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Introduction to Citi’s Capital Markets Platform
Strictly Private and Confidential
November 9, 2012
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Table of Contents
1. Capital Markets Overview 1
2. Commercial Paper 6
3. What qualities are we looking for? 12
4. Keys to Success 14
5. Interview Skills 17
6. Overview of Citi 24
1. Capital Markets Overview
Global Banking Overview & Structure
Banking Services Banking Functions
Origination
Building and maintaining relationships with clients
Clients include corporations, financial institutions, private
equity clients, and governments
Execution
Execution of deals on which Citi has been mandated
Advisory
Acquisitions Takeover Defense
Sale of Company
Equity Offerings
Converts, Preferred, Derivatives
Making Loans
Financing
Derivatives Securities & Fund
Services Treasury & Trade
Solutions
Markets & Transaction Services
Our Approach to Global Banking
We provide strategic and financial advisory services including acquisitions,
mergers, divestitures, financial restructurings, loans, foreign exchange, cash
management, underwriting and distributing equity, and debt and
derivative services
Strong global client franchise including unique exposure to emerging markets
– Over 70 banking clients transact with us in more than 50 countries
– Unparalleled global footprint; well established in Asia, LatAm
and CEEMEA
Maintain focus on
– Risk-adjusted profitability and execution discipline
– Global and emerging multinational core clients
– Investing in talent and technology
Institutional Clients Group
Citi Holdings Citicorp
Transaction Services Securities & Banking
Banking
Markets
Private Bank
Treasury and Trade Solutions
Securities & Fund Services
1 Capital Markets Overview
Who are the players?
– Buy-Side, Sell-Side
Who are “Institutional” clients?
– Mutual Funds, Pension Funds, Hedge Funds, State Funds, Insurance Companies
What is the Sales & Trading environment like?
– Dynamic, Ever Changing, Energetic, Meritocracy
Citi provides Sales and Trading services to clients around the world. Our sales force provides
a critical link between the firm's customers and the marketplace. These professionals identify
clients' needs and leverage the Firm’s resources to meet these needs. Our traders facilitate
customers’ activities, provide liquidity and make markets for securities around the globe.
Successful salespeople and traders are prudent decision makers with an aptitude for
numbers—they must possess sound market knowledge, discipline, good judgment and intuitive
ability to recognize market trends and learn from experience.
What is Sales & Trading?
2 Capital Markets Overview
Equity Products
Cash Equities
Derivatives
Convertible Bonds
Prime Brokerage
Fixed Income Products
Credit Products (Short & Long-Term)
Asset- and Mortgage-Backed Securities
Sovereign Debt Products
Corporate Debt Products
Derivatives
Foreign Exchange
Municipal Bonds
Citi’s Products
3 Capital Markets Overview
Who has $?
Banks
Insurance
Pension Funds
Money Managers
Mutual Funds
Individuals
Who needs $?
U.S. Government
Other Governments
U.S. Agencies
Industrials/Utilities
Financial Companies
Internet Start-Ups
$
Facilitate Clients Who Want to Invest or Lend Money to Those Who Need It
What Do the Capital Markets Origination Businesses Do?
4 Capital Markets Overview
Equity Origination
“Sub-groups” organized by the issuer’s
sector/industry
Product Groups
Initial Public Offerings
Follow-on Offerings
Block Trades
Equity-Linked Securities
Institutional Marketing
Execution team focused on marketing offerings
to investors
Client Coverage/ Origination Groups
Financial Institutions Fixed Income Capital Markets
Financial Institutions Solutions Group
Latin Debt Capital Markets
Industrial Fixed Income Capital Markets
Product Groups
Asset Based Finance Group
Asset Finance Group
Citigroup Counterparty Risk Group
Global Fixed Income New Products
Global Loans Capital Markets
Global Securitized Products (Asset Backed Finance/Student Loan Finance)
Global Structured Credit Derivatives
Global Structured Credit Products (Syndicate/Trading)
Global Structured Solutions
Illiquid Trading
Leveraged Finance
Liability Management
Money Markets Origination
Mortgage Finance
NA Derivatives Solutions
Real Estate Finance
Seasoned Home Loan Equity
Equity Capital Markets Fixed Income Capital Markets
Citi’s Capital Market Products
5 Capital Markets Overview
2. Commercial Paper
Overview of Commercial Paper
What is Commercial Paper (“CP”)?
