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Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a financial organisation that transformed into a bank holding company in 2009, subsequent to a US Federal directive called TARP, when the bank received 10B$ in financial aid from the US treasury to save the organisation from bankrupcy. On January 13, 2010, Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman at Goldman Sachs was accused of corruption and faced the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, where he had to answear questions and accusations of fraud and market manipulation.
Still it engages in investment banking, securities services, investment management and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered at 85 Broad Street, in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. The firm has offices in all major international financial centers, and provides mergers and acquisitions advice, underwriting services, asset management, and securities services to its clients, which include corporations, governments and high net worth individuals around the world. The firm also engages in proprietary trading and private equity deals. It is a primary dealer in the United States Treasury security market.
Former Goldman Sachs employees Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson served as United States Secretary of the Treasury after leaving the firm; Rubin under President Clinton and Paulson under George W. Bush. (Wikipedia Jan 2010)
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