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GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2013 Citigroup: A Case Study in Managerial and Regulatory Failures Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr. George Washington University Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Citigroup: A Case Study in Managerial and Regulatory Failures, 47 IND. L. REV. pp. 69-137. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CITIGROUP: A CASE STUDY IN MANAGERIAL AND REGULATORY FAILURES ARTHUR E. WILMARTH, JR.* “I don’t think [Citigroup is] too big to manage or govern at all . [W]hen you look at the results of what happened, you have to say it was a great success.” Sanford “Sandy” Weill, chairman of Citigroup, 1998-20061 “Our job is to set a tone at the top to incent people to do the right thing and to set up safety nets to catch people who make mistakes or do the wrong thing and correct those as quickly as possible. And it is working. It is working.” Charles O. “Chuck” Prince III, CEO of Citigroup, 2003-20072 “People know I was concerned about the markets. Clearly, there were things wrong. But I don’t know of anyone who foresaw a perfect storm, and that’s what we’ve had here.” Robert Rubin, chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee, 1999- 20093 “I do not think we did enough as [regulators] with the authority we had to help contain the risks that ultimately emerged in [Citigroup].” Timothy Geithner, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2003-2009; Secretary of the Treasury, 2009-20134 * Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Center for Law, Economics & Finance, George Washington University Law School. I wish to thank GW Law School and Dean Greg Maggs for a summer research grant that supported my work on this Article. I am indebted to Eric Klein, a member of GW Law’s Class of 2015, and Germaine Leahy, Head of Reference in the Jacob Burns Law Library, for their superb research assistance. I am also grateful for helpful comments provided by Anat Admati, Peter Conti-Brown, Anna Gelpern, Robert Hockett, Robert Jenkins, James Kwak, Saule Omarova, and participants in conferences at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and a joint program hosted by the Section on European Law and the Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of American Law Schools. Unless otherwise indicated, this Article includes developments through October 31, 2013. 1. Timothy L. O’Brien & Julie Creswell, Laughing All the Way from the Bank, N.Y. TIMES, Sept. 11, 2005, § 3, at 31 (quoting Mr. Weill, and noting that Mr. Weill served as CEO of Citigroup from 1998 to 2003). 2. Eric Dash & Julie Creswell, Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 23, 2008, at A1 (quoting a statement by Mr. Prince in 2006). 3. Nelson D. Schwartz & Eric Dash, Where Was The Wise Man?, N.Y. TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008, § BU, at 1 (quoting Mr. Rubin), available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/business/ 27rubin.html?pagewanted=all, archived at http://perma.cc/ARZ3-CUC7. 4. THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION, THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY REPORT: 70 INDIANA LAW REVIEW [Vol. 47:69 INTRODUCTION Citigroup has served as the poster child for the elusive promises and manifold pitfalls of universal banking. When Citicorp merged with Travelers to form Citigroup in 1998, supporters of the merger hailed Citigroup as the first modern American “universal bank”—i.e., the first U.S. banking organization since 1933 that could offer comprehensive banking, securities and insurance services to its customers.5 Citigroup’s leaders asserted that the new financial conglomerate would offer unparalleled convenience to its customers through “one-stop shopping” for a broad range of banking, securities, and insurance services.6 They also claimed that Citigroup would have a superior ability to withstand financial shocks due to its broadly diversified activities.7 Supporters of the Travelers- Citicorp merger further argued that U.S. banks needed universal banking powers in order to compete with European and Asian banks that already possessed “the ability to offer an array of banking and insurance products under one corporate umbrella.”8 Travelers’ chairman Sandy Weill declared, “We are creating the model financial institution of the future. In a world that’s changing very rapidly, we will be able to withstand the storms.”9 By 2009, those bold predictions of Citigroup’s success had turned to ashes.10 Citigroup’s high-risk, high-growth strategy proved to be disastrous.11 As a result FINAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES OF THE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES 303 (2011) [hereinafter FCIC REPORT] (quoting testimony of Mr. Geithner on May 6, 2010), available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO- FCIC.pdf, archived at http://perma.cc/XVK2-L8FG. 5. Yvette D. Kantrow & Liz Moyer, Citi, Travelers: A Global Leader Takes Shape, AM. BANKER, Apr. 7, 1998, at 1, available at http://www.americanbanker.com/175/citi-travelers-a- global-leader-takes-shape-1041890-1.html, archived at http://perma.cc/U3PW-WDK2; Michael Siconolfi, Big Umbrella: Travelers and Citicorp Agree to Join Forces in $83 Billion Merger, WALL ST. J., Apr. 7, 1998, at A1. 