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Inside the Goldmine
Introduction and background of Goldman Sachs – context and environment
One of the biggest investment Bank in the world its global presence with power and influence is legendry but have a controversial roll in global financial market. Was founded by a Jewish immigrant Mr.Marcus Goldman and his Son in law Samuel Sachs in New York 1869.
Goldman Sachs is in three Businesses and has three Divisions.
As per article Goldman Sachs is in almost into every kind of business you can think as per article “If you bank with HSBC, Cook on a gas stove, shop with Ocado, watch big brother on your TV sets, buy clothes from a GAS store, use a Tom Tom satellite navigation
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“Most applicants are interviewed at least 20 times before they are made an offer and some more than 30 times” So many rounds of Interviews mean everything you have or not will be scrutinized by the interviewers like, your personality fits for their team or clients, your level of motivation that you can perform up to the mark of company’s standards, interrogate your way of thinking that can you fit yourself as the company operates, your problem solving skills how you handle problems in an organizational atmosphere and off course your leadership qualities how you drive your team to achieve organisational goals and the most important thing which Goldman seeks for is your knowledge of financial market. Means 360 degree recruitment cycle is been followed they will check are you ambitious, you want a rapid growth in your career, are you determined to go to the top, Your Obsesses ion towards money.
Training and Development
Article also gives an over view of training and development strategy for Goldman Sachs employees as mentioned in article Goldman staffers are also trained to “ brain pick” contacts and clients harder than the other guy. Knowledge sharing or knowledge transfer also plays a major role in their Training and Development plan whatever employees get out of contacts and clients then they have to feed it to colleagues who go to work trying to use the information to make money.
Culture & Environment for
In 1850, the Lehman bros. and Richard s. fuld jr. started their business of small buying and selling cotton shop. With the pace of time their business and their ambitions grew up, and opened the Futures trading venture in US. With efforts the firm moved to dealing of commodities with merchant banking. The success of bank was up to at mark.
After the time of financial crisis, JP Morgan was not the only national bank in US which got involved in trade of toxic loans related to mortgage. Before JP Morgan, it was Goldman Sachs-another large US Bank that faced the allegation of manipulating the trades in its own self interes, ended up in favor of SEC while GoldMan Sachs were asked to pay $500 Million during late 2011 in a deal called Abascus 2007-AC1 where the bank were alleged to mislead its investors on a deal related to Collateral Debt Obligation(CDO). (Eaglesham, 2011) The ab...
The novel Liars Poker by Michael Lewis is a very interesting firsthand account of an inside look into the investment banking world, in particular bond trading at the firm Solomon Brothers in the 1980s. Lewis took an interesting and roundabout way to end up on Wall Street, studying art history at Yale and bombing his interview with Lehman Brothers. But he eventually found himself at Solomon Brothers through a lucky encounter with two managing directors wives. Through his book, Michael Lewis conveys the inner workings of investment banks in the 1980s to the average person using his own experience at Solomon Brothers. The book goes into Lewis’s own rise in the firm, as well as the rise and fall of the entire Solomon Brothers Mortgage department.
... to service our current needs. It is also important that they are committed to the ongoing investment in technology required to deliver the securities, cash and investment management support services we require. The Bank of New York is a well-established financial institution that has outlasted numerous financial hardships, including the Great Depression. It has a long history of providing excellent services to its customers. In the present day, The Bank of New York continues to live up to that reputation by offering its customers a variety of financial services. The future can only get better for the Bank of New York. With the technological era in full swing, the Bank of New York is taking full advantage by specializing in technological securities. In conclusion, The Bank if New York is a historical financial institution that played an important role in the economic growth of the United States. No other bank can say that it has done as much for the United States as has done the Bank of New York.
To achieve this, “banking firms provide [them] with a way to maintain [their] elite status in society by providing avenues to wealth and power that other professions do not” (179). They leave them unconsciously with an ultimatum, to either continue living their prestigious lifestyle and be the in the top with the elites, or settle for lower than what they’ve worked for, which is any other career path. Students who attend Princeton and Harvard who aspire to become teachers or writers are told they are settling for less than what they deserve and will be “more happy” with an investment banking career. There is a subtle form of manipulation being acted upon prospective students from investment bankers which is hidden by all of the positive, glamorous stigmas of Wall Street. To fully understand Wall Street as a whole, someone must know the small components that make it come together as a whole. This is shown through Karen Ho’s observations such as learning that students at Princeton and Harvard do not need to hold a finance degree to obtain a job on Wall Street. Whereas, Yale and Brown students must have a finance degree and are forced to show their abilities at a higher level than Princeton and Harvard students. Underneath all the dashing appearances and smart conversations on Wall Street, there is a hidden bias and a constant manipulation system in order for them to get what they want. The small components of Wall Street consist of their “small” priorities,
In conclusion these organizations help to shape the standards within the business community and help to create trends by enforcing laws, and regulations. The three can even at times work in unison to aid in protecting the overall public by combining forces. Always strength in numbers. Its how the all three organizations work independently as well, strength in numbers.
