Goldman Combines APAC Investment Banking Business
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is combining its investment banking businesses across Asia Pacific into one entity in a move to help bolster advisory and capital markets execution.
Goldman is integrating the teams in Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and Asia ex-Japan, to form a unified APAC investment banking business led by Iain Drayton, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News, and whose contents were confirmed by a spokesperson for the firm.
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