In the annual Goldman Sachs Reading List, the firm’s leaders share recommendations from their bookshelves. This year’s list includes: – Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach. “I chose this book given its simplicity but with the power to deliver very profound life lessons,” says Vidya Lakshmi, head of Human Capital Management in Bengaluru. “I have read and re-read the book plenty […]

How hard will it be for companies to meet the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures? Not as hard as many might think. Investors and the rest of the world are watching to see how companies will respond to the final recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)commissioned by Mark Carney, governor of the Bank […]

US tech giants are under a new wave of regulatory scrutiny, with policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic raising concerns about data privacy. This attention will persist in the weeks ahead, as the European Union’s most far-reaching data privacy regulation yet — the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — comes into force on May 25th. Goldman Sachs Research Strategist […]

J.P. Morgan only lets a fraction of graduates applying for a role in its corporate and investment bank through the door. Only 2% of applicants make it into a front office positions and the numbers fighting for place on its summer internship programme – the most obvious route into a full-time role – were up by 50% this year compared […]

When Goldman Sachs announced its new managing directors last month, there were plenty of technologists on the list. However, the Goldman technology staff who didn’t make the MD cut won’t be that cut up: they have other things to aspire to. While most people in banks can simply climb the established analyst-associate-VP-director-managing director hierarchy, technologists in investment banks can aspire […]

It is a well-known fact that many large technology companies use complex multinational corporate structures in order to transfer their profits to low-taxation territories, ultimately resulting in a loss to the public purse. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this circumstance affects not only the environment of large companies in the technology sector, but also all those companies—large-, small-, or medium-sized—operating in the digital […]

Jamie Dimon said that he never wanted to be an investment banker or a trader, he just wanted to “see a large corporation from the inside”. This, he says, is why he turned down offers from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley to work alongside Sandy Weill at American Express. Nonetheless, financial services – and large banks – are still […]

Les deux pays planchent depuis plusieurs mois sur des bitcoins “améliorés”. Comprendre : une monnaie digitale moins ouverte et plus contrôlée. Quand l’Estonie a évoqué l’idée de créer sa propre crypto-monnaie l’été dernier, le sang de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) n’a fait qu’un tour. “Aucun Etat membre ne peut introduire sa propre crypto-monnaie. La monnaie de la zone euro […]

Imaginez un nuage informatique décentralisé dans lequel chacun aurait la possibilité d’acheter et vendre de la ressource machine. Plusieurs start-up planchent sur ce concept pas si futuriste que ça. Est-il possible qu’un jour apparaisse une bourse du cloud computing ? A savoir un marché financier, matérialisé par une ou plusieurs plateformes, via lequel entreprises et particuliers auraient la possibilité d’acheter et […]

La blockchain fait partie des technologies à surveiller dans les années à venir. Elle pourrait révolutionner plusieurs secteurs de l’économie, à commencer par la banque et l’assurance. BNP Paribas et le cabinet EY ont mis en place un pilote de blockchain privée pour améliorer le fonctionnement de la trésorerie interne de la banque française.  Le projet, qui est testé sur des transactions […]