{"id":119,"date":"2018-03-28T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/finance2news\/?p=119"},"modified":"2018-03-28T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:24:40","slug":"citigroup-acted-now-two-new-ideas-on-how-banks-can-limit-gun-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup Acted. Now, Two New Ideas on How Banks Can Limit Gun Sales."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.comhttp:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/finance2news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Citigroup-Acted.-Now-Two-New-Ideas-on-How-Banks-Can-Limit-Gun-Sales.jpg\" data-enlarged-image=\"https:\/\/fm.cnbc.com\/applications\/cnbc.com\/resources\/img\/editorial\/2018\/02\/20\/105017714-RTR3BRGU.1910x1000.jpg?v=1519142832\" width='530' height='298' alt=\"Citigroup Acted. Now, Two New Ideas on How Banks Can Limit Gun Sales.\"\/> <meta itemprop=\"image\" content=\"https:\/\/fm.cnbc.com\/applications\/cnbc.com\/resources\/img\/editorial\/2018\/02\/20\/105017714-RTR3BRGU.jpg?v=1519142832\" \/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"width='530'\" \/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"height='298'\" \/><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2018-02-20T11:07:12-0500\" \/><meta itemprop=\"dateCreated\" content=\"2018-02-20T11:06:34-0500\" \/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2018-02-20T11:07:09-0500\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-02-20T11:06:34-0500\" \/><meta itemprop=\"expires\" content=\"2099-12-31\" \/> <meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"author\" content=\"Gene Blevins | Reuters\" \/><meta itemprop=\"publisher\" content=\"CNBC\" \/> <meta itemprop=\"caption\" content=\"Customers view semi automatic guns on display at a gun shop in Los Angeles, California.\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>Gene Blevins | Reuters<\/div>\n<div>Customers view semi automatic guns on display at a gun shop in Los Angeles, California.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, as hundreds of thousands of people joined the March for Our Lives around the nation, I was on the phone with Michael Corbat, chief executive of Citigroup.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Corbat had taken the remarkable step on Thursday of authorizing a new set of rules to  restrict gun sales by Citi&#8217;s clients, the first time a Wall Street bank had used its position to influence the gun control debate.<\/p>\n<p>Five weeks earlier, a gunman&#8217;s attack at a high school in Parkland, Fla., had left 17 dead. Soon afterward, I wrote a  column challenging the business world to &#8220;effectively set new rules for the sales of guns in America,&#8221; given Washington&#8217;s intransigence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday afternoon, as hundreds of thousands of people joined the March for Our Lives around the nation, I was on the phone with Michael Corbat, chief executive of Citigroup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"views":81,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}