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Split Citi , that's the radical move being advocated by its own executives " under pressure from Washington and Wall Street ," reports the Financial Times, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal .  Citi will "place unwanted assets and businesses worth more than $600bn – a third of its balance sheet – into a “non-core” unit to is read more (link)

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