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Company announcement/wealth

Citi rolls out self-directed investment offering

Citi today is introducing Citi Self Invest, a self-directed digital offering designed to provide clients across the wealth continuum with a seamless and dynamic experience to help them achieve their financial goals.

14 July 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

Citi rolls out digital treasury account in Latin America

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) Latin America today announced a successful launch of the Citi Digital Account.

13 July 2021

News/payments

Citi Australia enters buy now, pay later market

Citi Australia is taking on local buy now, pay later vendors Afterpay and Zip, joining forces with online retailer Kogan.com to allow credit cardholders to enter into an instalment loan at checkout.

01 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

News/startups

Citi Ventures joins $44.3 million round in lending network Splash

Splash Financial, a digital lending platform that helps borrowers shop and compare financial products from a network of lenders, has secured $44.3 million in a new Series B funding round.

18 June 2021

News/markets

Clearing firms invest in FIA Tech

A group of 10 clearing firms have committed $44 million to the Futures Industry Association's FIA Tech.

16 June 2021

$Citi invests in fractional fixed income platform BondEvalue$

News/startups

Citi invests in fractional fixed income platform BondEvalue

BondEvalue, a Singapore-based debt trading platform for the masses, has raised $6 million in its Series A round of fund raising, with MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia and Citigroup among the new investors

09 June 2021

News/security

ID verification outfit Trulioo hits $1.75bn valuation

Canadian identity verification outfit Trulioo has hit a US$1.75 billion valuation off a US$394 million Series D funding round led by TCV an joined by Citi and American Express.

07 June 2021

News/sustainable

Banks back tool to help portfolios correct extinction risk

A UN-backed biodiversity module has been launched to help financial institutions explore the extent to which their portfolios indirectly drives species extinction risk and impact ecological integrity.

26 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

Citi Commercial Cards forges global payments alliance with Corporate Spending Innovations

Citi Commercial Cards and Corporate Spending Innovations, an Edenred company, have announced a collaboration to offer frictionless and innovative B2B payment solutions to Citi’s clients.

04 May 2021

Finextra TV/markets

Citigroup responds to the rise of the Commercial Market

Raymond Gatcliffe, EMEA Head of Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) announces an expansion of CCB commercial banking operations in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and explains how they are looking to take on local banks serving mid-sized companies as part of a wider bid to capitalise on its global presence. We learn about the international ambitions of Citi’s digital natives and fintechs clients and how the technology has evolved to allow access to services that support rapid growth into new markets in a way that was only possible to the very largest companies of yesteryear.

04 May 2021

News/people

The Floor appoints former Citi exec Attar CTO

The Floor, an Israeli AI-powered vendor management outfit for banks, has appointed former Citi executive Tsafrir Attar as chief technology officer.

23 April 2021