Citibank 2011 Annual Report Download - page 17

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2011 Highlights
• Citi won numerous awards, including:
Euromoney’s Best Global Emerging
Market Bank, Best Project Finance
House in North America and Best
Investment Bank in the Caribbean
and UAE; Global Finance’s Best Latin
American Investment Bank and Best
Corporate/Institutional Internet
Bank; The Banker’s Most Innovative
Investment Bank for FX; Derivatives
Intelligence’s Best Credit Derivatives
House; International Financing
Review’s Best U.S. Dollar Bond House,
Best Asia Bank and Best Asia Pacific
Loan House; and The Asset and
Structured Products magazines’
Best Structured Products House.
• We launched Citi VelocitySM, a
state-of-the-art digital interface
through which we deliver capital
markets services across equities,
FX, emerging markets, rates,
credit, commodities, securitization,
municipals and prime finance. Citi
Velocity gives our clients exclusive
access to pre-trade analytics and
research, cutting-edge trading
platforms and post-trade analysis.
• Citi Private Bank was named Best
Global Private Bank by The Banker and
Best Private Bank in Latin America by
Euromoney. Citi Private Bank’s Sports
Advisory team advised a family client
on the sale of the National Basketball
Association’s Detroit Pistons and
related assets to a private equity firm
for a purchase price in excess of
$400 million, the first transaction of
its kind in U.S. history.
• CCA raised more than $1.2 billion of
third-party capital from predominantly
institutional investors around the
globe. Additionally, CCA acquired
collateralized loan obligation
management contracts representing
an additional $2 billion of assets
under management.
In Securities and Banking, our approach
is to leverage our global network to
build deep, enduring relationships
with some 5,000 U.S. and global priority
clients across the corporate, public
and financial sectors.