SEC EDGAR Filing

Company: GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC
CIK: 886982
Filing Type: 10-K
Filing Date: 2023-02-24
Period of Report: 2022-12-31
SIC Code: 6211
State of Incorporation: DE
State of Location: NY
Fiscal Year End: 1231

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Item 1. Business
Item 1. Business
Introduction
Goldman Sachs is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Our purpose is to advance sustainable economic growth and financial opportunity. Our goal, reflected in our One Goldman Sachs initiative, is to deliver the full range of our services and expertise to support our clients in a more accessible, comprehensive and efficient manner, across businesses and product areas.
When we use the terms “Goldman Sachs,” “we,” “us” and “our,” we mean The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Group Inc. or parent company), a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries. When we use the term “our subsidiaries,” we mean the consolidated subsidiaries of Group Inc. References to “this Form 10-K” are to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. All references to 2022, 2021 and 2020 refer to our years ended, or the dates, as the context requires, December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
Group Inc. is a bank holding company (BHC) and a financial holding company (FHC) regulated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB). Our U.S. depository institution subsidiary, Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank USA), is a New York State-chartered bank.
Our Business Segments
We manage and report our activities in three business segments: Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management and Platform Solutions. Global Banking & Markets generates revenues from investment banking fees, including advisory, and equity and debt underwriting fees, Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) intermediation and financing activities and Equities intermediation and financing activities, as well as relationship lending and acquisition financing (and related hedges) and investing activities related to our Global Banking & Markets activities. Asset & Wealth Management generates revenues from management and other fees, incentive fees, private banking and lending, equity investments and debt investments. Platform Solutions generates revenues from consumer platforms, and transaction banking and other platform businesses.
The chart below presents our three business segments and their revenue sources.
Prior to the fourth quarter of 2022, we managed and reported our activities in the following four business segments: Investment Banking, Global Markets, Asset Management and Consumer & Wealth Management. Beginning with the fourth quarter of 2022, consistent with our previously announced organizational changes, we began managing and reporting our activities in three new segments: Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management and Platform Solutions. Our new segments reflect the following primary changes:
•Global Banking & Markets is a new segment that includes the results previously reported in Investment Banking and Global Markets, and additionally includes the results from equity and debt investments related to our Global Banking & Markets activities, previously reported in Asset Management.
•Asset & Wealth Management is a new segment that includes the results previously reported in Asset Management and Wealth Management (previously included in Consumer & Wealth Management), and additionally includes the results from our direct-to-consumer banking business, which includes lending, deposit-taking and investing, previously reported in Consumer & Wealth Management, as well as the results from middle-market lending related to our asset management activities, previously reported in Investment Banking.
•Platform Solutions is a new segment that includes the results from our consumer platforms, such as partnerships offering credit cards and point-of-sale financing, previously reported in Consumer & Wealth Management, and the results from our transaction banking business, previously reported in Investment Banking.
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Global Banking & Markets
Global Banking & Markets serves public and private sector clients and we seek to develop and maintain long-term relationships with a diverse global group of institutional clients, including corporations, governments, states and municipalities. Our goal is to deliver to our institutional clients all of our resources in a seamless fashion, with our advisory and underwriting activities serving as the main initial point of contact. We make markets and facilitate client transactions in fixed income, currency, commodity and equity products and offer market expertise on a global basis. In addition, we make markets in, and clear client transactions on, major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide. Our clients include companies that raise capital and funding to grow and strengthen their businesses, and engage in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, restructurings and spin-offs, as well as companies that are professional market participants, who buy and sell financial products and manage risk, and investment entities whose ultimate clients include individual investors investing for their retirement, buying insurance or saving surplus cash.
As a market maker, we provide prices to clients globally across thousands of products in all major asset classes and markets. At times, we take the other side of transactions ourselves if a buyer or seller is not readily available, and at other times we connect our clients to other parties who want to transact. Our willingness to make markets, commit capital and take risk in a broad range of products is crucial to our client relationships. Market makers provide liquidity and play a critical role in price discovery, which contributes to the overall efficiency of the capital markets. In connection with our market-making activities, we maintain (i) market-making positions, typically for a short period of time, in response to, or in anticipation of, client demand, and (ii) positions to actively manage our risk exposures that arise from these market-making activities (collectively, inventory).
We execute a high volume of transactions for our clients in large, highly liquid markets (such as markets for U.S. Treasury securities, stocks and certain agency mortgage pass-through securities). We also execute transactions for our clients in less liquid markets (such as mid-cap corporate bonds, emerging market currencies and certain non-agency mortgage-backed securities) for spreads and fees that are generally somewhat larger than those charged in more liquid markets. Additionally, we structure and execute transactions involving customized or tailor-made products that address our clients’ risk exposures, investment objectives or other complex needs, as well as derivative transactions related to client advisory and underwriting activities.
Through our global sales force, we maintain relationships with our clients, receiving orders and distributing investment research, trading ideas, market information and analysis. Much of this connectivity between us and our clients is maintained on technology platforms, including Marquee, and operates globally where markets are open for trading. Marquee provides institutional investors with market intelligence, risk analytics, proprietary datasets and trade execution across multiple asset classes.
Our businesses are supported by our Global Investment Research business, which, as of December 2022, provided fundamental research on approximately 3,000 companies worldwide and on approximately 50 national economies, as well as on industries, currencies and commodities.
Our activities are organized by asset class and include both “cash” and “derivative” instruments. “Cash” refers to trading the underlying instrument (such as a stock, bond or barrel of oil). “Derivative” refers to instruments that derive their value from underlying asset prices, indices, reference rates and other inputs, or a combination of these factors (such as an option, which is the right or obligation to buy or sell a certain bond, stock or other asset on a specified date in the future at a certain price, or an interest rate swap, which is the agreement to convert a fixed rate of interest into a floating rate or vice versa).
Global Banking & Markets generates revenues from the following:
Investment banking fees. We provide advisory and underwriting services to our clients.
Investment banking fees includes the following:
•Advisory. We have been a leader for many years in providing advisory services, including strategic advisory assignments with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings and spin-offs. In particular, we help clients execute large, complex transactions for which we provide multiple services, including cross-border structuring expertise. We also assist our clients in managing their asset and liability exposures and their capital.
•Underwriting. We help companies raise capital to fund their businesses. As a financial intermediary, our job is to match the capital of our investing clients, who aim to grow the savings of millions of people, with the needs of our public and private sector clients, who need financing to generate growth, create jobs and deliver products and services. Our underwriting activities include public offerings and private placements of a wide range of securities and other financial instruments, including local and cross-border transactions and acquisition financing. Underwriting consists of the following:
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Equity underwriting. We underwrite common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities and exchangeable securities. We regularly receive mandates for large, complex transactions and have held a leading position in worldwide public common stock offerings and worldwide initial public offerings for many years.
Debt underwriting. We originate and underwrite various types of debt instruments, including investment-grade and high-yield debt, bank and bridge loans, including in connection with acquisition financing, and emerging- and growth-market debt, which may be issued by, among others, corporate, sovereign, municipal and agency issuers. In addition, we underwrite and originate structured securities, which include mortgage-related securities and other asset-backed securities.
FICC. FICC generates revenues from intermediation and financing activities.
•FICC intermediation. Includes client execution activities related to making markets in both cash and derivative instruments, as detailed below.
Interest Rate Products. Government bonds (including inflation-linked securities) across maturities, other government-backed securities, and interest rate swaps, options and other derivatives.
Credit Products. Investment-grade and high-yield corporate securities, credit derivatives, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), bank and bridge loans, municipal securities, distressed debt and trade claims.
Mortgages. Commercial mortgage-related securities, loans and derivatives, residential mortgage-related securities, loans and derivatives (including U.S. government agency-issued collateralized mortgage obligations and other securities and loans), and other asset-backed securities, loans and derivatives.
Currencies. Currency options, spot/forwards and other derivatives on G-10 currencies and emerging-market products.
Commodities. Commodity derivatives and, to a lesser extent, physical commodities, involving crude oil and petroleum products, natural gas, agricultural, base, precious and other metals, electricity, including renewable power, environmental products and other commodity products.
•FICC financing. Includes secured lending to our clients through structured credit and asset-backed lending, including warehouse loans backed by mortgages (including residential and commercial mortgage loans), corporate loans and consumer loans (including auto loans and private student loans). We also provide financing to clients through securities purchased under agreements to resell (resale agreements).
Equities. Equities generates revenues from intermediation and financing activities.
•Equities intermediation. We make markets in equity securities and equity-related products, including ETFs, convertible securities, options, futures and over-the-counter (OTC) derivative instruments. As a principal, we facilitate client transactions by providing liquidity to our clients, including by transacting in large blocks of stocks or derivatives, requiring the commitment of our capital.
We also structure and make markets in derivatives on indices, industry sectors, financial measures and individual company stocks. We develop strategies and provide information about portfolio hedging and restructuring and asset allocation transactions for our clients. We also work with our clients to create specially tailored instruments to enable sophisticated investors to establish or liquidate investment positions or undertake hedging strategies. We are one of the leading participants in the trading and development of equity derivative instruments.
Our exchange-based market-making activities include making markets in stocks and ETFs, futures and options on major exchanges worldwide.
We generate commissions and fees from executing and clearing institutional client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide, as well as OTC transactions. We provide our clients with access to a broad spectrum of equity execution services, including electronic “low-touch” access and more complex “high-touch” execution through both traditional and electronic platforms, including Marquee.
•Equities financing. Includes prime brokerage and other equities financing activities, including securities lending, margin lending and swaps.
We earn fees by providing clearing, settlement and custody services globally. In addition, we provide our hedge fund and other clients with a technology platform and reporting that enables them to monitor their security portfolios and manage risk exposures.
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We provide services that principally involve borrowing and lending securities to cover institutional clients’ short sales and borrowing securities to cover our short sales and to make deliveries into the market. In addition, we are an active participant in broker-to-broker securities lending and third-party agency lending activities.
We provide financing to our clients for their securities trading activities through margin loans that are collateralized by securities, cash or other acceptable collateral. We earn a spread equal to the difference between the amount we pay for funds and the amount we receive from our client.
We execute swap transactions to provide our clients with exposure to securities and indices.
We also provide securities-based loans to individuals.
Other. We lend to corporate clients, including through relationship lending and acquisition financing. The hedges related to this lending and financing activity are also reported as part of Other. Other also includes equity and debt investing activities related to our Global Banking & Markets activities.
Asset & Wealth Management
Asset & Wealth Management provides investment services to help clients preserve and grow their financial assets and achieve their financial goals. We provide these services to our clients, both institutional and individuals, including investors who primarily access our products through a network of third-party distributors around the world.
We manage client assets across a broad range of investment strategies and asset classes, including equity, fixed income and alternative investments. Alternative investments primarily includes hedge funds, credit funds, private equity, real estate, currencies, commodities and asset allocation strategies. Our investment offerings include those managed on a fiduciary basis by our portfolio managers, as well as those managed by third-party managers. We offer our investment solutions in a variety of structures, including separately managed accounts, mutual funds, private partnerships and other commingled vehicles.
We also provide customized investment advisory solutions designed to address our clients’ investment needs. These solutions begin with identifying clients’ objectives and continue through portfolio construction, ongoing asset allocation and risk management and investment realization. We draw from a variety of third-party managers, as well as our proprietary offerings, to implement solutions for clients.
We provide tailored wealth advisory services to clients across the wealth spectrum. We operate globally serving individuals, families, family offices, and foundations and endowments. Our relationships are established directly or introduced through companies that sponsor financial wellness programs for their employees.
We offer personalized financial planning to individuals inclusive of income and liability management, compensation and benefits analysis, trust and estate structuring, tax optimization, philanthropic giving, and asset protection. We also provide customized investment advisory solutions, and offer structuring and execution capabilities in securities and derivative products across all major global markets. We leverage a broad, open-architecture investment platform and our global execution capabilities to help clients achieve their investment goals. In addition, we offer clients a full range of private banking services, including a variety of deposit alternatives and loans that our clients use to finance investments in both financial and nonfinancial assets, bridge cash flow timing gaps or provide liquidity and flexibility for other needs.
In addition to managing client assets, we invest in alternative investments across a range of asset classes that seek to deliver long-term accretive risk-adjusted returns. Our investing activities, which are typically longer-term, include investments in corporate equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure assets.
We also raise deposits and have issued unsecured loans to consumers through Marcus by Goldman Sachs (Marcus). We have started a process to cease offering new loans through Marcus.
Asset & Wealth Management generates revenues from the following:
•Management and other fees. We receive fees related to managing assets for institutional and individual clients, providing investing and wealth advisory solutions, providing financial planning and counseling services via Ayco Personal Financial Management, and executing brokerage transactions for wealth management clients. The fees that we charge vary by asset class, client channel and the types of services provided, and are affected by investment performance, as well as asset inflows and redemptions.
•Incentive fees. In certain circumstances, we also receive incentive fees based on a percentage of a fund’s or a separately managed account's return, or when the return exceeds a specified benchmark or other performance targets. Such fees include overrides, which consist of the increased share of the income and gains derived primarily from our private equity and credit funds when the return on a fund’s investments over the life of the fund exceeds certain threshold returns.
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•Private banking and lending. Our private banking and lending activities include issuing loans to our wealth management clients. Such loans are generally secured by commercial and residential real estate, securities and other assets. We also accept deposits (including savings and time deposits) from wealth management clients, including through Marcus, in GS Bank USA and Goldman Sachs International Bank (GSIB). We have also issued unsecured loans to consumers through Marcus and have started a process to cease offering new loans. Additionally, we provide investing services through Marcus Invest to U.S. customers. Private banking and lending revenues include net interest income allocated to deposits and net interest income earned on loans to individual clients.
•Equity investments. Includes investing activities related to our asset management activities primarily related to public and private equity investments in corporate, real estate and infrastructure assets. We also make investments through consolidated investment entities, substantially all of which are engaged in real estate investment activities.
•Debt investments. Includes lending activities related to our asset management activities, including investing in corporate debt, lending to middle-market clients, and providing financing for real estate and other assets. These activities include investments in mezzanine debt, senior debt and distressed debt securities.
Platform Solutions
Platform Solutions includes our consumer platforms, such as partnerships offering credit cards and point-of-sale financing, and transaction banking and other platform businesses.
Platform Solutions generates revenues from the following:
Consumer platforms. Our Consumer platforms business issues credit cards and provides point-of-sale financing to consumers to finance the purchases of goods or services. Consumer platforms revenues primarily includes net interest income earned on credit card lending and point-of-sale financing activities.
Transaction banking and other. We provide transaction banking and other services, including cash management services, such as deposit-taking and payment solutions for corporate and institutional clients. Transaction banking revenues include net interest income attributed to transaction banking deposits.
Business Continuity and Information Security
Business continuity and information security, including cybersecurity, are high priorities for us. Their importance has been highlighted by (i) the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the work-from-home arrangements implemented by companies worldwide in response, including us, (ii) numerous highly publicized events in recent years, including cyber attacks against financial institutions, governmental agencies, large consumer-based companies, software and information technology service providers and other organizations, some of which have resulted in the unauthorized access to or disclosure of personal information and other sensitive or confidential information, the theft and destruction of corporate information and requests for ransom payments, and (iii) extreme weather events.
Our Business Continuity & Technology Resilience Program has been developed to provide reasonable assurance of business continuity in the event of disruptions at our critical facilities or of our systems, and to comply with regulatory requirements, including those of FINRA. Because we are a BHC, our Business Continuity & Technology Resilience Program is also subject to review by the FRB. The key elements of the program are crisis management, business continuity, technology resilience, business recovery, assurance and verification, and process improvement. In the area of information security, we have developed and implemented a framework of principles, policies and technology designed to protect the information provided to us by our clients and our own information from cyber attacks and other misappropriation, corruption or loss. Safeguards are designed to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
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Human Capital Management
Our people are our greatest asset. We believe that a major strength and principal reason for our success is the quality, dedication, determination and collaboration of our people, which enables us to serve our clients, generate long-term value for our shareholders and contribute to the broader community. We invest heavily in developing and supporting our people throughout their careers, and we strive to maintain a work environment that fosters professionalism, excellence, high standards of business ethics, diversity, teamwork and cooperation among our employees worldwide.
Diversity and Inclusion
The strength of our culture, our ability to execute our strategy, and our relationships with clients all depend on a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment that encourages a wide range of perspectives. We believe that diversity at all levels of our organization, from entry-level analysts to senior management, as well as the Board of Directors of Group Inc. (Board) is essential to our sustainability. As of December 2022, approximately 57% of our Board was diverse by race, gender or sexual orientation. Our management team works closely with our Global Inclusion and Diversity Committee to continue to increase diversity of our global workforce at all levels. In addition, we have Inclusion and Diversity Committees across regions, which promote an environment that values different perspectives, challenges conventional thinking and maximizes the potential of all our people.
We believe that increased diversity, including diversity of experience, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and veteran status, in addition to being a social imperative, is vital to our commercial success through the creativity that it fosters. For this reason, we have established a comprehensive action plan with aspirational diversity hiring and representation goals which are set forth below and are focused on cultivating an inclusive environment for all our colleagues.
Diverse leadership is crucial to our long-term success and to driving innovation, and we have implemented and expanded outreach and career advancement programs for rising diverse executive talent. For example, we are focused on providing diverse vice presidents the necessary coaching, sponsorship and advocacy to support their career trajectories and strengthen their leadership platforms, including through programs, such as our Vice President Sponsorship Initiative focused on high-performing women, Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian and LGBTQ+ vice presidents across the globe. Many other career development initiatives are aimed at fostering diverse talent at the analyst and associate level, including the Black Analyst and Associate Initiative, the Hispanic/Latinx Analyst Initiative and the Women’s Career Strategies Initiative. Our global and regional Inclusion Networks and Interest Forums are open to all professionals at Goldman Sachs to promote and advance connectivity, understanding, inclusion and diversity.
Progress Toward Aspirational Goals. Reflecting our efforts to increase diversity, the composition of our most recent partnership class was 29% women professionals, 24% Asian professionals, 9% Black professionals, 3% Hispanic/Latinx professionals, 3% LGBTQ+ professionals and 3% professionals who are military/veterans. The composition of our most recent managing director class was 30% women professionals, 28% Asian professionals, 5% Black professionals, 5% Hispanic/Latinx professionals, 3% LGBTQ+ professionals and 3% professionals who are military/veterans.
We have also set forth the following aspirational goals:
•We aim for analyst and associate hiring (which accounts for over 70% of our annual hiring) to achieve representation of 50% women professionals, 11% Black professionals and 14% Hispanic/Latinx professionals in the Americas, and 9% Black professionals in the U.K. In 2022, our analyst and associate hires included 44% women professionals, 10% Black professionals and 13% Hispanic/Latinx professionals in the Americas, and 17% Black professionals in the U.K.
•We aim for women professionals to represent 40% of our vice presidents globally by 2025 and 30% of senior talent (vice presidents and above) in the U.K. by 2023, while also endeavoring for women employees to comprise 50% of all of our employees globally over time. As of December 2022, women professionals represented 33% of our vice president population globally and 31% of senior talent (vice presidents and above) in the U.K., and women employees represented 41% of all of our employees globally.
•We aim for Black professionals to represent 7% of our vice president population in the Americas and in the U.K., and for Hispanic/Latinx professionals to represent 9% of our vice president population in the Americas, both by 2025. As of December 2022, Black professionals represented 4% of our vice president population in the Americas and 5% in the U.K., and Hispanic/Latinx professionals represented 6% of our vice president population in the Americas.
•We aim to double the number of campus hires in the U.S. recruited from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by 2025 relative to 2020.
The metrics above are based on self-identification.
Talent Development and Retention
We seek to help our people achieve their full potential by investing in them and supporting a culture of continuous development. Our goals are to maximize individual capabilities, increase commercial effectiveness and innovation, reinforce our culture, expand professional opportunities, and help our people contribute positively to their communities.
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Instilling our culture in all employees is a continuous process, in which training plays an important part. We offer our employees the opportunity to participate in ongoing educational offerings and periodic seminars facilitated by our Learning & Engagement team. To accelerate their integration into the firm and our culture, new hires have the opportunity to receive training before they start working and orientation programs with an emphasis on culture and networking, and nearly all employees participate in at least one training event each year. For our more senior employees, we provide guidance and training on how to manage people and projects effectively, exhibit strong leadership and exemplify our culture. We are also focused on developing a high performing, diverse leadership pipeline and career planning for our next generation of leaders. We maintain a variety of programs aimed at employees’ professional growth and leadership development, including initiatives, such as our Vice President and Managing Director Leadership Acceleration Initiatives and Partner Development Initiative.
Enhancing our people’s experience of internal mobility is a key focus, as we believe that this will inspire employees, help retain top talent and create diverse experiences to build future leaders.
Another important part of instilling our culture is our employee performance review process. Employees are reviewed by supervisors, co-workers and employees whom they supervise in a 360-degree review process that is integral to our team approach and includes an evaluation of an employee’s performance with respect to risk management, protecting our reputation, adherence to our code of conduct, compliance, and diversity and inclusion principles. Our approach to evaluating employee performance centers on providing robust, timely and actionable feedback that facilitates professional development. We have directed our managers, as leaders at the firm, to take an active coaching role with their teams. We have also implemented “The Three Conversations at GS” through which managers establish goals with their team members at the start of the year, check in mid-year on progress and then close out the year with a conversation on performance against goals.
We believe that our people value opportunities to contribute to their communities and that these opportunities enhance their job satisfaction. We also believe that being able to volunteer together with colleagues and support community organizations through completing local service projects strengthens our people’s bond with us. Community TeamWorks, our signature volunteering initiative, enables our people to participate in high-impact, team-based volunteer opportunities, including projects coordinated with hundreds of nonprofit partner organizations worldwide. During 2022, our people volunteered approximately 86,000 hours of service globally through Community TeamWorks, with approximately 17,000 employees partnering with approximately 500 nonprofit organizations on approximately 1,200 community projects.
Wellness
We recognize that for our people to be successful in the workplace they need support in their personal, as well as their professional, lives. We have created a strong support framework for wellness, which is intended to enable employees to better balance their roles at work and their responsibilities at home. We provide a number of policies for our employees that support taking time away from the office when needed, including 20 weeks of parental leave, family care leave and bereavement leave. In 2022, we also enhanced our vacation policies for our employees, allowing managing directors to take time off, when needed, without a fixed vacation day entitlement and adding a minimum of two additional vacation days for all other employees, as well as setting a minimum annual expected vacation usage of 15 days. For longer-tenured employees, we offer an unpaid sabbatical leave. We also continue to advance our resilience programs, offering our people a range of counseling, coaching, medical advisory and personal wellness services. We increased the availability of these resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, and continued to evolve and strengthen virtual offerings to enhance access to support, with the aim of maintaining the physical and mental well-being of our people, and enhancing their effectiveness and productivity.
In addition, to support the financial wellness of our employees, we offer a variety of resources that help them manage their personal financial health and decision-making, including financial education information sessions, live and on-demand webinars, articles and interactive digital tools.
Global Reach and Strategic Locations
As a firm with a global client base, we take a strategic approach to attracting, developing and managing a global workforce. Our clients are located worldwide and we are an active participant in financial markets around the world. As of December 2022, we had headcount of 48,500, offices in over 35 countries and 52% of our headcount was based in the Americas, 19% in EMEA and 29% in Asia. Our employees come from over 180 countries and speak more than 150 languages as of December 2022.
In addition to maintaining offices in major financial centers around the world, we have established key strategic locations, including in Bengaluru, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Singapore, Warsaw and Hyderabad. We continue to evaluate the expanded use of strategic locations, including cities in which we do not currently have a presence.
As of December 2022, 41% of our employees were working in strategic locations. We believe our investment in these strategic locations enables us to build centers of excellence around specific capabilities that support our business initiatives.
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Sustainability
We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability. Our two priorities in this area are helping clients across industries decarbonize their businesses to support their transition to a low-carbon economy (Climate Transition) and to advance solutions that expand access, increase affordability, and drive outcomes to support sustainable economic growth (Inclusive Growth). Our strategy is to advance these two priorities through our work with our clients, and with strategic partners whose strengths and areas of focus complement our own, as well as through our supply chain.
We have established a Sustainable Finance Group, which serves as the centralized group that drives climate strategy and sustainability efforts across our firm, including commercial efforts alongside our businesses, to advance Climate Transition and Inclusive Growth. We have also created the role of Global Head of Sustainability and Inclusive Growth, which, like our One Goldman Sachs initiative, is intended to facilitate the application of our full capabilities across both Climate Transition and Inclusive Growth. Our sustainable finance-related efforts continue to evolve. For example, we recently launched the Sustainable Banking Group, a group focused on supporting our corporate clients in reducing their direct and indirect carbon emissions.
