April 13, 2011
Boston Globe
Bloomberg News
Citigroup Inc., the third-biggest US bank, was ordered to pay more than $51 million to a group of investors in its MAT and ASTA municipal bond hedge funds, which regulators began examining more than two years ago. The ruling by arbitrators at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees US brokerages, includes $17 million in […]
April 12, 2011
The Washington Post
Associated Press
Securities regulators have ordered Citigroup Inc. to pay $54 million to two investors who suffered hefty losses in several municipal bond hedge funds between 2002 and 2007. An arbitration panel of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in Denver awarded the investors $34.1 million in compensatory damages and $17 million in punitive damages in an order […]
April 12, 2011
Associated Press
Securities regulators have ordered Citigroup Inc. to pay $54 million to two investors who suffered hefty losses in several municipal bond hedge funds between 2002 and 2007. An arbitration panel of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in Denver awarded the investors $34.1 million in compensatory damages and $17 million in punitive damages in an order […]
April 12, 2011
Wall Street Journal
Suzanne Barlyn
A securities arbitration panel has ordered a unit of Citigroup Inc. to pay a group of investors about $54 million for losses they incurred in a municipal-bond arbitrage fund that lost about 80% from mid 2007 through March 2008. Three investors, including Brush Creek Capital, filed the claim in 2009, seeking damages related to MAT […]
April 12, 2011
Reuters
Joseph A. Giannone
An arbitration panel ordered Citigroup Inc to pay a group of investors $54.1 million for losses from municipal securities funds that cratered between 2007 and 2008, the biggest award yet involving the funds in a long series of legal claims against the bank. Three investors — Gerald Hosier, Brush Creek Capital and Jerry Murdock — […]