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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGoldman Sachs opens to the masses
Goldman Sachs opens to the masses
Ben McLannahan in New York - April 24, 2016 4:47 pm
For almost 150 years Goldman Sachs has been the go-to bank of the rich and powerful. But now the Wall Street titan is opening up to the masses on Main Street by offering online savings accounts for as little as $1 on deposit.
Goldmans shift down market comes as the bank is under pressure to develop new streams of funding. Weak first-quarter results from the big US banks have highlighted the challenges faced by their investment banking units, under pressure from volatile markets and tight regulations.
Analysts last week fired a barrage of questions at the US banks, and at Goldman in particular, wondering why they were not doing more to reboot their businesses. Goldman posted the lowest quarterly return on equity just 6.4 per cent, on an annualised basis of the past four years.
The bank last week launched GSBank.com, a platform it inherited via the acquisition of a $16bn book of deposits from GE Capital...
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Goldman Sachs opens to the masses (Original Post)
think
Apr 2016
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hatrack
(59,587 posts)1. As if I would trust those sociopathic cocksuckers with a nickel of my money . . .
Here's a message from Main Street for you, GS:
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)2. Fuck these money grubbing pieces of shit
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)3. Yeah and the fees will suck your account dry
every month because there will all kinds of hidden charges that you won't see on the 18th page of the "agreement" window most will just click on agreeing to whatever.
Once a thief always a thief.
Fuck Blankfein and his minions.