Citi has agreed to sell a 25% stake in its Mexican retail banking subsidiary Banamex to an entity controlled by Fernando Chico Pardo and his family for approximately 42bn pesos ($2.3bn). The deal, which involves roughly 520 million shares, is based on a price-to-book ratio of 0.80 times Banamex's local GAAP book value at closing. Banamex network spans about 1,300 branches and 9,000 ATMs, serving over 13.6 million retail banking clients, 6,000 commercial banking clients, and 8.6 million pension fund manag ...