The Commodity Futures Trading Commission privately authorized sending subpoenas to Goldman for information about fees charged for some futures block trades, according to people familiar with the matter.

Jim Esposito, one of Goldman Sachs Group's most senior executives, is leaving after almost three decades with the firm.

Banks and Congressmen alike see U.S. regulators' version of Basel III as overly stringent for the securitization market.

Financial institutions, led by the biggest U.S. banks and regional lenders, have dominated high-grade issuance, making up over 60% of the $149 billion that has priced so far this month.

Greg Wilson of the Wall Street giant's Asset & Wealth Management unit wants to provide employees with tailored plans using a blend of technology and personal financial coaching.

Now that leveraged loan markets have calmed down — and interest rate cuts are on the horizon — investment banks want to get some of the business back.

The Wall Street giant did a lot of backtracking last year, abandoning its plans to become a bank for everyone. Now it's refocusing on growing its tried-and-true businesses of dealmaking and asset management.

The asset and wealth division helped drive the gains, posting its highest quarterly revenue in two years on a gain tied to the sale of a financial-management business. That helped counter fixed-income trading results and investment-banking fees that fell short of expectations.

Rewards jumped as the Covid-19 pandemic spurred trading and deals in 2020, eventually setting off a war for talent. They then collapsed last year as rising interest rates put a damper on client activity — a malaise that stretched through 2023.

Left-leaning shareholder groups are asking JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other large asset managers to explain a recent decline in their support for certain environmental and social policies at public companies.

Within the bank, Ed Emerson, , who leads the commodities-trading business, is known as a vocal critic of CEO David Solomon's leadership.

The revamp will see Greg Olafson become global head of private credit from his current role as co-president of alternatives.

Banks including Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase have announced individual sustainable finance targets for 2030 that range from $750 billion to $2.5 trillion. Yet such statements leave investors with little real insight into the very different ways in which banks are defining what's sustainable.

The proposed rules — which the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency unveiled in July — would require the biggest US banks to set aside more capital for a variety of different businesses.

Goldman, which oversees $267 billion in fee-earning alternative assets, is trying to bring compensation more in line with rival investment firms as it moves toward third-party capital to fund its investing activities instead of relying on its own balance sheet.

Equity capital markets deal flow remains tepid, hovering around $101 billion this year. That's an improvement over the $92.6 billion for all of last year, but still far below the $200 billion average in 2018 and 2019.

Goldman joins a roster that includes BlackRock Inc. and Morgan Stanley in launching lookalike funds to JPMorgan's successful active ETFs.