C

Citigroup Inc.

HARAM — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is C Halal?

Conventional global bank — debt/assets is 71.55% and net interest income is core revenue.

What You Should Know

Citigroup's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q shows $2,777,687 million of assets, $1,987,360 million of interest-bearing debt and $15,741 million of net interest income against $24,633 million of quarterly net revenue. Lending, deposits, credit cards, repo, securities financing and derivatives create an independent conventional-finance failure.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Global interest-based banking
  • Consumer credit cards
  • Derivatives exposure

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
71.55%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,987,360 / 2,777,687

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
29.27%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

813,044 / 2,777,687

Receivables + cash / assets
40.27%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,118,699 / 2,777,687

Non-compliant income / revenue
63.90%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

15,741 / 24,633

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 71.55%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 40.27%, and disclosed net interest income is 63.90% of quarterly net revenue; these exceed the examined limits.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets and receivables-plus-cash/assets exceed the examined total-assets thresholds; the core business also fails the activity screen.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 71.55%, above the examined Malaysia SAC limit, and conventional banking activity is material. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Not calculated

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored, so market-cap denominator methods are not estimated from a spot price.

Business-activity disclosure

Citigroup is a conventional global bank whose principal activities include interest-bearing deposits, lending, credit cards, securities financing, investment banking and derivatives.

Limitation: The core business is itself conventional finance; a neutral-purpose technology or incidental-income analysis is not appropriate.

Purification

ZakatInvest does not prescribe purification for a company whose primary business is conventional interest-based finance.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Citigroup's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt is interest-bearing deposits, securities loaned and sold under repurchase agreements, short-term borrowings and long-term debt.
  • Interest-bearing securities are available-for-sale debt securities, held-to-maturity debt securities and securities purchased under resale agreements.
  • Receivables are conservatively represented by loans plus securities purchased under resale agreements; net interest income is used as the disclosed non-compliant income proxy.
  • Citigroup does not separately disclose a prohibited-business revenue numerator.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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