Picking the loan market's succulent fruit

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Picking the loan market's succulent fruit

In 2004 and 2005, Citigroup topped Asia Pacific's syndicated loan league tables, outside Japan and Australia. This year, it slid to third position. Tanya Angerer asks the firm's leading loan bankers why this happened — and whether it was part of a deliberate strategy to go for profitability rather than volume.

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