Agustin Carstens, the Mexican finance minister, has confirmed that Citi does not have to sell its Mexican unit, Banamex, following the US government’s investment in the US bank.
On March 20, Carstens said that Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, had reassured the Mexican authorities that the US government was only taking a temporary stake in Citi. Geithner also confirmed that the US government had no plans to influence the bank’s operations and that it hoped to relinquish its stake by 2012.
In March, the US Treasury propped up Citi after the bank’s share price collapsed.
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