CIT Group

American banking and financial services company
Organization business Q1023765
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 11 annual filings
Revenue
$3.15B
▼ 4.2% YoY FY2020
Net Income
-$615.30M
▼ 216.1% YoY FY2020
Assets
$58.11B
▲ 14.3% YoY FY2020
EPS (diluted)
$-6.57
▼ 224.7% YoY FY2020
$0.00$1.08B$2.15B$3.23B$4.30B FY2010: $2.47B · NI $525.70M (21.3% margin)FY2011: $1.78B · NI $19.80M (1.1% margin)FY2012: $3.91B · NI -$588.60M (-15.1% margin)FY2013: $3.53B · NI $675.70M (19.1% margin)FY2014: $2.37B · NI $1.12B (47.2% margin)FY2015: $2.61B · NI $1.03B (39.6% margin)FY2016: $3.09B · NI -$848.00M (-27.4% margin)FY2017: $3.21B · NI $468.20M (14.6% margin)FY2018: $3.27B · NI $447.10M (13.7% margin)FY2019: $3.29B · NI $529.90M (16.1% margin)FY2020: $3.15B · NI -$615.30M (-19.5% margin) '10'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20
Revenue Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2020-12-31 · accession 0001564590-21-006973

CIT Group

Summary

CIT Group is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (500 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • CIT Group is in the country of United States[3].
  • CIT Group is in the country of GB[4].
  • CIT Group's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • CIT Group is owned by First Citizens BancShares[6].
  • CIT Group's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[7].
  • CIT Group's child organization or unit is recorded as OneWest Bank[8].
  • CIT Group's industry is recorded as financial services[9].
  • January 1, 1908 marks the founding of CIT Group[10].
  • 2001 marks the founding of CIT Group[11].
  • 1997-12-08 marks the founding of CIT Group[12].
  • CIT Group's parent organization or unit is recorded as First Citizens BancShares[13].
  • CIT Group's official website is recorded as http://www.cit.com/[14].
  • CIT Group's director / manager is recorded as John Alexander Thain[15].
  • CIT Group's product or material produced is recorded as commercial bank[16].
  • CIT Group's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+3360'}[17].
  • CIT Group's replaces is recorded as Commercial Investment Trust[18].
  • CIT Group's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[19].
  • CIT Group's legal form is recorded as H0PO[20].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 98450008065X75909D17[21]

  • Registered legal name: Cit Group Limited[22]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[23]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[24]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): H0PO[25]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[26]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[27]

  • Entity created: 1997-12-08[28]

  • LEI first registered: 2020-03-30[29]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-03-30[30]

  • LEI next renewal: 2023-03-30[31]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[32]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[33]

  • Authority entity ID: 03477373[34]

  • Other names: Cit Group PLC, C I T Group PLC, Cit Investment Management Limited[35]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[36]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include January 1, 1908[10], 2001[11], and 1997-12-08[12].

Leadership

CIT Group's director / manager is recorded as John Alexander Thain[15].

Operations

CIT Group's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[7]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as First Citizens BancShares[13]. Its child organization or unit is recorded as OneWest Bank[8].

Industry

CIT Group's industry is recorded as financial services[9].

Ownership

CIT Group is owned by First Citizens BancShares[6]. Its product or material produced is recorded as commercial bank[16].

Why It Matters

CIT Group ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (500 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [21] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [22] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [23] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [24] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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