(Source: The Wall Street Journal BY LIZ RAPPAPORT) – The mortgage industry will take a step toward cleaning up some of its most controversial practices under a deal between a New York regulator and three financial firms, including Goldman Sachs [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Karen Freifeld) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) was sued by Allstate Insurance Co. over the sale of more than $100 million worth of residential mortgage-backed securities that the insurer claims the bank itself called “junk” and [...]
Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) — Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks about possible lawsuits facing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other U.S. banks over sales of mortgage-backed securities.
(Source: Bloomberg By Hui-yong Yu, Brian Louis and Sarah Mulholland) – The nascent recovery in U.S. commercial real estate may be cut short as Europe’s debt crisis and Standard & Poor’s credit downgrade of Treasuries send borrowing costs to their [...]
(Source: Iain Dey From: The Australian) – GOLDMAN Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein called his top executives into the auditorium. It was minutes before the bank was due to publish its second-quarter results and he was about to run his [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Karen Gullo) – Investors suing Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and more than a dozen other underwriters to force the buyback of $6.7 billion in downgraded mortgage securities have defeated efforts by the banks in pretrial skirmishes [...]
WASHINGTON (Source: The Boston Globe By Phil Mattingly and Peter Cook) – Bankers including Goldman Sachs Group chairman and chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief Jamie Dimon called on President Obama and Congress to raise the [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Phil Mattingly and Peter Cook) – Bankers including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) chief Jamie Dimon called on President Barack Obama and Congress to [...]
(Source: IFR Keith Mullin) – Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, which both reported Q2 numbers yesterday, have, along with the rest of the industry, taken a beating in the stock market this year. GS’s earnings clearly weren’t what the [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Sarah Mulholland) – Wall Street banks are marketing about $3.7 billion of bonds tied to property loans, wagering investor demand for the debt will withstand mounting concerns that the U.S. economic recovery is stalling and the European [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Nikolaj Gammeltof) – U.S. stocks declined, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down for a second day, on concern Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis will spread and as U.S. lawmakers failed to agree on a deficit-reduction program.
WASHINGTON -(Source: NASDAQ By Luca Di Leo) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) took the biggest single sum and was given the best rate on two Federal Reserve loans in December 2008, the latest disclosure of the central bank’s controversial [...]
MANHATTAN (Source: CN By DAN MCCUE) – Goldman Sachs’ top dogs failed to take corrective action before and after the collapse of mortgage-backed securities touched off the global financial crisis, exposing the firm to billions of dollars in liabilities, shareholders [...]
Jul 4 (Reuters By Gareth Gore) – Hundreds of bankers will lose their jobs over coming weeks, victims of what senior bosses say is likely to be an industry-wide culling of staff in response to a sharp downturn in demand [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Dakin Campbell) – Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among financial firms cutting more than 1,300 workers in an effort to trim expenses and match revenue as equity and bond trading [...]
(Source: Wall Street Journal By Shira Ovide) – Another day, another earnings downgrade for some of America’s largest financial institutions.
(Source: Business Week By Karen Weise and Christine Harper) – When Goldman Sachs (GS) bought Litton Loan Servicing, a firm that collects mortgage payments from homeowners, in 2007 for an unannounced price, it seemed like a simple way to get [...]
NEW YORK (Source: By Michael J. MooreBloomberg News ) — Financial firms, shunned by investors to a degree seen only once in the last 20 years, are becoming a smaller part of the economy as they deal with a past [...]
(Source: New York Times By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED) – Goldman Sachs has agreed to sell its Litton Loan Servicing unit to the Ocwen Financial Corporation for about $263.7 million, ending its ties to an industry steeped in controversy.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to accuse the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of drastically overstating Goldman’s bets against the housing market in 2007, according to people familiar with the situation, in an [...]
(Source: National Mortgage Professional) – District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. subpoenaed Goldman Sachs, the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, for records on its activities leading into the credit crisis, two people familiar with the matter said. Vance may bring charges [...]
WASHINGTON (Source: Miami Herald By GREG GORDON) – In the absence of federal prosecutions over Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis, the Manhattan district attorney has subpoenaed Goldman Sachs regarding allegations that the giant investment bank bet heavily against [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Christine Harper) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) is closing in on the sale of Litton Loan Servicing LP to Ocwen Financial Corp. (OCN), two months after writing down the value of the mortgage- servicing business by [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Christine Harper) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) won’t face criminal prosecution related to sales of mortgage-linked securities because such a move could threaten the U.S. financial system, according to Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. [...]
(Source: Wall Street Journal By Ashby Jones) – With the exception of one high-profile SEC suit (Fabulous Fab, anyone?), regulators and prosecutors haven’t pointed too many fingers at Goldman Sachs, post financial-crisis (at least not publicly).
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