The
sale includes Citi's retail banking, consumer loans, and cards
businesses and the transfer of consumer banking employees, the
U.S. bank said on Wednesday.
Citi did not disclose the financial terms of the deal but said
the sale was not material.
Reuters reported in June that Erste Group was on track to buy
Citigroup's Hungarian retail portfolio.
Citi has pared back internationally in recent years, pulling out
of retail banking in long-established markets such as Japan.
(Reporting by Supriya Kurane in Bengaluru; Editing by Anupama
Dwivedi)
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