What Citigroup needs to do next

Citigroup's vision of the ultimate financial company, manufacturing and selling every financial product, is lost. A series of scandals betrayed the fact that the structure Sanford Weill built had reached the limits of its manageability. Charles Prince now has a new plan to put the bank back on track. Will it work?

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STANDING ON THE stage at Carnegie Hall, Sandy Weill has heard just about enough. From the floor at Citigroup’s shareholder meeting, the tall, elderly man has been complaining in a loud,  German accent that it was the shareholders who paid all Citigroup’s huge financial penalties in 2004; top executives just went on paying themselves handsome bonuses. Weill, who took home a mere $10 million last year compared with the $30 million he pocketed in 2003, eases back slightly on his heels, compressing his lips and pushing his jaw forward.

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