Private Bank

Find out more about Private Banking in North America, our work, our clients, and the deals that we’ve been part of.

What is Private Banking?
Citi Private Bank, one of the world's leading private banks with over 120 offices in more than 30 countries, provides clients with comprehensive solutions and access to capital. Most often our clients are financial sponsors, real estate investors and entrepreneurs. Our private bankers act as trusted advisors, designing and coordinating solutions for individual client needs, with an emphasis on personalized, confidential service. Our focus is on providing the financial and intellectual capital our clients need to grow and protect their businesses and personal assets.

What service do we provide to our clients?
Although Citi Private Bank's global clients possess a variety of backgrounds, lifestyles and aspirations, all share common goals: increasing the potential value of their assets, reducing risk and managing their portfolios effectively. Our bankers and product specialists help them achieve these goals.

Our investment, banking and wealth advisory services are built upon three core capabilities: financing services to address our clients' need for liquidity, capital markets solutions to help manage the risks of concentrated asset positions, and a wide spectrum of investment management strategies, including those aimed at counterbalancing the effects of highly correlated assets. We offer industry-leading insights, proprietary technologies and consultative services for areas of interest to our clients including family, art and philanthropic advisory.

Our highly personalized service is the hallmark of the relationships we have built with our clients and we are proud to have earned, through numerous awards and accolades, our reputation as one of the world's foremost private banking organizations.

How are we structured?
As part of Global Wealth Management, Citi Private Bank provides personalized services through a global network of nearly 500 private bankers and 300 product specialists. We leverage our extensive experience with clients' needs and our access to the Global Corporate and Investment Bank to provide clients with comprehensive investment management, investment finance and banking services including asset allocation, separately managed accounts, alternative investment strategies and financial planning.

The right asset allocation strategy serves as a key pillar of our clients' entire financial pictures. Our proprietary Whole Net Worth asset allocation model provides optimized allocation recommendations incorporating virtually all asset classes available to High Net Worth clients, including illiquid assets such as private equity, real estate and privately held businesses. By working within this framework, we define our clients' personal investment objectives and explore risk/return tradeoffs to arrive at an asset allocation and investment strategy suited to their whole financial picture.

Separately managed accounts help our clients build wealth over the long-term by providing a wide variety of investment disciplines, experienced portfolio managers and high-quality service. The individualized nature of these accounts allows for a high degree of customization and the ability to manage assets on a tax-sensitive basis. Our open architecture platform provides our clients with access to over 400 investment options across all asset classes.

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