Citigroup Fraud In Mexico Said To Be "One Off"; Suspect Questioned

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Mark Melin
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Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), the victim of a recent $400 million fraud in Mexico, said they are “fairly confident” the fraud was an isolated incident. Isolated incident, says Citigroup “The only customer where we saw any issues like this was in this one client relationship. So we’re fairly confident that this, in fact, is an isolated incident,” John Gerspach, Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C)’s chief financial officer, said at an industry conference on Monday. $585 million in short term loans at issue The issue stems from $585 million in short-term loans Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) provided to Oceanografia S.A. de C.V. (OSA), a Mexican oil services…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.