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Company announcement

Life insurance fintech startup Ethos raises $60 million

Ethos, the company making simple, ethical life insurance, today announced it raised a $60 million Series C financing led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).

27 August 2019

News/devops

Goldman Sachs trading biz to hire 100 coders

Goldman Sachs is looking to bring in more than 100 coders to help automate swathes of its trading business, according to Bloomberg.

23 August 2019

News

Goldman CEO: "Apple card is big, but it's also a beginning"

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says the launch of its co-branded card with Apple is just "the beginning" of the firm's efforts to be as big on Main Street as it is on Wall Street.

21 August 2019

News

Apple Card launches

Apple has officially launched its credit card, with all US customers now able to apply for it through the Wallet app on their iPhones.

20 August 2019

News/startups

AmEx, Citi and Goldman invest in digital mortgage startup Better.com

Home-financing startup Better.com has raised $160 million in a Series C funding round joined by financial services giants including Citi, American Express and Goldman Sachs.

19 August 2019

News

Apple readies for credit card launch

Apple has opened a Web page highlighting the forthcoming release of its titanium Apple Card, developed in conjunction with Goldman Sachs.

06 August 2019

News

Top US banks unite for 'Fintech Focus' coding bootcamp

Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo are to turn their New York offices into coding bootcamps for under-represented college students in a new initiative intended to increase the representation of women and people of colour in software engineering within the financial services industry.

17 July 2019

Company announcement

SumUp raises €330m capital facility

SumUp, announces today that it has raised a from Bain Capital Credit, Goldman Sachs Private Capital, HPS Investment Partners, and TPG Sixth Street Partners.

16 July 2019

News

Raisin prepares for US launch following EUR25 million capital injection from Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs has invested EUR25 million in EU-wide deposit marketplace Raisin as it prepares for expansion into the $12.7 trillion US savings market.

16 July 2019

News

Goldman Sachs could create digital coin

Goldman Sachs could follow JPMorgan Chase in creating a digital coin, CEO David Solomon has revealed in an interview in which he also dismissed the threat of tech giants such as Facebook moving beyond payments into deposits.

28 June 2019

Company announcement/regulation

Big banks sign on for DTCC Global Trade Repository for SFTR obligations

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan will use DTCC’s multi-award winning Global Trade Repository (GTR) service, offered by its Repository and Derivatives (RDS) division, in order to meet their regulatory obligations under the European Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which are anticipated to take effect in April 2020.

04 June 2019

News

OpenFin names former Goldman Sachs MD Tim Dinsdale as European CTO

Fresh from a $17 million fundraising round, capital markets apps platform OpenFin has appointed former Goldman Sachs MD, Tim Dinsdale, as European chief technology officer.

21 May 2019