Finance
Citigroup’s Trading Division Hit With Fresh Toxic-Culture Claim
- TP ICAP broker sues her firm and bank over alleged harassment
- She claims they didn’t protect her from Citi trader’s advances
Wall Street leaders have made halting progress in their repeated vows to end mistreatment of women, leaving some recruits questioning whether they picked the right industry.
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Christine O’Reilly was with friends in Miami, when one of her biggest clients at Citigroup Inc. kept buzzing her phone.
Benjamin Waters, a trader on the bank’s Delta One desk, called and messaged repeatedly. At one point, he allegedly asked her to send pictures — and when she responded with a photo of herself and a friend at dinner, he replied: “no lol not pics like that.”