Tagged: citi

March 26, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a Citi (NYSE:C) research report, diversified financials analyst Nicholas Herman and team explore private wealth, which looks poised for substantial growth with a total opportunity for the industry of as much as “$70 trillion by 2033.” In Citi’s Deep Dive, they analyze drivers of… Read More

December 8, 2024 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2025 Citi Hildebrandt Client Advisory reports significant law firm industry revenue growth was driven by increasing demand. Demand was pivotal to growth in 2024, ignited by a diverse range of law firm practices including “litigation, regulatory, bankruptcy.” Optimism will continue as a key theme in… Read More

November 11, 2024 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European SME lender iwoca has reportedly secured £200 million in debt funding. Fintech iwoca, which claims to be one of Europe’s biggest SME lenders, announces a new £200m package of debt funding from Citi and Waterfall Asset Management and reportedly doubles its SME loan offer… Read More

October 13, 2024 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE:C) announced that Citi Token Services for Cash has moved from a pilot program to a live commercial solution, facilitating transactions for institutional clients. This marks a key milestone in Citi’s journey to deliver real-time transaction banking services to some of its global clients…. Read More

September 29, 2024 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Apollo (NYSE: APO) announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement for a subsidiary of Citi and certain affiliates of Apollo to form a landmark $25 billion private credit, direct lending program initially in North America, with the potential… Read More

June 23, 2024 @ 8:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi Global Perspectives and Solutions has released a report AI & Finance: Bot, Bank & Beyond. The report analyzes the role that artificial intelligence (AI) might play in “changing the way both consumers and corporates bank.” From the likely use of autonomous agents executing client… Read More

June 21, 2024 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Numerated has announced a strategic investment from Citi (NYSE:C). Citi will also engage Numerated to “provide its financial spreading solution for the bank’s enterprise lending operations.” Numerated is a modular commercial lending platform “delivering efficient experiences to any or all parts of the credit process.”… Read More

June 13, 2024 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE:C) announced the launch of Citi Real-Time Funding (RTF), the latest addition to its real-time treasury suite of solutions for corporate clients. Citi Real-Time Funding is now “available in Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand to additional markets later… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of financial institutions and Web3 innovators have contributed to an in-depth paper on a path to achieve interoperability for tokenized assets across public blockchains, private blockchains and legacy systems. Released recently, “Institutional Interoperability: How Financial Institutions Navigate a Multichain World” addresses how to… Read More

March 21, 2024 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise-grade blockchain technologies, announced Citi and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) as new members. Additionally, the foundation unveiled a new Hyperledger Besu Financial Services Working Group, chaired by DTCC, that will “support operationalizing the open source Ethereum client… Read More

March 14, 2024 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tuum, the core banking provider today announces that Citi Ventures, a venture capital arm of US-headquartered Citigroup, has become a strategic investor in the company as a follow-on from Tuum’s recently announced series B fundraising. At the start of February, Tuum announced “a EUR25m Series… Read More

February 28, 2024 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP) and Citi (NYSE:C) have become the first institutional investors in United Fintech Group Limited, a neutral Digital Transformation Platform, as part of a strategic investment round led by Citi. United Fintech is also in advanced talks “with other leading strategic investors… Read More

February 26, 2024 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Citi Annual Fintech Conference Webcast registration: https://kvgo.com/citi/q2-feb-2024

February 26, 2024 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Citi’s 11th Annual Digital Money Symposium will take place in London on 25th June 2024. The event will consist of a series of fireside chats, presentations, and panel discussions on a range of global Fintech topics. We seek to bring together various practitioners in the Fintech… Read More

February 16, 2024 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE:C) says it has successfully completed a proof of concept regarding the tokenization of private funds. The firm partnered with WisdomTree and Wellington Management on the project. Tokenization refers to the digitization of assets, including securities. Typically, a tokenized asset will utilize blockchain or… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ChargeAfter, the embedded lending platform for point-of-sale financing announced that Citi Retail Services, one of North America’s largest and most experienced retail payments and credit solution providers, selected ChargeAfter as a technology provider “for its Citi Pay products, including Citi Pay Credit and Citi Pay… Read More

December 19, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SellersFi, a global financial technology startup, closed a new US credit facility with Citi and independent asset manager Fasanara Capital for $135MM with the potential to grow up to $300M as SellersFi expands. The senior capital is provided “by Citi with a portion from Fasanara… Read More

December 13, 2023 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has led a strategic investment round in Supra. Far Out Ventures and H20 Capital also participated in the financing round. Supra is a Colombian fintech that “enables cross-border payments and treasury solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that participate in import… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has announced it will collaborate with Traydstream, a provider of innovative trade documentation solutions to “provide clients with access to a cutting edge and automated trade-document processing capability.” The collaboration provides clients “with an opportunity to leverage a vast array of pre-loaded… Read More

November 26, 2023 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) announced it has successfully completed the sale and full migration of its Indonesia consumer businesses to UOB Indonesia (UOBI). The sale includes retail banking, credit card, and unsecured lending businesses, “as well as the transfer of employees.” Citi and UOB first announced… Read More