１シティ株 最大３６％保有 米政府合意 実質管理下に
U.S. Department of Treasuary announced on February 27 that it will implement an additional measure for supprorting U.S. major bank Citigroup,whichi is now under reconstruction.For a collateral security for injecting public funds into the company, the preferential stocks up to worth 25 billion dollars (about 2.4 trillion yen) among the stocks the government now has will be changed to the common stocks which have the rights to vote in the shareholders' meeting. This means that U.S. government has a share of the Citigroup of up to 36 percent, with the government the top share holder for the company. In other words, the company will be virtually under the control of U.S. government.
U.S. Department of Treasuary announced on February 27 that it will implement an additional measure for supprorting U.S. major bank Citigroup,whichi is now under reconstruction.For a collateral security for injecting public funds into the company, the preferential stocks up to worth 25 billion dollars (about 2.4 trillion yen) among the stocks the government now has will be changed to the common stocks which have the rights to vote in the shareholders' meeting. This means that U.S. government has a share of the Citigroup of up to 36 percent, with the government the top share holder for the company. In other words, the company will be virtually under the control of U.S. government.