Surprising everyone, including the promoters, Citibank, along with its arm Orbitech Ltd, sold little over 14% stake in financial services IT major Polaris Software Lab just in four months after holding the same for more than six years. Effective September this year, Citibank has started off-loading the latter’s shares in the open market in a number of tranches and subsequently brought it down to 28.6% as of December 31 from its peak of 43.3%. This includes a stake sale of 2.4% on December 30. Though the exact reason for the partial exit in Polaris has not known till date, a market source here pointed out that the US investor has been under pressure for quite sometime due to financial meltddown. As part of its global strategy, Citibank has decided to exit wherever possible but with good margins. Interestingly, the bank has realised over Rs 230 crore by selling more than 14 million shares in the open market with a comfortable margin. […]