Citi in talks over $3 bln in car loans - FT
2010-02-08 05:15:28
Keywords: Banks (industry group),Financials,United States of America,Loans,Debt,U.S. corporate debt,Private equity funds,Fund management and asset allocation,Credit Market News,Corporate debt,Financial service providers,Investment services,Company News item,Economi
Quote: Citi in talks over $3 bln in car loans - FT
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) has
held talks with private equity groups and hedge funds over the
sale of $3 billion in car loans in a move to clear troubled
assets from its balance sheet, according to a report by the
Financial Times. Citigroup is believed to have offered to provide the buyers
of the loans with financing for a few years after the sale,
according to the report in the electronic edition of the
newspaper. Some privat...
Read articleSMFG April-Dec profit up three-fold, keeps forecast
2010-02-08 05:15:27
Keywords: Banks (industry group),Financials,Japan,Asia,Corporate Results,Corporate Results Forecasts,Major Breaking News,Debt,Fund management and asset allocation,United States of America,Business activities,Company News item,Economic news, EC, business/financial p
Quote: Sumitomo Mitsui, which last year bought Citigroup's (C.N)
Japanese brokerage, said on Monday that nine-month group net
profit was 247.8 billion yen ($2.8 billion) versus 83.4 billion
yen in the year-ago period. Sumitomo Mitsui stuck to its forecast for a full-year net
profit of 220 billion yen. That compared with the average 230
billion yen estimate of 10 analysts, according to Thomson Reuters
I/B/E/S. The StarMine SmartEstimate, which predicts earnings by
putting more weight on recent forecasts...
Read articleCiti in Talks Over $3 Billion in Car Loans, Report Says
2010-02-08 05:15:25
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: Citigroup has held talks with private equity groups and hedge funds over the sale of $3 billion in car loans in a move to clear troubled assets from its balance sheet, The Financial Times reported.
In order to make the assets more attractive to potential buyers, Citigroup is believed to have offered to provide the buyers of the loans with financing for a few years after the sale, according to the report.
Some private equity groups and hedge funds said the assets were less attractive due to the l...
Read articleRPT-UPDATE - SMFG Q3 profit surges, keeps forecast
2010-02-08 05:15:25
Keywords: Banks (industry group),Financials,Japan,Asia,Fund management and asset allocation,United States of America,Major Breaking News,Corporate Results,Corporate Results Forecasts,United Kingdom,Western Europe,Europe,Vietnam,Emerging countries,Korean Republic (s
Quote: BILLION VS MILLION Sumitomo Mitsui, which last year bought Citigroup's (C.N)
Japanese brokerage and has a 2 percent stake in Barclays Plc
(BARC.L), reported a group net profit of 124.3 billion yen ($1.4
billion) for October-December versus 154 million yen in the
year-ago quarter. The results mark the bank's highest quarterly earnings since
January-March 2008. Reuters calculated the third-quarter figure by subtracting
the bank's first-half results from the nine-month numbers
released on Monday. ^...
Read articleBattle of the Bands: Citigroup Is Up Next
2010-02-08 05:15:24
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: “It seemed to me at the time that he looked at artists like just another asset — like the company’s distribution channel or its music publishing company.â€
Citigroup, the bank that financed the EMI acquisition and many other Terra Firma deals. Terra Firma used only $3 billion of its investors’ cash to buy the music company; it borrowed the remaining $5.2 billion from Citi. Why was Terra Firma’s lender so generous? The bank thought it could later offload thi...
Read articleUPDATE - US senator plans to refer HSBC to regulator
2010-02-05 04:50:52
Keywords: Washington / US Government News,Regulation and enforcement,Management issues/policy,Legislation,Consumer electronics,Household durables,United Kingdom,Western Europe,Europe,Banks (industry group),Financials,Real estate (industry),United States of America,
Quote: A subcommittee report said attempts in 2002 by the
then-head of the Angolan central bank, Aguinaldo Jaime, to
transfer $50 million in government funds to the United States
had been rebuffed by Citigroup (C.N) and Bank of America
(BAC.N). Nonetheless, Levin said at the hearing, London-based HSBC
helped the Angolan central bank avoid a British court order
freezing some of its assets. "Is it your policy that when a client tells you that it
wants to establish an account to avoid your own government'...
