Why Goldman Sachs Is Betting on Financing
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:32.5 | Goldman Sachs restructures in an effort to be one of the biggest players in the world of financing |
| 0:37.2 | and how |
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| 1:00.7 | and business stories that move the world today. Over the past few months, we've talked many times about the rise of private credit. |
| 1:13.5 | Now, Goldman Sachs has ambitions to be one of the biggest players in the increasingly competitive world of financing. |
| 1:20.0 | Today, the bank announced that it's combining three key groups into what it calls the Capital Solutions Group. |
| 1:25.6 | Anna Maria Andriotis covers Goldman for the journal. So Anna Maria, |
| 1:29.2 | what are some of the details of this restructuring? Goldman Sachs is bringing together three key |
| 1:34.9 | groups that are in its global banking and markets division. These groups work on finding or |
| 1:40.9 | facilitating various types of financing deals. It's also creating a team that will be |
| 1:47.8 | in this new group that's called Capital Solutions. This fourth piece to it is going to be finding |
| 1:52.6 | alternative sources of financing, especially for Goldman's corporate clients. What we're talking about |
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