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Business Description

We have designed these sections to aid you in your understanding of what Technology within a Investment Banking means, the services we provide to our clients and how we are structured. In the subsequent tabs we have asked for input from our Analysts/Summer Interns and also the recruiters describe the type of person we are looking for as well as the recruitment process.

What is Technology?

As one of the key enabling forces behind Citi, Technology supports all areas from multi-million dollar international trades to individual investors' portfolios. Our objective is to deliver seamless services to meet today's needs, while at the same time ensuring our technology and systems are flexible enough to seize opportunities in the future.

What services do we provide to our clients?

The Technology division is a vital business function solving problems, enhancing services, finding more efficient ways to build business, raise productivity, boost our competitiveness and expand globally. Our commitment to technology is unprecedented: we put massive financial resources behind our information infrastructure, whether it's a ground-up development project, the acquisition of a technology partner or the enhancement and operation of our day-to-day systems. The investment results in technological advancement unheard of outside of the industry.

Our technology division:

• Develops sophisticated worldwide trading operations, financial systems, databases and internal and external communications networks
• Designs and develops the firm's websites and the architecture of our global applications, databases, networks and hardware
• Customizes and recommends software in response to changing business needs

How we are structured?

We broadly distinguish between Software Development and Technology Infrastructure.

Within Citi Markets & Banking:

Software Development is closely aligned to the business areas in Citi Markets & Banking such as Global Transaction Services, Fixed Income, Equities and Corporate Operations & Technology. You will work hand-in-hand with the world's leading computer and software technologies to develop new, customized platforms. That often means you're not only involved with some of the hottest breakthrough technologies before they become available, you may actually be integral to making them happen in the first place. Some of the technologies that we use include Web Services (WS), Web Services Enabling – SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java/J2EE, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle, Sybase, XML, .Net, C/C++, and Unix.

Across Citi:

Technology Infrastructure provides telecommunication products and services to all Citi's business units, including Citi Markets & Banking, Global Consumer Bank and Global Wealth Management. Technology Infrastructure offers exciting opportunities in business analysis, project management and business continuity. In addition it provides voice, e-mail, Internet, data processing and desktop support as well as specific functions, including real-time market and historic market data services, the operation of data centers, command and customer service centers, security control devices, gateways for remote access and mobile computing technologies, and host and server systems.

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