Our activities relating to sustainability present both financial and nonfinancial risks, and we have processes for managing these risks, similar to the other risks we face. We have integrated oversight of climate-related risks into our risk management governance structure, from senior management to our Board and its committees, including the Risk and Public Responsibilities committees. The Risk Committee of the Board oversees firmwide financial and nonfinancial risks, which include climate risk, and, as part of its oversight, receives updates on our risk management approach to climate risk. The Public Responsibilities Committee of the Board assists the Board in its oversight of our firmwide sustainability strategy and sustainability risks affecting us, including with respect to climate change. As part of its oversight, the Public Responsibilities Committee receives periodic updates on our sustainability strategy, and also periodically reviews our governance and related policies and processes for sustainability and climate change-related risks. We have also implemented an Environmental Policy Framework to guide our overall approach to sustainability issues. We apply this Framework when evaluating transactions for environmental and social risks and impacts. Our employees also receive training with respect to environmental and social risks, including for sectors and industries that we believe have higher potential for these risks. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Risk Management - Other Risk Management - Climate Risk Management” in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K for further information about our climate risk management.
As a leading financial institution, we acknowledge the importance of Climate Transition and Inclusive Growth for our business. In February 2021, we issued our inaugural sustainability bond of $800 million, and in June 2022 we issued our second benchmark sustainability bond of $700 million. These issuances align with our sustainable finance framework for future issuances and fund a range of on-balance sheet sustainable finance activity. We believe we can advance sustainability by partnering with our clients across our businesses, including by developing new sustainability-linked financing solutions, offering strategic advice, or coinvesting alongside our clients in clean energy companies. We have announced a target to deploy $750 billion in sustainable financing, investing and advisory activity by the beginning of 2030. As of December 2022, we achieved approximately 55% of that goal, with the majority dedicated to Climate Transition.
With respect to Climate Transition, we have announced our commitment to align our financing activities with a net-zero-by-2050 pathway. In that context, we have set an initial set of targets for 2030 focused on three sectors - power, oil and gas, and auto manufacturing - where we see an opportunity to proactively engage our clients and investors, deploy capital required for transition, and invest in new commercial solutions to drive decarbonization in the real economy. Carbon neutrality is also a priority for the operation of our firm and our supply chain. In 2015, we achieved carbon neutrality in our operations and business travel, ahead of our 2020 goal announced in 2009. We have expanded our operational carbon commitment to include our supply chain, targeting net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.
In addition to Climate Transition, our approach to sustainability also centers on Inclusive Growth where we seek to drive solutions that expand access, increase affordability, and drive outcomes to advance sustainable economic growth. We have sponsored initiatives, such as One Million Black Women, Launch With GS, the Urban Investment Group, 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses. An overarching theme of our sustainability strategy is promoting diversity and inclusion as an imperative for us, as well as for our clients and their boards. These efforts are further strengthened by strategic partnerships that we have established in areas where we have identified gaps or believe we are able to drive even greater impact through collaboration. We believe our ability to achieve our sustainability objectives is critically dependent on the strengths and talents of our people, and we recognize that our people are able to maximize their impact by collaborating in a diverse and inclusive work environment. See “Business - Human Capital Management” for information about our human capital management goals, programs and policies.
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Competition
The financial services industry and all of our businesses are intensely competitive, and we expect them to remain so. Our competitors provide investment banking, market-making and asset management services, private banking and lending, commercial lending, point-of-sale financing, credit cards, transaction banking, deposit-taking and other banking products and services, and make investments in securities, commodities, derivatives, real estate, loans and other financial assets. Our competitors include brokers and dealers, investment banking firms, commercial banks, credit card issuers, insurance companies, investment advisers, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, merchant banks, consumer finance companies and financial technology and other internet-based companies. Some of our competitors operate globally and others regionally, and we compete based on a number of factors, including transaction execution, client experience, products and services, innovation, reputation and price.
We have faced, and expect to continue to face, pressure to retain market share by committing capital to businesses or transactions on terms that offer returns that may not be commensurate with their risks. In particular, corporate clients seek such commitments (such as agreements to participate in their loan facilities) from financial services firms in connection with investment banking and other assignments.
Consolidation and convergence have significantly increased the capital base and geographic reach of some of our competitors and have also hastened the globalization of the securities and other financial services markets. As a result, we have had to commit capital to support our international operations and to execute large global transactions. To capitalize on some of our most significant opportunities, we will have to compete successfully with financial institutions that are larger and have more capital and that may have a stronger local presence and longer operating history outside the U.S.
We also compete with smaller institutions that offer more targeted services, such as independent advisory firms. Some clients may perceive these firms to be less susceptible to potential conflicts of interest than we are, and, as described below, our ability to effectively compete with them could be affected by regulations and limitations on activities that apply to us but may not apply to them.
A number of our businesses are subject to intense price competition. Efforts by our competitors to gain market share have resulted in pricing pressure in our investment banking, market-making, consumer, wealth management and asset management businesses. For example, the increasing volume of trades executed electronically, through the internet and through alternative trading systems, has increased the pressure on trading commissions, in that commissions for electronic trading are generally lower than those for non-electronic trading. It appears that this trend toward low-commission trading will continue. Price competition has also led to compression in the difference between the price at which a market participant is willing to sell an instrument and the price at which another market participant is willing to buy it (i.e., bid/offer spread), which has affected our market-making businesses. The increasing prevalence of passive investment strategies that typically have lower fees than other strategies we offer has affected the competitive and pricing dynamics for our asset management products and services. In addition, we believe that we will continue to experience competitive pressures in these and other areas in the future as some of our competitors seek to obtain market share by further reducing prices, and as we enter into or expand our presence in markets that rely more heavily on electronic trading and execution. We and other banks also compete for deposits on the basis of the rates we offer. Increases in short-term interest rates have resulted in and are expected to continue to result in more intense competition in deposit pricing.
We also compete on the basis of the types of financial products and client experiences that we and our competitors offer. In some circumstances, our competitors may offer financial products that we do not offer and that our clients may prefer, including cryptocurrencies and other digital assets that we cannot or may choose not to provide. Our competitors may also develop technology platforms that provide a better client experience.
The provisions of the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), the requirements promulgated by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) and other financial regulations could affect our competitive position to the extent that limitations on activities, increased fees and compliance costs or other regulatory requirements do not apply, or do not apply equally, to all of our competitors or are not implemented uniformly across different jurisdictions. For example, the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that prohibit proprietary trading and restrict investments in certain hedge and private equity funds differentiate between U.S.-based and non-U.S.-based banking organizations and give non-U.S.-based banking organizations greater flexibility to trade outside of the U.S. and to form and invest in funds outside the U.S.
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Likewise, the obligations with respect to derivative transactions under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act depend, in part, on the location of the counterparties to the transaction. The impact of regulatory developments on our competitive position has depended and will continue to depend to a large extent on the manner in which the required rulemaking and regulatory guidance evolve, the extent of international convergence, and the development of market practice and structures under the evolving regulatory regimes, as described further in “Regulation” below.
We also face intense competition in attracting and retaining qualified employees. Our ability to continue to compete effectively has depended and will continue to depend upon our ability to attract new employees, retain and motivate our existing employees and to continue to compensate employees competitively amid intense public and regulatory scrutiny on the compensation practices of large financial institutions. Our pay practices and those of certain of our competitors are subject to review by, and the standards of, the FRB and other regulators inside and outside the U.S., including the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the U.K. We also compete for employees with institutions whose pay practices are not subject to regulatory oversight. See “Regulation - Compensation Practices” and “Risk Factors - Competition - Our businesses would be adversely affected if we are unable to hire and retain qualified employees” in Part I,

Item 1A. Risk Factors
Item 1A. Risk Factors
We face a variety of risks that are substantial and inherent in our businesses.
The following is a summary of some of the more important factors that could affect our businesses:
Market
•Our businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by conditions in the global financial markets and broader economic conditions.
•Our businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by declining asset values, particularly where we have net “long” positions, receive fees based on the value of assets managed, or receive or post collateral.
•Our market-making activities have been and may in the future be affected by changes in the levels of market volatility.
•Our investment banking, client intermediation, asset management and wealth management businesses have been adversely affected and may in the future be adversely affected by market uncertainty or lack of confidence among investors and CEOs due to declines in economic activity and other unfavorable economic, geopolitical or market conditions.
•Our asset management and wealth management businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by the poor investment performance of our investment products or a client preference for products other than those which we offer or for products that generate lower fees.
•Inflation has had, and could continue to have, a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Liquidity
•Our liquidity, profitability and businesses may be adversely affected by an inability to access the debt capital markets or to sell assets.
•Our businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by disruptions or lack of liquidity in the credit markets, including reduced access to credit and higher costs of obtaining credit.
•Reductions in our credit ratings or an increase in our credit spreads may adversely affect our liquidity and cost of funding.
•Group Inc. is a holding company and its liquidity depends on payments and loans from its subsidiaries, many of which are subject to legal, regulatory and other restrictions on providing funds or assets to Group Inc.
Credit
•Our businesses, profitability and liquidity may be adversely affected by deterioration in the credit quality of or defaults by third parties.
•Concentration of risk increases the potential for significant losses in our market-making, underwriting, investing and financing activities.
•Derivative transactions and delayed documentation or settlements may expose us to credit risk, unexpected risks and potential losses.
Operational
•A failure in our operational systems or human error, malfeasance or other misconduct, could impair our liquidity, disrupt our businesses, result in the disclosure of confidential information, damage our reputation and cause losses.
•A failure or disruption in our infrastructure, or in the operational systems or infrastructure of third parties, could impair our liquidity, disrupt our businesses, damage our reputation and cause losses.
•A failure to protect our computer systems, networks and information, and our clients’ information, against cyber attacks and similar threats could impair our ability to conduct our businesses, result in the disclosure, theft or destruction of confidential information, damage our reputation and cause losses.
•We may incur losses as a result of ineffective risk management processes and strategies.
Legal and Regulatory
•Our businesses and those of our clients are subject to extensive and pervasive regulation around the world.
•A failure to appropriately identify and address potential conflicts of interest could adversely affect our businesses.
•We may be adversely affected by increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny or negative publicity.
•Substantial civil or criminal liability or significant regulatory action against us could have material adverse financial effects or cause us significant reputational harm, which in turn could seriously harm our business prospects.
•In conducting our businesses around the world, we are subject to political, legal, regulatory and other risks that are inherent in operating in many countries.
•The application of regulatory strategies and requirements in the U.S. and non-U.S. jurisdictions to facilitate the orderly resolution of large financial institutions could create greater risk of loss for Group Inc.’s security holders.
•The application of Group Inc.’s proposed resolution strategy could result in greater losses for Group Inc.’s security holders.
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•Our commodities activities, particularly our physical commodities activities, subject us to extensive regulation and involve certain potential risks, including environmental, reputational and other risks that may expose us to significant liabilities and costs.
Competition
•Our results have been and may in the future be adversely affected by the composition of our client base.
•The financial services industry is highly competitive.
•The growth of electronic trading and the introduction of new products and technologies, including trading and distributed ledger technologies, including cryptocurrencies, has increased competition.
•Our businesses would be adversely affected if we are unable to hire and retain qualified employees.
Market Developments and General Business Environment
•Our businesses, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations have been and may in the future be adversely affected by unforeseen or catastrophic events, including pandemics, terrorist attacks, extreme weather events or other natural disasters.
•Climate change could disrupt our businesses and adversely affect client activity levels and the creditworthiness of our clients and counterparties, and our efforts to address concerns relating to climate change could result in damage to our reputation.
•Our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations may be adversely affected by disruptions in the global economy caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions and other developments.
•Certain of our businesses, our funding instruments and financial products may be adversely affected by changes in or the discontinuance of Interbank Offered Rates (IBORs), in particular USD LIBOR.
•Certain of our businesses and our funding instruments may be adversely affected by changes in other reference rates, currencies, indexes, baskets or ETFs to which products we offer or funding that we raise are linked.
•Our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations may be adversely affected by disruptions in the global economy caused by escalating tensions between the U.S. and China.
•We face enhanced risks as new business initiatives and acquisitions lead us to engage in new activities, operate in new locations, transact with a broader array of clients and counterparties and expose us to new asset classes and markets.
•We may not be able to fully realize the expected benefits or synergies from acquisitions or other business initiatives in the time frames we expect, or at all.
The following are detailed descriptions of our Risk Factors summarized above:
Market
Our businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by conditions in the global financial markets and broader economic conditions.
Many of our businesses, by their nature, do not produce predictable earnings, and all of our businesses are materially affected by conditions in the global financial markets and economic conditions generally, both directly and through their impact on client activity levels and creditworthiness. These conditions can change suddenly and negatively.
Our financial performance is highly dependent on the environment in which our businesses operate. A favorable business environment is generally characterized by, among other factors, high global gross domestic product growth, regulatory and market conditions that result in transparent, liquid and efficient capital markets, low inflation, business, consumer and investor confidence, stable geopolitical conditions and strong business earnings.
Unfavorable or uncertain economic and market conditions can be caused by: low levels of or declines in economic growth, business activity or investor, business or consumer confidence; concerns over a potential recession; changes in consumer spending or borrowing patterns; pandemics; limitations on the availability or increases in the cost of credit and capital; illiquid markets; increases in inflation, interest rates, exchange rate or basic commodity price volatility or default rates; high levels of inflation or stagflation; concerns about sovereign defaults; uncertainty concerning fiscal or monetary policy, government shutdowns, debt ceilings or funding; the extent of and uncertainty about potential increases in tax rates and other regulatory changes; limitations on international trade and travel; laws and regulations that limit trading in, or the issuance of, securities of issuers outside their domestic markets; outbreaks of domestic or international tensions or hostilities, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, cybersecurity threats or attacks and other forms of disruption to or curtailment of global communication, energy transmission or transportation networks or other geopolitical instability or uncertainty; corporate, political or other scandals that reduce investor confidence in capital markets; extreme weather events or other natural disasters; or a combination of these or other factors.
The financial services industry and the securities and other financial markets have been materially and adversely affected in the past by significant declines in the values of nearly all asset classes, by a serious lack of liquidity and by high levels of borrower defaults. In addition, concerns about actual or potential increases in interest rates, inflation and other borrowing costs, a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, European sovereign debt risk and its impact on the European banking system, and limitations on international trade, have, at times, negatively impacted the levels of client activity.
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General uncertainty about economic, political and market activities, and the scope, timing and impact of regulatory reform, as well as weak consumer, investor and CEO confidence resulting in large part from such uncertainty, has in the past negatively impacted client activity, which can adversely affect many of our businesses. Periods of low volatility and periods of high volatility combined with a lack of liquidity, have at times had an unfavorable impact on our market-making businesses.
Changes, or proposed changes, to U.S. international trade and investment policies, particularly with important trading partners, have in recent years negatively impacted financial markets. Continued or escalating tensions may result in further actions taken by the U.S. or other countries that could disrupt international trade and investment and adversely affect financial markets. Those actions could include, among others, the implementation of sanctions, tariffs or foreign exchange measures, the large-scale sale of U.S. Treasury securities or other restrictions on cross-border trade, investment, or transfer of information or technology. Any such developments could adversely affect our or our clients’ businesses.
Financial institution returns may be negatively impacted by increased funding costs due in part to the lack of perceived government support of such institutions in the event of future financial crises relative to financial institutions in countries in which governmental support is maintained. In addition, liquidity in the financial markets has in the past been, and could in the future be, negatively impacted as market participants and market practices and structures adjust to evolving regulatory frameworks.
In January 2023, the outstanding debt of the U.S. reached its statutory limit and the U.S. Treasury Department commenced taking extraordinary measures to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its obligations. If Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the U.S. could default on its obligations, including Treasury securities that play an integral role in financial markets. A default by the U.S. could result in unprecedented market volatility and illiquidity, heightened operational risks relating to the clearance and settlement of transactions, margin and other disputes with clients and counterparties, an adverse impact to investors including money market funds that invest in U.S. Treasuries, downgrades in the U.S. credit rating, further increases in interest rates and borrowing costs and a recession in the U.S. or other economies. Even if the U.S. does not default, continued uncertainty relating to the debt ceiling could result in downgrades of the U.S. credit rating, which could adversely affect market conditions, lead to margin disputes, further increases in interest rates and borrowing costs and necessitate significant operational changes among market participants, including us. A downgrade of the federal government’s credit rating could also materially and adversely affect the market for repurchase agreements, securities borrowing and lending, and other financings typically collateralized by U.S. Treasury or agency obligations. Further, the fair value, liquidity and credit ratings of securities issued by, or other obligations of, agencies of the U.S. government or related to the U.S. government or its agencies, as well as municipal bonds could be similarly adversely affected.
Our businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by declining asset values, particularly where we have net “long” positions, receive fees based on the value of assets managed, or receive or post collateral.
Many of our businesses have net “long” positions in debt securities, loans, derivatives, mortgages, equities (including private equity and real estate) and most other asset classes. These include positions we take when we act as a principal to facilitate our clients’ activities, including our exchange-based market-making activities, or commit large amounts of capital to maintain positions in interest rate and credit products, as well as through our currencies, commodities, equities and mortgage-related activities. In addition, we invest in similar asset classes. Substantially all of our investing and market-making positions and a portion of our loans are marked-to-market on a daily or other periodic basis and declines in asset values directly and promptly impact our earnings, unless we have effectively “hedged” our exposures to those declines.
In certain circumstances (particularly in the case of credit products, including leveraged loans, and private equities or other securities that are not freely tradable or lack established and liquid trading markets), it may not be possible or economic to hedge our exposures and to the extent that we do so the hedge may be ineffective or may greatly reduce our ability to profit from increases in the values of the assets. Sudden declines and significant volatility in the prices of assets have in the past substantially curtailed or eliminated, and may in the future substantially curtail or eliminate, the trading markets for certain assets, which may make it difficult to sell, hedge or value such assets. We may incur losses from time to time as trading markets deteriorate or cease to function, including with respect to loan commitments we have made or securities offerings we have underwritten. The inability to sell or effectively hedge assets reduces our ability to limit losses in such positions and the difficulty in valuing assets has in the past negatively affected, and may in the future negatively affect, our capital, liquidity or leverage ratios, our funding costs and our ability to deploy capital.
In our exchange-based market-making activities, we are obligated by stock exchange rules to maintain an orderly market, including by purchasing securities in a declining market. In markets where asset values are declining and in volatile markets, this results in losses and an increased need for liquidity.
We receive asset-based management fees based on the value of our clients’ portfolios or investment in funds managed by us and, in some cases, we also receive incentive fees based on increases in the value of such investments. Declines in asset values would ordinarily reduce the value of our clients’ portfolios or fund assets, which in turn would typically reduce the fees we earn for managing such assets.
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We post collateral to support our obligations and receive collateral that supports the obligations of our clients and counterparties. When the value of the assets posted as collateral or the credit ratings of the party posting collateral decline, the party posting the collateral may need to provide additional collateral or, if possible, reduce its trading position. An example of such a situation is a “margin call” in connection with a brokerage account. Therefore, declines in the value of asset classes used as collateral mean that either the cost of funding positions is increased or the size of positions is decreased. If we are the party providing collateral, this can increase our costs and reduce our profitability and if we are the party receiving collateral, this can also reduce our profitability by reducing the level of business done with our clients and counterparties.
In addition, volatile or less liquid markets increase the difficulty of valuing assets, which can lead to costly and time-consuming disputes over asset values and the level of required collateral, as well as increased credit risk to the recipient of the collateral due to delays in receiving adequate collateral. In cases where we foreclose on collateral, sudden declines in the value or liquidity of the collateral have in the past resulted in and may in the future, despite credit monitoring, over-collateralization, the ability to call for additional collateral or the ability to force repayment of the underlying obligation, result in significant losses to us, especially where there is a single type of collateral supporting the obligation. In addition, we have been and may in the future be subject to claims that the foreclosure was not permitted under the legal documents, was conducted in an improper manner, including in violation of law, or caused a client or counterparty to go out of business.
Our market-making activities have been and may in the future be affected by changes in the levels of market volatility.
Certain of our market-making activities depend on market volatility to provide trading and arbitrage opportunities to our clients, and decreases in volatility have reduced and may in the future reduce these opportunities and the level of client activity associated with them and adversely affect the results of these activities. Increased volatility, while it can increase trading volumes and spreads, also increases risk as measured by Value-at-Risk (VaR) and may expose us to increased risks in connection with our market-making activities or may cause us to reduce our inventory in order to avoid increasing our VaR. Limiting the size of our market-making positions can adversely affect our profitability. In periods when volatility is increasing, but asset values are declining significantly, it may not be possible to sell assets at all or it may only be possible to do so at steep discounts. In those circumstances, we have been and may in the future be forced to either take on additional risk or to realize losses in order to decrease our VaR. In addition, increases in volatility increase the level of our RWAs, which increases our capital requirements.
Our investment banking, client intermediation, asset management and wealth management businesses have been adversely affected and may in the future be adversely affected by market uncertainty or lack of confidence among investors and CEOs due to declines in economic activity and other unfavorable economic, geopolitical or market conditions.
Our investment banking business has been and may in the future be adversely affected by market conditions. Poor economic conditions and other uncertain geopolitical conditions may adversely affect and have in the past adversely affected investor and CEO confidence, resulting in significant industry-wide declines in the size and number of underwritings and of advisory transactions, which would likely have an adverse effect on our revenues and our profit margins. In particular, because a significant portion of our investment banking revenues is derived from our participation in large transactions, a decline in the number of large transactions has in the past and would in the future adversely affect our investment banking business. Similarly, in recent years, cross-border initial public offerings and other securities offerings have accounted for a significant proportion of new issuance activity. Legislative, regulatory or other changes that limit trading in, or the issuance of, securities outside the issuers’ domestic markets, that result in or could result in the delisting or removal of securities from exchanges or indices, have in the past adversely affected and would in the future adversely affect our underwriting and client intermediation businesses. Furthermore, changes, or proposed changes, to international trade and investment policies of the U.S. and other countries could negatively affect market activity levels and our revenues.
In certain circumstances, market uncertainty or general declines in market or economic activity may adversely affect our client intermediation businesses by decreasing levels of overall activity or by decreasing volatility, but at other times market uncertainty and even declining economic activity may result in higher trading volumes or higher spreads or both.
Market uncertainty, volatility and adverse economic conditions, as well as declines in asset values, may cause our clients to transfer their assets out of our funds or other products or their brokerage accounts and result in reduced net revenues, principally in our asset management and wealth management businesses. Even if clients do not withdraw their funds, they may invest them in products that generate less fee income.
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Our asset management and wealth management businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by the poor investment performance of our investment products or a client preference for products other than those which we offer or for products that generate lower fees.
Poor investment returns in our asset management and wealth management businesses, due to either general market conditions or underperformance (relative to our competitors or to benchmarks) by funds or accounts that we manage or investment products that we design or sell, affect our ability to retain existing assets and to attract new clients or additional assets from existing clients. This could affect the management and incentive fees that we earn on AUS or the commissions and net spreads that we earn for selling other investment products, such as structured notes or derivatives. To the extent that our clients choose to invest in products that we do not currently offer, we will suffer outflows and a loss of management fees. Further, if, due to changes in investor sentiment or the relative performance of certain asset classes or otherwise, clients continue to invest in products that generate lower fees (e.g., passively managed or fixed income products), our average effective management fee would continue to decline and our asset management and wealth management businesses could be adversely affected.
Inflation has had, and could continue to have, a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Inflationary pressures have affected economies, financial markets and market participants worldwide. Inflationary pressures have increased certain of our operating expenses, and have adversely affected consumer sentiment and CEO confidence. Central bank responses to inflationary pressures have also resulted in higher market interest rates, which, in turn, have contributed to lower activity levels across financial markets, in particular for debt underwriting transactions and mortgage originations, and resulted in lower values for certain financial assets which have adversely affected our equity and debt investments. Higher interest rates increase our borrowing costs and have required us to increase interest paid on our deposits. If inflationary pressures persist, our expenses may increase further; we may be unable to achieve our efficiency ratio target; activity levels for certain of our businesses, in particular debt underwriting and mortgages, may remain at low levels or decline further; our interest expense could increase faster than our interest income, reducing our net interest income and net interest margin; certain of our investments could continue to incur losses or generally low levels of returns; AUS could decline, reducing management and other fees; economies worldwide could experience recessions; and we could continue to operate in a generally unfavorable economic and market environment.
Liquidity
Our liquidity, profitability and businesses may be adversely affected by an inability to access the debt capital markets or to sell assets.
Liquidity is essential to our businesses. It is of critical importance to us, as most of the failures of financial institutions have occurred in large part due to insufficient liquidity. Our liquidity may be impaired by an inability to access secured and/or unsecured debt markets, an inability to raise or retain deposits, an inability to access funds from our subsidiaries or otherwise allocate liquidity optimally, an inability to sell assets or redeem our investments, lack of timely settlement of transactions, unusual deposit outflows, or other unforeseen outflows of cash or collateral, such as in March 2020, when corporate clients drew on revolving credit facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation may arise due to circumstances that we may be unable to control, such as a general market or economic disruption or an operational problem that affects third parties or us, or even by the perception among market participants that we, or other market participants, are experiencing greater liquidity risk.
