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Every year, a portion of Citi's electronically traded proceeds go toward nonprofit organizations that tackle illiteracy and education inequality.
For his work, Alaa Saeed, Citigroup's global head of electronic platforms and distribution, was was named one of the 10 people transforming finance in Europe.
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Innovative thinking is key to solving unprecedented challenges facing businesses. To empower the young innovators and transformers of tomorrow, it is vital to support education. This need has become all the more acute due to the impact of the global pandemic.
Both classroom learning and business depend on the flow of information and knowledge. I see this in the day-to-day buzz of the trading floor, which has changed in what seemed like the blink of an eye, as our and many other industries switched to working remotely.