Walter B. Wriston, an iconoclastic banker who used technology and global expansion to help build what is now called Citigroup into one of the world’s largest banking companies, has died, Citigroup ...

Walter B. Wriston, who died last week at 85, left distinctive marks that can still be seen on the company he led - and the banking industry - more than 20 years after he retired from Citicorp.

Walter B. Wriston, 85, the legendary chairman and chief executive of Citicorp under whose reign the bank introduced automated teller machines, interstate banking and the negotiable certificate of ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Walter Wriston, who led Citicorp for 17 years ending in 1984 and became the first commercial banker to earn $1 million a year, has died, Citigroup confirmed Thursday. Wriston was ...

Walter Wriston, who died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at age 85, helped revolutionize the commercial banking industry by vastly increasing international banking, introducing technological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Wriston was once one of the most powerful people on the planet. The chairman of the financial giant Citibank and its parent ...

The late Walter Wriston was a man known for not mincing his words. "The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away," ...

Banker Walter Wriston famously said capital (meaning both money and ideas), when freed to travel at the speed of light, "will go where it is wanted and stay where it is well treated." By applying ...

When Aristotle Onassis dreamed up his shipping empire, he visited a New York banker by the name of Walter Wriston. Wriston and Onassis concocted a financing strategy. The nuts-and-bolts banking ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Walter Wriston, who led Citicorp for 17 years ending in 1984 and who was the first commercial banker to earn $1 million a year, has died, a Citigroup spokesman confirmed Thursday.

The ancient admonition seems the only way to hedge the reflection that as bad as Citi’s problems are, how much worse might they have been had Walter Wriston still been running the bank. It was the ...