We employ structured products to benefit our clients and hedge our own risks. The financial instruments that we hold and the contracts to which we are a party are often complex, and these complex structured products often do not have readily available markets to access in times of liquidity stress. Our investing and financing activities may lead to situations where the holdings from these activities represent a significant portion of specific markets, which could restrict liquidity for our positions.
Further, our ability to sell assets may be impaired if there is not generally a liquid market for such assets, as well as in circumstances where other market participants are seeking to sell similar otherwise generally liquid assets at the same time, as is likely to occur in a liquidity or other market crisis or in response to changes to rules or regulations. For example, in 2021, an investment management firm with large positions with several financial institutions defaulted, resulting in rapidly declining prices in the securities underlying those positions. In addition, clearinghouses, exchanges and other financial institutions with which we interact may exercise set-off rights or the right to require additional collateral, including in difficult market conditions, which could further impair our liquidity.
Numerous regulations have been adopted that impose more stringent liquidity requirements on large financial institutions, including us. These regulations require us to hold large amounts of highly liquid assets and reduce our flexibility to source and deploy funding. In addition, our need to manage our operations in light of certain regulatory requirements when applicable thresholds are met has in the past limited and may in the future limit our ability to raise deposits in GSIB or other funding, which could adversely affect our liquidity or ability to respond efficiently to liquidity stress.
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Our businesses have been and may in the future be adversely affected by disruptions or lack of liquidity in the credit markets, including reduced access to credit and higher costs of obtaining credit.
Widening credit spreads, as well as significant declines in the availability of credit, have in the past adversely affected our ability to borrow on a secured and unsecured basis and may do so in the future. We fund ourselves on an unsecured basis by issuing long-term debt and commercial paper, by raising deposits at our bank subsidiaries, by issuing hybrid financial instruments and by obtaining loans or lines of credit from commercial or other banking entities. We seek to finance many of our assets on a secured basis. Any disruptions in the credit markets may make it harder and more expensive to obtain funding for our businesses. If our available funding is limited or we are forced to fund our operations at a higher cost, these conditions may require us to curtail our business activities and increase our cost of funding, both of which could reduce our profitability, particularly in our businesses that involve investing, lending and market making.
Our clients engaging in mergers, acquisitions and other types of strategic transactions often rely on access to the secured and unsecured credit markets to finance their transactions. A lack of available credit or an increased cost of credit can adversely affect the size, volume and timing of our clients’ merger and acquisition transactions, particularly large transactions, and adversely affect our advisory and underwriting businesses.
Our credit businesses have been and may in the future be negatively affected by a lack of liquidity in credit markets. A lack of liquidity reduces price transparency, increases price volatility and decreases transaction volumes and size, all of which can increase transaction risk or decrease the profitability of these businesses.
Reductions in our credit ratings or an increase in our credit spreads may adversely affect our liquidity and cost of funding.
Our credit ratings are important to our liquidity. A reduction in our credit ratings could adversely affect our liquidity and competitive position, increase our borrowing costs, limit our access to the capital markets or trigger our obligations under certain provisions in some of our trading and collateralized financing contracts. Under these provisions, counterparties could be permitted to terminate contracts with us or require us to post additional collateral. Termination of our trading and collateralized financing contracts could cause us to sustain losses and impair our liquidity by requiring us to find other sources of financing or to make significant cash payments or securities movements.
As of December 2022, our counterparties could have called for additional collateral or termination payments related to our net derivative liabilities under bilateral agreements in an aggregate amount of $343 million in the event of a one-notch downgrade of our credit ratings and $1.12 billion in the event of a two-notch downgrade of our credit ratings. A downgrade by any one rating agency, depending on the agency’s relative ratings of us at the time of the downgrade, may have an impact which is comparable to the impact of a downgrade by all rating agencies. For further information about our credit ratings, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Risk Management - Liquidity Risk Management - Credit Ratings” in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K.
Our cost of obtaining long-term unsecured funding is directly related to our credit spreads (the amount in excess of the interest rate of benchmark securities that we need to pay). Increases in our credit spreads can significantly increase our cost of this funding. Changes in credit spreads are continuous, market-driven, and subject at times to unpredictable and highly volatile movements. Our credit spreads are also influenced by market perceptions of our creditworthiness and movements in the costs to purchasers of credit default swaps referenced to our long-term debt. The market for credit default swaps has proven to be extremely volatile and at times has lacked a high degree of transparency or liquidity.
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Group Inc. is a holding company and its liquidity depends on payments and loans from its subsidiaries, many of which are subject to legal, regulatory and other restrictions on providing funds or assets to Group Inc.
Group Inc. is a holding company and, therefore, depends on dividends, distributions, loans and other payments from its subsidiaries to fund share repurchases and dividend payments and to fund payments on its obligations, including debt obligations. Many of our subsidiaries, including our broker-dealer and bank subsidiaries, are subject to laws that restrict dividend payments or authorize regulatory bodies to block or reduce the flow of funds from those subsidiaries to Group Inc.
In addition, our broker-dealer and bank entities and their subsidiaries are subject to restrictions on their ability to lend or transact with affiliates and to minimum regulatory capital and other requirements, as well as restrictions on their ability to use funds deposited with them in brokerage or bank accounts to fund their businesses. Additional restrictions on related-party transactions, increased capital and liquidity requirements and additional limitations on the use of funds on deposit in bank or brokerage accounts, as well as lower earnings, can reduce the amount of funds available to meet the obligations of Group Inc., including under the FRB’s source of strength requirement, and even require Group Inc. to provide additional funding to such subsidiaries. Restrictions or regulatory action of that kind could impede access to funds that Group Inc. needs to make payments on its obligations, including debt obligations, or dividend payments. In addition, Group Inc.’s right to participate in a distribution of assets upon a subsidiary’s liquidation or reorganization is subject to the prior claims of the subsidiary’s creditors.
There has been a trend towards increased regulation and supervision of our subsidiaries by the governments and regulators in the countries in which those subsidiaries are located or do business. Concerns about protecting clients and creditors of financial institutions that are controlled by persons or entities located outside of the country in which such entities are located or do business have caused or may cause a number of governments and regulators to take additional steps to “ring fence” or require internal total loss-absorbing capacity (which may also be subject to “bail-in” powers, as described below) at those entities in order to protect clients and creditors of those entities in the event of financial difficulties involving those entities. The result has been and may continue to be additional limitations on our ability to efficiently move capital and liquidity among our affiliated entities, or to Group Inc., including in times of stress, thereby increasing the overall level of capital and liquidity required by us on a consolidated basis.
Furthermore, Group Inc. has guaranteed the payment obligations of certain of its subsidiaries, including GS&Co. and GS Bank USA, subject to certain exceptions. In addition, Group Inc. guarantees many of the obligations of its other consolidated subsidiaries on a transaction-by-transaction basis, as negotiated with counterparties. These guarantees may require Group Inc. to provide substantial funds or assets to its subsidiaries or their creditors or counterparties at a time when Group Inc. is in need of liquidity to fund its own obligations.
The requirements for us and certain of our subsidiaries to develop and submit recovery and resolution plans to regulators, and the incorporation of feedback received from regulators, may require us to increase capital or liquidity levels or issue additional long-term debt at Group Inc. or particular subsidiaries or otherwise incur additional or duplicative operational or other costs at multiple entities, and may reduce our ability to provide Group Inc. guarantees of the obligations of our subsidiaries or raise debt at Group Inc. Resolution planning may also impair our ability to structure our intercompany and external activities in a manner that we may otherwise deem most operationally efficient. Furthermore, arrangements to facilitate our resolution planning may cause us to be subject to additional taxes. Any such limitations or requirements would be in addition to the legal and regulatory restrictions described above on our ability to engage in capital actions or make intercompany dividends or payments.
See “Business - Regulation” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K for further information about regulatory restrictions.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Credit
Our businesses, profitability and liquidity may be adversely affected by deterioration in the credit quality of or defaults by third parties.
We are exposed to the risk that third parties that owe us money, securities or other assets will not perform their obligations. These parties may default on their obligations to us due to bankruptcy, lack of liquidity, operational failure or other reasons. A failure of a significant market participant, or even concerns about a default by such an institution, could lead to significant liquidity problems, losses or defaults by other institutions, which in turn could adversely affect us.
We are also subject to the risk that our rights against third parties may not be enforceable in all circumstances. In addition, deterioration in the credit quality of third parties whose securities or obligations we hold, including a deterioration in the value of collateral posted by third parties to secure their obligations to us under derivative contracts and loan agreements, could result in losses and/or adversely affect our ability to rehypothecate or otherwise use those securities or obligations for liquidity purposes.
A significant downgrade in the credit ratings of our counterparties could also have a negative impact on our results. While in many cases we are permitted to require additional collateral from counterparties that experience financial difficulty, disputes may arise as to the amount of collateral we are entitled to receive and the value of pledged assets. The termination of contracts and the foreclosure on collateral may subject us to claims for the improper exercise of our rights. Default rates, downgrades and disputes with counterparties as to the valuation of collateral typically increase significantly in times of market stress, increased volatility and illiquidity.
As part of our clearing and prime brokerage activities, we finance our clients’ positions, and we could be held responsible for the defaults or misconduct of our clients. Although we have limits and regularly review credit exposures to specific clients and counterparties and to specific industries, countries and regions that we believe may present credit concerns, default risk may arise from events or circumstances that are difficult to detect or foresee.
Concentration of risk increases the potential for significant losses in our market-making, underwriting, investing and financing activities.
Concentration of risk increases the potential for significant losses in our market-making, underwriting, investing and financing activities. The number and size of these transactions has affected and may in the future affect our results of operations in a given period. Moreover, because of concentrated risk, we may suffer losses even when economic and market conditions are generally favorable for our competitors. Disruptions in the credit markets can make it difficult to hedge these credit exposures effectively or economically. In addition, we extend large commitments as part of our credit origination activities. Disruptions in the credit markets have in the past substantially curtailed or eliminated, and may in the future substantially curtail or eliminate, the trading markets for loans we originate. These disruptions may make it difficult for us to sell or value such assets, which may result in losses for us from time to time.
Rules adopted under the Dodd-Frank Act, and similar rules adopted in other jurisdictions, require issuers of certain asset-backed securities and any person who organizes and initiates certain asset-backed securities transactions to retain economic exposure to the asset, which has affected the cost of and structures used in connection with these securitization activities. Our inability to reduce our credit risk by selling, syndicating or securitizing these positions, including during periods of market stress, could negatively affect our results of operations due to a decrease in the fair value of the positions, including due to the insolvency or bankruptcy of borrowers, as well as the loss of revenues associated with selling such securities or loans.
In the ordinary course of business, we may be subject to a concentration of credit risk to a particular counterparty, borrower, issuer (including sovereign issuers) or geographic area or group of related countries, such as the E.U., and a failure or downgrade of, or default by, such entity could negatively impact our businesses, perhaps materially, and the systems by which we set limits and monitor the level of our credit exposure to individual entities, industries, countries and regions may not function as we have anticipated. Regulatory reform, including the Dodd-Frank Act, has led to increased centralization of trading activity through particular clearinghouses, central agents or exchanges, which has significantly increased our concentration of risk with respect to these entities. While our activities expose us to many different industries, counterparties and countries, we routinely execute a high volume of transactions with counterparties engaged in financial services activities, including brokers and dealers, commercial banks, clearinghouses, exchanges and investment funds. This has resulted in significant credit concentration with respect to these counterparties.
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Derivative transactions and delayed documentation or settlements may expose us to credit risk, unexpected risks and potential losses.
We are party to a large number of derivative transactions, including credit derivatives. Many of these derivative instruments are individually negotiated and non-standardized, which can make exiting, transferring or settling positions difficult. Many credit derivatives require that we deliver to the counterparty the underlying security, loan or other obligation in order to receive payment. In a number of cases, we do not hold the underlying security, loan or other obligation and may not be able to obtain the underlying security, loan or other obligation. This could cause us to forfeit the payments due to us under these contracts or result in settlement delays with the attendant credit and operational risk, as well as increased costs to us.
Derivative transactions also involve the risk that documentation has not been properly executed, that executed agreements may not be enforceable against the counterparty, or that obligations under such agreements may not be able to be “netted” against other obligations with such counterparty. In addition, counterparties may claim that such transactions were not appropriate or authorized.
As a signatory to the ISDA Universal Protocol or U.S. ISDA Protocol (ISDA Protocols) and being subject to the FRB’s and FDIC’s rules on QFCs and similar rules in other jurisdictions, we may not be able to exercise remedies against counterparties and, as this regime has not yet been tested, we may suffer risks or losses that we would not have expected to suffer if we could immediately close out transactions upon a termination event. The ISDA Protocols and these rules and regulations extend to repurchase agreements and other instruments that are not derivative contracts.
Derivative contracts and other transactions, including secondary bank loan purchases and sales, entered into with third parties are not always confirmed by the counterparties or settled on a timely basis. While the transaction remains unconfirmed or during any delay in settlement, we are subject to heightened credit and operational risk and in the event of a default may find it more difficult to enforce our rights.
In addition, as new complex derivative products are created, covering a wider array of underlying credit and other instruments, disputes about the terms of the underlying contracts could arise, which could impair our ability to effectively manage our risk exposures from these products and subject us to increased costs. The provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act requiring central clearing of credit derivatives and other OTC derivatives, or a market shift toward standardized derivatives, could reduce the risk associated with these transactions, but under certain circumstances could also limit our ability to develop derivatives that best suit the needs of our clients and to hedge our own risks, and could adversely affect our profitability. In addition, these provisions have increased our credit exposure to central clearing platforms.
Operational
A failure in our operational systems or human error, malfeasance or other misconduct, could impair our liquidity, disrupt our businesses, result in the disclosure of confidential information, damage our reputation and cause losses.
Our businesses are highly dependent on our ability to process and monitor, on a daily basis, a very large number of transactions, many of which are highly complex and occur at high volumes and frequencies, across numerous and diverse markets in many currencies. These transactions, as well as the information technology services we provide to clients, often must adhere to client-specific guidelines, as well as legal and regulatory standards.
Many rules and regulations worldwide govern our obligations to execute transactions and report such transactions and other information to regulators, exchanges and investors. Compliance with these legal and reporting requirements can be challenging, and we have been and may in the future be subject to regulatory fines and penalties for failing to follow these rules or to report timely, accurate and complete information in accordance with these rules. As reporting requirements expand, compliance with these rules and regulations has become more challenging.
As our client base, including through our consumer businesses, and our geographical reach expand and the volume, speed, frequency and complexity of transactions, especially electronic transactions (as well as the requirements to report such transactions on a real-time basis to clients, regulators and exchanges) increase, developing and maintaining our operational systems and infrastructure has become more challenging, and the risk of systems or human error in connection with such transactions has increased, as have the potential consequences of such errors due to the speed and volume of transactions involved and the potential difficulty associated with discovering errors quickly enough to limit the resulting consequences. These risks are exacerbated in times of increased volatility. As with other similarly situated institutions, we utilize credit underwriting models in connection with our businesses, including our consumer-oriented activities. Allegations or publicity, whether or not accurate, that our underwriting decisions do not treat consumers or clients fairly, or comply with the applicable law or regulation, can result in negative publicity, reputational damage and governmental and regulatory scrutiny, investigations and enforcement actions.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Our financial, accounting, data processing or other operational systems and facilities may fail to operate properly or become disabled as a result of events that are wholly or partially beyond our control, such as a spike in transaction volume, adversely affecting our ability to process these transactions or provide these services. We must continuously update these systems to support our operations and growth and to respond to changes in regulations and markets, and invest heavily in systemic controls and training to pursue our objective of ensuring that such transactions do not violate applicable rules and regulations or, due to errors in processing such transactions, adversely affect markets, our clients and counterparties or us. Enhancements and updates to systems, as well as the requisite training, including in connection with the integration of new businesses, entail significant costs and create risks associated with implementing new systems and integrating them with existing ones.
The use of computing devices and phones is critical to the work done by our employees and the operation of our systems and businesses and those of our clients and our third-party service providers and vendors. Their importance has continued to increase, in particular in light of work-from-home arrangements. Computers and computer networks are subject to various risks, including, among others, cyber attacks, inherent technological defects, system failures and human error. For example, fundamental security flaws in computer chips found in many types of these computing devices and phones have been reported in the past and may occur in the future. The use of personal devices by our employees or by our vendors for work-related activities also presents risks related to potential violations of record retention and other requirements. Cloud technologies are also critical to the operation of our systems and platforms and our reliance on cloud technologies is growing. Service disruptions have resulted, and may result in the future, in delays in accessing, or the loss of, data that is important to our businesses and may hinder our clients’ access to our platforms. There have been a number of widely publicized cases of outages in connection with access to cloud computing providers. Addressing these and similar issues could be costly and affect the performance of these businesses and systems. Operational risks may be incurred in applying fixes and there may still be residual security risks.
Notwithstanding the proliferation of technology and technology-based risk and control systems, our businesses ultimately rely on people as our greatest resource, and, from time to time, they have in the past and may in the future make mistakes or engage in violations of applicable policies, laws, rules or procedures that are not always caught immediately by our technological processes or by our controls and other procedures, which are intended to prevent and detect such errors or violations. These have in the past and may in the future include calculation errors, mistakes in addressing emails, errors in software or model development or implementation, or simple errors in judgment, as well as intentional efforts to ignore or circumvent applicable policies, laws, rules or procedures. Human errors, malfeasance and other misconduct, including the intentional misuse of client information in connection with insider trading or for other purposes, even if promptly discovered and remediated, has in the past resulted and may in the future result in reputational damage and losses and liabilities for us.
The majority of the employees in our primary locations, including the New York metropolitan area, London, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Salt Lake City and Dallas, work in close proximity to one another. Our headquarters is located in the New York metropolitan area, and we have our largest employee concentration occupying two principal office buildings near the Hudson River waterfront. They are subject to potential catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, terrorist attacks, extreme weather, or other hostile events that could negatively affect our business. Notwithstanding our efforts to maintain business continuity, business disruptions impacting our offices and employees could lead to our employees’ inability to occupy the offices, communicate with or travel to other office locations or work remotely. As a result, our ability to service and interact with clients may be adversely impacted, due to our failure or inability to successfully implement business contingency plans.
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A failure or disruption in our infrastructure, or in the operational systems or infrastructure of third parties, could impair our liquidity, disrupt our businesses, damage our reputation and cause losses.
We face the risk of operational failure or significant operational delay, termination or capacity constraints of any of the clearing agents, exchanges, clearinghouses or other financial intermediaries we use to facilitate our securities and derivatives transactions, and as our interconnectivity with our clients grows, we increasingly face the risk of operational failure or significant operational delay with respect to our clients’ systems.
There has been significant consolidation among clearing agents, exchanges and clearinghouses and an increasing number of derivative transactions are cleared on exchanges, which has increased our exposure to operational failure or significant operational delay, termination or capacity constraints of the particular financial intermediaries that we use and could affect our ability to find adequate and cost-effective alternatives in the event of any such failure, delay, termination or constraint. Industry consolidation, whether among market participants or financial intermediaries, increases the risk of operational failure or significant operational delay as disparate complex systems need to be integrated, often on an accelerated basis.
The interconnectivity of multiple financial institutions with central agents, exchanges and clearinghouses, and the increased centrality of these entities, increases the risk that an operational failure at one institution or entity may cause an industry-wide operational failure that could materially impact our ability to conduct business. Interconnectivity of financial institutions with other companies through, among other things, application programming interfaces or APIs presents similar risks. Any such failure, termination or constraint could adversely affect our ability to effect transactions, service our clients, manage our exposure to risk or expand our businesses or result in financial loss or liability to our clients, impairment of our liquidity, disruption of our businesses, regulatory intervention or reputational damage.
Despite our resiliency plans and facilities, our ability to conduct business may be adversely impacted by a disruption in the infrastructure that supports our businesses and the communities where we are located. This may include a disruption involving electrical, satellite, undersea cable or other communications, internet, transportation or other facilities used by us, our employees or third parties with which we conduct business, including cloud service providers. These disruptions may occur as a result of events that affect only our buildings or systems or those of such third parties, or as a result of events with a broader impact globally, regionally or in the cities where those buildings or systems are located, including, but not limited to, natural disasters, war, civil unrest, terrorism, economic or political developments, pandemics and weather events.
In addition, although we seek to diversify our third-party vendors to increase our resiliency, we are exposed to risks if our vendors operate in the same area and are also exposed to the risk that a disruption or other information technology event at a common service provider to our vendors could impede their ability to provide products or services to us. We may not be able to effectively monitor or mitigate operational risks relating to our vendors’ use of common service providers.
Additionally, although the prevalence and scope of applications of distributed ledger technology, cryptocurrency and similar technologies is growing, the technology is nascent and may be vulnerable to cyber attacks or have other inherent weaknesses. We are exposed to risks, and may become exposed to additional risks, related to distributed ledger technology, including through our facilitation of clients’ activities involving financial products that use distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, our investments in companies that seek to develop platforms based on distributed ledger technology, the use of distributed ledger technology by third-party vendors, clients, counterparties, clearinghouses and other financial intermediaries, and the receipt of cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as collateral. The market volatility that financial products using distributed ledger technology have recently experienced may increase these risks.
A failure to protect our computer systems, networks and information, and our clients’ information, against cyber attacks and similar threats could impair our ability to conduct our businesses, result in the disclosure, theft or destruction of confidential information, damage our reputation and cause losses.
Our operations rely on the secure processing, storage and transmission of confidential and other information in our computer systems and networks and those of our vendors. There have been a number of highly publicized cases involving financial services companies, consumer-based companies, software and information technology service providers, governmental agencies and other organizations reporting the unauthorized access or disclosure of client, customer or other confidential information in recent years, as well as cyber attacks involving the dissemination, theft and destruction of corporate information or other assets, as a result of inadequate procedures or the failure to follow procedures by employees or contractors or as a result of actions by third parties, including actions by foreign governments. There have also been several highly publicized cases where hackers have requested “ransom” payments in exchange for not disclosing customer information or for restoring access to information or systems.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
We are regularly the target of attempted cyber attacks, including denial-of-service attacks, and must continuously monitor and develop our systems to protect the integrity and functionality of our technology infrastructure and access to and the security of our data. We have faced a high volume of cyber attacks as we expand our mobile- and other internet-based products and services, as well as our usage of mobile and cloud technologies, and as we provide more of these services to a greater number of individual consumers. The migration of our communication from devices we provide to employee-owned devices presents additional risks of cyber attacks, as do work-from-home arrangements . In addition, due to our interconnectivity with third-party vendors (and their respective service providers), central agents, exchanges, clearinghouses and other financial institutions, we could be adversely impacted if any of them is subject to a successful cyber attack or other information security event. These impacts could include the loss of access to information or services from the third party subject to the cyber attack or other information security event or could result in unauthorized access to or disclosure of client, customer or other confidential information, which could, in turn, interrupt certain of our businesses or adversely affect our results of operations and reputation.
Despite our efforts to ensure the integrity of our systems and information, we may not be able to anticipate, detect or implement effective preventive measures against all cyber threats, including because the techniques used are increasingly sophisticated, change frequently and are often not recognized until launched. Cyber attacks can originate from a variety of sources, including third parties who are affiliated with or sponsored by foreign governments or are involved with organized crime or terrorist organizations. Third parties may also attempt to place individuals in our offices or induce employees, clients or other users of our systems to disclose sensitive information or provide access to our data or that of our clients, and these types of risks may be difficult to detect or prevent.
Although we take protective measures proactively and endeavor to modify them as circumstances warrant, our computer systems, software and networks may be vulnerable to unauthorized access, misuse, computer viruses or other malicious code, cyber attacks on our vendors and other events that could have a security impact. Risks relating to cyber attacks on our vendors have been increasing given the greater frequency and severity in recent years of supply chain attacks affecting software and information technology service providers. Due to the complexity and interconnectedness of our systems, the process of enhancing our protective measures can itself create a risk of systems disruptions and security issues. In addition, protective measures that we employ to compartmentalize our data may reduce our visibility into, and adversely affect our ability to respond to, cyber threats and issues with our systems.
If one or more of these types of events occur, it potentially could jeopardize our, our clients’, our counterparties’ or third parties' confidential and other information processed, stored in, or transmitted through our computer systems and networks, or otherwise cause interruptions or malfunctions in our operations or those of our clients, counterparties or third parties, which could impact their ability to transact with us or otherwise result in legal or regulatory action, significant losses or reputational damage. In addition, such an event could persist for an extended period of time before being properly detected or escalated, and, following detection or escalation, it could take considerable time for us to obtain full and reliable information about the extent, amount and type of information compromised. During the course of an investigation, we may not know the full impact of the event and how to remediate it, and actions, decisions and mistakes that are taken or made may further increase the negative effects of the event on our business, results of operations and reputation. Moreover, potential new regulations may require us to disclose information about a material cybersecurity incident before it has been resolved or fully investigated.
