Citi Completes Sale of Subsidiary The Student Loan Corporation

Reduces Citi Holdings assets by $31 billion

New York – Citi today announced that on December 31, 2010, it had completed transactions with Discover Financial Services (“Discover”) and SLM Corporation (“Sallie Mae”) that resulted in the divestiture of its student loan business, The Student Loan Corporation (“SLC”).

The sales reduce non-core assets in Citi Holdings by approximately $31 billion and, combined with other divestitures in the quarter, are expected to bring Citi Holdings assets to less than 20 percent of Citi’s total balance sheet as of the end of the fourth quarter 2010. Citi Holdings will continue to pursue economically rational divestiture opportunities that are in the best interest of shareholders.

As part of the transactions, Citibank, N.A. purchased approximately $8.7 billion of assets from SLC and will explore opportunities to reduce these assets over time.


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