Read articleMarket Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest
2010-02-05 04:50:34
Keywords: , China , Taiwan , United Kingdom , United States , Abu Dhabi , Vikram Pandit
Quote: [ID:nLDE6132XC] * Citigroup Inc (C.N) Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit
said the bank is seeking a Chinese partner to set up a local
securities joint venture, the official Shanghai Securities News
reported on Friday. [ID:nTOE61400A] * Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is in talks to buy a
stake in Taiwan's Chunghwa Picture Tubes (2475.TW) as the
Korean firm aims to tap the Chinese market, a Taiwan paper
reported on Friday. [ID:nTOE614006] * Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund is to buy a 15 perc...
Read articleBankers try to put a better face before Congress
2010-02-05 04:50:32
Quote: Christopher Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, voiced exasperation with the industry and signaled to colleagues that he would proceed with legislation at the end of the month with or without Republican support."Instead of investing in improvements that would secure their financial strength, too many people in the industry have decided to invest in an army of lobbyists whose only mission is to kill the common-sense financial reforms we have been working so hard to achieve," Dodd ...
Read articleUPDATE - Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest
2010-02-05 04:50:32
Keywords: , China , Taiwan , United Kingdom , United States , Abu Dhabi , Vikram Pandit
Quote: [ID:nLDE6132XC] * Citigroup Inc (C.N) Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit
said the bank is seeking a Chinese partner to set up a local
securities joint venture, the official Shanghai Securities News
reported on Friday. [ID:nTOE61400A] * Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is in talks to buy a
stake in Taiwan's Chunghwa Picture Tubes (2475.TW) as the
Korean firm aims to tap the Chinese market, a Taiwan paper
reported on Friday. [ID:nTOE614006] * Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund is to buy a 15 perc...
Read articleTerra Firma to ask investors for cash to cover EMI shortfall-FT
2010-02-04 03:37:12
Keywords: United Kingdom,Western Europe,Europe,United States of America,Private equity funds,Media (industry),Financial service providers,Fund management and asset allocation,Investment services,Company News item,Economic news, EC, business/financial pages,
Quote: Terra Firma to ask investors for cash to cover EMI shortfall-FT
LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Guy Hands is to ask investors in
his private equity group Terra Firma for 100 million pounds
($159.9 million) to cover a shortfall, saying its music company
EMI will be unable to meet its loans from Citigroup this year,
the Financial Times reported on Thursday. A spokesman for Terra Firma [TERA.UL] declined comment on
the report. Spokesmen for EMI [LNDONE.UL] could not be
reached. Terra Firma bought EMI in...
Read articleGOP Chases Wall Street Donors
2010-02-04 03:37:12
Quote: Obama himself raised millions of dollars from employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and other Wall Street firms.
Now, at least some Wall Street executives have reduced their political contributions to the Democratic Party and its candidates, according to fund-raising reports and interviews with executives at financial-services firms.
Last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio made a pitch to Democratic contributor James Dimon, the chairman...
Read articleVolcker and Reform Defeated
2010-02-04 03:37:11
Quote: A bank "trading for its own account, it will almost inevitably find itself, consciously or inadvertently, acting at cross purposes to the interests of an unrelated commercial customer of a bank," he said in prepared testimony.
Bank of AmericaCitigroupJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is more than just a conflict. It is an all out internal war at the heart of these institutions pitting the money system so important to the economy with the risk-taking system important only to those who benefit from the ...
Read articleTerra Firma Considers Investing More in EMI
2010-02-04 03:37:09
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: The firm has been battling with its main lender on the deal, Citigroup.
sued Citigroup, arguing that the bank tricked it into doing the deal by falsely asserting that another private equity firm would win if it didn’t submit a bid.
In reality, however, Cerberus Capital Management and other rivals had dropped out, potentially leading to a so-called busted auction and depriving Citigroup of fees from both brokering the deal and providing financing for the takeover. Had Terra Firma known tha...
Read articleCiti's Mexico Star Nears No. 1
2010-02-03 04:24:58
Quote: By DAVID ENRICHManuel Medina-Mora has long had ambitions of running Citigroup Inc. He is getting closer.After more than a decade as chief executive at Grupo Financiero Banamex, the Mexican banking company that is one Citigroup's choicest businesses, the 59-year-old Mr. Medina-Mora resigned last week to devote more attention to a daunting new job. The Mexican banker has to somehow turn around Citigroup's struggling consumer-banking operations world-wide.