Bank of America states, “Our mission is to offer lending and investment products that; Serve low-and moderate-income individuals and families; Improve underserved low- and moderate-income communities; Create sustainable practices for the long haul” (Bank of America). In 1904, the CEO, Giannini, of Bank of Italy took some risks by issuing character loans, which was later acquired by NationsBank. This risk paid off...
Mooney, Richard. "Banker of America." The Boston Globe 4 Apr. 1999: L1 "Powerful house of Morgan Changes with the Times." The San Diego Union-Tribune 24 Feb. 1986: 18 Sinclair, Andrew. Corsair: The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
Citigroup ' was founded as City Bank of New York in 1812 and remained a large regional bank until October 1998. Sandy Weill, then CEO of The Travelers Group an insurance company announced a $76 billion agreement to merge with Citigroup to form a new financial services conglomerate. It took only two years for the merger to pass federal law since the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act prevented banking and insurance companies from ever becoming one entity. As the new CEO of Citigroup, Sandy Weill was now at the helm of one of largest banking institutions in the world with over 300,000 employees and operations in over 120 countries. Popular brand names included CitiCards, CitiFinancial, CitiMortgage, Primerica, Salomon Brothers, Smith Barney, Diners Club and CitiCapital. Citigroup became the world’s first global financial supermarket where banking, brokerage and insurance were all held under the control of one organization. Citigroup is organized into four major segments; Consumer Banking, Global Cards, Institutional Client Group, and Global Wealth Management. Citigroup offers a wide range of products from retail banking, credit card services, and mortgage loans to global transaction services, M&A financing, and corporate lending. Citigroup is currently the largest bank in the United States with over US$600 billion in deposits and assets under management of over US$1.2 trillion.
Citigroup Inc. was the largest company in the world in December, 2007. It had total assets of $2.2 trillion. Citigroup Inc. was formed on October 8, 1998 when Citicorp and the Traveler’s Group merged. By 2008, it was the world’s largest bank by revenues with over 358,000 staff and 200 million customer accounts in 100 countries. The Citicorp piece is a multinational banking corporation which operates in more than 100 countries. Travelers Group businesses include credit services, consumer finance, brokerage, and insurance (Wikipedia 2008).
The costs associated with the online banking operation were out weighted by the benefits provide by the program. Resource had to be taking from other areas of the bank in order to start the program, which included creating the website, make it secure and promote it to customers. However, many benefits also came with the creation of this program. The first would be that it changes the patterns in customer uses of different banking channels. In active users of online banking there were drops in the use of some on the other banking channels. Another benefit is the retention that was created by online banking. This happened because once a customer entered all their information they saw it as a buried to switch bank and have to do it all over again. Therefore, customers would stay more and longer with their current bank.
Thus, the main business tactics of the company in context of this business philosophy is ;
In 1882, Samuel Sachs, Goldman’s son-in-law, joined the company. Henry Goldman and Ludwig Derfuss later joined the business, which later made the company adapt the well-known name, Goldman Sachs & Co. According to William Cohan 2012, Money and power: How Goldman Sachs Came to rule the world, The Niche the company found in selling commercial paper for entrepreneurs, contributed to the firm being invited to join the NYSE and its revenue of $1.6 million in 1896.Even though it was still considered a small firm, Goldman Sachs branched out into handling debts and currencies overseas. William Cohan goes on to state that because Henry Goldman’s had a relationship with the owner of Sears, Julius Rosenwald, it made the deal possible, and the interests of other companies such as, Roebuck and company, F.W. Woolworth and Continental Can, contributed to Goldman Sachs entrance into the (IPO) initial public offering market in 1906. With the company now being led by the Sachs family. Goldman Sachs changed its focus and began to expend and recruit in other areas. The company started a Trading Corp operation, which failed one year later due to the 1929 stock market crash. This hurt the firm’s reputation for years to come because of accusations of shares manipulation and insider trading according to William Cohan
The topic offers a brief discussion on investment banking and its relationship with the research division. Investment banking acts as an intermediary between investors and corporate issuance firms during initial public offerings (IPO’s). It also performs various functions such as aiding firms in mergers and acquisitions. In addition, investment banking relies heavily on information regarding market intelligence. This necessitates the importance of a research department that performs the duty of carrying out research on the market conditions. However, there is a conflict of interest since investment banking relies on this research to capitalize their gains. As a result, the Global Research Analyst Settlement found it necessary to formalize separation of these two departments in order to prevent exchange of information (Morrison and Foerster 2).
It is a known fact that the banking industry plays a huge role in today’s society, the industry has grown rapidly of many decades and still growing. The banking sector is that sector of the society that is actually responsible for the handling of financial assets for other sector of the economy, they do this by investing the financial assets in order to create more wealth in the society while regulating all the activities involved in the process. (What is the banking Sector 2015)