions in Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner's rescue--such as potential bank stress tests--which one panelist called a political issue as much as it was economic.

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Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person's bank account are so well known that most potential victims can spot them in seconds.

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To carry out the elaborate scheme, prosecutors in New York said on Friday, the man, identified as Paul Gabriel Amos, 37, a Nigerian citizen who lived in Singapore, worked with others to create official-looking documents that instructed Citibank to wire the money in two dozen tran …

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Maybe its time to say goodbye forever to those overextended megoliths such as Citibank and Bank of America. If they aren't nimble enough to survive, others will pick up the pieces.

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As another $350 billion goes out the door, ANP looks at one small bailed-out bank. Eagle Bank, a community bank headquartered in Maryland, received many millions of dollars of TARP money, but is having trouble making loans.

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Anxiety about the fate of Citigroup is growing. Investors flee Vikram Pandit's megabank, fearing it may be in worse shape than ever.

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Citigroup's support for a plan to let bankruptcy judges modify the terms of troubled mortgages and help borrowers avoid foreclosure left its banking industry counterparts on the defensive yesterday, insisting that the plan would do more harm than good.

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ANP: A look at how offshore financing helped to enable the economic meltdown (Video)

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Laundering money in the Philippines and getting away with it do pay, since local banks and the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) appear to be useless in getting culprits charged, especially when the alleged money launderers are close to the powers that be.

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