Walter B. Wriston, Banking Innovator as Chairman of Citicorp, Dies at 85
NY Times
Walter B. Wriston, the former chairman of Citicorp who became the most influential banker of his generation by making his bank into the world’s largest through a barrage of innovations, including the automated teller machine, died on Wednesday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He was 85.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his brother-in-law, Robert Dineen, said.
When he started at what was then First National City Bank in 1946, Mr. Wriston sat at a roll-top desk waiting for customers and feared that he would be bored to death by the stodgy banking world.
By the time he retired in 1984, he had dazzled the industry through aggressive international expansion, computerization and diversification that seemed dizzying except when compared with the changes that followed.
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