Stephen Bird and Shirish Apte have been running Citi's Asia-Pacific region as CEOs since July. Bird was previously North Asia CEO, while Apte served as CEO of Citi's Central Eastern European region. Some four months into the job, they sit down with FinanceAsia to discuss how they are managing the region and how the year has gone for Citi.
Why did Citi move to having two CEOs for the region
Apte The size of the business in Asia-Pacific -- which covers 18 markets across our institutional clients group and consumer banking and cards -- and the importance of its growth to Citi, means it is sufficiently big enough to warrant...