Vikram Pandit as Citigroup's chief executi...
Read articleFrank Wants Banks to Disclose All Top Paychecks
2010-02-03 04:24:55
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: Hall, the former head of Citigroup’s energy trading unit, who received about $100 million in 2008.
Mr. Frank told Bloomberg that lawmakers were considering expanding legislation that would give shareholders a nonbinding vote on the compensation for the five top executives named in companies’ proxies. He said the proposed change would also give shareholders of financial companies a vote on the percentage of annual revenue that is allocated to pay.
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Read articleUPDATE - Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest
2010-02-03 04:24:54
Keywords: United States of America,United Kingdom,Western Europe,Europe,Mergers and Acquisitions (including Changes of Ownership),Private equity funds,Banks (industry group),Financials,Business activities,Contract between 2 or more corporate entities,Fund managemen
Quote: UPDATE 1-Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest (Adds Iberia and Citigroup) BANGALORE, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The following corporate
finance-related stories were reported by media on Wednesday: * Dubai World's investment arm Istithmar has put port and
shipping agent Inchcape Shipping Services up for sale for
$600-$700 million, attracting interest from private equity
groups, the Financial Times reported. [ID:nLDE6112OZ] * An Australian court has rejected a demerger proposal from
Australian ...
Read articleCiti reportedly to sell its Private Equity arm
2010-02-01 03:53:45
Keywords: , C, Citigroup Inc
Quote: LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Citigroup Inc./quotes/comstock/13*!c/quotes/nls/c(C3.32,+0.08,+2.47%) plans to sell or spin off its $10 billion money-management unit Citi Private Equity, in an effort to reduce debt, Bloomberg News reported Sunday, citing unnamed sources. The report said the "decade-old" unit managed about $10 billion, including about $2 billion of Citigroup's own funds. It also said a group of Citi Private Equity managers, led by Todd Benson and Darren Friedman, were discussing buy...
Read articleCiti plans sale of private equity unit - Bloomberg
2010-02-01 03:53:45
Keywords: Banks (industry group),Financials,United States of America,Investment for individuals (retail market),Fund management and asset allocation,Private equity funds,Mergers and Acquisitions (including Changes of Ownership),Financial service providers,Investmen
Quote: Citi plans sale of private equity unit - Bloomberg
NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) plans to
sell or spin-off its $10 billion Citi Private Equity unit in
order to cut its debt, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing
people familiar with the matter. Citigroup made the decision to sell the unit last year,
before U.S. President Barack Obama announced his plan to limit
financial risk-taking by banks, according to the article. That
plan could force banks to shed parts of their private ...
Read articleUPDATE - Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest
2010-02-01 03:53:44
Keywords: United States of America,United Kingdom,Western Europe,Europe,Mergers and Acquisitions (including Changes of Ownership),Private equity funds,Banks (industry group),Financials,Business activities,Contract between 2 or more corporate entities,Fund managemen
Quote: UPDATE 1-Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest
(Adds Citigroup, Wilmar) BANGALORE, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The following corporate
finance-related stories were reported by media on Monday: * Port operator DP World, DPW.DI part of Dubai World
[DBWLD.UL] conglomerate, is considering a A$1 billion ($884
million) initial public offering (IPO) by spinning off some of
its Australian assets, a media report said on Monday.
[ID:nSGE60U02C] * Citigroup Inc (C.N) plans to sell or spin-off its $10
bil...
Read articleCitigroup Reportedly to Sell Citi Private Equity
2010-02-01 03:53:44
Keywords: Financial, News, Stock, Market, Headlines, Investments, Quotes, Trading, TheStreet.com, Joseph Woelfel ,Banks
Quote: NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Citigroup(C Quote) plans to sell or split off its $10 billion Citi Private Equity unit, a report says, as part of the bank's effort to reduce debt.Citi Private Equity takes minority stakes in companies and invests in other buyout funds. It oversees about $2 billion of Citigroup's money, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter.The unit's managers have discussed buying Citi Private Equity themselves along with new partners or with other financing, Bloomber...
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