Citigroup (C)

Incremental Write-Downs on Highly Leveraged Loans and Financing Commitments

        Due to the continued dislocation of the credit markets and the reduced market interest in higher risk/higher yield instruments that began during the second half of 2007, liquidity in the market for highly leveraged financings has yet to return. This has resulted in the Company recording additional pretax write-downs of $428 million on funded and unfunded highly leveraged finance exposures, bringing year-to-date pretax losses to $3.5 billion.

        Citigroup's exposure to highly leveraged financings totaled $24 billion at June 30, 2008 ($11 billion in funded and $13 billion in unfunded commitments), compared to $38 billion at March 31, 2008 ($21 billion in funded and $17 billion in unfunded commitments). During the second quarter of 2008, the Company transferred approximately $12 billion of loans to third parties, of which $8.5 billion relates to the highly leveraged loans and commitments. This allows Citigroup to lock in the sales proceeds and significantly reduces further downside price risk associated with these commitments. See "Highly Leveraged Financing Commitments" on page 66 for further discussion.