The call, which was made at the tentative suggestion of the regulatory authorities or at least with their blessing, was made shortly after Goldman had won a surprise approval to convert itself from a securities firm into a commercial bank on September 21, according to several people familiar with the events.
They added that the conversation was brief as Mr Pandit rejected the proposal at once.
A deal would have been structured as a Citi takeover of Goldman. In spite of the slide in Citi's shares, its market value around the time of Mr Blankfein's call was $108bn, roughly double Goldman's capitalisation.
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