Goldman Sachs CEO: ‘Burdensome Regulation’ Protects our Business from Startups

Goldman Sachs CEO: ‘Burdensome Regulation’ Protects our Business from Startups

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has described how financial regulation can prevent FinTech startups challenging the investment bank, acting as a “moat” around their business. On May 20, speaking as part of a series of self-produced podcast interviews with Goldman Sachs executives, Blankfein talked to Jake Siewert, Goldman's head of corporate communications, about the value he sees in the technology sector and its potential impact on their own core business. Expanding on these thoughts however, Blankfein recognizes that unlike the examples he draws of Amazon disrupting the business of....


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