{"id":1637068,"date":"2022-09-08T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637068"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:43:09","slug":"citigroup-wins-appeal-over-mistaken-revlon-wire-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citigroup-wins-appeal-over-mistaken-revlon-wire-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup wins appeal over mistaken Revlon wire transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcitigroup-wins-appeal-over-mistaken-revlon-wire-transfer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Jonathan Stempel<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -Citigroup Inc is entitled to recoup about $500 million of its own money that it accidentally wired Revlon Inc lenders three years early, a U.S. appeals court said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Reversing a lower court ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said it was improper to give the lenders a \u201chuge windfall\u201d by letting them keep Citigroup\u2019s money, and that they had been on notice the wiring was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights risks in a banking industry that wires an estimated $5.4 trillion each day.<\/p>\n<p>Citigroup, acting as Revlon\u2019s loan agent, had in August 2020 intended to make a $7.8 million interest payment on a loan for billionaire Ronald Perelman\u2019s now-bankrupt cosmetics company, but instead paid off the $894 million loan though it was not due until 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Some creditors returned what they received, but 10 asset managers including Brigade Capital Management, HPS Investment Partners and Symphony Asset Management, whose clients included the Revlon lenders, did not.<\/p>\n<p>They said Citigroup paid exactly what was owed, and they had no reason to believe a sophisticated bank would err so badly. They also noted that Perelman had bailed out Revlon before.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan ruled against Citigroup after a nonjury trial, saying the prepayment was a \u201cdischarge for value.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But in Thursday\u2019s 3-0 decision, Circuit Judge Pierre Leval rejected that conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, the debt on which Citibank mistakenly made a payment was not due for another three years,\u201d Leval wrote in a 93-page opinion. \u201cDefendants may not invoke the discharge-for-value rule as a shield against Citibank\u2019s claims for restitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the Revlon lenders did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Citigroup praised the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s ruling reaffirms our long-held belief that these mistakenly transferred funds should be returned as a matter of law, as well as ethics,\u201d Citigroup said in a statement. It also said it has taken steps to avoid a recurrence.<\/p>\n<p>INDUSTRY WARNING<\/p>\n<p>Industry groups warned a ruling against Citigroup could subject banks to excessive liability risks and destabilize the approximately $1.2 trillion U.S. syndicated loan market.<\/p>\n<p>Revlon filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors on June 15, and Thursday\u2019s decision could result in the asset managers being involved in restructuring talks.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based company\u2019s shares fell about 10% within minutes of the decision, but recouped those losses.<\/p>\n<p>Citigroup argued its appeal last September 29.<\/p>\n<p>Leval said the court took a long time to rule in part because it initially planned to ask New York state\u2019s highest court for guidance on the complex case, before deciding it would take even longer and that Citigroup\u2019s arguments were persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding the best accommodation between the objectives of speed and legal soundness is not always easy,\u201d Leval wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The case is In re Citibank August 11, 2020 Wire Transfers, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 21-487.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by Luc Cohen; Editing by Chris Reese, Leslie Adler and Josie Kao)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2746709\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8710W-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8710W-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Citigroup Inc is entitled to recoup about $500 million of its own money that it accidentally wired Revlon Inc lenders three years early, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}