But that's all gone, and that's that." Bond traders – even former Salomonites – weren't too stressed out by the name change. "This company is growing at 20 percent per year," one veteran bond trader said, "I don't care what the name is as long as I'm working here." Weill first brought notable bond house Salomon Brothers together with Smith Barney when he was head of American Express, which owned Travelers Group and which already owned the white-shoe brokerage firm in 1997. The operation will be renamed Citigroup Corporate & Investment Bank.