200 Years of Citi

An alternate history

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2012 at 02:42 PM

Bloomberg's Christine Harper, on Twitter, notes that Citigroup's corporate timeline, launched in a must-have new iPad app called Citi News,... More

Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM

Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More

Audit Notes: Don’t Buy Our Bonds!, Rail FAIL, Orszag to Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 9, 2010 at 08:19 PM

New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch went off the reservation in a speech today, Bloomberg reports. First, he criticizes state... More

Bloomberg Reveals Citi’s Deceptive Reporting

By Felix Salmon   Feb 24, 2011 at 05:00 PM

On February 14, 2008, John Lyons, the examiner in charge of large bank supervision at the OCC, sent Citigroup and... More

Market Mess

Troubles pile up for the financial system and the economy

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 8, 2011 at 08:18 PM

What happened in the markets today? Good luck figuring that out (you can't, really). Let's just say it's some combination... More

ProPublica Has Questions for the SEC on Its Citi Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 21, 2011 at 01:30 PM

I really like how ProPublica covers the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup this week. The commission nicked Citi for... More

Ron Suskind on Obama’s Weakness

A new book reports Geithner ignored the president on overhauling Citigroup

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2011 at 12:53 AM

It's been apparent for a good while that Obama is a weak president. But so weak that his own people... More

Securities Star Chambers

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Gretchen Morgenson sees hope in a recent arbitration case that, incredibly, found in favor of actual human beings against... More

The WSJ Eyes Analyst-Shopping

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 5, 2012 at 03:17 PM

Call me naive, but I didn't know that companies launching IPOs were still overtly shopping around for banks with favorable... More

The SEC’s Khuzami and That Citigroup Settlement

An anonymous letter adds to questions about a wrist slap

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Bloomberg News reported on Monday that the SEC's inspector general is investigating Robert Khuzami, its chief enforcement official, after getting... More

The SEC’s Soft Touch For Repeat Offenders

NYT and Bloomberg show how often banks violate promises not to re-commit fraud

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 8, 2011 at 03:14 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil wrote a swell column last week on the SEC's latest Citigroup wrist-slap. Weil noted that one of... More