Citigroup takes £136m Parmalat 攻撃する，衝突する

By Patrick Hosking
Updated: 00:00 BST, 20 January 2004

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CITIGROUP 始める，決める aside $242m (£135.7m) against Parmalat losses today and 明らかにする／漏らすd it had a その上の $302m （危険などに）さらす to the スキャンダル-torn food company.

But the loss 準備／条項s barely dented the 底（に届く） line of the world's biggest bank, which still mad e 利益（をあげる）s of $2m an hour, 24 hours a day, last year.

The US bank 報告（する）／憶測d an adjusted 33% 増加する in 逮捕する 利益（をあげる）s to $17.85bn in calendar 2003 after a bumper fourth ４半期/4分の1 in which the 利益（をあげる）s 出資／貢献 almost 二塁打d.

Citigroup has come under scrutiny for its の近くに （a）忠告の／（n）警報 役割 at Parmalat. It helped sell hundreds of millions of dollars of 社債s for the group. Police in Milan last week （警察の）手入れ，急襲d Citigroup's offices and 除去するd 文書s.

The bank said the after-税金 準備／条項 was to cover credit and 貿易（する）ing losses relating to the 詐欺. The remaining （危険などに）さらす was mostly 安全な・保証するd against third-party receivables.

長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Charles Prince 報告（する）／憶測d a 94% 増加する in the （株主への）配当 and was bullish about prospects. 'We are entering 2004 in an excellent 商売／仕事 position,' he said.

Fourth-４半期/4分の1 収入s per 株 of 91 cents （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 分析家s' 普通の／平均（する） 予測（する）s of 89 cents. The 全体にわたる bad-負債 人物／姿／数字 fell by 18% in the ４半期/4分の1.

Bank of America today 否定するd the 存在 of a $7.7bn (£4.3bn) Parmalat bank account on its 調書をとる／予約するs, 否定するing （人命などを）奪う，主張するs by the Italian company's creditors.

Lawyers 事実上の／代理 for a group of creditors said last Friday they had identified the 基金s in a Bank of America 支店 in New York.