CitiGroup to Acquire Wachovia Banking
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
In another move by Federal Regulators, an arrangement has been made for CitiGroup to Acquire Wachovia Banking for an estimated $2.1 Billion dollars. In doing so, CitiGroup now has 4,300 U.S branches and $600 billion in total assets. This also means that CitiGroup has assumed the $53 Billion dollars worth of debt of Wachovia was responsible for and $42 Billion worth of losses from their loan portfolio. As a huge acquisition, CitiGroup is now considered to be one of the biggest and most stable financial institutions next to JP Morgan and Bank of America Corp, and is the overall leader in total assets with $2.91 trillion. Thanks to an unstable market and delinquencies mortgage payments, this has been a huge week of loses as the Federal Government also seized Washington Mutual, which was then sold to JP Morgan for a ridiculously cheap $1.9 billion dollars. Now CityGroup needs to concentrate on slashing its quarterly dividends and sell off $10 billion in common stock in order to cut its loses from the recent buy out.

