Citi Commemorates 200th Anniversary with Hundreds of Volunteer Projects around the World on Annual Global Community Day

  Citi Commemorates 200th Anniversary with Hundreds of Volunteer Projects
  around the World on Annual Global Community Day

              City Bank of New York founded 200 years ago today

Business Wire

NEW YORK -- June 16, 2012

Citi will highlight its ongoing commitment to helping communities by marking
its 200^th anniversary on Saturday, June 16, with its seventh annual Global
Community Day. In 92 countries around the world, more than 100,000 Citi
volunteers - the largest number of participants ever - will gather in the days
leading up to and including Global Community Day to participate in 1,300
service projects that will benefit local communities.

Global Community Day serves as an annual opportunity for Citi employees,
alumni, family and friends around the world to gather as one to demonstrate a
shared commitment to its communities -- a commitment that is carried out
year-round by many employees who regularly volunteer their time. This shared
commitment has been embodied in Citi employees since the company’s founding as
the City Bank of New York on June 16, 1812. It’s that spirit of Common Purpose
that Citi proudly celebrates on its 200^th anniversary.

"For two centuries, Citi colleagues have worked to enable economic progress
and support our clients on their journey from ambition to achievement," said
Citi CEO Vikram Pandit. "There is no better way to celebrate our 200^th
anniversary than by honoring our history, embracing the future, and working
together to strengthen the communities where we live and work."

Citi volunteers throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa,
Latin America, and North America will lend their time, skills and expertise to
concentrate on local community needs, including financial inclusion, college
and career mentoring, neighborhood revitalization, housing, disaster relief
and environmental protection. Throughout the world, anyone interested in
staying up-to-date on the latest Global Community Day news and events can
follow #200YearsCiti on Twitter. Highlights of Citi's volunteer projects
around the world include:

Asia Pacific

Maintaining its place at the top of the annual volunteer leaderboard, Asia
Pacific will again have the largest turnout of volunteers across Citi’s
regions. In Hong Kong, 4,000 volunteers will partner with 13 NGOs to host a
wide range of community service and fundraising activities for the elderly,
underprivileged children and families, and other underserved groups.
Approximately 2,000 volunteers in China will participate in a walkathon to
raise funds to improve the nutrition of nearly 3,000 children from some of
China’s most impoverished communities. Under the theme of ‘Green Citi, Clean
City,’ SouthKorea’s 50 activities will involve 4,000 volunteers in
environmental protection efforts in botanical gardens and eco parks. In
Thailand, 2,000 volunteers will support those affected by the floods in 2011
by fundraising to help five damaged schools and 200 underprivileged students.

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Around the United Kingdom, more than 1,400 volunteers will take part in 47
different service projects, including park revitalizations and painting
community centers. In Spain, close to 100 people ranging from 4 to 99 years
old are taking part in a fundraising event called the Citi Mini Olympics. More
than 1,000 volunteers in Pakistan will take part in the Citi 200 Community
Carnival benefitting patients of a local cancer hospital. In Kenya, volunteers
in Nairobi will partner with Habitat for Humanity’s Maai Mahiu Internally
Displaced Persons project at Naivasha, which seeks to provide decent, durable
and permanent houses. Citi Nigeria volunteers in Lagos will be working at the
National Museum to restore storage rooms for Nigeria's historical artifacts.

Latin America and Mexico

In Guatemala, more than 2,000 volunteers will be working on various
neighborhood revitalization projects including repairing playgrounds, schools
and sidewalks, painting murals, planting trees and installing streetlamps
built with recycled materials. In Argentina, 2,000 volunteers will work with
local schools, hospices, and homes in 18 cities across the country and hold a
Sustainability Fair to benefit local non-profit partners. 800 Citi volunteers
in Panama will remodel classrooms in the capital and clean up beaches to
celebrate World Oceans Day. In Mexico, more than 5,000 volunteers across 62
cities, including Mexico City, will come together to plant nearly 25,000 trees
and improve green areas in local communities.

North America

Across the New York tri-state area, more than 4,500 employees will be engaged
in various community projects, including teaching financial skills with Junior
Achievement, revitalizing Hudson River Park, cleaning city beaches, assembling
disaster cleanup kits with the American Red Cross, preparing summer camps for
underprivileged children, building bicycles for children of military families,
and restoring historic landmarks. Citi volunteers in Los Angeles and Fresno
will utilize their skills to provide financial literacy classes at Financial
Family Days. In Tucson, employees are involved in various community
development projects and will assemble care packages for families of military
service members. In St. Louis, under the banner of “200 Acts of Kindness,”
more than 600 volunteers will reach out into the local community and volunteer
their services to various causes including literacy, food distribution and
revitalizing community spaces. Across Canada from British Columbia to
Montreal, more than 500 Citi volunteers will work to provide food to the
hungry, shelter to the homeless and green public parks.

About Citi

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts
and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides
consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of
financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit,
corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services,
and wealth management.

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