We have expended, and expect to continue to expend, significant resources on an ongoing basis to modify our protective measures and to investigate and remediate vulnerabilities or other exposures, but these measures may be ineffective and we may be subject to legal or regulatory action, as well as financial losses that are either not insured against or not fully covered through any insurance maintained by us.
Our clients’ confidential information may also be at risk from the compromise of clients’ personal electronic devices or as a result of a data security breach at an unrelated company. Losses due to unauthorized account activity could harm our reputation and may have adverse effects on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The increased use of mobile and cloud technologies can heighten these and other operational risks, as can work-from-home arrangements. Certain aspects of the security of such technologies are unpredictable or beyond our control, and the failure by mobile technology and cloud service providers to adequately safeguard their systems and prevent cyber attacks could disrupt our operations and result in misappropriation, corruption or loss of confidential and other information. In addition, there is a risk that encryption and other protective measures, despite their sophistication, may be defeated, particularly to the extent that new computing technologies vastly increase the speed and computing power available.
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We routinely transmit and receive personal, confidential and proprietary information by email and other electronic means. We have discussed and worked with clients, vendors, service providers, counterparties and other third parties to develop secure transmission capabilities and protect against cyber attacks, but we do not have, and may be unable to put in place, secure capabilities with all of our clients, vendors, service providers, counterparties and other third parties and we may not be able to ensure that these third parties have appropriate controls in place to protect the confidentiality of the information. An interception, misuse or mishandling of personal, confidential or proprietary information being sent to or received from a client, vendor, service provider, counterparty or other third party could result in legal liability, regulatory action and reputational harm.
We may incur losses as a result of ineffective risk management processes and strategies.
We seek to monitor and control our risk exposure through a risk and control framework encompassing a variety of separate but complementary financial, credit, operational, compliance and legal reporting systems, internal controls, management review processes and other mechanisms. Our risk management process seeks to balance our ability to profit from market-making, investing or lending positions, and underwriting activities, with our exposure to potential losses. While we employ a broad and diversified set of risk monitoring and risk mitigation techniques, those techniques and the judgments that accompany their application cannot anticipate every economic and financial outcome or the specifics and timing of such outcomes. Thus, in the course of our activities, we have incurred and may in the future incur losses. Market conditions in recent years have involved unprecedented dislocations and highlight the limitations inherent in using historical data to manage risk.
The models that we use to assess and control our risk exposures reflect assumptions about the degrees of correlation or lack thereof among prices of various asset classes or other market indicators. In times of market stress or other unforeseen circumstances, previously uncorrelated indicators may become correlated, or conversely previously correlated indicators may move in different directions. These types of market movements have at times limited the effectiveness of our hedging strategies and have caused us to incur significant losses, and they may do so in the future. These changes in correlation have been and may in the future be exacerbated where other market participants are using risk or trading models with assumptions or algorithms that are similar to ours. In these and other cases, it may be difficult to reduce our risk positions due to the activity of other market participants or widespread market dislocations, including circumstances where asset values are declining significantly or no market exists for certain assets.
In addition, the use of models in connection with risk management and numerous other critical activities presents risks that the models may be ineffective, either because of poor design, ineffective testing, or improper or flawed inputs, as well as unpermitted access to the models resulting in unapproved or malicious changes to the model or its inputs.
To the extent that we have positions through our market-making or origination activities or we make investments directly through our investing activities, including private equity, that do not have an established liquid trading market or are otherwise subject to restrictions on sale or hedging, we may not be able to reduce our positions and therefore reduce our risk associated with those positions. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law and regulation, we invest our own capital in private equity, credit, real estate and hedge funds that we manage and limitations on our ability to withdraw some or all of our investments in these funds, whether for legal, reputational or other reasons, may make it more difficult for us to control the risk exposures relating to these investments.
Prudent risk management, as well as regulatory restrictions, may cause us to limit our exposure to counterparties, geographic areas or markets, which may limit our business opportunities and increase the cost of our funding or hedging activities.
As we have expanded and intend to continue to expand the product and geographic scope of our offerings of credit and investment products to consumers, we are presented with different risks and must expand and adapt our risk monitoring and mitigation activities to account for these business activities. A failure to adequately assess and control such risk exposures could result in losses to us.
For further information about our risk management policies and procedures, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Risk Management” in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Legal and Regulatory
Our businesses and those of our clients are subject to extensive and pervasive regulation around the world.
As a participant in the financial services industry and a systemically important financial institution, we are subject to extensive regulation in jurisdictions around the world. We face the risk of significant intervention by law enforcement, regulatory and taxing authorities, as well as private litigation, in all jurisdictions in which we conduct our businesses. In many cases, our activities have been and may continue to be subject to overlapping and divergent regulation in different jurisdictions. Among other things, as a result of law enforcement authorities, regulators or private parties challenging our compliance with existing laws and regulations, we or our employees have been, and could be, fined, criminally charged or sanctioned; prohibited from engaging in some of our business activities; subjected to limitations or conditions on our business activities, including higher capital requirements; or subjected to new or substantially higher taxes or other governmental charges in connection with the conduct of our businesses or with respect to our employees. These limitations or conditions may limit our business activities and negatively impact our profitability.
In addition to the impact on the scope and profitability of our business activities, day-to-day compliance with existing laws and regulations has involved and will continue to involve significant amounts of time, including that of our senior leaders and that of a large number of dedicated compliance and other reporting and operational personnel, all of which may negatively impact our profitability.
Our revenues and profitability and those of our competitors have been and will continue to be impacted by requirements relating to capital, leverage, minimum liquidity and long-term funding levels, requirements related to resolution and recovery planning, derivatives clearing and margin rules and levels of regulatory oversight, as well as limitations on which and, if permitted, how certain business activities may be carried out by financial institutions. The laws and regulations that apply to our businesses are often complex and, in many cases, we must make interpretive decisions regarding the application of those laws and regulations to our business activities. Changes in interpretations, whether in response to regulatory guidance, industry conventions, our own reassessments or otherwise, could adversely affect our businesses, results of operations or ability to satisfy applicable regulatory requirements, such as capital or liquidity requirements.
If there are new laws or regulations or changes in the interpretation or enforcement of existing laws or regulations applicable to our businesses or those of our clients, including capital, liquidity, leverage, long-term debt, total loss-absorbing capacity and margin requirements, restrictions on leveraged lending or other business practices, reporting requirements, requirements relating to recovery and resolution planning, tax burdens and compensation restrictions, that are imposed on a limited subset of financial institutions (whether based on size, method of funding, activities, geography or other criteria), compliance with these new laws or regulations, or changes in the enforcement of existing laws or regulations, could adversely affect our ability to compete effectively with other institutions that are not affected in the same way. In addition, regulation imposed on financial institutions or market participants generally, such as taxes on stock transfers, share repurchases and other financial transactions, could adversely impact levels of market activity more broadly, and thus impact our businesses. Changes to laws or regulations, such as tax laws, could also have a disproportionate impact on us, based on the way those laws or regulations are applied to financial services and financial firms or due to our corporate structure or where these services are provided.
These developments could impact our profitability in the affected jurisdictions, or even make it uneconomic for us to continue to conduct all or certain of our businesses in those jurisdictions, or could cause us to incur significant costs associated with changing our business practices, restructuring our businesses, moving all or certain of our businesses and our employees to other locations or complying with applicable capital requirements, including reducing dividends or share repurchases, liquidating assets or raising capital in a manner that adversely increases our funding costs or otherwise adversely affects our shareholders and creditors.
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U.S. and non-U.S. regulatory developments, in particular the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III, have significantly altered the regulatory framework within which we operate and have adversely affected and may in the future adversely affect our profitability. Among the aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act that have affected or may in the future affect our businesses are: increased capital, liquidity and reporting requirements; limitations on activities in which we may engage; increased regulation of and restrictions on OTC derivatives markets and transactions; limitations on incentive compensation; limitations on affiliate transactions; requirements to reorganize or limit activities in connection with recovery and resolution planning; increased deposit insurance assessments; and increased standards of care for broker-dealers and investment advisers in dealing with clients. The implementation of higher capital requirements, more stringent requirements relating to liquidity, long-term debt and total loss-absorbing capacity and the prohibition on proprietary trading and the sponsorship of, or investment in, covered funds by the Volcker Rule may continue to adversely affect our profitability and competitive position, particularly if these requirements do not apply equally to our competitors or are not implemented uniformly across jurisdictions. We may also become subject to higher and more stringent capital and other regulatory requirements as a result of the implementation of Basel Committee standards, including the credit and operational risk capital standards published in December 2017 and the market risk capital standard published in January 2019.
As described in “Business - Regulation - Banking Supervision and Regulation” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K, the SCB has replaced the capital conservation buffer under the Standardized Capital Rules and resulted in higher Standardized capital ratio requirements. Failure to comply with these requirements could limit our ability to, among other things, repurchase shares, pay dividends and make certain discretionary compensation payments. In addition, if, as in 2020, we are required to resubmit our capital plan, we generally may not make capital distributions, such as share repurchases or dividends, without the prior approval of the FRB. Dividends and repurchases are also subject to oversight by the FRB, which can result in limitations. Limitations on our ability to make capital distributions could, among other things, prevent us from returning capital to our shareholders and impact our return on equity. Additionally, as a G-SIB, we are subject to the G-SIB surcharge. Our G-SIB surcharge is updated annually based on financial data from the prior year. Expansion of our businesses, growth in our balance sheet and increased reliance on short-term wholesale funding have resulted in increases and in the future may result in further increases in our G-SIB surcharge and a corresponding increase in our capital requirements.
We are also subject to laws and regulations, such as the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act, relating to the privacy of the information of clients, employees or others, and any failure to comply with these laws and regulations could expose us to liability and/or reputational damage. As new privacy-related laws and regulations are implemented, the time and resources needed for us to comply with such laws and regulations, as well as our potential liability for non-compliance and reporting obligations in the case of data breaches, may significantly increase.
Further, the CRD requires certain non-E.U. groups with more than €40 billion of assets in the E.U., such as us, to establish an E.U. IHC by December 30, 2023. A non-E.U. group may have two E.U. IHCs if a request for a second is approved. If we are unable to obtain approval to have two E.U. IHCs, we would be required to limit our European subsidiary activities to those that are permissible for GSBE.
In addition, our businesses are increasingly subject to laws and regulations relating to surveillance, encryption and data on-shoring in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Compliance with these laws and regulations may require us to change our policies, procedures and technology for information security, which could, among other things, make us more vulnerable to cyber attacks and misappropriation, corruption or loss of information or technology.
We have entered into consumer-oriented deposit-taking, lending and credit card businesses, and we may expand the product and geographic scope of our offerings. Entering into these businesses subjects us to numerous additional regulations in the jurisdictions in which these businesses operate. Not only are these regulations extensive, but they involve types of regulations and supervision, as well as regulatory compliance risks, that have not historically applied to us. The level of regulatory scrutiny and the scope of regulations affecting financial interactions with consumers is often much greater than that associated with doing business with institutions and high-net-worth individuals. Complying with these regulations is time-consuming, costly and presents new and increased risks.
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Our expansion into consumer-oriented activities will result in a change to GS Bank USA's CRA requirements later in 2023, such that GS Bank USA will no longer be assessed as a “wholesale bank” for CRA compliance purposes and, instead, will be assessed pursuant to the framework applicable to large commercial banks or pursuant to an approved strategic plan. Any failure to comply with different or expanded CRA requirements as a result of this change in assessment methods could negatively impact GS Bank USA's CRA ratings, cause reputational harm and result in limits on our ability to make future acquisitions or engage in certain new activities.
Increasingly, regulators and courts have sought to hold financial institutions liable for the misconduct of their clients where they have determined that the financial institution should have detected that the client was engaged in wrongdoing, even though the financial institution had no direct knowledge of the activities engaged in by its client. Regulators and courts have also increasingly found liability as a “control person” for activities of entities in which financial institutions or funds controlled by financial institutions have an investment, but which they do not actively manage. In addition, regulators and courts continue to seek to establish “fiduciary” obligations to counterparties to which no such duty had been assumed to exist. To the extent that such efforts are successful, the cost of, and liabilities associated with, engaging in brokerage, clearing, market-making, prime brokerage, investing and other similar activities could increase significantly. To the extent that we have fiduciary obligations in connection with acting as a financial adviser or investment adviser or in other roles for individual, institutional, sovereign or investment fund clients, any breach, or even an alleged breach, of such obligations could have materially negative legal, regulatory and reputational consequences.
For information about the extensive regulation to which our businesses are subject, see “Business - Regulation” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K.
A failure to appropriately identify and address potential conflicts of interest could adversely affect our businesses.
Due to the broad scope of our businesses and our client base, we regularly address potential conflicts of interest, including situations where our services to a particular client or our own investments or other interests conflict, or are perceived to conflict, with the interests of that client or another client, as well as situations where one or more of our businesses have access to material non-public information that may not be shared with our other businesses and situations where we may be a creditor of an entity with which we also have an advisory or other relationship.
In addition, our status as a BHC subjects us to heightened regulation and increased regulatory scrutiny by the FRB with respect to transactions between GS Bank USA and its subsidiaries and entities that are or could be viewed as affiliates of ours and, under the Volcker Rule, transactions between us and covered funds.
We have extensive procedures and controls that are designed to identify and address conflicts of interest, including those designed to prevent the improper sharing of information among our businesses. However, appropriately identifying and dealing with conflicts of interest is complex and difficult, and our reputation, which is one of our most important assets, could be damaged and the willingness of clients to enter into transactions with us may be adversely affected if we fail, or appear to fail, to identify, disclose and deal appropriately with conflicts of interest. In addition, potential or perceived conflicts could give rise to litigation or regulatory enforcement actions. Additionally, our One Goldman Sachs initiative aims to increase collaboration among our businesses, which may increase the potential for actual or perceived conflicts of interest and improper information sharing. The realignment of our businesses, reflected in our new segments beginning with the fourth quarter of 2022, presents similar risks.
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We may be adversely affected by increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny or negative publicity.
Governmental scrutiny from regulators, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies with respect to matters relating to compensation, our business practices, our past actions and other matters remains at high levels. Political and public sentiment regarding financial institutions has in the past resulted and may in the future result in a significant amount of adverse press coverage, as well as adverse statements or charges by regulators or other government officials. Press coverage and other public statements that assert some form of wrongdoing (including, in some cases, press coverage and public statements that do not directly involve us) often result in some type of investigation by regulators, legislators and law enforcement officials or in lawsuits.
Responding to these investigations and lawsuits, regardless of the ultimate outcome of the proceeding, is time-consuming and expensive and can divert the time and effort of our senior management from our business. Penalties and fines sought by regulatory authorities have increased substantially and certain regulators have been more likely in recent years to commence enforcement actions or to support legislation targeted at the financial services industry. Governmental authorities may also be more likely to pursue criminal or other actions, including seeking admissions of wrongdoing or guilty pleas, in connection with the resolution of an inquiry or investigation to the extent a company is viewed as having previously engaged in criminal, regulatory or other misconduct. Adverse publicity, governmental scrutiny and legal and enforcement proceedings can also have a negative impact on our reputation and on the morale and performance of our employees, which could adversely affect our businesses and results of operations. Further, we are subject to regulatory settlements, orders and feedback that require significant remediation activities, which require us to commit significant resources, including hiring, as well as testing the operation and effectiveness of new controls, policies and procedures.
The financial services industry generally and our businesses in particular have been subject to negative publicity. Our reputation and businesses may be adversely affected by negative publicity or information regarding our businesses and personnel, whether or not accurate or true, that may be posted on social media or other internet forums or published by news organizations. Postings on these types of forums may also adversely impact risk positions of our clients and other parties that owe us money, securities or other assets and increase the chance that they will not perform their obligations to us or reduce the revenues we receive from their use of our services. The speed and pervasiveness with which information can be disseminated through these channels, in particular social media, may magnify risks relating to negative publicity.
Substantial civil or criminal liability or significant regulatory action against us could have material adverse financial effects or cause us significant reputational harm, which in turn could seriously harm our business prospects.
We face significant legal risks in our businesses, and the volume of claims and amount of damages and penalties claimed in litigation and regulatory proceedings against financial institutions remain high. See Notes 18 and 27 to the consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K for information about certain of our legal and regulatory proceedings and investigations. We have seen legal claims by consumers and clients increase in a market downturn and employment-related claims increase following periods in which we have reduced our headcount. Additionally, governmental entities have been plaintiffs and are parties in certain of our legal proceedings, and we may face future civil or criminal actions or claims by the same or other governmental entities, as well as follow-on civil litigation that is often commenced after regulatory settlements.
Significant settlements by several large financial institutions, including, in some cases, us, with governmental entities have been publicly announced. The trend of large settlements with governmental entities may adversely affect the outcomes for other financial institutions, including, in some cases, us, in similar actions, especially where governmental officials have announced that the large settlements will be used as the basis or a template for other settlements. The uncertain regulatory enforcement environment makes it difficult to estimate probable losses, which can lead to substantial disparities between legal reserves and subsequent actual settlements or penalties.
Claims of collusion or anti-competitive conduct have become more common. Financial institutions (including us) have been subject to civil cases and investigatory demands relating to alleged bid-rigging, group boycotts or other anti-competitive practices. Antitrust laws generally provide for joint and several liability and treble damages. These claims have resulted in significant settlements and fines in the past and may do so in the future.
We are subject to laws and regulations worldwide, including the FCPA and the U.K. Bribery Act, relating to corrupt and illegal payments to, and hiring practices with regard to, government officials and others. Violation of these or similar laws and regulations have in the past resulted in and could in the future result in significant monetary penalties. Such violations could also result in severe restrictions on our activities and damage to our reputation.
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Certain law enforcement authorities have recently required admissions of wrongdoing, and, in some cases, criminal pleas, as part of the resolutions of matters brought against financial institutions or their employees. See for example, “1MDB-Related Matters” in Note 27 to the consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. Any such resolution of a criminal matter involving us or our employees could lead to increased exposure to civil litigation, could adversely affect our reputation, could result in penalties or limitations on our ability to conduct our activities generally or in certain circumstances and could have other negative effects. Further, as a result of this type of settlement, we are no longer a “well-known seasoned issuer,” which places limitations on the manner in which we can market our securities.
In conducting our businesses around the world, we are subject to political, legal, regulatory and other risks that are inherent in operating in many countries.
In conducting our businesses and supporting our global operations, we are subject to risks of possible nationalization, expropriation, price controls, capital controls, exchange controls, communications and other content restrictions, and other restrictive governmental actions. For example, sanctions have been imposed by the U.S. and the E.U. on certain individuals and companies in Russia and Venezuela. In many countries, the laws and regulations applicable to the securities and financial services industries and many of the transactions in which we are involved are uncertain and evolving, and it may be difficult for us to determine the exact requirements of local laws in every market. We have been in some cases subject to divergent and conflicting laws and regulations across markets, and we are increasingly subject to the risk that the jurisdictions in which we operate have implemented or may implement laws and regulations that directly conflict with those of another jurisdiction. Any determination by local regulators that we have not acted in compliance with the application of local laws in a particular market or our failure to develop effective working relationships with local regulators could have a significant and negative effect not only on our businesses in that market, but also on our reputation generally. Further, in some jurisdictions a failure, or alleged failure, to comply with laws and regulations has subjected and may in the future subject us and our personnel not only to civil actions, but also criminal actions and other sanctions. We are also subject to the enhanced risk that transactions we structure might not be legally enforceable in all cases.
While business and other practices throughout the world differ, our principal entities are subject in their operations worldwide to rules and regulations relating to corrupt and illegal payments, hiring practices and money laundering, as well as laws relating to doing business with certain individuals, groups and countries, such as the FCPA, the BSA and the U.K. Bribery Act. While we have invested and continue to invest significant resources in training and in compliance monitoring, the geographical diversity of our operations, employees, clients and consumers, as well as the vendors and other third parties that we deal with, greatly increases the risk that we may be found in violation of such rules or regulations and any such violation could subject us to significant penalties or adversely affect our reputation. See for example, “1MDB-Related Matters” in Note 27 to the consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K.
In addition, there have been a number of highly publicized cases around the world, involving actual or alleged fraud or other misconduct by employees in the financial services industry, and we have had and may in the future have employee misconduct. This misconduct has included and may also in the future include intentional efforts to ignore or circumvent applicable policies, rules or procedures or misappropriation of funds and the theft of proprietary information, including proprietary software. It is not always possible to deter or prevent employee misconduct and the precautions we take to prevent and detect this activity have not been and may not be effective in all cases, as reflected by the settlements relating to 1MDB.
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The application of regulatory strategies and requirements in the U.S. and non-U.S. jurisdictions to facilitate the orderly resolution of large financial institutions could create greater risk of loss for Group Inc.’s security holders.
As described in “Business - Regulation - Banking Supervision and Regulation - Insolvency of an IDI or a BHC,” if the FDIC is appointed as receiver under OLA, the rights of Group Inc.’s creditors would be determined under OLA, and substantial differences exist in the rights of creditors between OLA and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, including the right of the FDIC under OLA to disregard the strict priority of creditor claims in some circumstances, which could have a material adverse effect on our debtholders.
The FDIC has announced that a single point of entry strategy may be a desirable strategy under OLA to resolve a large financial institution in a manner that would, among other things, impose losses on shareholders, debtholders and other creditors of the top-tier BHC (in our case, Group Inc.), while the BHC’s subsidiaries may continue to operate. It is possible that the application of the single point of entry strategy under OLA, in which Group Inc. would be the only entity to enter resolution proceedings (and its material broker-dealer, bank and other operating entities would not enter resolution proceedings), would result in greater losses to Group Inc.’s security holders (including holders of our fixed rate, floating rate and indexed debt securities), than the losses that would result from the application of a bankruptcy proceeding or a different resolution strategy, such as a multiple point of entry resolution strategy for Group Inc. and certain of its material subsidiaries.
Assuming Group Inc. entered resolution proceedings and that support from Group Inc. or other available resources to its subsidiaries was sufficient to enable the subsidiaries to remain solvent, losses at the subsidiary level would be transferred to Group Inc. and ultimately borne by Group Inc.’s security holders, third-party creditors of Group Inc.’s subsidiaries would receive full recoveries on their claims, and Group Inc.’s security holders (including our shareholders, debtholders and other unsecured creditors) could face significant and possibly complete losses. In that case, Group Inc.’s security holders would face losses while the third-party creditors of Group Inc.’s subsidiaries would incur no losses because the subsidiaries would continue to operate and would not enter resolution or bankruptcy proceedings. In addition, holders of Group Inc.’s eligible long-term debt and holders of Group Inc.’s other debt securities could face losses ahead of its other similarly situated creditors in a resolution under OLA if the FDIC exercised its right, described above, to disregard the priority of creditor claims.
OLA also provides the FDIC with authority to cause creditors and shareholders of the financial company in receivership to bear losses before taxpayers are exposed to such losses, and amounts owed to the U.S. government would generally receive a statutory payment priority over the claims of private creditors, including senior creditors.
In addition, under OLA, claims of creditors (including debtholders) could be satisfied through the issuance of equity or other securities in a bridge entity to which Group Inc.’s assets are transferred. If such a securities-for-claims exchange were implemented, there can be no assurance that the value of the securities of the bridge entity would be sufficient to repay or satisfy all or any part of the creditor claims for which the securities were exchanged. While the FDIC has issued regulations to implement OLA, not all aspects of how the FDIC might exercise this authority are known and additional rulemaking is possible.
In addition, certain jurisdictions, including the U.K. and the E.U., have implemented resolution regimes to provide resolution authorities with the ability to recapitalize a failing entity by writing down its unsecured debt or converting its unsecured debt into equity. Such “bail-in” powers are intended to enable the recapitalization of a failing institution by allocating losses to its shareholders and unsecured debtholders. For example, the Bank of England requires a certain amount of intercompany funding that we provide to our material U.K. subsidiaries to contain a contractual trigger to expressly permit the Bank of England to exercise such “bail-in” powers in certain circumstances. If the intercompany funding we provide to our subsidiaries is “bailed in,” Group Inc.’s claims on its subsidiaries would be subordinated to the claims of the subsidiaries’ third-party creditors or written down. U.S. regulators are considering and non-U.S. authorities have adopted requirements that certain subsidiaries of large financial institutions maintain minimum amounts of total loss-absorbing capacity that would pass losses up from the subsidiaries to the top-tier BHC and, ultimately, to security holders of the top-tier BHC in the event of failure.
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The application of Group Inc.’s proposed resolution strategy could result in greater losses for Group Inc.’s security holders.
In our resolution plan, Group Inc. would be resolved under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The strategy described in our resolution plan is a variant of the single point of entry strategy: Group Inc. and Goldman Sachs Funding LLC (Funding IHC), a wholly-owned, direct subsidiary of Group Inc., would recapitalize and provide liquidity to certain major subsidiaries, including through the forgiveness of intercompany indebtedness, the extension of the maturities of intercompany indebtedness and the extension of additional intercompany loans. If this strategy were successful, creditors of some or all of Group Inc.’s major subsidiaries would receive full recoveries on their claims, while Group Inc.’s security holders could face significant and possibly complete losses.
