{"id":13985,"date":"2010-02-04T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:35:29","slug":"former-hedge-fund-founder-opens-six-new-citibank-branches-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/former-hedge-fund-founder-opens-six-new-citibank-branches-in-hong-kong.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Hedge Fund Founder Opens Six New Citibank Branches in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211; (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The founder of hedge fund Old Lane Management, Vikram Pandit, who is currently Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup, officiated the opening of six full-service retail branches in Hong Kong, including one brand new branch located at Cameron Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.<\/p>\n<p>The other five branches, which previously only offered personal lending services, are now upgraded to offer full-banking services and are located in North Point, Tuen Mun, Sha Tin, Tai Po and Kwai Fong. All these six locations now offer a full range of retail banking, personal lending and wealth management services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hong Kong is an important market for Citigroup globally and we are proud of our more than 108 year history in the territory.&#8221;\u00a0 Pandit said, &#8220;We remain fully committed to the local market and will continue to grow our presence and make it easier and more convenient for our customers to access our world-class suite of retail and wealth management products and services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From February 2010, Citibank Hong Kong will also launch a range of new services and products designed to help clients grow their wealth. These include an innovative deposit product called Step-Up Interest Account and permanent wavier of monthly custodian service charge (for both HK and US securities) and deposit of securities fee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to 32 branches, Citibank&#8217;s Hong Kong retail banking network includes over 60 Citibank ATMs and 2,000 Jetco ATMs in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Editing by Alex Akesson <br \/>For <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211; (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; The founder of hedge fund Old Lane Management, Vikram Pandit, who is currently Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup, officiated the opening of six full-service retail branches in Hong Kong, including one brand new branch located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13986,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions\/13986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}