Promissory note with a fixed maturity of 397 days (13
months) or less
Issued by high quality banks, corporations and asset-
backed commercial paper issuers (“conduits”) that
typically are rated no lower than A-2/P-2 (BBB/Baa2)
Average tenor of the CP market is between 30 and 60
days
Deep source of liquidity for issuers with tight bid / ask
spreads and large ticket sizes ($50 million to $500
million)
CP is normally sold at a discount from the face value
specified on the note; the discount represents the
interest component to be paid to investors at maturity
CP is exempt from SEC registration requirements
under the Securities Act of 1933
Characteristics of CP
Standard documentation
Continuous offering process whereby the borrower is
constantly issuing paper to pay off or refund maturing
paper
Unlike bank borrowing facilities, a CP program allows
an issuer to issue CP with a call to its dealer during the
morning of the day it needs the funds
CP settles in same day funds and is paid at maturity in
same day funds
At maturity, CP can be repaid with the issuance of new
CP (“rolled”), paid-off completely or replaced with
permanent financing (e.g., long-term debt)
Wide range of financing applications, including:
working capital financing, receivables funding,
acquisition funding and bridge financing
The U.S. commercial paper (“USCP”) market has approximately $1.0 trillion in outstandings split between three
main sectors: asset-backed, bank/financial and non-financial commercial paper.
6 Commercial Paper
Commercial Paper Considerations
Cost Efficiency ▲ On a comparative basis, CP is one of the most cost efficient, short-term taxable financing vehicles available
Flexibility ▲ CP offers a highly flexible form of financing by allowing issuers to structure the issuance and maturity dates of its
program to meet specific cash flow needs as well as investor preferences. CP can be used as a form of pre-
payable debt and is an alternative to floating rate debt
Structural Simplicity ▲ Documentation for a program is relatively simple and standardized, and the associated implementation costs are
minimal
Administrative Ease ▲ Once a program is up and running, ongoing administration should require relatively minimal time for one or two
people
Financing Versatility ▲ CP is an enormously flexible financing tool with a broad variety of applications for issuers, including:
– Working capital financing
– Receivables financing
– Acquisition funding
– Share repurchases
– Bridge financing
Ratings Driven Quality and ease of execution is directly related to the stability of an issuer’s ratings. Ratings deterioration can
be disruptive to market access
Bank Capacity Issuers are required by rating agencies to maintain a liquidity backstop for any CP notes outstanding.
Committed banklines are traditionally used to back-stop CP programs
Currency USCP market is U.S. dollar denominated only, while ECP is a multi-currency market
CP provides issuers with a cost effective, flexible capital markets funding tool.
7 Commercial Paper
Citi’s Money Market franchise is a global business with trading desks in New York, London and Hong Kong
– The U.S. CP business is comprised of six origination professionals, one marketing professional, six traders and nine
taxable institutional salespeople located in New York, Boston, and San Francisco
– Euro Commercial Paper trading and sales teams are located in London and Hong Kong
Overview of Commercial Paper Organization
Origination Investor Marketing U.S. Short-Term Taxable Sales U.S. Trading
The CP origination team works
closely with Citi’s global
corporate bank and debt capital
markets to provide a
comprehensive range of
funding products and ongoing
strategic advice to issuer
clients
Our global origination team is
managed as a single unit
allowing issuers to benefit from
a coordinated approach and
consistent execution across the
USCP and ECP markets
Trading is responsible for
managing risk, including
allocation of capital (i.e.,
balance sheet) among Citi’s
issuer clients
Issuers are assigned an
experienced trader responsible
for covering daily execution
needs and providing market
color to our clients
Citi’s sales network leverages
institutional investors to
provide issuers access to
diverse pools of short-term
liquidity from the largest and
most well-known money
market investors
Citi’s middle market sales
platform in the U.S. provides
issuers with access to a unique
group of investors that is
complementary to traditional
institutional investors covered
by short-term, tax-exempt and
generalist sales
Investor marketing
complements the various
salesforces by developing
relationships with institutional
and middle market investors –
successful marketing improves
the effectiveness of traditional
sales relationships
Citi’s investor marketing
function is responsible for
hosting issuer and investor
meetings as well as arranging
roadshows for issuers who are
interested in building direct
relationships with money
market investors
8 Commercial Paper
Citi is a dealer for some of the best-known brand names. We leverage our distribution capabilities with investors
bringing short-term funding to our issuers.