To facilitate the execution of our resolution plan, we formed Funding IHC. In exchange for an unsecured subordinated funding note and equity interest, Group Inc. transferred certain intercompany receivables and substantially all of its GCLA to Funding IHC, and agreed to transfer additional GCLA above prescribed thresholds.
We also put in place a Capital and Liquidity Support Agreement (CLSA) among Group Inc., Funding IHC and our major subsidiaries. Under the CLSA, Funding IHC has provided Group Inc. with a committed line of credit that allows Group Inc. to draw sufficient funds to meet its cash needs during the ordinary course of business. In addition, if our financial resources deteriorate so severely that resolution may be imminent, (i) the committed line of credit will automatically terminate and the unsecured subordinated funding note will automatically be forgiven, (ii) all intercompany receivables owed by the major subsidiaries to Group Inc. will be transferred to Funding IHC or their maturities will be extended to five years, (iii) Group Inc. will be obligated to transfer substantially all of its remaining intercompany receivables and GCLA (other than an amount to fund anticipated bankruptcy expenses) to Funding IHC, and (iv) Funding IHC will be obligated to provide capital and liquidity support to the major subsidiaries. Group Inc.’s and Funding IHC’s obligations under the CLSA are secured pursuant to a related security agreement. Such actions would materially and adversely affect Group Inc.’s liquidity. As a result, during a period of severe stress, Group Inc. might commence bankruptcy proceedings at an earlier time than it otherwise would if the CLSA and related security agreement had not been implemented.
If Group Inc.’s proposed resolution strategy were successful, Group Inc.’s security holders could face losses while the third-party creditors of Group Inc.’s major subsidiaries would incur no losses because those subsidiaries would continue to operate and not enter resolution or bankruptcy proceedings. As part of the strategy, Group Inc. could also seek to elevate the priority of its guarantee obligations relating to its major subsidiaries’ derivative contracts or transfer them to another entity so that cross-default and early termination rights would be stayed under the ISDA Protocols, as applicable, which would result in holders of Group Inc.’s eligible long-term debt and holders of Group Inc.’s other debt securities incurring losses ahead of the beneficiaries of those guarantee obligations. It is also possible that holders of Group Inc.’s eligible long-term debt and other debt securities could incur losses ahead of other similarly situated creditors of Group Inc.’s major subsidiaries.
If Group Inc.’s proposed resolution strategy were not successful, Group Inc.’s financial condition would be adversely impacted and Group Inc.’s security holders, including debtholders, may as a consequence be in a worse position than if the strategy had not been implemented. In all cases, any payments to debtholders are dependent on our ability to make such payments and are therefore subject to our credit risk.
As a result of our recovery and resolution planning processes, including incorporating feedback from our regulators, we may incur increased operational, funding or other costs and face limitations on our ability to structure our internal organization or engage in internal or external activities in a manner that we may otherwise deem most operationally efficient.
Our commodities activities, particularly our physical commodities activities, subject us to extensive regulation and involve certain potential risks, including environmental, reputational and other risks that may expose us to significant liabilities and costs.
As part of our commodities business, we purchase and sell certain physical commodities, arrange for their storage and transport, and engage in market making of commodities. The commodities involved in these activities may include crude oil, refined oil products, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, electric power, agricultural products, metals (base and precious), minerals (including unenriched uranium), emission credits, coal, freight and related products and indices.
We make investments in and finance entities that engage in the production, storage and transportation of numerous commodities, including many of the commodities referenced above.
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These activities subject us and/or the entities in which we invest to extensive and evolving federal, state and local energy, environmental, antitrust and other governmental laws and regulations worldwide, including environmental laws and regulations relating to, among others, air quality, water quality, waste management, transportation of hazardous substances, natural resources, site remediation and health and safety. Additionally, rising climate change concerns have led to additional regulation that could increase the operating costs and adversely affect the profitability of certain of our investments.
There may be substantial costs in complying with current or future laws and regulations relating to our commodities-related activities and investments. Compliance with these laws and regulations could require significant commitments of capital toward environmental monitoring, renovation of storage facilities or transport vessels, payment of emission fees and carbon or other taxes, and application for, and holding of, permits and licenses.
Commodities involved in our intermediation activities and investments are also subject to the risk of unforeseen or catastrophic events, which are likely to be outside of our control, including those arising from the breakdown or failure of transport vessels, storage facilities or other equipment or processes or other mechanical malfunctions, fires, leaks, spills or release of hazardous substances, performance below expected levels of output or efficiency, terrorist attacks, extreme weather events or other natural disasters or other hostile or catastrophic events. In addition, we rely on third-party suppliers or service providers to perform their contractual obligations and any failure on their part, including the failure to obtain raw materials at reasonable prices or to safely transport or store commodities, could expose us to costs or losses. Also, while we seek to insure against potential risks, we may not be able to obtain insurance to cover some of these risks and the insurance that we have may be inadequate to cover our losses.
The occurrence of any of such events may prevent us from performing under our agreements with clients, may impair our operations or financial results and may result in litigation, regulatory action, negative publicity or other reputational harm.
We may also be required to divest or discontinue certain of these activities for regulatory or legal reasons or due to the transition to a less carbon-dependent economy in response to climate change.
Competition
Our results have been and may in the future be adversely affected by the composition of our client base.
Our client base is not the same as that of our major competitors. Our businesses may have a higher or lower percentage of clients in certain industries or markets than some or all of our competitors. Therefore, unfavorable industry developments or market conditions affecting certain industries or markets have resulted in the past and may result in the future in our businesses underperforming relative to similar businesses of a competitor if our businesses have a higher concentration of clients in such industries or markets. For example, our market-making businesses have a higher percentage of clients with actively managed assets than some of our competitors and such clients have in the past been and may in the future be disproportionately affected by low volatility.
Correspondingly, favorable or simply less adverse developments or market conditions involving industries or markets in a business where we have a lower concentration of clients in such industry or market have also resulted in the past and may result in the future in our underperforming relative to a similar business of a competitor that has a higher concentration of clients in such industry or market. For example, we have a smaller corporate client base in our market-making businesses than some of our peers and therefore those competitors may benefit more from increased activity by corporate clients. Similarly, we have not historically engaged in retail equities intermediation to the same extent as other financial institutions, which has in the past affected and could in the future adversely affect our market share in equities execution.
The financial services industry is highly competitive.
The financial services industry and all of our businesses are intensely competitive, and we expect them to remain so. We compete on the basis of a number of factors, including transaction execution, our products and services, innovation, reputation, creditworthiness and price. There has been substantial consolidation and convergence among companies in the financial services industry. This has hastened the globalization of the securities and other financial services markets. As a result, we have had to commit capital to support our international operations and to execute large global transactions. As we have expanded into new business areas and new geographic regions, we have faced competitors with more experience and more established relationships with clients, regulators and industry participants in the relevant market, which could adversely affect our ability to expand our businesses.
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Governments and regulators have adopted regulations, imposed taxes, adopted compensation restrictions or otherwise put forward various proposals that have impacted or may impact our ability to conduct certain of our businesses in a cost-effective manner or at all in certain or all jurisdictions, including proposals relating to restrictions on the type of activities in which financial institutions are permitted to engage. These or other similar rules, many of which do not apply to all our U.S. or non-U.S. competitors, could impact our ability to compete effectively.
Pricing and other competitive pressures in our businesses have continued to increase, particularly in situations where some of our competitors may seek to increase market share by reducing prices. For example, in connection with investment banking and other assignments, in response to competitive pressure we have experienced, we have extended and priced credit at levels that in some cases have not fully compensated us for the risks we undertook.
The financial services industry is highly interrelated in that a significant volume of transactions occur among a limited number of members of that industry. Many transactions are syndicated to other financial institutions, and financial institutions are often counterparties in transactions. This has led to claims by other market participants and regulators that such institutions have colluded in order to manipulate markets or market prices, including allegations that antitrust laws have been violated. While we have extensive procedures and controls that are designed to identify and prevent such activities, they may not be effective. Allegations of such activities, particularly by regulators, can have a negative reputational impact and can subject us to large fines and settlements, and potentially significant penalties, including treble damages.
The growth of electronic trading and the introduction of new products and technologies, including trading and distributed ledger technologies, including cryptocurrencies, has increased competition.
Technology is fundamental to our business and our industry. The growth of electronic trading and the introduction of new technologies is changing our businesses and presenting us with new challenges. Securities, futures and options transactions are increasingly occurring electronically, both on our own systems and through other alternative trading systems, and it appears that the trend toward alternative trading systems will continue. Some of these alternative trading systems compete with us, particularly our exchange-based market-making activities, and we may experience continued competitive pressures in these and other areas. In addition, the increased use by our clients of low-cost electronic trading systems and direct electronic access to trading markets could cause a reduction in commissions and spreads. As our clients increasingly use our systems to trade directly in the markets, we may incur liabilities as a result of their use of our order routing and execution infrastructure.
We have invested significant resources into the development of electronic trading systems and expect to continue to do so, but there is no assurance that the revenues generated by these systems will yield an adequate return, particularly given the generally lower commissions arising from electronic trades.
In addition, the emergence, adoption and evolution of new technologies, including distributed ledgers, such as digital assets and blockchain, have required us to invest resources to adapt our existing products and services, and we expect to continue to make such investments, which could be material. The adoption and evolution of such new technologies may also increase our compliance and regulatory costs. Further, technologies, such as those based on distributed ledgers, that do not require intermediation could also significantly disrupt payments processing and other financial services. Regulatory limitations on our involvement in products and platforms involving digital assets and distributed ledger technologies may not apply equally or in some cases at all to certain of our competitors. We may not be as timely or successful in developing or integrating, or even able to develop or integrate, new products and technologies, such as those built on distributed ledgers, into our existing products and services, adapting to changes in consumer preferences or achieving market acceptance of our products and services, any of which could affect our ability to attract or retain clients, cause us to lose market share or result in service disruptions and in turn reduce our revenues or otherwise adversely affect us.
Our businesses would be adversely affected if we are unable to hire and retain qualified employees.
Our performance is largely dependent on the talents and efforts of highly skilled people; therefore, our continued ability to compete effectively in our businesses, to manage our businesses effectively and to expand into new businesses and geographic areas depends on our ability to attract new talented and diverse employees and to retain and motivate our existing employees. Factors that affect our ability to attract and retain such employees include the level and composition of our compensation and benefits, and our reputation as a successful business with a culture of fairly hiring, training and promoting qualified employees. As a significant portion of the compensation that we pay to our employees is in the form of year-end discretionary compensation, a significant portion of which is in the form of deferred equity-related awards, declines in our profitability, or in the outlook for our future profitability, as well as regulatory limitations on compensation levels and terms, can negatively impact our ability to hire and retain highly qualified employees.
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Competition from within the financial services industry and from businesses outside the financial services industry, including the technology industry, for qualified employees has often been intense. We have experienced increased competition in hiring and retaining employees to address the demands of our expanding consumer-oriented businesses and our technology initiatives. This is also the case in emerging and growth markets, where we are often competing for qualified employees with entities that have a significantly greater presence or more extensive experience in the region.
Laws or regulations in jurisdictions in which our operations are located that affect taxes on our employees’ income or the amount or composition of compensation, or that require us to disclose our or our competitors’ compensation practices, may also adversely affect our ability to hire and retain qualified employees in those jurisdictions.
As described further in “Business - Regulation -Compensation Practices” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K, our compensation practices are subject to review by, and the standards of, the FRB. As a large global financial and banking institution, we are subject to limitations on compensation practices (which may or may not affect the companies with which we compete for talent) by the FRB, the PRA, the FCA, the FDIC and other regulators worldwide. These limitations have shaped our compensation practices, which has, in some cases, adversely affected our ability to attract and retain talented employees, in particular in relation to companies not subject to these limitations, and future legislation or regulation may have similar adverse effects.
Our operating expenses and efficiency ratio depend, in part, on our overall headcount and the proportion of our employees located in strategic locations. Our future human capital resource requirements and the benefits provided by strategic locations are uncertain, and we may not realize the benefits we anticipate.
Market Developments and General Business Environment
Our businesses, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations have been and may in the future be adversely affected by unforeseen or catastrophic events, including pandemics, terrorist attacks, extreme weather events or other natural disasters.
The occurrence of unforeseen or catastrophic events, including pandemics, such as COVID-19, or other widespread health emergencies (or concerns over the possibility of such an emergency), terrorist attacks, extreme weather events, solar events or other natural disasters, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. These events could have such effects through economic or financial market disruptions or challenging economic or market conditions more generally, the deterioration of our creditworthiness or that of our counterparties, changes in consumer sentiment and consumer borrowing, spending and savings patterns, liquidity stress, or operational difficulties (such as travel limitations and limitations on occupancy in our offices) that impair our ability to manage our businesses.
The COVID-19 pandemic created economic and financial disruptions that have in the past adversely affected and may in the future adversely affect our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will negatively affect our businesses, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations will depend on, among other things, future developments, including any resurgence of COVID-19 cases, the emergence of new variants of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of vaccines and treatments over the long term and against new variants, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.
Climate change could disrupt our businesses and adversely affect client activity levels and the creditworthiness of our clients and counterparties, and our efforts to address concerns relating to climate change could result in damage to our reputation.
Climate change may cause extreme weather events that disrupt operations at one or more of our primary locations, which may negatively affect our ability to service and interact with our clients, adversely affect the value of our investments, including our real estate investments, and reduce the availability or increase the cost of insurance. Climate change and the transition to a less carbon-dependent economy may also have a negative impact on the operations or financial condition of our clients and counterparties, which may decrease revenues from those clients and counterparties and increase the credit risk associated with loans and other credit exposures to those clients and counterparties. In addition, climate change may impact the broader economy.
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We are also exposed to risks resulting from changes in public policy, laws and regulations, or market and public perceptions and preferences in connection with the transition to a less carbon-dependent economy. These changes could adversely affect our business, results of operations and reputation. For example, our reputation and client relationships may be damaged as a result of our or our clients’ involvement in, or decision not to participate in, certain industries or projects associated with causing or exacerbating climate change, as well as any decisions we make to continue to conduct or change our activities in response to considerations relating to climate change. If we are unable to achieve our objectives relating to climate change or our response to climate change is perceived to be ineffective, insufficient or otherwise inappropriate, our business, reputation and efforts to recruit and retain employees may suffer.
New regulations or guidance relating to climate change, as well as the perspectives of government officials, regulators, shareholders, employees and other stakeholders regarding climate change, may affect whether and on what terms and conditions we engage in certain activities or offer certain products. Federal and state, and non-U.S. banking regulators and supervisory authorities, shareholders and other stakeholders have increasingly viewed financial institutions as playing an important role in helping to address risks related to climate change, both directly and with respect to their clients, which may result in financial institutions coming under increased requirements and expectations regarding the disclosure and management of their climate risks and related lending, investment and advisory activities. The FRB has announced that we are among the six U.S. financial institutions participating in a pilot climate scenario analysis exercise in 2023, and we also are subject to new or heightened regulatory requirements relating to climate change, such as requirements relating to operational resiliency or stress testing for various climate stress scenarios. Any such new or heightened requirements could result in increased regulatory, compliance or other costs or higher capital requirements. The risks associated with, and the perspective of regulators, shareholders, employees and other stakeholders regarding, climate change are continuing to evolve rapidly, which can make it difficult to assess the ultimate impact on us of climate change-related risks and uncertainties, and we expect that climate change-related risks will increase over time.
Our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations may be adversely affected by disruptions in the global economy caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions and other developments.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has negatively affected the global economy. Governments around the world have responded to Russia’s invasion by imposing economic sanctions and export controls on certain industry sectors, including price caps on Russian oil, and parties in Russia. Compliance with economic sanctions and restrictions imposed by governments has increased our costs and otherwise adversely affected our business and may continue to do so. Russia has responded with its own restrictions against investors and countries outside Russia and has proposed additional measures aimed at non-Russia owned businesses. Businesses in the U.S. and globally have experienced shortages in materials and increased costs for transportation, energy, and raw materials due in part to the negative effects of the war on the global economy. The escalation or continuation of the war between Russia and Ukraine or other hostilities could result in, among other things, further increased risk of cyber attacks, an increased frequency and volume of failures to settle securities transactions, supply chain disruptions, higher inflation, lower consumer demand and increased volatility in commodity, currency and other financial markets.
The extent and duration of the war, sanctions and resulting market disruptions are impossible to predict, and the consequences for our business could be significant. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Risk Management - Credit Risk Management - Selected Exposures - Country Exposures” for further information about our credit exposure to Russia and Ukraine.
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Certain of our businesses, our funding instruments and financial products may be adversely affected by changes in or the discontinuance of Interbank Offered Rates (IBORs), in particular USD LIBOR.
On January 1, 2022, the publication of all EUR, CHF, JPY and GBP LIBOR (non-USD LIBOR) settings along with certain USD LIBOR settings ceased. The publication of the most commonly used USD LIBOR settings as representative rates will cease after June 2023. The FCA proposed that certain of those USD LIBOR settings continue to be published on a synthetic basis through September 2024. The FCA has allowed the publication and use of synthetic rates for certain GBP LIBOR settings in legacy GBP LIBOR-based derivative contracts through March 2024.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol (IBOR Protocol) has provided derivatives market participants with amended fallbacks for legacy and new derivative contracts to mitigate legal or economic uncertainty. Both counterparties have to adhere to the IBOR Protocol or engage in bilateral amendments for the terms to be effective for derivative contracts. ISDA has confirmed that the FCA’s formal announcement to cease both non-USD and USD LIBOR settings fixed the spread adjustment for all LIBOR rates and as a result fallbacks applied automatically for non-USD LIBOR settings following December 31, 2021 and will apply automatically for USD LIBOR settings following June 30, 2023. The Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act (LIBOR Act), that was enacted in March 2022, provides a statutory framework to replace USD LIBOR with a benchmark rate based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) for contracts governed by U.S. law that have no fallbacks or fallbacks that would require the use of a poll or LIBOR-based rate. In December 2022, the FRB adopted a final rule that implements the LIBOR Act, which will become effective on February 27, 2023. The final rule identifies different SOFR-based replacement rates for derivative contracts, for cash instruments such as floating-rate notes and preferred stock, for consumer contracts, for certain government-sponsored enterprise contracts and for certain student loan securitizations that lack a fallback to an alternative rate when USD LIBOR ceases to be published on June 30, 2023. As the transition from LIBOR is ongoing, there continues to be uncertainty as to the ultimate effect of the transition on the financial markets for LIBOR-linked financial instruments. Similar developments have occurred with respect to other IBORs.
The language in our contracts and financial instruments that define IBORs, in particular LIBOR, have developed over time and have various events that trigger when a successor rate to the designated rate would be selected. Once a trigger is satisfied, contracts and financial instruments often give the calculation agent (which may be us) discretion over the successor rate or benchmark to be selected. Although the LIBOR Act includes safe harbors if the FRB-identified SOFR-based replacement rate is selected, these safe harbors are untested. As a result, and despite the enactment of the LIBOR Act, for the most commonly used USD LIBOR settings, the selection of a successor rate could result in client disputes and litigation surrounding the proper interpretation of our IBOR-based contracts and financial instruments. Discretionary actions taken in connection with the implementation of fallback provisions could also result in client disputes and litigation particularly for derivatives and other synthetic instruments.
Changes in, the discontinuation of, or changes in market acceptance of any IBOR, particularly USD LIBOR, as a reference rate may adversely affect certain of our businesses, our funding instruments and financial products.
Certain of our businesses and our funding instruments may be adversely affected by changes in other reference rates, currencies, indexes, baskets or ETFs to which products we offer or funding that we raise are linked.
Many of the products that we own or that we offer, such as structured notes, warrants, swaps or security-based swaps, pay interest or determine the principal amount to be paid at maturity or in the event of default by reference to rates or by reference to an index, currency, basket, ETF or other financial metric (the underlier). In the event that the composition of the underlier is significantly changed, by reference to rules governing such underlier or otherwise, the underlier ceases to exist (for example, in the event that a country withdraws from the Euro or links its currency to or delinks its currency from another currency or benchmark, an index or ETF sponsor materially alters the composition of an index or ETF, or stocks in a basket are delisted or become impermissible to be included in the index or ETF), the underlier ceases to be recognized as an acceptable market benchmark or there are legal or regulatory constraints on linking a financial instrument to the underlier, we may experience adverse effects.
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Our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations may be adversely affected by disruptions in the global economy caused by escalating tensions between the U.S. and China.
Continued or escalating tensions between the U.S. and China have resulted in and may result in additional changes to U.S. international trade and investment policies, which could disrupt international trade and investment, adversely affect financial markets, including market activity levels, and adversely impact our revenues. Continued or escalating tensions may also lead to the U.S., China or other countries taking other actions, which could include the implementation of sanctions, tariffs or foreign exchange measures, the large-scale sale of U.S. Treasury securities or restrictions on cross-border trade, investment or transfer of information or technology. Any such developments could adversely affect our or our clients’ businesses, as well as our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations, possibly materially.
A conflict, or concerns about a potential conflict, involving China and Taiwan, the U.S. or other countries could negatively impact financial markets and our or our clients’ businesses. Trade restrictions by the U.S. or other countries in response to a conflict or potential conflict involving China, including financial and economic sanctions and export controls against certain organizations or individuals, or actions taken by China in response to trade restrictions, could negatively impact our or our clients’ ability to conduct business in certain countries or with certain counterparties and could negatively impact regional and global financial markets and economic conditions. Any of the foregoing could adversely affect our business, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations, possibly materially.
We face enhanced risks as new business initiatives and acquisitions lead us to engage in new activities, operate in new locations, transact with a broader array of clients and counterparties and expose us to new asset classes and new markets.
A number of our recent and planned business initiatives and expansions of existing businesses, including through acquisitions and partnership arrangements, could continue to bring us into contact, directly or indirectly, with individuals and entities that are not within our traditional client and counterparty base, expose us to new asset classes and new markets, and present us with integration challenges. For example, we continue to transact business and invest in new regions, including a wide range of emerging and growth markets, and we expect this trend to continue. Various emerging and growth market countries have experienced severe economic and financial disruptions, including significant devaluations of their currencies, defaults or threatened defaults on sovereign debt, capital and currency exchange controls, and low or negative growth rates in their economies. The possible effects of any of these conditions include an adverse impact on our businesses and increased volatility in financial markets generally.
Furthermore, in a number of our businesses, including where we make markets, invest and lend, we own interests in, or otherwise become affiliated with the ownership and operation of, public services, such as airports, toll roads and shipping ports, as well as physical commodities and commodities infrastructure components, both within and outside the U.S.
We have increased our consumer-oriented deposit-taking and lending activities. For example, we now issue credit cards to consumers and through our acquisition of GreenSky, Inc. (GreenSky), we expanded our offering of point-of-sale financing. To the extent we engage in those and other consumer-oriented activities, we have faced, and would continue to face, additional compliance, legal and regulatory risk, increased reputational risk and increased operational risk due to, among other things, higher transaction volumes and significantly increased retention and transmission of consumer and client information. Acquisitions and new products can also expose us to new or different types of risks. For example, providing point-of-sale financing through GreenSky also subjects us to risks relating to retaining and attracting merchants and servicing loans for other banks, as well as potential liability for remediation costs if merchants fail to fulfill their obligations to consumers. We are also subject to additional legal requirements, including with respect to suitability and consumer protection (for example, Regulation Best Interest, fair lending laws and regulations and privacy laws and regulations). Further, identity fraud may increase and credit reporting practices may change in a manner that makes it more difficult for financial institutions, such as us, to evaluate the creditworthiness of consumers.
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We have increased and intend to further increase our transaction banking activities. As a result, we expect to face additional compliance, legal and regulatory risk, including with respect to know-your-customer, anti-money laundering and reporting requirements and prohibitions on transfers of property belonging to countries, entities and individuals subject to sanctions by U.S. or other governmental authorities.
New business initiatives expose us to new and enhanced risks, including risks associated with dealing with governmental entities, reputational concerns arising from dealing with different types of clients, business partners, counterparties and investors, greater regulatory scrutiny of these activities, increased credit-related, market, sovereign and operational risks, risks arising from accidents or acts of terrorism, and reputational concerns with the manner in which certain assets are being operated or held or in which we interact with these clients, business partners, counterparties and investors. Legal, regulatory and reputational risks may also exist in connection with activities and transactions involving new products or markets where there is regulatory uncertainty or where there are different or conflicting regulations depending on the regulator or the jurisdiction involved, particularly where transactions in such products may involve multiple jurisdictions.
We have developed and pursued new business and strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, and expect to continue to do so. If and to the extent we are unable to successfully execute those initiatives, we may incur unanticipated costs and losses, and face other adverse consequences, such as negative reputational effects. In addition, the actual effects of pursuing those initiatives may differ, possibly materially, from the benefits that we expect to realize from them, such as generating additional revenues, achieving expense savings, reducing operational risk exposures or using capital and funding more efficiently. Engaging in new activities exposes us to a variety of risks, including that we may be unable to successfully develop new, competitive, efficient and effective systems and processes, and hire and retain the necessary personnel. Due to our lack of historical experience with unsecured consumer lending, our loan loss assumptions may prove to be incorrect and we may incur losses significantly above those which we originally anticipated in entering the business or in expanding the product offerings for the business.
