FCA and PRA fine Goldman Sachs £96.6m for 1MDB scandal

UK regulators have fined the London-headquartered, Goldman Sachs International (GSI), £96.6 million for risk management failures in connection with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

The FCA and PRA fines are part of a globally coordinated resolution reached with Goldman Sachs Group (GSG) and its subsidiaries.

The investigation found that GSI breached a number of FCA and PRA principles and rules.

GSI is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the GSG. GSI acts as a material booking entity for bond transactions underwritten and purchased by Goldman Sachs outside the USA.

1MDB is a Malaysian state-owned development company that has been at the centre of billion-dollar embezzlement allegations.

GSI underwrote, purchased and arranged three bond transactions for 1MDB in 2012 and 2013 that raised a total of £4.9 billion for 1MDB. The 1MDB transactions were approved by global GSG committees that GSI participated in, and were booked to GSI.

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Only state investment can revive Britain's zombie economy | Phillip Inman

Small firms are borrowing big sums to survive. They must be given the option of a debt-for-equity swap with the Treasury

Britain is sleepwalking into a debt crisis that will undermine its prospects of a sustainable recovery.

It’s not the debts of the government that are at issue; it is the monumental amount of borrowing by the private sector, much of it from the Treasury, that will hang like a dead weight on the shoulders of thousands of businesses, possibly for a decade.

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Bauman to become senior investigative reporter for Bloomberg Industry

Bloomberg Law senior legal reporter Valerie Bauman will become a senior investigative reporter for Bloomberg Industry Group starting next week. She had been covering health care and pharmaceutical issues. She previously covered immigration, jobs...

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NatWest accelerator graduate Hoddle launches beta savings app

Hoddle, a fintech savings app which recently graduated from NatWest’s fintech accelerator programme, has launched a beta version of its app in the UK.

Around 6.5 million adults in the UK have no cash savings at all

The start-up, founded two years ago by mobile app developer, Sami Chaudry, allows users to save with family and friends.

A twist with all the trimmings

Its app, based on Google Cloud infrastructure, allows users to set-up “group holds”. Users scan the card they want to attach to the hold, and then Hoddle configures the shared savings pot – be that for bills, or a holiday.

Whilst this is the app’s most original feature, offering a twist on the more individual-focused savings app, it isn’t short of other services.

It also allows consumers to automatically save through “smart holds”, and save regular amounts through “fixed holds”.

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