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Ten years ago today, Sanford Weill wrote the rules of Wall Street.

To date, at 7:41 of spring, Weill megamerger reveals that created Citigroup, the largest financial services company in the world has ever seen. The cases - as a phenomenon, dreiste man, when he - scraps a decisive chapter of canon law that established that the American banking system since the Depression.

The rest is history - but not in history, Citigroup had hoped. A decade later, Weill’s waters transaction is by some as one of the worst in the history of mergers.
Today, the giant animals made by the merger of Citicorp and Travelers seemed wood from one crisis to another. Aufgeblähten costs, technological obsolescence and political power struggles, the giant humpelte company that employs 374000 people in almost every country (including Utah), and over 100 countries.

Even within Citigroup, many have refused Weill’s vision of a world-wide on the financial situation of a supermarket, an accumulation of investment and commercial banks, insurance companies and fund companies that grow well, and twice as bad. The company has even abandoned his famous Weill era Travelers red logo of the screen, for the benefit of a rainbow-red emblematic.

The stock market has the harshest, the judgement of all. Citigroup share of trade in the area of $ 24, nearly $ 10 lower than on the hope that one day in April Advertisement
   
Ten years ago. Citi, once the country’s most valuable
Financial enterprises, has agreed on the third place, behind Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.

”I can not believe something positive, as a result of the two companies,’’said Richard Bove, an analyst with Punk bricks of financial services. The miracle”Citigroup, it is necessary that more and more in the situation, in light of the massive failure of the economy.”

Vikram Pandit, the new CEO of Citigroup, is fighting for the titanic undertaken by the tumultuous time in its ten-year history. Just over 100 days in the job, he should expect, the legacy of Weill, retired as chairman of Citigroup in 2006, and its immediate predecessors as chief executive, Prince Charles III.
    
     Pandit, as the Prince before him, is by far abscheuend Weill’s strategy for the provision of One-stop shopping for financial services. Instead, it focuses on companies and markets, increased investment.

To help Pandit has, in many foreigners, and former confidant of his time at Morgan Stanley, Citigroup’s strengthening. His decision to the outside is a shock to the crushing of Citigroup executives, covering a period of grooming the best and most intelligent of the industry. Latest hires new head of investment banking, Alternative Investments and banking, as well as the risks of a new boss.

Last week, the Bank announced Pandit 10 major management shake-up since 2002, and its recent reorganization, stressed that the non-integration of Citigroup and investment in its operations during the last decade. Attention to the leaders, that the path is difficult. For example, it may take at least five years before the technology company catch up to those of its main competitors.

Don Callahan, the chief administrative officer of Citigroup, said the original model has evolved over time. Vikram Pandit”nimmt the courageous steps necessary to ensure the correct implementation in all businesses and regions to benefit our customers, employees and shareholders,”he said in a statement.

Pandit must move quickly. Citigroup has been hit by the merger of credit in the markets. So far, the company has over $ 20 billion in write-offs, and in recent months, billions of dollars in cash-rich foreign investors. Wall Street analysts expect Citigroup to disclose billions of dollars in losses when new reports results later in this month.

This is happening at Citigroup, in 1998, after the quake Citicorp-Travelers merger are still deeply the financial system. The operation has paved the way for the lifting of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the law that is used to separate investment banks, securities signing and commercial banks, deposits and loans.

The end of the Glass-Steagall, in a period of consolidation and integration within the financial services industry with mixed results. Mergers between Wall Street and Main Street banks helped American institutions compete with foreign competitors. But it will also encourage some of the financial innovations contributed to what many say, Subprime mortgage of the crisis. The Bush administration, the plan to reorganize the system of regulation of the financial sector, once again the debate on the role of government in markets.

In a brief interview last month, after the command to buy JPMorgan, Bear Stearns, the investment bank, troubled, Citigroup said Weill, as a diversified, weather the storm better than banks Wall Street outmoded. Citigroup’s ability, capital”, indicates a rear plenty of variety,”he said.

But also, once Weill seemed far from his famous concept of financial supermarket.

Citigroup hat”bekam to determine what are the main resources and what are the assets that are addressing the returns they want,’’said Weill. ”You have, at their own expense, in harmony, and they have to manage them.”

The question now is whether Pandit capacity Citigroup may work. He recently announced plans to give more authority at the head of four regional an effort to speed up decision making and to centralize the fields of law, technology and risk management.

Guy Moszkowski, an analyst longstanding financial services, said the idea behind Citigroup - a company can make all - was his.

”I think in fact, the precondition is that a sense,’’said Moszkowski. Citi”Das problem is running. It is very inadequate, and much harder to imagine it.”