In recent years, we have invested, and may continue to invest, more in businesses that we expect will generate a higher level of more consistent revenues. In order to develop and be able to offer consumer financial products that compete effectively, we have made and may continue to make significant investments in technology and human capital resources in connection with our consumer-oriented activities. Such investments and acquisitions may not be successful or have returns similar to our other businesses.
We may not be able to fully realize the expected benefits or synergies from acquisitions or other business initiatives in the time frames we expect, or at all.
We have engaged in selective acquisitions and may continue to do so in the future and these acquisitions may, individually or in the aggregate, be material to us. Any future acquisitions could involve the issuance of common stock and/or the payment of cash as consideration. The success of our acquisitions will depend, in part, on our ability to integrate the acquired businesses and realize anticipated synergies, cost savings and growth opportunities. We may face numerous risks and uncertainties in combining and integrating the relevant businesses and systems, including the need to combine or separate accounting and data processing systems and management controls and to integrate relationships with clients, counterparties, regulators and others in connection with acquisitions. Integration of acquired businesses is time-consuming and could disrupt our ongoing businesses, produce unforeseen regulatory or operating difficulties, cause us to incur incremental expenses or require incremental financial, management and other resources. It is also possible that an acquisition, once announced, may not close due to the failure to satisfy applicable closing conditions, such as the receipt of necessary shareholder or regulatory approvals.
There is no assurance that any of our acquisitions will be successfully integrated or yield all of the expected benefits and synergies in the time frames that we expect, or at all. If we are not able to integrate our acquisitions successfully, our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
There is no assurance that the reorganization of our business segments will yield all of the expected benefits in the time frames that we expect, or at all.
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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
There are no material unresolved written comments that were received from the SEC staff 180 days or more before the end of our fiscal year relating to our periodic or current reports under the Exchange Act.

Item 2. Properties
Item 2. Properties
In the U.S. and elsewhere in the Americas, we have offices consisting of approximately 6.7 million square feet of leased and owned space. Our principal executive offices are located at 200 West Street, New York, New York and consist of approximately 2.1 million square feet. The building is located on a parcel leased from Battery Park City Authority pursuant to a ground lease. Under the lease, Battery Park City Authority holds title to all improvements, including the office building, subject to our right of exclusive possession and use until June 2069, the expiration date of the lease. Under the terms of the ground lease, we made a lump sum ground rent payment in June 2007 of $161 million for rent through the term of the lease.
In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, we have offices consisting of approximately 1.8 million square feet of leased and owned space. Our European headquarters is located in London at Plumtree Court, consisting of approximately 826,000 square feet under a lease which can be terminated in 2039.
In Asia, Australia and New Zealand, we have offices consisting of approximately 2.8 million square feet, including our offices in India, and regional headquarters in Tokyo and Hong Kong. In India, we have offices with approximately 1.7 million square feet, the majority of which have leases that will expire in 2028.
In the preceding paragraphs, square footage figures are provided only for properties that are used in the operation of our businesses. We regularly evaluate our space capacity in relation to current and projected headcount. We may incur exit costs in the future if we (i) reduce our space capacity or (ii) commit to, or occupy, new properties in locations in which we operate and dispose of existing space that had been held for potential growth. These costs may be material to our operating results in a given period.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
We are involved in a number of judicial, regulatory and arbitration proceedings concerning matters arising in connection with the conduct of our businesses. Many of these proceedings are in early stages, and many of these cases seek an indeterminate amount of damages. We have estimated the upper end of the range of reasonably possible aggregate loss for matters where we have been able to estimate a range and we believe, based on currently available information, that the results of matters where we have not been able to estimate a range of reasonably possible loss, in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, but may be material to our operating results in a given period. Given the range of litigation and investigations presently under way, our litigation expenses may remain high. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Use of Estimates” in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K. See Notes 18 and 27 to the consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K for information about our reasonably possible aggregate loss estimate and judicial, regulatory and legal proceedings.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The principal market on which our common stock is traded is the NYSE under the symbol “GS.” Information relating to the performance of our common stock from December 31, 2017 through December 31, 2022 is set forth in “Supplemental Financial Information - Common Stock Performance” in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. As of February 10, 2023, there were 5,750 holders of record of our common stock.
The table below presents purchases made by or on behalf of Group Inc. or any “affiliated purchaser” (as defined in Rule 10b-18(a)(3) under the Exchange Act) of our common stock during the fourth quarter of 2022.
Total
Shares
Purchased Average
Price Paid
Per Share Total Shares
Purchased as
Part of a Publicly
Announced Program Maximum Shares
That May Yet Be
Purchased Under
the Program
October
1,368,286 $ 328.88 1,368,286 27,092,986
November
2,816,047 $ 372.86 2,816,047 24,276,939
December
- - - 24,276,939
Total 4,184,333 4,184,333
Since March 2000, our Board had approved a repurchase program authorizing repurchases of up to 605 million shares of our common stock. In February 2023, our Board approved a new share repurchase program authorizing repurchases of up to $30 billion (in aggregate value and inclusive of shares repurchased in 2023) of our common stock. This program replaces our existing share repurchase program. The repurchase program is effected primarily through regular open-market purchases (which may include repurchase plans designed to comply with Rule 10b5-1 and accelerated share repurchases), the amounts and timing of which are determined primarily by our current and projected capital position, but which may also be influenced by general market conditions and the prevailing price and trading volumes of our common stock. The repurchase program has no set expiration or termination date.
Information relating to compensation plans under which our equity securities are authorized for issuance is presented in Part III, Item 12 of this Form 10-K.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis

Item 6. Selected Financial Data

Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Introduction
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Group Inc. or parent company), a Delaware corporation, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, we are headquartered in New York and maintain offices in all major financial centers around the world. We manage and report our activities in three business segments: Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management and Platform Solutions. See “Results of Operations” for further information about our business segments.
When we use the terms “we,” “us” and “our,” we mean Group Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. When we use the term “our subsidiaries,” we mean the consolidated subsidiaries of Group Inc. References to “this Form 10-K” are to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. All references to “the consolidated financial statements” or “Supplemental Financial Information” are to Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. All references to 2022, 2021 and 2020 refer to our years ended, or the dates, as the context requires, December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. Any reference to a future year refers to a year ending on December 31 of that year.
Group Inc. is a bank holding company (BHC) and a financial holding company regulated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB).
In this discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations, we have included information that may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts or statements of current conditions, but instead represent only our beliefs regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside our control.
By identifying these statements for you in this manner, we are alerting you to the possibility that our actual results, financial condition, liquidity and capital actions may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results, financial condition, liquidity and capital actions in these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our results, financial condition, liquidity and capital actions to differ from those in these statements include, among others, those described in “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K and “Forward-Looking Statements” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
These statements may relate to, among other things, (i) our future plans and results, including our target ROE, ROTE, efficiency ratio, Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio and firmwide assets under supervision (AUS) inflows, and how they can be achieved, (ii) trends in or growth opportunities for our businesses, including the timing, costs, profitability, benefits and other aspects of business and strategic initiatives and their impact on our efficiency ratio, (iii) our level of future compensation expense, including as a percentage of both operating expenses and revenues, net of provision for credit losses, (iv) our Investment banking fees backlog and future results, (v) our expected interest income and interest expense, (vi) our expense savings and strategic locations initiatives, (vii) expenses we may incur, including future litigation expense and expenses from investing in our platform solutions business, (viii) the projected growth of our deposits and other funding, asset liability management and funding strategies and related interest expense savings, (ix) our business initiatives, including transaction banking and new products in our consumer platforms business, (x) our planned 2023 benchmark debt issuances, (xi) the amount, composition and location of global core liquid assets (GCLA) we expect to hold, (xii) our credit exposures, (xiii) our expected provisions for credit losses, (xiv) the adequacy of our allowance for credit losses, (xv) the projected growth of our platform solutions business, (xvi) the objectives and effectiveness of our business continuity planning (BCP), information security program, risk management and liquidity policies, (xvii) our resolution plan and strategy and their implications for stakeholders, (xviii) the design and effectiveness of our resolution capital and liquidity models and triggers and alerts framework, (xix) the results of stress tests, the effect of changes to regulations, and our future status, activities or reporting under banking and financial regulation, (xx) our expected tax rate, (xxi) the future state of our liquidity and regulatory capital ratios, and our prospective capital distributions (including dividends and repurchases), (xxii) our expected SCB and global systemically important bank (G-SIB) surcharge, (xxiii) legal proceedings, governmental investigations or other contingencies, (xxiv) the asset recovery guarantee and our remediation activities related to our 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) settlements, (xxv) the replacement of IBORs and our transition to alternative risk-free reference rates, (xxvi) the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on our business, results, financial position and liquidity, (xxvii) the effectiveness of our management of our human capital, including our diversity goals, (xxviii) our sustainability and carbon neutrality targets and goals, (xxix) future inflation and (xxx) the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions and other developments on our business, results and financial position.
Executive Overview
We generated net earnings of $11.26 billion for 2022, compared with $21.64 billion for 2021. Diluted earnings per common share (EPS) was $30.06 for 2022, compared with $59.45 for 2021. Return on average common shareholders’ equity (ROE) was 10.2% for 2022, compared with 23.0% for 2021. Book value per common share was $303.55 as of December 2022, 6.7% higher compared with December 2021.
Net revenues were $47.37 billion for 2022, 20% lower than a strong 2021, reflecting significantly lower net revenues in Asset & Wealth Management and lower net revenues in Global Banking & Markets, partially offset by significantly higher net revenues in Platform Solutions. Net revenues in Asset & Wealth Management primarily reflected significantly lower net revenues in Equity investments and Debt investments. Net revenues in Global Banking & Markets primarily reflected significantly lower Investment banking fees compared with a strong prior year, partially offset by significantly higher net revenues in Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC). Net revenues in Platform Solutions were significantly higher, primarily reflecting significantly higher net revenues in Consumer platforms.
Provision for credit losses was $2.72 billion for 2022, compared with $357 million for 2021. Provisions for 2022 primarily reflected growth in the credit card portfolio, the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns and net charge-offs. Provisions for 2021 reflected growth in the credit card and wholesale portfolios, largely offset by reserve reductions as the broader economic environment continued to improve following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating expenses were $31.16 billion for 2022, 2% lower than 2021, primarily due to lower compensation and benefits expenses (reflecting a decline in operating performance compared with a strong prior year). This decrease was partially offset by higher non-compensation expenses, reflecting the inclusion of NN Investment Partners (NNIP) and GreenSky, Inc. (GreenSky) and increases in transaction based expenses and technology expenses. Our efficiency ratio (total operating expenses divided by total net revenues) was 65.8% for 2022, compared with 53.8% for 2021.
During 2022, we returned a total of $6.70 billion to shareholders, including common stock repurchases of $3.50 billion and common stock dividends of $3.20 billion. As of December 2022, our CET1 capital ratio was 15.1% under the Standardized Capital Rules and 14.4% under the Advanced Capital Rules. See Note 20 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our capital ratios.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Business Environment
In 2022, the global economy was impacted by persistent broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war, and inflationary and labor market pressures. Governments around the world responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by imposing economic sanctions, and global central banks sought to address inflation by increasing policy interest rates several times over the course of the year. These factors contributed to increased market volatility during the year, as well as a decrease in global equity and bond prices and wider corporate credit spreads compared with the end of 2021.
The economic outlook remains uncertain, reflecting concerns about the continuation or escalation of the war between Russia and Ukraine and other geopolitical risks, inflation, and supply chain complications. See “Results of Operations - Segment Assets and Operating Results - Segment Operating Results” for further information about the operating environment for each of our business segments.
Critical Accounting Policies
Fair Value
Fair Value Hierarchy. Trading assets and liabilities, certain investments and loans, and certain other financial assets and liabilities, are included in our consolidated balance sheets at fair value (i.e., marked-to-market), with related gains or losses generally recognized in our consolidated statements of earnings. The use of fair value to measure financial instruments is fundamental to our risk management practices and is our most critical accounting policy.
The fair value of a financial instrument is the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. We measure certain financial assets and liabilities as a portfolio (i.e., based on its net exposure to market and/or credit risks). In determining fair value, the hierarchy under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP) gives (i) the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities (level 1 inputs), (ii) the next priority to inputs other than level 1 inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly (level 2 inputs), and (iii) the lowest priority to inputs that cannot be observed in market activity (level 3 inputs). In evaluating the significance of a valuation input, we consider, among other factors, a portfolio’s net risk exposure to that input. Assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to their fair value measurement.
The fair values for substantially all of our financial assets and liabilities are based on observable prices and inputs and are classified in levels 1 and 2 of the fair value hierarchy. Certain level 2 and level 3 financial assets and liabilities may require appropriate valuation adjustments that a market participant would require to arrive at fair value for factors, such as counterparty and our credit quality, funding risk, transfer restrictions, liquidity and bid/offer spreads.
Instruments classified in level 3 of the fair value hierarchy are those which require one or more significant inputs that are not observable. Level 3 financial assets represented 1.8% as of December 2022 and 1.6% as of December 2021 of our total assets. See Notes 4 and 5 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about level 3 financial assets, including changes in level 3 financial assets and related fair value measurements. Absent evidence to the contrary, instruments classified in level 3 of the fair value hierarchy are initially valued at transaction price, which is considered to be the best initial estimate of fair value. Subsequent to the transaction date, we use other methodologies to determine fair value, which vary based on the type of instrument. Estimating the fair value of level 3 financial instruments requires judgments to be made. These judgments include:
•Determining the appropriate valuation methodology and/or model for each type of level 3 financial instrument;
•Determining model inputs based on an evaluation of all relevant empirical market data, including prices evidenced by market transactions, interest rates, credit spreads, volatilities and correlations; and
•Determining appropriate valuation adjustments, including those related to illiquidity or counterparty credit quality.
Regardless of the methodology, valuation inputs and assumptions are only changed when corroborated by substantive evidence.
Controls Over Valuation of Financial Instruments. Market makers and investment professionals in our revenue-producing units are responsible for pricing our financial instruments. Our control infrastructure is independent of the revenue-producing units and is fundamental to ensuring that all of our financial instruments are appropriately valued at market-clearing levels. In the event that there is a difference of opinion in situations where estimating the fair value of financial instruments requires judgment (e.g., calibration to market comparables or trade comparison, as described below), the final valuation decision is made by senior managers in independent risk oversight and control functions. This independent price verification is critical to ensuring that our financial instruments are properly valued.
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Price Verification. All financial instruments at fair value classified in levels 1, 2 and 3 of the fair value hierarchy are subject to our independent price verification process. The objective of price verification is to have an informed and independent opinion with regard to the valuation of financial instruments under review. Instruments that have one or more significant inputs which cannot be corroborated by external market data are classified in level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. Price verification strategies utilized by our independent risk oversight and control functions include:
•Trade Comparison. Analysis of trade data (both internal and external, where available) is used to determine the most relevant pricing inputs and valuations.
•External Price Comparison. Valuations and prices are compared to pricing data obtained from third parties (e.g., brokers or dealers, S&P Global Services, Bloomberg, ICE Data Services, Pricing Direct, TRACE). Data obtained from various sources is compared to ensure consistency and validity. When broker or dealer quotations or third-party pricing vendors are used for valuation or price verification, greater priority is generally given to executable quotations.
•Calibration to Market Comparables. Market-based transactions are used to corroborate the valuation of positions with similar characteristics, risks and components.
•Relative Value Analyses. Market-based transactions are analyzed to determine the similarity, measured in terms of risk, liquidity and return, of one instrument relative to another or, for a given instrument, of one maturity relative to another.
•Collateral Analyses. Margin calls on derivatives are analyzed to determine implied values, which are used to corroborate our valuations.
•Execution of Trades. Where appropriate, market-making desks are instructed to execute trades in order to provide evidence of market-clearing levels.
•Backtesting. Valuations are corroborated by comparison to values realized upon sales.
See Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about fair value measurements.
Review of Net Revenues. Independent risk oversight and control functions ensure adherence to our pricing policy through a combination of daily procedures, including the explanation and attribution of net revenues based on the underlying factors. Through this process, we independently validate net revenues, identify and resolve potential fair value or trade booking issues on a timely basis and seek to ensure that risks are being properly categorized and quantified.
Review of Valuation Models. Our independent model risk management group (Model Risk), consisting of quantitative professionals who are separate from model developers, performs an independent model review and validation process of our valuation models. New or changed models are reviewed and approved prior to implementation. Models are reviewed annually to assess the impact of any changes in the product or market and any market developments in pricing theories. See “Risk Management - Model Risk Management” for further information about the review and validation of our valuation models.
Allowance for Credit Losses
We estimate and record an allowance for credit losses related to our loans held for investment that are accounted for at amortized cost. To determine the allowance for credit losses, we classify our loans accounted for at amortized cost into wholesale and consumer portfolios. These portfolios represent the level at which we have developed and documented our methodology to determine the allowance for credit losses. The allowance for credit losses is measured on a collective basis for loans that exhibit similar risk characteristics using a modeled approach and on an asset-specific basis for loans that do not share similar risk characteristics.
The allowance for credit losses takes into account the weighted average of a range of forecasts of future economic conditions over the expected life of the loans and lending commitments. The expected life of each loan or lending commitment is determined based on the contractual term adjusted for extension options or demand features, or is modeled in the case of revolving credit card loans. The forecasts include baseline, favorable and adverse economic scenarios over a three-year period. For loans with expected lives beyond three years, the model reverts to historical loss information based on a non-linear modeled approach. We apply judgment in weighting individual scenarios each quarter based on a variety of factors, including our internally derived economic outlook, market consensus, recent macroeconomic conditions and industry trends. The forecasted economic scenarios consider a number of risk factors relevant to the wholesale and consumer portfolios. Risk factors for wholesale loans include internal credit ratings, industry default and loss data, expected life, macroeconomic indicators (e.g., unemployment rates and GDP), the borrower’s capacity to meet its financial obligations, the borrower’s country of risk and industry, loan seniority and collateral type. In addition, for loans backed by real estate, risk factors include loan-to-value ratio, debt service ratio and home price index. Risk factors for installment and credit card loans include Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) credit scores, delinquency status, loan vintage and macroeconomic indicators.
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The allowance for credit losses also includes qualitative components which allow management to reflect the uncertain nature of economic forecasting, capture uncertainty regarding model inputs, and account for model imprecision and concentration risk.
Our estimate of credit losses entails judgment about collectability at the reporting dates, and there are uncertainties inherent in those judgments. The allowance for credit losses is subject to a governance process that involves review and approval by senior management within our independent risk oversight and control functions. Personnel within our independent risk oversight and control functions are responsible for forecasting the economic variables that underlie the economic scenarios that are used in the modeling of expected credit losses. While we use the best information available to determine this estimate, future adjustments to the allowance may be necessary based on, among other things, changes in the economic environment or variances between actual results and the original assumptions used. Loans are charged off against the allowance for loan losses when deemed to be uncollectible.
We also record an allowance for credit losses on lending commitments which are held for investment that are accounted for at amortized cost. Such allowance is determined using the same methodology as the allowance for loan losses, while also taking into consideration the probability of drawdowns or funding, and whether such commitments are cancellable by us.
To estimate the potential impact of an adverse macroeconomic environment on our allowance for credit losses, we, among other things, compared the expected credit losses under the weighted average forecast used in the calculation of allowance for credit losses as of December 2022 (which was weighted towards the baseline and adverse economic scenarios) to the expected credit losses under a 100% weighted adverse economic scenario. The adverse economic scenario of the forecast model reflects a global recession in 2023 and a more aggressive tightening of monetary policy by central banks, resulting in an economic contraction and rising unemployment rates. A 100% weighting to the adverse economic scenario would have resulted in an approximate $1.0 billion increase in our allowance for credit losses as of December 2022. This hypothetical increase does not take into consideration any potential adjustments to qualitative reserves. The forecasts of macroeconomic conditions are inherently uncertain and do not take into account any other offsetting or correlated effects. The actual credit loss in an adverse macroeconomic environment may differ significantly from this estimate. See Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about the allowance for credit losses.
Use of Estimates
U.S. GAAP requires us to make certain estimates and assumptions. In addition to the estimates we make in connection with fair value measurements and the allowance for credit losses on loans and lending commitments held for investment and accounted for at amortized cost, the use of estimates and assumptions is also important in determining the accounting for goodwill and identifiable intangible assets, provisions for losses that may arise from litigation and regulatory proceedings (including governmental investigations), and accounting for income taxes.
Goodwill is assessed for impairment annually in the fourth quarter or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change that indicate an impairment may exist. When assessing goodwill for impairment, first, a qualitative assessment can be made to determine whether it is more likely than not that the estimated fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. If the results of the qualitative assessment are not conclusive, a quantitative goodwill test is performed. Alternatively, a quantitative goodwill test can be performed without performing a qualitative assessment. Estimating the fair value of our reporting units requires judgment. Critical inputs to the fair value estimates include projected earnings and allocated equity. There is inherent uncertainty in the projected earnings. The carrying value of each reporting unit reflects an allocation of total shareholders’ equity and represents the estimated amount of total shareholders’ equity required to support the activities of the reporting unit under currently applicable regulatory capital requirements. The estimated fair value of our Consumer platforms reporting unit, which represents approximately 7.5% of our goodwill, was not substantially in excess of its carrying value. This reporting unit has been adversely impacted by the recent operating environment generally characterized by broad macroeconomic concerns. We will continue to closely monitor it to determine whether an impairment is required in the future. As of December 2022, the goodwill related to the Consumer platforms reporting unit was $482 million. See Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about goodwill. If we experience a prolonged or severe period of weakness in the business environment, financial markets, the performance of one or more of our reporting units or our common stock price, or additional increases in capital requirements, our goodwill could be impaired in the future.
Identifiable intangible assets are tested for impairment when events or changes in circumstances suggest that an asset’s or asset group’s carrying value may not be fully recoverable. Judgment is required to evaluate whether indications of potential impairment have occurred, and to test identifiable intangible assets for impairment, if required. An impairment is recognized if the estimated undiscounted cash flows relating to the asset or asset group is less than the corresponding carrying value. See Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about identifiable intangible assets.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
We also estimate and provide for potential losses that may arise out of litigation and regulatory proceedings to the extent that such losses are probable and can be reasonably estimated. In addition, we estimate the upper end of the range of reasonably possible aggregate loss in excess of the related reserves for litigation and regulatory proceedings where we believe the risk of loss is more than slight. See Notes 18 and 27 to the consolidated financial statements for information about certain judicial, litigation and regulatory proceedings. Significant judgment is required in making these estimates and our final liabilities may ultimately be materially different. Our total estimated liability in respect of litigation and regulatory proceedings is determined on a case-by-case basis and represents an estimate of probable losses after considering, among other factors, the progress of each case, proceeding or investigation, our experience and the experience of others in similar cases, proceedings or investigations, and the opinions and views of legal counsel.
In accounting for income taxes, we recognize tax positions in the financial statements only when it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained on examination by the relevant taxing authority based on the technical merits of the position. As of December 2022, our net liability for unrecognized tax benefits was $1.22 billion. We use estimates to recognize current and deferred income taxes in the U.S. federal, state and local and non-U.S. jurisdictions in which we operate. The income tax laws in these jurisdictions are complex and can be subject to different interpretations between taxpayers and taxing authorities. Disputes may arise over these interpretations and can be settled by audit, administrative appeals or judicial proceedings. Our interpretations are reevaluated quarterly based on guidance currently available, tax examination experience and the opinions of legal counsel, among other factors. We recognize deferred taxes based on the amount that will more likely than not be realized in the future based on enacted income tax laws. As of December 2022, we had $8.93 billion of deferred tax assets with a related valuation allowance of $1.57 billion. Our estimate for deferred taxes includes estimates for future taxable earnings, including the level and character of those earnings, and various tax planning strategies. See Note 24 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about income taxes.
Recent Accounting Developments
See Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements for information about Recent Accounting Developments.
Results of Operations
The composition of our net revenues has varied over time as financial markets and the scope of our operations have changed. The composition of net revenues can also vary over the shorter term due to fluctuations in U.S. and global economic and market conditions. See “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K for further information about the impact of economic and market conditions on our results of operations.
Financial Overview
The table below presents an overview of our financial results and selected financial ratios.
Year Ended December
$ in millions, except per share amounts 2022 2021 2020
Net revenues $ 47,365 $ 59,339 $ 44,560
Pre-tax earnings $ 13,486 $ 27,044 $ 12,479
Net earnings $ 11,261 $ 21,635 $ 9,459
Net earnings to common $ 10,764 $ 21,151 $ 8,915
Diluted EPS $ 30.06 $ 59.45 $ 24.74
ROE 10.2 % 23.0 % 11.1 %
ROTE 11.0 % 24.3 % 11.8 %
Net earnings to average assets 0.7 % 1.6 % 0.8 %
Return on shareholders’ equity 9.7 % 21.3 % 10.3 %
Average equity to average assets 7.5 % 7.4 % 8.2 %
Dividend payout ratio 29.9 % 10.9 % 20.2 %
In the table above:
•Net earnings to common represents net earnings applicable to common shareholders, which is calculated as net earnings less preferred stock dividends.