6. Steven Lipin & Stephen E. Frank, The Big Umbrella: Travelers/Citicorp Merger—One- Stop Shopping Is the Reason for Deal, WALL ST. J., Apr. 7, 1998, at C14. 7. Siconolfi, supra note 5 (reporting that Citicorp CEO John Reed and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill “are betting that the broad services of the huge new firm could weather any future market swoons”). 8. Timothy L. O’Brien & Joseph B. Treaster, A $70 Billion Pact, N.Y. TIMES, Apr. 7, 1998, at A1. 9. Kantrow & Moyer, supra note 5 (quoting Mr. Weill). 10. Bradley Keoun, Citigroup Board Says Pandit Deserved Bonus for 2009 ‘Progress,’ BLOOMBERG.COM, Mar. 1, 2010, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid= aKWvUvCwZng0, archived at http://perma.cc/L8JT-VGDG (reporting that Citigroup incurred a net loss of $27.7 billion during 2008 and a further net loss of $1.6 billion during 2009). 11. Brian Collins & Terry Peters, Citi Takes Huge Hit, NAT’L MORTGAGE NEWS, Jan. 21, 2008, at 1 (reporting that Citigroup incurred a net loss of $9.8 billion during the fourth quarter of 2007). 2014] CITIGROUP: A CASE STUDY 71 of that strategy, the bank recorded more than $130 billion of write-downs on its loans and investments from the second half of 2007 through the end of 2009.12 In order to prevent Citigroup’s failure, the federal government injected $45 billion of new capital into the bank and provided the bank with $500 billion of additional help in the form of asset guarantees, debt guarantees, and liquidity assistance.13 The federal government provided more financial assistance to Citigroup than to any other bank during the financial crisis.14 This Article describes Citigroup’s rapid growth and sudden collapse during the decade following its creation. As explained below, Citigroup’s managers and regulators repeatedly failed to prevent or respond effectively to legal violations, conflicts of interest, excessive risk-taking, and inadequate risk controls within the bank’s complex, sprawling operations. Those repeated failures reflected a broader mindset—both on Wall Street and in Washington—that placed great faith in the ability of financial institutions and markets to discipline themselves while disdaining government regulation as misguided and counterproductive. Citigroup was an arbitrage vehicle at its inception, because its founders (assisted by friendly government officials) exploited a statutory loophole to place great pressure on Congress to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and authorize universal banking.15 Citigroup’s key corporate predecessors—Citicorp and Salomon Brothers—had high-risk cultures, and both institutions flirted with failure during the decade preceding Citigroup’s formation.16 From 2000 to 2004, Citigroup was embroiled in a series of high-profile scandals, including tainted transactions with Enron and WorldCom, biased research advice, corrupt allocations of shares in initial public offerings (IPOs), predatory subprime lending, and market manipulation in foreign bond markets.17 In 2005, Citigroup’s bank regulators—the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)—imposed a moratorium on further large acquisitions until Citigroup improved its corporate compliance and risk management procedures.18 That temporary moratorium appears to have been the only meaningful constraint imposed by regulators before Citigroup collapsed at the end of 2008.19 12. See infra Part II. 13. See infra Part II.B. 14. See infra Part II.B; YALMAN ONARAN, ZOMBIE BANKS: HOW BROKEN BANKS AND DEBTOR NATIONS ARE CRIPPLING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 83-87, 92-93 (1st ed. 2011) (explaining that Citigroup and Bank of America received the largest amounts of financial assistance from the federal government). 15. See infra Part I.A. 16. See infra Part I.A. 17. See infra Part I.B. 18. Citigroup Inc., Federal Reserve System (Mar. 16, 2005) (order), at 11 [hereinafter FRB Citigroup-FAB Order] (imposing moratorium as a condition to FRB’s approval of Citigroup’s acquisition of First American Bank in March, 2005), available at http://www.federalreserve.gov/ boarddocs/press/orders/2005/20050316/attachment.pdf, archived at http://perma.cc/N2RZ-YBLV.
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