The head of Citigroup denied that there was a credit crisis despite three U.S. bank failures and the collapse of Credit Suisse this month.
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser stated that she had sound confidence in American banking system after the series of closures caused investors to panic, sparking chaos in financial markets worldwide.
“The banking system is pretty sound” and that large and regional banks are still well capitalized, Fraser told the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on March 22.
“This is not a credit crisis. This is a situation where it’s a few banks that have some problems, and it’s better to make sure that we nip that in the bud,” said Fraser, one the first major bank CEOs to make a public comment since the crisis began….