•ROE is calculated by dividing net earnings to common by average monthly common shareholders’ equity. Tangible common shareholders’ equity is calculated as total shareholders’ equity less preferred stock, goodwill and identifiable intangible assets.
•Return on average tangible common shareholders' equity (ROTE) is calculated by dividing net earnings to common by average monthly tangible common shareholders’ equity. We believe that tangible common shareholders’ equity is meaningful because it is a measure that we and investors use to assess capital adequacy and that ROTE is meaningful because it measures the performance of businesses consistently, whether they were acquired or developed internally. Tangible common shareholders’ equity and ROTE are non-GAAP measures and may not be comparable to similar non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
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The table below presents our average equity and the reconciliation of average common shareholders’ equity to average tangible common shareholders’ equity.
Average for the Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Total shareholders’ equity $ 115,990 $ 101,705 $ 91,779
Preferred stock (10,703) (9,876) (11,203)
Common shareholders’ equity 105,287 91,829 80,576
Goodwill (5,726) (4,327) (4,238)
Identifiable intangible assets (1,583) (536) (617)
Tangible common shareholders’ equity $ 97,978 $ 86,966 $ 75,721
•Net earnings to average assets is calculated by dividing net earnings by average total assets.
•Return on shareholders’ equity is calculated by dividing net earnings by average monthly shareholders’ equity.
•Average equity to average assets is calculated by dividing average total shareholders’ equity by average total assets.
•Dividend payout ratio is calculated by dividing dividends declared per common share by diluted EPS.
Net Revenues
The table below presents our net revenues by line item.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Investment banking $ 7,360 $ 14,136 $ 9,100
Investment management 9,005 8,171 6,986
Commissions and fees 4,034 3,590 3,539
Market making 18,634 15,357 15,428
Other principal transactions 654 11,615 4,756
Total non-interest revenues 39,687 52,869 39,809
Interest income 29,024 12,120 13,689
Interest expense 21,346 5,650 8,938
Net interest income 7,678 6,470 4,751
Total net revenues $ 47,365 $ 59,339 $ 44,560
In the table above:
•Investment banking consists of revenues (excluding net interest) from financial advisory and underwriting assignments. These activities are included in Global Banking & Markets.
•Investment management consists of revenues (excluding net interest) from providing asset management and wealth advisory services across all major asset classes to a diverse set of clients. These activities are included in Asset & Wealth Management.
•Commissions and fees consists of revenues from executing and clearing client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. Substantially all of these activities are included in Global Banking & Markets.
•Market making consists of revenues (excluding net interest) from client execution activities related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, commodities and equity products. These activities are included in Global Banking & Markets.
•Other principal transactions consists of revenues (excluding net interest) from our equity investing activities, including revenues related to our consolidated investments (included in Asset & Wealth Management), and debt investing and lending activities (included across our three segments).
Operating Environment. During 2022, the operating environment was characterized by broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns and market volatility, which contributed to a decrease in global equity and bond prices and wider corporate credit spreads compared with the end of 2021. These factors contributed to solid market-making activity levels and a decline in industry-wide investment banking activity, particularly for underwriting. In the U.S., the rate of unemployment remained low and consumer spending increased slightly compared with 2021.
If concerns about the economic outlook grow, including those about the continuation or escalation of geopolitical concerns, inflation and supply chain complications, and the persistence of COVID-19-related effects, it may lead to a continued decline in asset prices, or a decline in market-making activity levels, or a continued decline in investment banking activity levels, and net revenues and provision for credit losses would likely be negatively impacted. See “Segment Assets and Operating Results - Segment Operating Results” for information about the operating environment and material trends and uncertainties that may impact our results of operations.
2022 versus 2021
Net revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $47.37 billion for 2022, 20% lower than a strong 2021, primarily reflecting significantly lower other principal transactions revenues and investment banking revenues, partially offset by significantly higher market making revenues.
Non-Interest Revenues. Investment banking revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $7.36 billion for 2022, 48% lower than a strong 2021, due to significantly lower revenues in both equity and debt underwriting, reflecting a significant decline in industry-wide volumes, and lower revenues in advisory, reflecting a decline in industry-wide completed mergers and acquisitions transactions from elevated activity levels in the prior year.
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Investment management revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $9.01 billion for 2022, 10% higher than 2021, due to higher management and other fees, reflecting the inclusion of NNIP and a reduction in fee waivers on money market funds.
Commissions and fees in the consolidated statements of earnings were $4.03 billion for 2022, 12% higher than 2021, primarily due to higher commissions and fees in Equities, reflecting generally higher volumes.
Market making revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $18.63 billion for 2022, 21% higher than 2021, primarily reflecting significantly higher revenues in interest rate products, currencies and commodities, partially offset by lower revenues in equity products.
Other principal transactions revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $654 million for 2022, compared with $11.62 billion for 2021, primarily reflecting significantly lower net gains from investments in private equities, significant mark-to-market net losses from investments in public equities and net mark-downs in debt investments compared with net mark-ups in 2021.
Net Interest Income. Net interest income in the consolidated statements of earnings was $7.68 billion for 2022, 19% higher than 2021, reflecting an increase in interest income primarily related to collateralized agreements, other interest-earning assets and deposits with banks, each reflecting the impact of higher average interest rates, and loans, reflecting the impact of higher average balances and higher average interest rates. The increase in interest income was partially offset by an increase in interest expense primarily related to other interest-bearing liabilities, collateralized financings, and borrowings, each reflecting the impact of higher average interest rates, and deposits, reflecting the impact of higher average interest rates and higher average balances. See “Statistical Disclosures - Distribution of Assets, Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity” for further information about our sources of net interest income.
2021 versus 2020
Net revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $59.34 billion for 2021, 33% higher than 2020, reflecting significantly higher other principal transactions revenues, investment banking revenues and net interest income, and higher investment management revenues.
Non-Interest Revenues. Investment banking revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $14.14 billion for 2021, 55% higher than 2020, due to significantly higher revenues in advisory, reflecting a significant increase in completed mergers and acquisitions volumes, in equity underwriting, primarily driven by strong industry-wide initial public offerings activity, and in debt underwriting, primarily reflecting elevated industry-wide leveraged finance activity.
Investment management revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $8.17 billion for 2021, 17% higher than 2020, primarily due to higher management and other fees, reflecting the impact of higher average assets under supervision, partially offset by higher fee waivers on money market funds. In addition, incentive fees were significantly higher, primarily driven by harvesting.
Commissions and fees in the consolidated statements of earnings were $3.59 billion for 2021, essentially unchanged compared with 2020.
Market making revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $15.36 billion for 2021, essentially unchanged compared with 2020, as significantly lower revenues in interest rate products and credit products were largely offset by significantly higher revenues in equity products (primarily in derivatives) and commodities, and improved results in mortgages.
Other principal transactions revenues in the consolidated statements of earnings were $11.62 billion for 2021, compared with $4.76 billion for 2020, primarily reflecting significantly higher net gains from investments in private equities and in debt instruments, partially offset by net losses from investments in public equities compared with significant net gains in 2020.
Net Interest Income. Net interest income in the consolidated statements of earnings was $6.47 billion for 2021, 36% higher than 2020, reflecting a decrease in interest expense, partially offset by a decrease in interest income. The decrease in interest expense is primarily related to other interest-bearing liabilities, deposits and long-term borrowings, each reflecting the impact of lower interest rates. The decrease in interest income primarily related to collateralized agreements and trading assets, both reflecting the impact of lower interest rates, partially offset by the impact of higher average balances for loans. See “Supplemental Financial Information - Statistical Disclosures - Distribution of Assets, Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity” for further information about our sources of net interest income.
Provision for Credit Losses
Provision for credit losses consists of provision for credit losses on loans and lending commitments held for investment and accounted for at amortized cost. See Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about the provision for credit losses.
The table below presents our provision for credit losses.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Provision for credit losses $ 2,715 $ 357 $ 3,098
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2022 versus 2021. Provision for credit losses in the consolidated statements of earnings was $2.72 billion for 2022, compared with $357 million for 2021. Provisions for 2022 primarily reflected growth in the credit card portfolio, the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns and net charge-offs. Provisions for 2021 reflected portfolio growth in the credit card and wholesale portfolios, largely offset by reserve reductions as the broader economic environment continued to improve following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 versus 2020. Provision for credit losses in the consolidated statements of earnings was $357 million for 2021, compared with $3.10 billion for 2020. Provisions for 2021 reflected portfolio growth (primarily in credit cards, including approximately $185 million of provisions related to the commitment to acquire the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio), largely offset by reserve reductions on wholesale and consumer loans reflecting continued improvement in the broader economic environment. This followed challenging conditions in the prior year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which contributed to significant provisions in 2020.
Operating Expenses
Our operating expenses are primarily influenced by compensation, headcount and levels of business activity. Compensation and benefits includes salaries, year-end discretionary compensation, amortization of equity awards and other items such as benefits. Discretionary compensation is significantly impacted by, among other factors, the level of net revenues, net of provision for credit losses, overall financial performance, prevailing labor markets, business mix, the structure of our share-based compensation programs and the external environment.
The table below presents our operating expenses by line item and headcount.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Compensation and benefits $ 15,148 $ 17,719 $ 13,309
Transaction based 5,312 4,710 4,141
Market development 812 553 401
Communications and technology 1,808 1,573 1,347
Depreciation and amortization 2,455 2,015 1,902
Occupancy 1,026 981 960
Professional fees 1,887 1,648 1,306
Other expenses 2,716 2,739 5,617
Total operating expenses $ 31,164 $ 31,938 $ 28,983
Headcount at period-end 48,500 43,900 40,500
2022 versus 2021. Operating expenses in the consolidated statements of earnings were $31.16 billion for 2022, 2% lower than 2021. Our efficiency ratio was 65.8% for 2022, compared with our medium-term target efficiency ratio of approximately 60%. Our efficiency ratio was 53.8% for 2021.
The decrease in operating expenses compared with 2021 was primarily due to lower compensation and benefits expenses (reflecting a decline in operating performance compared with a strong prior year). This decrease was partially offset by higher non-compensation expenses, reflecting the inclusion of NNIP and GreenSky and increases in transaction based expenses and technology expenses. While certain expenses (e.g., compensation and benefits, occupancy and market development) were impacted by inflationary pressures, the overall impact of higher inflation was not material to our operating expenses for 2022.
Net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings were $576 million for 2022 compared with $534 million for 2021.
Headcount increased 10% during 2022, primarily reflecting investments in growth initiatives and the acquisitions of NNIP and GreenSky.
2021 versus 2020. Operating expenses in the consolidated statements of earnings were $31.94 billion for 2021, 10% higher than 2020. Our efficiency ratio was 53.8% for 2021, compared with 65.0% for 2020. In 2020, net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings increased our efficiency ratio by 7.6 percentage points.
The increase in operating expenses compared with 2020 primarily reflected significantly higher compensation and benefits expenses (reflecting strong performance). In addition, technology expenses and professional fees were significantly higher and transaction based expenses were higher. These increases were partially offset by significantly lower net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings and lower expenses related to consolidated investments (including impairments).
Net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings were $534 million for 2021 compared with $3.42 billion for 2020.
Charitable contributions to Goldman Sachs Gives were approximately $250 million for 2021.
Headcount increased 8% during 2021, reflecting investments in growth initiatives and an increase in technology professionals.
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Provision for Taxes
The effective income tax rate for 2022 was 16.5%, down from the full year income tax rate of 20.0% for 2021, primarily due to an increase in the impact of permanent tax benefits, partially offset by changes in the geographic mix of earnings in 2022 compared with 2021.
The U.K. Finance Act 2021 increased the corporate income tax rate by six percent and the Finance Act 2022 decreased the U.K. bank surcharge tax rate by five percent effective from April 1, 2023. As a result, beginning April 1, 2023, the U.K. tax rate for our U.K. regulated broker-dealer and bank subsidiaries and branches, including Goldman Sachs International (GSI) and Goldman Sachs International Bank (GSIB), will increase by one percent and the U.K. tax rate for all other U.K. subsidiaries and branches will increase by six percent. During 2022, following Royal Assent of Finance Act 2022, certain U.K. deferred tax assets and liabilities were remeasured and a net reduction in deferred tax assets of approximately $50 million was recognized.
In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was signed into law. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes income tax incentives to encourage investments in clean energy and a new 15% corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT). The CAMT applies to corporations with average annual profits over $1 billion and is calculated on their financial statement income, with certain adjustments, for years beginning after December 31, 2022. The legislation had no impact on our 2022 annual effective tax rate and based on our current understanding of the CAMT, is not expected to have a material impact on our 2023 annual effective tax rate.
Segment Assets and Operating Results
Segment Assets. The table below presents assets by segment.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Global Banking & Markets
$ 1,169,539 $ 1,201,996
Asset & Wealth Management
214,970 221,150
Platform Solutions
57,290 40,842
Total $ 1,441,799 $ 1,463,988
The allocation process for segment assets is based on the activities of these segments. The allocation of assets includes allocation of GCLA (which consists of unencumbered, highly liquid securities and cash), which is generally included within cash and cash equivalents, collateralized agreements and trading assets on our balance sheet. Due to the integrated nature of these segments, estimates and judgments are made in allocating these assets. See “Risk Management - Liquidity Risk Management” for further information about our GCLA.
Segment Operating Results. The table below presents our segment operating results.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Global Banking & Markets
Net revenues $ 32,487 $ 36,734 $ 30,469
Provision for credit losses 468 (171) 1,216
Operating expenses 17,851 19,542 18,884
Pre-tax earnings $ 14,168 $ 17,363 $ 10,369
Net earnings to common $ 11,458 $ 13,535 $ 7,428
Average common equity $ 69,951 $ 60,064 $ 54,749
Return on average common equity 16.4 % 22.5 % 13.6 %
Asset & Wealth Management
Net revenues $ 13,376 $ 21,965 $ 13,757
Provision for credit losses 519 (169) 1,395
Operating expenses 11,550 11,406 9,469
Pre-tax earnings
$ 1,307 $ 10,728 $ 2,893
Net earnings to common
$ 979 $ 8,459 $ 2,083
Average common equity $ 31,762 $ 29,988 $ 24,963
Return on average common equity 3.1 % 28.2 % 8.3 %
Platform Solutions
Net revenues $ 1,502 $ 640 $ 334
Provision for credit losses 1,728 697 487
Operating expenses 1,763 990 630
Pre-tax earnings/(loss)
$ (1,989) $ (1,047) $ (783)
Net earnings/(loss) to common
$ (1,673) $ (843) $ (596)
Average common equity $ 3,574 $ 1,777 $ 864
Return on average common equity (46.8) % (47.4) % (69.0) %
Total
Net revenues
$ 47,365 $ 59,339 $ 44,560
Provision for credit losses
2,715 357 3,098
Operating expenses
31,164 31,938 28,983
Pre-tax earnings
$ 13,486 $ 27,044 $ 12,479
Net earnings to common $ 10,764 $ 21,151 $ 8,915
Average common equity $ 105,287 $ 91,829 $ 80,576
Return on average common equity 10.2 % 23.0 % 11.1 %
Net revenues in our segments include allocations of interest income and expense to specific positions in relation to the cash generated by, or funding requirements of, such positions. See Note 25 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our business segments.
The allocation of common shareholders’ equity and preferred stock dividends to each segment is based on the estimated amount of equity required to support the activities of the segment under relevant regulatory capital requirements. Net earnings for each segment is calculated by applying the firmwide tax rate to each segment’s pre-tax earnings.
Compensation and benefits expenses within our segments reflect, among other factors, our overall performance, as well as the performance of individual businesses. Consequently, pre-tax margins in one segment of our business may be significantly affected by the performance of our other business segments. A description of segment operating results follows.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Global Banking & Markets
Global Banking & Markets generates revenues from the following:
Investment banking fees. We provide advisory and underwriting services and help companies raise capital to strengthen and grow their businesses. Investment banking fees includes the following:
•Advisory. Includes strategic advisory assignments with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings and spin-offs.
•Underwriting. Includes public offerings and private placements of a wide range of securities and other financial instruments, including local and cross-border transactions and acquisition financing.
FICC. FICC generates revenues from intermediation and financing activities.
•FICC intermediation. Includes client execution activities related to making markets in both cash and derivative instruments, as detailed below.
Interest Rate Products. Government bonds (including inflation-linked securities) across maturities, other government-backed securities, and interest rate swaps, options and other derivatives.
Credit Products. Investment-grade and high-yield corporate securities, credit derivatives, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), bank and bridge loans, municipal securities, distressed debt and trade claims.
Mortgages. Commercial mortgage-related securities, loans and derivatives, residential mortgage-related securities, loans and derivatives (including U.S. government agency-issued collateralized mortgage obligations and other securities and loans), and other asset-backed securities, loans and derivatives.
Currencies. Currency options, spot/forwards and other derivatives on G-10 currencies and emerging-market products.
Commodities. Commodity derivatives and, to a lesser extent, physical commodities, involving crude oil and petroleum products, natural gas, agricultural, base, precious and other metals, electricity, including renewable power, environmental products and other commodity products.
•FICC financing. Includes secured lending to our clients through structured credit and asset-backed lending, including warehouse loans backed by mortgages (including residential and commercial mortgage loans), corporate loans and consumer loans (including auto loans and private student loans). We also provide financing to clients through securities purchased under agreements to resell (resale agreements).
Equities. Equities generates revenues from intermediation and financing activities.
•Equities intermediation. We make markets in equity securities and equity-related products, including ETFs, convertible securities, options, futures and OTC derivative instruments. We also structure and make markets in derivatives on indices, industry sectors, financial measures and individual company stocks. Our exchange-based market-making activities include making markets in stocks and ETFs, futures and options on major exchanges worldwide. In addition, we generate commissions and fees from executing and clearing institutional client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide, as well as OTC transactions.
•Equities financing. Includes prime brokerage and other equities financing activities, including securities lending, margin lending and swaps. We earn fees by providing clearing, settlement and custody services globally. We provide services that principally involve borrowing and lending securities to cover institutional clients’ short sales and borrowing securities to cover our short sales and to make deliveries into the market. In addition, we are an active participant in broker-to-broker securities lending and third-party agency lending activities. We provide financing to our clients for their securities trading activities through margin loans that are collateralized by securities, cash or other acceptable collateral and provide securities-based loans to individuals. In addition, we execute swap transactions to provide our clients with exposure to securities and indices.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Market-Making Activities
As a market maker, we facilitate transactions in both liquid and less liquid markets, primarily for institutional clients, such as corporations, financial institutions, investment funds and governments, to assist clients in meeting their investment objectives and in managing their risks. In this role, we seek to earn the difference between the price at which a market participant is willing to sell an instrument to us and the price at which another market participant is willing to buy it from us, and vice versa (i.e., bid/offer spread). In addition, we maintain (i) market-making positions, typically for a short period of time, in response to, or in anticipation of, client demand, and (ii) positions to actively manage our risk exposures that arise from these market-making activities (collectively, inventory). Our inventory is recorded in trading assets (long positions) or trading liabilities (short positions) in our consolidated balance sheets.
Our results are influenced by a combination of interconnected drivers, including (i) client activity levels and transactional bid/offer spreads (collectively, client activity), and (ii) changes in the fair value of our inventory and interest income and interest expense related to the holding, hedging and funding of our inventory (collectively, market-making inventory changes). Due to the integrated nature of our market-making activities, disaggregation of net revenues into client activity and market-making inventory changes is judgmental and has inherent complexities and limitations.
The amount and composition of our net revenues vary over time as these drivers are impacted by multiple interrelated factors affecting economic and market conditions, including volatility and liquidity in the market, changes in interest rates, currency exchange rates, credit spreads, equity prices and commodity prices, investor confidence, and other macroeconomic concerns and uncertainties.
In general, assuming all other market-making conditions remain constant, increases in client activity levels or bid/offer spreads tend to result in increases in net revenues, and decreases tend to have the opposite effect. However, changes in market-making conditions can materially impact client activity levels and bid/offer spreads, as well as the fair value of our inventory. For example, a decrease in liquidity in the market could have the impact of (i) increasing our bid/offer spread, (ii) decreasing investor confidence and thereby decreasing client activity levels, and (iii) widening of credit spreads on our inventory positions.
Other. We lend to corporate clients, including through relationship lending and acquisition financing. The hedges related to this lending and financing activity are also reported as part of Other. Other also includes equity and debt investing activities related to our Global Banking & Markets activities.
The table below presents our Global Banking & Markets assets.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Cash and cash equivalents $ 167,203 $ 178,359
Collateralized agreements 380,157 359,100
Customer and other receivables 122,037 147,958
Trading assets 272,788 351,920
Investments 103,229 56,228
Loans 107,648 94,597
Other assets 16,477 13,834
Total $ 1,169,539 $ 1,201,996
The table below presents details about our Global Banking & Markets loans.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate $ 25,776 $ 22,068
Real estate
33,215 34,986
Securities-based
3,857 3,017
Other collateralized
45,407 33,077
Other
561 2,311
Loans, gross 108,816 95,459
Allowance for loan losses (1,168) (862)
Total loans $ 107,648 $ 94,597
Our average Global Banking & Markets gross loans were $105.11 billion for 2022 and $74.34 billion for 2021.
The table below presents our Global Banking & Markets operating results.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Advisory
$ 4,704 $ 5,654 $ 3,064
Equity underwriting
848 4,985 3,376
Debt underwriting 1,808 3,497 2,660
Investment banking fees
7,360 14,136 9,100
FICC intermediation
11,890 8,714 10,106
FICC financing
2,786 1,897 1,347
FICC
14,676 10,611 11,453
Equities intermediation
6,662 7,707 7,069
Equities financing
4,326 4,015 2,815
Equities
10,988 11,722 9,884
Other
(537) 265 32
Net revenues 32,487 36,734 30,469
Provision for credit losses 468 (171) 1,216
Operating expenses 17,851 19,542 18,884
Pre-tax earnings 14,168 17,363 10,369
Provision for taxes 2,338 3,473 2,509
Net earnings 11,830 13,890 7,860
Preferred stock dividends 372 355 432
Net earnings to common $ 11,458 $ 13,535 $ 7,428
Average common equity
$ 69,951 $ 60,064 $ 54,749
Return on average common equity 16.4 % 22.5 % 13.6 %
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents our FICC and Equities net revenues by line item in the consolidated statements of earnings.
$ in millions FICC Equities
Year Ended December 2022
Market making $ 12,422 $ 6,212
Commissions and fees - 3,791
Other principal transactions 377 41
Net interest income 1,877 944
Total $ 14,676 $ 10,988
Year Ended December 2021
Market making $ 7,690 $ 7,667
Commissions and fees - 3,514
Other principal transactions 362 72
Net interest income 2,559 469
Total $ 10,611 $ 11,722
Year Ended December 2020
Market making $ 8,941 $ 6,487
Commissions and fees - 3,339
Other principal transactions 96 9
Net interest income 2,416 49
Total $ 11,453 $ 9,884
In the table above:
•See “Net Revenues” for information about market making revenues, commissions and fees, other principal transactions revenues and net interest income. See Note 25 to the consolidated financial statements for net interest income by segment.
•The primary driver of net revenues for FICC intermediation for all periods was client activity.
The table below presents our unaudited quarterly Global Banking & Markets operating results.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
$ in millions Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
Advisory $ 1,127 $ 1,197 $ 972 $ 1,408
Equity underwriting
276 145 244 183
Debt underwriting 741 457 328 282
Investment banking fees
2,144 1,799 1,544 1,873
FICC intermediation
4,099 2,921 2,896 1,974
FICC financing
631 721 721 713
FICC
4,730 3,642 3,617 2,687
Equities intermediation 2,178 1,767 1,608 1,109
Equities financing
1,061 1,177 1,124 964
Equities
3,239 2,944 2,732 2,073
Other (51) (43) (329) (114)
Net revenues 10,062 8,342 7,564 6,519
Provision for credit losses 191 208 63 6
Operating expenses 4,973 4,431 4,224 4,223
Pre-tax earnings $ 4,898 $ 3,703 $ 3,277 $ 2,290
Advisory
$ 1,117 $ 1,257 $ 1,649 $ 1,631
Equity underwriting
1,539 1,256 1,167 1,023
Debt underwriting 877 949 724 947
Investment banking fees
3,533 3,462 3,540 3,601
FICC intermediation 3,472 1,922 2,007 1,313
FICC financing
435 395 512 555
FICC 3,907 2,317 2,519 1,868
Equities intermediation 2,620 1,795 1,949 1,343
Equities financing 1,084 887 1,207 837
Equities 3,704 2,682 3,156 2,180
Other 170 239 (85) (59)
Net revenues 11,314 8,700 9,130 7,590
Provision for credit losses (99) (46) (10) (16)
Operating expenses 5,892 5,470 4,090 4,090
Pre-tax earnings $ 5,521 $ 3,276 $ 5,050 $ 3,516
Advisory $ 780 $ 687 $ 506 $ 1,091
Equity underwriting 377 1,050 843 1,106
Debt underwriting 576 988 571 525
Investment banking fees 1,733 2,725 1,920 2,722
FICC intermediation 2,496 3,831 2,232 1,547
FICC financing 435 302 278 332
FICC 2,931 4,133 2,510 1,879
Equities intermediation 1,533 2,217 1,497 1,822
Equities financing 729 900 580 606
Equities 2,262 3,117 2,077 2,428
Other 351 (151) (36) (132)
Net revenues 7,277 9,824 6,471 6,897
Provision for credit losses 564 702 (9) (41)
Operating expenses 4,007 7,777 3,510 3,590
Pre-tax earnings $ 2,706 $ 1,345 $ 2,970 $ 3,348
The table below presents our financial advisory and underwriting transaction volumes.
