Story 107

I was a 19-year employee in Citi Wealth when I was displaced in January. I won’t say which department or regions I worked in to avoid being identified. Either way, the company, thanks to Jane Fraser and [REDACTED], have developed an allergic reaction to loyal longstanding employees. I’ve debated for a long time whether to…

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A Managing Director (generally considered to be well disposed toward the person in question) has asked whether the Head of Enterprise Risk and Balance Sheet Management at Citi’s USCC was the right person for the job. It is a fair question. Some months earlier, she had been introduced by the then Head of ERM as…

I am sharing this anonymously because, even now, speaking openly still feels risky. Early in my career, when I was junior and still finding my footing, I became involved with a much more senior colleague—a Managing Director in the Commercial Bank. At the time, I wasn’t even at AVP level. Looking back, the power imbalance…

Story 59 is familiar. Male MD in Citi’s London wealth office who left in 2024. I spent a ton of time and effort in 2021/2022 hiring women off the back of Fraser’s very public DEI push, only to be told by new management in late 2023 to wipe them all out. Pretty brutal whiplash. I…

A few years ago, the Head of Wealth at Citi imposed a hire on the Head of the Private Bank. A white male who worked had worked for the Head of Wealth at a prior firm and was now “retired”. The “retirement” was due to inappropriate relationships with someone at a prior firm. Needless to…