All Goldman Sachs articles
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News Brief
Goldman Sachs fined $6M by SEC over admitted data inaccuracies
Goldman Sachs & Co. was assessed a $6 million penalty by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a settlement in which the financial institution admitted it submitted incomplete and inaccurate securities trading information affecting at least 163 million transactions.
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News Brief
CFTC fines Goldman Sachs $5.5M over new recordkeeping failures
Goldman Sachs was fined $5.5 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of a settlement addressing alleged audio recordkeeping violations that followed a previous consent order the bank reached with the agency.
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News Brief
Goldman Sachs fined $425K by FINRA for large option reporting lapses
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $425,000 as part of a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority addressing allegations of reporting and supervision violations regarding more than 1 million over-the-counter options positions.
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Opinion
‘Bully Market’ depicts Goldman Sachs lacking in culture vigilance
Jamie Fiore Higgins’s experiences at Goldman Sachs as chronicled in her memoir “Bully Market” prove a timely read following the investment bank’s $215 million class-action settlement over gender discrimination.
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News Brief
Goldman Sachs to pay $215M to settle gender pay, discrimination case
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $215 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the bank of pay and advancement discrimination against female vice presidents and associates.
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Blog
Aon recruits ex-Goldman Sachs CCO for board of directors
Financial services provider Aon announced the appointment of former Goldman Sachs Chief Compliance Officer Sarah Smith to its board of directors.
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News Brief
Goldman Sachs settles CFTC charges over same-day swaps manipulation for $15M
Goldman Sachs will pay a $15 million fine to settle charges from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission it manipulated the execution of same-day swaps to the detriment of unsophisticated clients and for failing to accurately disclose the actual cost of those swaps.
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News Brief
Goldman Sachs fined $3M by FINRA over mismarked short sales
Goldman Sachs was fined $3 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for mismarking nearly 60 million short sell orders as long and related supervision failures.
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News Brief
Ex-Goldman banker sentenced to 10 years for 1MDB fraud role
Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Roger Ng was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the 1MDB fraud scandal.
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News Brief
Probe into Goldman Sachs’ credit card practices expands
Goldman Sachs Group disclosed more regulators—beyond the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—are investigating its credit card account management practices.
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News Brief
Banking regs set 2023 stress test scenarios
Banking regulators unveiled new stress test requirements for the largest financial institutions, including a series of hypothetical global market shocks six banks will be required to face.
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Premium
Top ethics and compliance failures of 2022
Businesses not taking AML requirements seriously, years of noncompliant off-channel communications catching up to financial services titans, and a manufacturing firm that shared revenue with terrorists comprise CW’s list of the biggest ethics and compliance fails of 2022.
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Article
Goldman Sachs unit fined $4M for ESG investment lapses
Goldman Sachs Asset Management agreed to pay $4 million to settle SEC charges it failed to follow its own policies and procedures regarding a trio of investment products marketed for their environmental, social, and governance considerations.
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Article
Fed recruits 6 large banks for climate scenario analysis pilot
Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo will participate in a pilot climate scenario analysis exercise organized by the Federal Reserve that seeks to enhance climate-related financial risk management efforts in the industry.
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Article
Compliance deficiencies highlighted in $1.8B crackdown on messaging apps
Eleven banks, investment firms, and their affiliates will pay a total of more than $1.8 billion in fines for “widespread and longstanding failures” in monitoring, maintaining, and preserving electronic communications by employees.
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Article
Big bank messaging app crackdown exposes policy holes, monitoring struggles
U.S. regulators have signaled through an impending widespread enforcement sweep they are zeroing in on banker use of messaging apps to discuss business matters. The cases emphasize the need for financial services firms to enhance their monitoring and recordkeeping.
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Article
Roundup: Goldman Sachs, Citi, Robinhood disclose regulatory investigations
Goldman Sachs Group, Citigroup, and Robinhood Markets each issued quarterly filings disclosing regulatory investigations they are respectively facing into varied business practices.
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Article
Ex-Goldman banker convicted of FCPA violations in 1MDB case
Roger Ng, one of the central figures of the Goldman Sachs 1MDB scandal, was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and commit money laundering.
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Article
Fed bans ex-Goldman managing director over supervisory info misuse
The Federal Reserve Board permanently barred from the banking industry former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Joseph Jiampietro after he allegedly misused confidential supervisory information to further his regulatory advisory practice.
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Article
Banks face complex compliance risks as they attempt to exit Russia
Once a bank decides to withdraw or wind down its Russian operations, there are a host of thorny compliance issues to navigate in a compressed timeframe, including sanctions implications, money laundering risks, and more.