The terms of the deal, Citi’s private investment unit, Citigroup Capital Partners Japan, will receive $1 billion in cash for its 93.5 percent stake in the call center operator. In October the New York based Citigroup completed the sale of its Japanese brokerage to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in a $8.7 billion deal.

The U.S. government now owns a 34 percent stake in the bank as Citigroup received $45 billion in loans from them. It has also received guarantees to protect against losses on more than $300 billion in risky assets. Citigroup is selling assets it acquired over the years as it became one of the world’s largest players in banking, insurance and financial services, as part of a recovery.

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Citigroup have now said that they will delay its plan to exchange $52.5 billion of preferred shares into common stock, the bank did say that they will not be changing the terms.

It is hard to imagine that some of the world’s largest banks would be involved in some of the world’s most corrupt regimes, but that is just what Global Witness is accusing HSBC (NYSE:HBC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Banco Santander SA (SAO:SANB3) and Barclays (LON:BARC) of.

The human rights and environmental campaign group has said that these banks have allegedly “facilitated” corruption and denied some of the world’s poorest people the chance to escape poverty.

The report, which was published today, has taken over a year to prepare, the timing is perfect as it coincide with this week’s G20 summit of finance ministers, which is being held in London.

In the report it states that Barclays kept open an account for the son of a dictator in Equatorial Guinea, HSBC and Santander have frustrated the American efforts to investigate the looting and laundering of Equatorial Guinea’s oil revenues, they accuse the bank of hiding behind secrecy laws in Luxembourg and Spain.

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The Japanese brokerage division of Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) will lose 1,000 of its employees due to the troubled banking giant action plan to survive the financial crisis, according to reports on Wednesday.

The job losses will hit mainly the over 40 workers in the Nikko Cordial Securities Inc, these employees have accepted redundancy settlements.

Citigroup’s Japanese brokerage division employs around 7,000 staff the cuts equate to 14 percent will lose their jobs.

However Nikko Citi Holdings the parent company of Nikko Cordial’s parent company declined to comment on the report.

Citigroup announced the second largest job cuts in the US with 53,000 jobs to go worldwide due to the New York based bank’s share price plummeting to an alarming level.

Nomura Holding Inc (NYSE:NMR) one of Nikko’s Japanese rival, and the bank that took over the global business of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc also said that up to 1,000 employees in London will lose their jobs.

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Nomura Holdings (NYSE:NMR) the Japanese brokerage firm who brought parts of failed Lehman Brothers back in September is shedding 1,000 staff in London. The news comes as Citigroup (NYSE:C), JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) all announce huge job losses amid the spiraling market conditions in the global financial industry.

The 1,000 job losses at Nomura equates to around 22 percent of its London workforce, in a statement on Thursday the Japanese brokerage firm said that the cuts come after a internal review after the purchase of the Middle Eastern, European and Asian assets of Lehman Brothers.

Nomura said that the move comes so that they remain competitive in the current market conditions, and establishes the right cost base going forward.

.Since September the financial banking industry has seen over 100,000 jobs cuts in Nomura global peers such as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.

Japans largest brokerage firm said they expect to reach pretax profit target of £3.7 Billion (500 billion yen) for the year ending March 2011.

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Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) and GE Capital join other banks by selling US government backed bonds to refinance debt by buying the cheap funds.

According to Bloomberg data Wells Fargo will issue three-year fixed and floating rate bonds. Citigroup sold $5.5 billion of FDIC-guaranteed bonds, split among floating-rate notes maturing to two and three years and fixed-rate debt due in 2012. GE Capital plans to sell three-year fixed-rate notes, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made today.

Citigroup, Wells Fargo and GE Capital all followed Bank of America Corp, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which already have sold since November 21 combined debt of $27.1 billion.

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President-elect Barack Obama top transition official, John Podesta calls for the Government to intervene at Citigroup (NYSE:C) in the same way it did with troubled car manufacturer General Motors (NYSE:GM).

Citigroup received a £13 billion bailout this week from the Federal Government after the troubled bank fell deeper into trouble as its share prices tumbled 60 percent in one week.

General Motor was forced by the government to submit a strategy document before they agreed to the $12 billion bailout package. However Citigroup got off lightly when the US Government announced they would inject $20 billion into the troubled bank and insure it against losses of £200 billion without any strategy assurances from Citigroup or management re-shuffle.

In the UK the Government appointed Merrill Lynch banker John Crompton to control the merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS and the planned £37 billion investment into the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

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Citigroup (NYSE:C) received a surprise investor today, billionaire Carlos Slim the world’s second richest man brought a 0.5 percent share in the troubled US bank, for around $150 million (£98 million) through his investment company.

No reports have been given as to if the Mexican billionaire believes that Citigroup is undervalued like Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, or as its been speculated that he may be positioning himself incase Citigroup sell off some of its Latin American Assets following the rescue by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury.

Citigroup’s share price shot up 65 cents to $6.73 on news the Telecoms billionaire became a shareholder.

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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) cash call for £15 billion expired yesterday as the banks shares plummeted below the offer price. To bolster RBS’s finances, the government agreed to purchase any of the 22.9 billion new shares if the existing shareholders did not buy them.

Due to RBS share price closing at 53.60p much lower than the offer price of 65.5p many institutional investors would reject the offer, allowing the UK government to take a 58 percent stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Barclays Global and Legal & General were among leading institutions that were unlikely to have taken up their rights in the share offer, however both banks have not commented on the proposed deal.

Directors of RBS own around 3.2 million shares and Sir Tom McKillop RBS Chairman said that they will subscribe for shares. On Friday RBS will unveil the results of the share offer,

Citigroup put RBS price target at 100p and rated the shares a buy in the medium term.

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Whilst Citigroup (NYSE:C) was on the verge of collapse at the weekend, HSBC were eyeballing some of the Citi’s in Latin America and Asia, they are said to be waiting to see if Citigroup board decides on a limited sale of assets or a breakup.

It’s the businesses in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil that Citigroup are most interested in according to press reports. The chairman of HSBC, Stephen Green, said in an interview earlier today that they didn’t rule out the purchase of particular Citigroup assets as long as they fitted in with HSBC’s strategy and pose the right focus on emerging markets, He also added that the bank considering adding the “right mix” of Citigroup assets.

It’s been rumoured that troubled American banks such as Lehman Brothers Holdings before it collapsed and Merrill Lynch have both approached HSBC to offload some of their assets to raise capital.

By Monday afternoon in London shares of HSBC (LON:HSBA) were trading up 7.25p or 1.2 percent at 633.25.

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