REGULATORY CAPITAL

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Citigroup is subject to risk-based capital and leverage standards issued by the Federal Reserve Board, which constitute the U.S. Basel III rules. Citi’s U.S.-insured depository institution subsidiaries, including Citibank, are subject to similar standards issued by their respective primary bank regulatory agencies. These standards are used to evaluate

capital adequacy and include the required minimums shown in the following table. The regulatory agencies are required by law to take specific, prompt corrective actions with respect to institutions that do not meet minimum capital standards.

The following table sets forth for Citigroup and Citibank the regulatory capital tiers, total risk-weighted assets, quarterly adjusted average total assets, Total Leverage Exposure, risk-based capital ratios and leverage ratios:


In millions of dollars, except ratios	Stated minimum		Citigroup								Citibank
			Well- capitalized minimum		December 31, 2020			December 31, 2019			Well- capitalized minimum		December 31, 2020			December 31, 2019
Common Equity Tier 1 Capital					$	147,274		$	137,798				$	142,884		$	130,720
Tier 1 Capital					167,053			155,805					144,992			132,847
Total Capital (Tier 1 Capital + Tier 2 Capital)—Standardized Approach					204,849			193,711					169,235			157,253
Total Capital (Tier 1 Capital + Tier 2 Capital)—Advanced Approaches					195,959			181,337					161,294			145,918
Total risk-weighted assets—Standardized Approach					1,221,576			1,168,848					1,030,081			1,022,607
Total risk-weighted assets—Advanced Approaches					1,255,284			1,142,804					1,012,129			938,735
Quarterly adjusted average total assets(1)					2,265,615			1,957,039					1,680,056			1,459,780
Total Leverage Exposure(2)					2,386,881			2,513,702					2,167,969			1,958,173
Common Equity Tier 1 Capital ratio(3)	4.5	%	N/A		11.73		%	11.79		%	6.5	%	13.87		%	12.78		%
Tier 1 Capital ratio(3)	6.0		6.0	%	13.31			13.33			8.0		14.08			12.99
Total Capital ratio(3)	8.0		10.0		15.61			15.87			10.0		15.94			15.38
Tier 1 Leverage ratio	4.0		N/A		7.37			7.96			5.0		8.63			9.10
Supplementary Leverage ratio	3.0		N/A		7.00			6.20			6.0		6.69			6.78

(1)Tier 1 Leverage ratio denominator.

(2)Supplementary Leverage ratio denominator.

(3)Citigroup’s reportable Common Equity Tier 1 Capital, Tier 1 Capital and Total Capital ratios as of December 31, 2020 were the lower derived under the Basel III Advanced Approaches frameworks, whereas Citigroup’s reportable Common Equity Tier 1 Capital and Tier 1 Capital ratios were the lower derived under the Basel III Standardized Approach and the reportable Total Capital ratio was the lower derived under the Basel III Advanced Approaches framework as of December 31, 2019. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, Citibank’s reportable Common Equity Tier 1 Capital and Tier 1 Capital ratios were the lower derived under the Basel III Standardized Approach, whereas the Total Capital ratios were the lower derived under the Basel III Advanced Approaches frameworks as of December 31, 2020 and the lower derived under the Standardized Approach as of December 31, 2019.

N/A Not applicable

As indicated in the table above, Citigroup and Citibank were “well capitalized” under the current federal bank regulatory agency definitions as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.

Banking Subsidiaries—Constraints on Dividends

There are various legal limitations on the ability of Citigroup’s subsidiary depository institutions to extend credit, pay dividends or otherwise supply funds to Citigroup and its non-bank subsidiaries. The approval of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is required if total dividends declared in any calendar year were to exceed amounts specified by the agency’s regulations.

In determining the dividends, each subsidiary depository institution must also consider its effect on applicable risk-based capital and leverage ratio requirements, as well as policy statements of the federal bank regulatory agencies that indicate that banking organizations should generally pay dividends out of current operating earnings. Citigroup received $2.3 billion and $17.3 billion in dividends from Citibank during 2020 and 2019, respectively.

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