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Goldman halted market-making on YRC after empty creditor claim
Goldman Sachs stopped making markets in bonds and credit default swaps (CDSs) on US freight company YRC Trucking for around two weeks from December 16, as part of an effort to stave off a public relations...
Goldman Sachs has launched a new accelerated growth note with leveraged downside participation in the MSCI Eafe Index. The product has 150% upside participation over two years, subject to a cap of 26–30%....
Salvatore di Stasi has joined UBS as global head of corporate equity derivatives, a new position. Di Stasi was formerly at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner managing director in the US bank's European...
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Fed asks for audit of AIG bailout
In the face of growing criticism over the decision to support the failed insurer AIG in 2008, US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the bailout. Scrutiny of the bailout has been growing...
FCIC hearing – Goldman advocates fair-value accounting
The first hearing of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) provided interesting detail about how some of Wall Street's biggest firms coped with the challenging circumstances in the financial markets from 2007 through 2009. The top executives...
Product roundup - January
Goldman Sachs has launched a deposit note in the US linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the DJ Eurostoxx 50 index. As a deposit, the structure is protected up to $250,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The five-year product offers 100%...
Interest rate derivatives house of the year - Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs has been called a lot of things over the past 12 months. To some, it’s the distillation of all the banking industry’s ills – a secretive, power-broking, huge-bonus-paying, profit-hungry machine that enriches itself at the expense of...
Bank risk manager of the year - Goldman Sachs
Back in September and October 2008, things were looking pretty grim for Goldman Sachs. The collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 15 had put huge pressure on the remaining Wall Street broker-dealers, Goldman and Morgan Stanley. With the acquisition...
Market snapshot
By notional amount issued in the US, Barclays remained the biggest issuer of structured products in October (see chart). For the third month in a row, the UK bank was followed by Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Barclays’ stock in trade remained the...
CDC opts for £370 million buy-in deal with Goldman subsidiary
Concern over the long-term viability of financial institutions led UK government-owned emerging market investment vehicle the CDC Group to opt for a fully collateralised buy-in when offloading its pension liabilities in a £370 million deal with Goldman...
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