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Goldman chief calls for tighter controls

Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs’ chief executive, has called for banks to adopt more stringent accounting practices, accept tougher regulation and give more power to risk managers. Writing in Monday’s FT – two days before he and other Wall Street leaders are due to testify before a Congressional committee -Blankfein outlines seven areas of misdemeanour including valuation of assets and the “outsourcing of risk management” to ratings agencies. See Blankfein’s article here.

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