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Sandy Weill

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Sandy Weill · Economics & Business

What

Financier who built Travelers Group and engineered the 1998 merger creating Citigroup, then the world's largest financial-services company.

When

1933, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Where

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Biography

Sandy Weill is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Financier who built Travelers Group and engineered the 1998 merger creating Citigroup, then the world's largest financial-services company.

How & why

Sanford "Sandy" Weill is an American financier born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. He built the financial conglomerate Travelers Group and engineered its 1998 merger with Citicorp, creating Citigroup, then the world's largest financial-services company. He is regarded as one of the architects of modern financial consolidation on Wall Street.

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Source: Jewish Virtual Library

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Financier who built Travelers Group and engineered the 1998 merger creating Citigroup, then the world's largest financial-services company.

1933

Source: Jewish Virtual Library