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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Citigroup’s Mexican retail unit, referred to as Banamex, is about to separate off from its father or mother by the second half of 2024, the lender’s Mexico head, Manuel Romo, instructed native media on Thursday.
The retail unit ought to then start the method of going public in 2025, Romo mentioned.
Citi’s Mexico operation didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Earlier this yr, Citi scrapped a $7 billion sale of the unit, stunning buyers.
New York-based Citi had been in talks with Mexican billionaire German Larrea’s Grupo Mexico to promote the unit, with sources telling Reuters the 2 sides had been near a deal.
The Mexican authorities’s interference in Grupo Mexico’s operations – expropriating a part of one of many firm’s rail traces – and calls for relating to the sale led the 2 sides to desert the deal, sources mentioned.
After the sale fell by, Citi mentioned it could record Banamex.
Citi’s company and funding banking operation will stay within the nation beneath the title Citi Mexico.
“We’re making progress in a timely manner in the separation,” Romo mentioned, in keeping with each Forbes Mexico and La Jornada. “So that by the second half of 2024, the split between Banamex and Citi Mexico is complete,” he added.
The manager floated the opportunity of Banamex’s itemizing in both of Mexico’s two inventory exchanges, and didn’t rule out the opportunity of itemizing in a foreign country.
Sources instructed Reuters in Might the financial institution was weighing a twin inventory itemizing, presumably in Mexico and New York.