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🦧 an expensive main street push
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🦧 an expensive main street push

Ape of Omaha
Jan 16
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goldman sachs lost $3b since ‘20

in its consumer lending business, that is

  • goldman sachs launched marcus in 2016 (savings accounts, personal loans, credit cards, etc.) in an effort to expand its business and customer base beyond institutional clients

  • much of the loss ($783m in '20 and $1b in '21) comes from credit losses

 
 

things changed…

  • gs executives this summer were piloting a checking account program for its employees, believing that it would unlock new revenue opportunities

  • per wsj, now though, gs is planning to wind down personal loans and its pilot checking account programs

  • marcus is a huge attempt at the consumer market done by one of the biggest wall st banks and has been closely watched by competing banks

  • imo: major banks like BAC 0.00 and WFC 0.00 have clear separation of its businesses and have fairly well running consumer arms – goldman will likely take marcus as its first trial and come back in the near future with another attempt at capturing the consumer markets

 
 

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