Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list is based on the April 2024 S&P Global Market Intelligence report of the 100 largest banks in the world. The ranking was based upon total assets as reported and was not adjusted for different accounting treatments. [1] Another publication which compiles an annual list of the world's largest banks is The Banker magazine.
Citibank began operations in 1902 in Calcutta ().[1] [2]In the late 1980s and 1990s, the division was one of the first banks to offer credit cards in India. [3]In 1992, Citibank India was alleged to have played the leading role in allowing or facilitating the market manipulation that drove up prices of shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange during the 1992 Indian stock market scam.
Citibank, N.A. ("N. A." stands for "National Association"; stylized as citibank) is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of Citigroup, a financial services multinational corporation. [2] Citibank was founded in 1812 as City Bank of New York, and later became First National City Bank of New York. [3] The bank has branches in 19 countries.
Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company based in New York City.The company was formed in 1998 by the merger of Citicorp, the bank holding company for Citibank, and Travelers; Travelers was spun off from the company in 2002.
Walter Bigelow Wriston (August 3, 1919 – January 19, 2005) was a banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp.As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorp (later Citigroup) from 1967 to 1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time.
Among the American Indians inducted into the Hall have been Sequoyah (Cherokee), who created the Cherokee syllabary; Charles Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi), politician and vice-president of the United States; Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox), athlete and Olympic gold-medal winner; Allie Reynolds (Creek), Six-time world series winner
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, the designation the company reserves for its elite master engineers in the area of "ranking algorithm" Amitabha Ghosh, the only Asian on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission; Anil Dash, blogger and technologist; Sharat Kumar Roy, geologist and adventurer.
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World [1] is a 1988 non-fiction book by American author Jack Weatherford. The book explains the many ways in which the various peoples native to North and South America contributed to the modern world's culture, manufacturing, medicine, markets, and other aspects of modern life.