Citigroup Inc. Chief Govt Officer Jane Fraser stated billionaire investor Warren Buffett had urged her to proceed with the financial institution’s reorganization efforts throughout a latest lunch assembly, Reuters reported.
Fraser instructed managing administrators on Thursday about her dialog with Buffett, in accordance with the report. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., considered one of Citigroup’s largest shareholders, confirmed the lunch happened however declined to supply particulars in regards to the dialog, Reuters stated.
The CEO, who’s enterprise a broad overhaul of Citigroup that features the elimination of 20,000 jobs, indicated that extra details about the subsequent spherical of the reorganization could be shared as quickly as subsequent week, in accordance with Reuters. Citigroup declined to remark to the information service.
The 20,000 job cuts will embody the impacts from a broad restructuring of Citigroup that Fraser initiated in September. The financial institution will start eliminating extra roles as a part of that reorganization starting the week of Jan. 22, she instructed staffers in a memo seen by Bloomberg.
