Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has told employees in its Platform Solutions unit that it’s moving toward a process to find a new issuer for its General Motors credit-card program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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told its credit-card employees in an internal memo they will get a year’s pay if their jobs are eliminated, the newspaper reported.
Goldman Sachs issues credits for both General Motors Co.
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and Apple Inc.
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but it’s been scaling back its consumer-banking services under a restructuring process launched early this year.
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The investment bank has been working to cut costs and has decided it was likely to launch a sales process for the credit-card partnership if it was unable to reduce expenses, the report said.
The WSJ also reported recently that Goldman Sachs has held talks with American Express Co.
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about taking over both its Apple and GM cards.
Goldman in January disclosed a $3 billion loss since 2020 in its Platform Solutions unit, which houses its credit-card businesses as well as its consumer-lending unit GreenSky, which it’s now selling.
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