Bringing Issuers and Investors Together…
9 Commercial Paper
Insurance
Companies
4% Corporations
4%
Munis
11%
Sec Lenders
4%
Investment
Companies
57%
Banks
20%
Who Buys U.S. Commercial Paper?
USCP Outstandings vs. Money Fund Holdings Sample USCP Investor Breakdown
2a-7 money funds are the largest and most important investors in the USCP space
– Money Funds are regulated mutual funds that are required to invest in low risk securities such as government and
agency securities, repurchase agreements and CP
In January 2010, the SEC voted to adopt new rules intended to strengthen the framework for money funds. The new rules
became effective May 2010 and were phased in during the second half of 2010
Source: iMoneyNet and Federal Reserve Source: Citi
CP is purchased by a broad group of investors including 2a-7 Money Funds, money managers, corporate
treasuries, banks, municipalities and insurance companies among others.
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500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
Dec-01 Sep-03 Jul-05 May-07 Mar-09 Jan-11 Nov-12
Billio
ns (
$)
USCP Outstandings Money Fund Assets
10 Commercial Paper
-350
-250
-150
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150
250
350
450
550
650
Jan-01 Jan-02 Jan-03 Jan-04 Jan-05 Jan-06 Jan-07 Jan-08 Jan-09 Jan-10 Jan-11 Jan-12
Spre
ad (
bps)
AA NF A2/P2 NF AA Fin AA ABCP
1-Month Commercial Paper Spreads (All-in)
Commercial paper spreads have
been largely range bound since 2010
despite volatility among certain
European regions/credits
Sep 2008: Unprecedented spreads in
the U.S. commercial paper market when
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy,
U.S. government seized AIG and the
Reserve Fund broke the buck
Oct 2007: Cheyne &
Rhinebridge default on
maturing CP bringing
volatility to the U.S.
commercial paper market
2001: The California energy
crisis, September 11, 2001 and
the Enron default
Date AA NF A-2/P-2 NF AA Fin AA ABCP
2001 -4.22 41.19 -2.34 3.74
2002 -4.47 29.33 -3.62 1.92
2003 -4.80 13.83 -3.49 0.10
2004 -6.55 8.18 -4.41 -0.64
2005 -8.03 11.51 -4.72 -0.54
2006 -5.65 10.60 -2.24 1.90
Source: Federal Reserve, as of 10/31/12
Date AA NF A-2/P-2 NF AA Fin AA ABCP
2007 -15.52 21.04 -10.54 17.69
2008 -64.39 119.34 -23.13 21.07
2009 -10.38 48.11 -2.09 14.03
2010 -3.86 13.44 -2.04 7.81
2011 -5.91 19.04 -5.58 8.75
YTD 2012 -6.36 26.10 -7.24 8.33
Yearly Average Spreads
Favorable market conditions from 2004 until
mid-2007 fostered a high volume of activity
and brought about peak outstandings in the
commercial paper market
Historical USCP Pricing
11 Commercial Paper
3. What qualities are we looking for?
ICG Competencies & Requirements
Intellectual Intellectually curious
– Analytical Strong modeling, accuracy
– Technical Strong technical skills
– Quantitative
– Problem Solving Resourceful, navigates firm
– Business Knowledge
Interpersonal
– Leadership Positive attitude
– Teamwork Team player
– Professionalism Strong networks, Relationship
building
– Presence/Confidence
– Communication Skills Strong skills, written and oral
Motivation
– Implementation/Execution Strong work ethic, diligent,
reliable, takes initiative, self
starter
12 What qualities are we looking for?
Analyst & Associate Performance Reviews
Themes – Low Performers
– Lack of attention to detail
– Doesn’t understand larger picture
– Needs to be more proactive (i.e. strategic thinking, accountability)
– Improve industry/product knowledge
– Poor time/project management skills, unreliable
– Lacks professional maturity (i.e. political awareness, assertiveness/confidence)
13 What qualities are we looking for?
4. Keys to Success
Develop the “Whole Package”
Be the best athlete – play any position
Move horizonal vs. vertical
Work ethic and attitude are infectious
Know how you are perceived
Listen more
Study what you don’t know
Don’t cut corners
Have confidence
Attack your weakness
Sign-up for the hardest jobs
Learn to speak publicly
Execute
14 Keys to Success
Invest in Integrity
Do mistake-free work
Develop strong relationships
Where does your moral compass point?
