Headshot of Citi CFO Mark Mason Citigroup CFO Mark Mason (Photo: Howard University)

As protests over the killing of an unarmed black man by Minneapolis police spread across the U.S., Mark Mason, one of Wall Street's most senior black executives, debated whether to weigh in.

People around him kept asking what he thought.

On a conference call last week to honor a group of junior executives inside Citigroup Inc., an employee asked Mason, the bank's chief financial officer, whether it planned to enter the political fray as it had on issues including gun control and protests by white supremacists.

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