Citigroup

Citigroup Inc., or Citi, is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. Citi has over 200 million customer accounts and serves clients around the globe. It offers deposits and loans (mainly through Citibank), investment banking, brokerage, wealth management, and other financial services.

The company is led by chief executive officer Jane Fraser, who was appointed into the role in March 2021 following the retirement of former Citi CEO Michael Corbat. Fraser is the first female CEO of a major U.S. bank. She previously ran Citi’s mortgage business at a time of heightened government scrutiny of banks’ mortgage practices following the financial crisis.

Specifically in mortgages, Citi ranked as the 22nd largest retail lender in the nation by volume in the third quarter of 2021. It also ranked as the country’s No. 23 correspondent lender. In 2017, Citi made the decision to leave mortgage servicing, entering into a sub-servicing agreement with Cenlar.

In October 2021, Citi became the first Wall Street bank to agree to do a deep dive into its business to see if, and how, it contributes to racial discrimination. According to the company, the audit centered on its 2020 commitment to dedicate $1 billion toward initiatives it hoped would help close the persistent racial wealth gap in the U.S.

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Here’s how and why CitiMortgage is leaving mortgage servicing 

Jan 30, 2017By

CitiMortgage surprised few in the housing business on Monday when it announced that it agreed to a massive mortgage servicing rights deal with New Residential Investment and Nationstar Mortgage. As it often is with deals of this type, the devil is in the details. And one of the details of this deal is that the MSR sale is a precursor to CitiMortgage completely exiting the mortgage servicing business. Here’s a breakdown of how the deal works, and why Citi plans to leave mortgage servicing behind.

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