Another bank bites the dust

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Via Banking Day:

Citigroup Pty Ltd, the principal operating entity of the American banking giant in Australia, has reported a slide in full year profit after almost no loan growth and a spike in operating costs.

Financial accounts lodged with Australian regulators show that Citigroup recorded a net profit of A$157 million in the 12 months to the end of December – down 19 per cent on the 2017 result of $193 million.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.