death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
manhattan u.s. , new york city , new york , 19 january 2005 middletown , connecticut , u.s. american 3 august 1919 walter wriston
 walter wriston banker chairman wesleyan university fletcher school at tufts university
walter wriston

walter bigelow wriston -lrb- august 3 , 1919 -- january 19 , 2005 -rrb- was a banker and former chairman and ceo of citicorp .
as chief executive of citibank / citicorp -lrb- later citigroup -rrb- from 1967 to 1984 , wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time .
during his tenure as ceo , the bank introduced , among other innovations , automated teller machines , interstate banking , the negotiable certificate of deposit , and `` pursued the credit card business in a way that no other bank was doing at the time '' .
with then new york governor hugh carey and investment banker felix rohatyn , wriston helped save new york city from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s by setting up the financial control board and the municipal assistance corporation , and persuading the city 's union pension funds and banks to buy the latter corporation 's bonds .