Always escalate
Integrity is earned
15 Keys to Success
Build Your Network
Actively invest in your relationships
Be genuine
Help your classmates, friends
Don’t abuse your power
Don’t be a jerk
Sponsorship is essential
Be a good listener
16 Keys to Success
5. Interview Skills
Pre-Interview: the phone calls
Remember every contact is an interview
Use proper phone etiquette; be courteous
Answer your personal phone in a business voice always
Ensure you are in a quiet location for phone screens
Be prepared; stay on your game at all times
Get all necessary details; keep pen and paper by the phone
Let others who share the phone know you may get a call
17 Interview Skills
Interviewing: three C’s that are good for your career
Content
– You must show that you really have the experience and skills listed on your resume
Clarity
– Company wants to understand your goals/values
Character
– You need to show how you exceed the qualifications
– Exude confidence and commitment
“When you’re prepared, you’re more confident. When you have a strategy, you’re
more comfortable.”
18 Interview Skills
Content
Be prepared. Bring 5-10 copies of your resume
Research company and position
Talk to people you may know from the company
Know your resume
Be truthful on your resume
Practice discussing your resume
Be ready to respond to questions that might be
awkward or difficult to answer
Arrive early to all phases of the interview process
Hint: First impressions are lasting… start off
on a positive note.
19 Interview Skills
Clarity
Be prepared for multiple questions on the same topic; particularly in panel interviews
Stop and ask the interviewer to clarify a question
Be consistent with answers
Tell the truth … don’t fake your way through the interview
Be specific regarding “your” role and responsibilities. Don’t embellish!
Answer the question that is asked of you confidently!
Have a goal of information you want conveyed
Hint: PAUSE – THINK – RESPOND
20 Interview Skills
Character
Be positive
Be confident, but not arrogant
Dress appropriately
Present yourself professionally
Promptly respond to all requests for information
Ask for the job!
Show an interest in the company AND the job
Show knowledge of the company and the specific
job for which you are interviewing
Hint: Tough balancing act… show energy not
ego.
21 Interview Skills
Non-verbal Communication
Greet interviewer with a confident handshake
and a smile
Maintain eye contact ... your shoes do not
need any attention!
Watch your body language; watch informal
settings such as dinners or teaming events
Be an active listener ... ask well informed
follow-up questions to an interviewer’s
comments.
Don’t fear silence during the interview. A
pause does not mean you need to talk.
Hint: You are being judged on several non-
verbal factors.
22 Interview Skills
Post-Interview
Reaffirm interest
Ask for the job/opportunity!
Ask - what are the next steps in the process?
Remember you are still on an interview until you leave the company premises/transportation
Follow up quickly on any additional data requests or application information – within 24
hours!
Send a timely thank you to interviewer (e.g. email, handwritten note, formal letter) – within
24 hours!
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you
get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
23 Interview Skills
6. Overview of Citi
Why Citi?
Our people share our global outlook, cultivating partnerships and making meaningful
connections where ever they are in the world. It’s that creativity, vision and entrepreneurial
spirit that has shaped our 200-year history, shaped outstanding careers, and will shape the
future of banking.
Citi is a place where the best succeed, where opportunities for advancement are open to all,
where individual talent is valued and where the courage to always do what’s right is the
hallmark of our success.
Learning is a journey that doesn’t stop at graduation. At Citi, education is on-going ensuring
we’re always challenging, stretching and developing ourselves both professionally and
personally.
Citi’s Globality & Brand
Citi’s Culture & People
Citi’s Development Opportunities
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Candidates must apply via their school Career Center AND Citi’s online campus website https://www.oncampus.citi.com/
– Application deadline: 11:59 PM on Sunday, January 6th
1st round interviews:
– Will be conducted by phone or in our offices
Final round interviews (Super days):
– Take place in NY (388/390)
– Super Days will take place end of January-End of February
Offers are extended by the Recruiting team and GCM School Team members
Offer deadlines are determined by each of the candidates’ school Career Center
Summer Internship Recruiting Process
25 Overview of Citi
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