- eAlmanac | A Unique Online Reference Source - http://www.ealmanac.com -

 

The Five I’s of Citibank

Posted August 11, 2009 @ 12:57 pm In Five,I,Letters,Numbers | No Comments

In the 1980′s, Citibank’s chairman, Walter Wriston [1], developed a group of five businesses in which he wanted the financial firm to be active.  They were:

  • the individual bank (consumer banking);
  • the institutional bank (commercial banking);
  • the investment bank;
  • insurance; and
  • information.

How It's Used

“Before the year was out, Wriston’s vision of Citicorp coalesced into what he called his ‘Five I’ strategy, which he unveiled in his March 1984 swan song to analysts.  To Citibank’s three existing I’s—the individual bank, the institutional bank, and the investment bank—he now added two more:  insurance and information.  Wriston expected this Five I’s strategy to become an enduring legacy.  But that was not to be.”

—Phillip L. Zweig, Wriston:  Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy, (New York:  Crown Publishers, 1995), p. 796.


Links

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on Citigroup
Citigroup official Web site



Article printed from eAlmanac | A Unique Online Reference Source: http://www.ealmanac.com

URL to article: http://www.ealmanac.com/805/letters/the-five-i%e2%80%99s-of-citibank/

Return to article

URLs in this post:

[1] Walter Wriston: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wriston

Copyright © 2012 eAlmanac. All rights reserved.