Year Ended December
$ in billions 2022 2021 2020
Announced mergers and acquisitions $ 1,237 $ 1,771 $ 904
Completed mergers and acquisitions $ 1,355 $ 1,588 $ 1,037
Equity and equity-related offerings $ 33 $ 140 $ 115
Debt offerings $ 222 $ 341 $ 352
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In the table above:
•Volumes are per Dealogic.
•Announced and completed mergers and acquisitions volumes are based on full credit to each of the advisors in a transaction. Equity and equity-related and debt offerings are based on full credit for single book managers and equal credit for joint book managers. Transaction volumes may not be indicative of net revenues in a given period. In addition, transaction volumes for prior periods may vary from amounts previously reported due to the subsequent withdrawal or a change in the value of a transaction.
•Equity and equity-related offerings includes Rule 144A and public common stock offerings, convertible offerings and rights offerings.
•Debt offerings includes non-convertible preferred stock, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and taxable municipal debt. It also includes publicly registered and Rule 144A issues and excludes leveraged loans.
Operating Environment. During 2022, Global Banking & Markets operated in an environment generally characterized by broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns and market volatility, which negatively affected industry-wide investment banking activity levels, particularly for underwriting, but contributed to solid market-making activity levels.
In investment banking, compared with 2021, industry-wide equity underwriting volumes were low amid volatile equity markets and a decline in prices, and industry-wide debt underwriting volumes declined across leveraged finance and investment grade issuances amid rising interest rates. Additionally, industry-wide completed mergers and acquisitions transactions declined from elevated levels in the prior year.
For volatility, the average daily VIX was 30% higher compared with 2021. In equities, the S&P 500 Index decreased by 19% and the MSCI World Index decreased by 20%, compared with the end of 2021. Additionally, global central banks sought to address inflation by increasing policy interest rates several times over the course of the year.
In the future, if market and economic conditions deteriorate further, and activity levels or volatility decline, or credit spreads related to hedges on our relationship lending portfolio tighten, net revenues in Global Banking & Markets would likely be negatively impacted. In addition, if economic conditions deteriorate further or if the creditworthiness of borrowers deteriorates, provision for credit losses would likely be negatively impacted.
2022 versus 2021. Net revenues in Global Banking & Markets were $32.49 billion for 2022, 12% lower than a strong 2021.
Investment banking fees were $7.36 billion, 48% lower than a strong 2021, due to significantly lower net revenues in both Equity and Debt underwriting, reflecting a significant decline in industry-wide volumes, and lower net revenues in Advisory, reflecting a decline in industry-wide completed mergers and acquisitions transactions from elevated activity levels in the prior year.
As of December 2022, our Investment banking fees backlog decreased significantly compared with the end of 2021, primarily due to significantly lower estimated net revenues from both potential advisory transactions and potential debt underwriting transactions (primarily from leveraged finance transactions).
Our backlog represents an estimate of our net revenues from future transactions where we believe that future revenue realization is more likely than not. We believe changes in our backlog may be a useful indicator of client activity levels which, over the long term, impact our net revenues. However, the time frame for completion and corresponding revenue recognition of transactions in our backlog varies based on the nature of the assignment, as certain transactions may remain in our backlog for longer periods of time. In addition, our backlog is subject to certain limitations, such as assumptions about the likelihood that individual client transactions will occur in the future. Transactions may be cancelled or modified, and transactions not included in the estimate may also occur.
Net revenues in FICC were $14.68 billion, 38% higher than 2021, primarily reflecting significantly higher net revenues in FICC intermediation, driven by significantly higher net revenues in interest rate products, currencies and commodities, partially offset by significantly lower net revenues in mortgages and lower net revenues in credit products. In addition, net revenues in FICC financing were significantly higher, primarily driven by secured lending.
The increase in FICC intermediation net revenues reflected significantly higher client activity as we supported clients amid an evolving macroeconomic environment. The following provides information about our FICC intermediation net revenues by business, compared with 2021 results:
•Net revenues in interest rate products, currencies and commodities primarily reflected higher client activity.
•Net revenues in mortgages and credit products primarily reflected the impact of challenging market-making conditions on our inventory.
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Net revenues in Equities were $10.99 billion, 6% lower than 2021, due to lower net revenues in Equities intermediation, reflecting significantly lower net revenues in cash products and lower net revenues in derivatives. Net revenues in Equities financing were higher, primarily reflecting increased client activity.
Net revenues in Other were $(537) million for 2022, compared with $265 million for 2021, reflecting significantly lower net gains from investments in equities and net mark-downs on acquisition financing activities.
Provision for credit losses was $468 million for 2022, compared with a net benefit of $171 million for 2021. Provisions for 2022 primarily reflected the impact of broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns, while the net benefit for 2021 reflected reserve reductions as the broad economic environment continued to improve following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, partially offset by growth in the portfolio.
Operating expenses were $17.85 billion for 2022, 9% lower than 2021, reflecting lower compensation and benefits expenses (reflecting a decline in operating performance compared with a strong prior year). Pre-tax earnings were $14.17 billion for 2022, 18% lower than 2021.
2021 versus 2020. Net revenues in Global Banking & Markets were $36.73 billion for 2021, 21% higher than 2020.
Investment banking fees were $14.14 billion, 55% higher than 2020, due to significantly higher net revenues in Advisory, reflecting a significant increase in completed mergers and acquisitions volumes, in Equity underwriting, primarily driven by strong industry-wide initial public offerings activity, and in Debt underwriting, primarily reflecting elevated industry-wide leveraged finance activity.
As of December 2021, our Investment banking fees backlog increased significantly compared with December 2020, due to significantly higher estimated net revenues from potential advisory transactions and potential debt underwriting transactions (particularly from leveraged finance transactions), and higher estimated net revenues from potential equity underwriting transactions.
Net revenues in FICC were $10.61 billion, 7% lower than 2020, due to lower net revenues in FICC intermediation, reflecting significantly lower net revenues in interest rate products and credit products and slightly lower net revenues in currencies, partially offset by significantly higher net revenues in mortgages and higher net revenues in commodities. Net revenues in FICC financing were significantly higher, reflecting significantly higher net revenues from secured lending, partially offset by significantly lower net revenues from resale agreements.
The decrease in FICC intermediation net revenues reflected strong but significantly lower client activity compared with very strong activity levels in the prior year due to high volatility amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This was partially offset by the impact of improved market-making conditions on our inventory compared with challenging conditions in the prior year. The following provides information about our FICC intermediation net revenues by business, compared with 2020 results:
•Net revenues in interest rate products primarily reflected lower client activity.
•Net revenues in credit products and currencies reflected lower client activity, partially offset by the impact of improved market-making conditions on our inventory.
•Net revenues in mortgages reflected the impact of improved market-making conditions on our inventory.
•Net revenues in commodities primarily reflected higher client activity.
Net revenues in Equities were $11.72 billion, 19% higher than 2020, due to significantly higher net revenues in Equities financing, primarily reflecting increased activity (including higher average client balances), and higher net revenues in Equities intermediation, primarily reflecting higher net revenues in derivatives.
Net revenues in Other were $265 million for 2021, compared with $32 million for 2020, primarily reflecting significantly higher net gains from investments in equities.
Provision for credit losses was a net benefit of $171 million for 2021, compared with net provisions of $1.22 billion for 2020, primarily due to reserve reductions in the year reflecting continued improvement in the broad economic environment following challenging conditions in 2020 resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, partially offset by portfolio growth.
Operating expenses were $19.54 billion for 2021, 3% higher than 2020, primarily due to significantly higher compensation and benefits expenses (reflecting strong performance) and higher transaction based expenses, largely offset by significantly lower net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings. Pre-tax earnings were $17.36 billion, 67% higher than 2020. ROE was 22.5% for 2021, compared with 13.6% for 2020 (which included the impact of net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings that reduced ROE by 5.4 percentage points).
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Asset & Wealth Management
Asset & Wealth Management provides investment services to help clients preserve and grow their financial assets and achieve their financial goals. We provide these services to our clients, both institutional and individuals, including investors who primarily access our products through a network of third-party distributors around the world.
We manage client assets across a broad range of investment strategies and asset classes, including equity, fixed income and alternative investments. We provide investment solutions, including those managed on a fiduciary basis by our portfolio managers, as well as those managed by third-party managers. We offer our investment solutions in a variety of structures, including separately managed accounts, mutual funds, private partnerships and other commingled vehicles.
We also provide tailored wealth advisory services to clients across the wealth spectrum. We operate globally serving individuals, families, family offices, and foundations and endowments. Our relationships are established directly or introduced through companies that sponsor financial wellness programs for their employees.
We offer personalized financial planning to individuals and also provide customized investment advisory solutions, and offer structuring and execution capabilities in securities and derivative products across all major global markets. In addition, we offer clients a full range of private banking services, including a variety of deposit alternatives and loans that our clients use to finance investments in both financial and nonfinancial assets, bridge cash flow timing gaps or provide liquidity and flexibility for other needs.
We invest in alternative investments across a range of asset classes that seek to deliver long-term accretive risk-adjusted returns. Our investing activities, which are typically longer-term, include investments in corporate equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure assets.
We also raise deposits and have issued unsecured loans to consumers through Marcus by Goldman Sachs (Marcus). We have started a process to cease offering new loans through Marcus.
Asset & Wealth Management generates revenues from the following:
•Management and other fees. We receive fees related to managing assets for institutional and individual clients, providing investing and wealth advisory solutions, providing financial planning and counseling services via Ayco Personal Financial Management, and executing brokerage transactions for wealth management clients. The majority of revenues in management and other fees consists of asset-based fees on client assets that we manage. For further information about assets under supervision, see “Assets Under Supervision” below. The fees that we charge vary by asset class, client channel and the types of services provided, and are affected by investment performance, as well as asset inflows and redemptions.
•Incentive fees. In certain circumstances, we also receive incentive fees based on a percentage of a fund’s or a separately managed account’s return, or when the return exceeds a specified benchmark or other performance targets. Such fees include overrides, which consist of the increased share of the income and gains derived primarily from our private equity and credit funds when the return on a fund’s investments over the life of the fund exceeds certain threshold returns.
•Private banking and lending. Our private banking and lending activities include issuing loans to our wealth management clients. We also accept deposits from wealth management clients, including through Marcus. We have also issued unsecured loans to consumers through Marcus and have started a process to cease offering new loans. Additionally, we provide investing services through Marcus Invest to U.S. customers. Private banking and lending revenues include net interest income allocated to deposits and net interest income earned on loans to individual clients.
•Equity investments. Includes investing activities related to our asset management activities primarily related to public and private equity investments in corporate, real estate and infrastructure assets. We also make investments through consolidated investment entities (CIEs), substantially all of which are engaged in real estate investment activities.
•Debt investments. Includes lending activities related to our asset management activities, including investing in corporate debt, lending to middle-market clients, and providing financing for real estate and other assets. These activities include investments in mezzanine debt, senior debt and distressed debt securities.
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The table below presents our Asset & Wealth Management assets.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Cash and cash equivalents $ 54,065 $ 62,652
Collateralized agreements 23,723 18,737
Customer and other receivables 13,409 12,712
Trading assets 19,860 17,739
Investments 27,400 32,491
Loans 56,338 56,676
Other assets 20,175 20,143
Total $ 214,970 $ 221,150
The table below presents details about our Asset & Wealth Management loans.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate $ 14,359 $ 15,575
Real estate 18,699 18,688
Securities-based
12,814 13,635
Other collateralized
6,295 5,186
Installment
4,474 3,646
Other 1,700 1,708
Loans, gross 58,341 58,438
Allowance for loan losses (2,003) (1,762)
Total loans $ 56,338 $ 56,676
The average Asset & Wealth Management gross loans were $59.35 billion for 2022 and $56.85 billion for 2021.
The table below presents our Asset & Wealth Management operating results.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Management and other fees $ 8,781 $ 7,750 $ 6,750
Incentive fees 359 616 401
Private banking and lending
2,458 1,661 1,372
Equity investments 610 8,794 3,902
Debt investments
1,168 3,144 1,332
Net revenues 13,376 21,965 13,757
Provision for credit losses 519 (169) 1,395
Operating expenses 11,550 11,406 9,469
Pre-tax earnings
1,307 10,728 2,893
Provision for taxes
215 2,146 700
Net earnings
1,092 8,582 2,193
Preferred stock dividends 113 123 110
Net earnings to common
$ 979 $ 8,459 $ 2,083
Average common equity
$ 31,762 $ 29,988 $ 24,963
Return on average common equity 3.1 % 28.2 % 8.3 %
The table below presents our Asset management and Wealth management net revenues by line item in Asset & Wealth Management.
$ in millions Asset management Wealth management Asset & Wealth Management
Year Ended December 2022
Management and other fees $ 3,817 $ 4,964 $ 8,781
Incentive fees 359 - 359
Private banking and lending - 2,458 2,458
Equity investments 610 - 610
Debt investments 1,168 - 1,168
Total $ 5,954 $ 7,422 $ 13,376
Year Ended December 2021
Management and other fees $ 2,918 $ 4,832 $ 7,750
Incentive fees 616 - 616
Private banking and lending - 1,661 1,661
Equity investments 8,794 - 8,794
Debt investments 3,144 - 3,144
Total $ 15,472 $ 6,493 $ 21,965
Year Ended December 2020
Management and other fees $ 2,782 $ 3,968 $ 6,750
Incentive fees 401 - 401
Private banking and lending - 1,372 1,372
Equity investments 3,902 - 3,902
Debt investments 1,332 - 1,332
Total $ 8,417 $ 5,340 $ 13,757
In the table above, incentive fees previously included in Wealth management have been reclassified to Asset management to better reflect the activities of the reporting unit that generated the underlying revenues. Previously, incentive fees related to wealth management clients were reflected in Wealth management. Prior periods have been conformed to the current presentation.
The table below presents our Equity investments net revenues by equity type and asset class.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Equity Type
Private equity $ 2,078 $ 8,826 $ 2,329
Public equity (1,468) (32) 1,573
Total $ 610 $ 8,794 $ 3,902
Asset Class
Real estate $ 1,482 $ 2,489 $ 1,621
Corporate (872) 6,305 2,281
Total $ 610 $ 8,794 $ 3,902
The table below presents details about our Debt investments net revenues.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Fair value net gains/(losses) $ (415) $ 1,216 $ (268)
Net interest income 1,583 1,928 1,600
Total $ 1,168 $ 3,144 $ 1,332
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The table below presents our unaudited quarterly Asset & Wealth Management operating results.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
$ in millions Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
Management and other fees $ 2,035 $ 2,243 $ 2,255 $ 2,248
Incentive fees 79 185 56 39
Private banking and lending
492 538 675 753
Equity investments (294) (104) 721 287
Debt investments
291 317 326 234
Net revenues 2,603 3,179 4,033 3,561
Provision for credit losses 203 149 (13) 180
Operating expenses 2,409 2,823 2,955 3,363
Pre-tax earnings/(loss)
$ (9) $ 207 $ 1,091 $ 18
Management and other fees $ 1,839 $ 1,879 $ 1,985 $ 2,047
Incentive fees 68 93 220 235
Private banking and lending
416 387 432 426
Equity investments 2,965 3,425 957 1,447
Debt investments
963 765 711 705
Net revenues 6,251 6,549 4,305 4,860
Provision for credit losses (140) (159) 58 72
Operating expenses 3,315 2,983 2,232 2,876
Pre-tax earnings $ 3,076 $ 3,725 $ 2,015 $ 1,912
Management and other fees $ 1,603 $ 1,642 $ 1,708 $ 1,797
Incentive fees 223 44 35 99
Private banking and lending
377 245 341 409
Equity investments (56) 896 1,377 1,685
Debt investments
(710) 557 728 757
Net revenues 1,437 3,384 4,189 4,747
Provision for credit losses 281 781 203 130
Operating expenses 2,307 2,471 2,550 2,141
Pre-tax earnings/(loss)
$ (1,151) $ 132 $ 1,436 $ 2,476
Operating Environment. During 2022, Asset & Wealth Management operated in an environment generally characterized by broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns and market volatility, which contributed to a decrease in asset prices compared to the end of 2021, negatively affecting assets under supervision and investments. Additionally, global central banks sought to address inflation by increasing policy interest rates several times over the course of the year.
In the future, if market and economic conditions deteriorate further, it may lead to a continued decline in asset prices, or investors transitioning to asset classes that typically generate lower fees or withdrawing their assets or deposits, and net revenues in Asset & Wealth Management would likely continue to be negatively impacted.
2022 versus 2021. Net revenues in Asset & Wealth Management were $13.38 billion for 2022, 39% lower than 2021, primarily reflecting significantly lower net revenues in Equity investments and Debt investments.
Broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns during the year led to a decline in global equity prices and wider credit spreads. As a result, net revenues in Equity investments reflected significantly lower net gains from investments in private equities and significant mark-to-market net losses from investments in public equities. The decrease in Debt investments net revenues reflected net mark-downs compared with net mark-ups in the prior year and lower net interest income. Incentive fees were significantly lower, primarily driven by harvesting in the prior year. Management and other fees were higher, reflecting the inclusion of NNIP and a reduction in fee waivers on money market funds. Private banking and lending net revenues were significantly higher, primarily reflecting higher deposit spreads, as well as higher loan and deposit balances.
Provision for credit losses was $519 million for 2022, compared with a net benefit of $169 million for 2021. Provisions for 2022 primarily reflected the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns, while the net benefit for 2021 reflected reserve reductions as the broad economic environment continued to improve following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating expenses were $11.55 billion for 2022, essentially unchanged compared with 2021, reflecting the inclusion of operating expenses related to NNIP, largely offset by lower compensation and benefits expenses. Pre-tax earnings were $1.31 billion for 2022, compared with $10.73 billion for 2021.
2021 versus 2020. Net revenues in Asset & Wealth Management were $21.97 billion for 2021, 60% higher than 2020, primarily reflecting significantly higher net revenues in Equity investments and Debt investments, and higher Management and other fees.
The increase in Equity investments net revenues reflected significantly higher net gains from investments in private equities, driven by company-specific events and improved corporate performance compared with 2020, partially offset by net losses from investments in public equities compared with significant net gains in the prior year. The increase in Debt investments net revenues reflected net mark-ups compared with net mark-downs in the prior year, and significantly higher net interest income. The increase in management and other fees reflected the impact of higher average assets under supervision, partially offset by higher fee waivers on money market funds. Private banking and lending net revenues were higher, primarily reflecting higher deposit balances. Incentive fees were significantly higher, primarily driven by harvesting.
Provision for credit losses was a net benefit of $169 million for 2021, compared with net provisions of $1.40 billion for 2020, primarily due to reserve reductions in the year reflecting continued improvement in the broad economic environment following challenging conditions in 2020 resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Operating expenses were $11.41 billion for 2021, 20% higher than 2020, primarily due to significantly higher compensation and benefits expenses (reflecting strong performance). Pre-tax earnings were $10.73 billion for 2021, compared with $2.89 billion for 2020.
Assets Under Supervision. AUS includes our institutional clients’ assets, assets sourced through third-party distributors and high-net-worth clients’ assets where we earn a fee for managing assets on a discretionary basis. This includes net assets in our mutual funds, hedge funds, credit funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, and separately managed accounts for institutional and individual investors. AUS also includes client assets invested with third-party managers, private bank deposits and advisory relationships where we earn a fee for advisory and other services, but do not have investment discretion. AUS does not include the self-directed brokerage assets of our clients.
The table below presents information about our firmwide period-end AUS by asset class, client channel, region and vehicle.
As of December
$ in billions 2022 2021 2020
Asset Class
Alternative investments $ 263 $ 236 $ 191
Equity 563 613 475
Fixed income 1,010 940 896
Total long-term AUS 1,836 1,789 1,562
Liquidity products 711 681 583
Total AUS $ 2,547 $ 2,470 $ 2,145
Client Channel
Institutional $ 905 $ 824 $ 761
Wealth management 712 751 615
Third-party distributed 930 895 769
Total AUS $ 2,547 $ 2,470 $ 2,145
Region
Americas $ 1,806 $ 1,930 $ 1,656
EMEA 548 354 318
Asia 193 186 171
Total AUS $ 2,547 $ 2,470 $ 2,145
Vehicle
Separate accounts $ 1,388 $ 1,347 $ 1,186
Public funds 862 811 707
Private funds and other 297 312 252
Total AUS $ 2,547 $ 2,470 $ 2,145
In the table above:
•Liquidity products includes money market funds and private bank deposits.
•EMEA represents Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The table below presents changes in our AUS.
Year Ended December
$ in billions 2022 2021 2020
Beginning balance $ 2,470 $ 2,145 $ 1,859
Net inflows/(outflows):
Alternative investments 19 33 (1)
Equity 13 41 (4)
Fixed income 18 56 47
Total long-term AUS net inflows/(outflows) 50 130 42
Liquidity products 16 98 121
Total AUS net inflows/(outflows) 66 228 163
Acquisitions 316 - -
Net market appreciation/(depreciation) (305) 97 123
Ending balance $ 2,547 $ 2,470 $ 2,145
In the table above, acquisitions for 2022 included inflows from the acquisitions of NNIP and NextCapital Group, Inc., and from the acquisition of the assets of Bombardier Global Pension Asset Management Inc. For each, substantially all of the inflows were in fixed income and equity assets.
The table below presents information about our average monthly firmwide AUS by asset class.
Average for the
Year Ended December
$ in billions 2022 2021 2020
Asset Class
Alternative investments $ 253 $ 211 $ 183
Equity 581 547 409
Fixed income 992 919 829
Total long-term AUS 1,826 1,677 1,421
Liquidity products 693 625 573
Total AUS $ 2,519 $ 2,302 $ 1,994
In addition to our AUS, we have discretion over alternative investments where we currently do not earn management fees (non-fee-earning alternative assets).
We earn management fees on client assets that we manage and also receive incentive fees based on a percentage of a fund’s or a separately managed account’s return, or when the return exceeds a specified benchmark or other performance targets. These incentive fees are recognized when it is probable that a significant reversal of such fees will not occur. Our estimated unrecognized incentive fees were $3.33 billion as of December 2022, $3.39 billion as of December 2021 and $1.79 billion as of December 2020. Such amounts are based on the completion of the funds’ financial statements, which is generally one quarter in arrears. These fees will be recognized, assuming no decline in fair value, if and when it is probable that a significant reversal of such fees will not occur, which is generally when such fees are no longer subject to fluctuations in the market value of the assets.
Our target is to achieve annual firmwide management and other fees of more than $10 billion (including more than $2 billion from alternatives) in 2024.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents our average effective management fee (which excludes non-asset-based fees) earned on our firmwide AUS by asset class.
Year Ended December
Effective fees (bps) 2022 2021 2020
Alternative investments 64 63 61
Equity 57 60 58
Fixed income 17 17 18
Liquidity products 14 5 14
Total average effective fee 31 29 29
In the table above, our average effective management fee for liquidity products increased during 2022 compared to 2021, primarily reflecting higher management fee waivers in 2021.
The table below presents details about our monthly average AUS for alternative investments and the average effective management fee we earned on such assets.
$ in billions Direct
Strategies Fund of
Funds Total
Year Ended December 2022
Average AUS
Corporate equity $ 27 $ 61 $ 88
Credit 36 2 38
Real estate 10 8 18
Hedge funds and other 45 22 67
Funds and discretionary accounts $ 118 $ 93 $ 211
Advisory accounts 42
Total average AUS for alternative investments $ 253
Effective Fees (bps)
Corporate equity 133 61 83
Credit 81 51 80
Real estate 87 50 70
Hedge funds and other 64 49 59
Funds and discretionary accounts 87 57 74
Advisory accounts 16
Total average effective fee 64
Year Ended December 2021
Average AUS
Corporate equity $ 20 $ 59 $ 79
Credit 18 2 20
Real estate 8 7 15
Hedge funds and other 43 19 62
Funds and discretionary accounts
$ 89 $ 87 $ 176
Advisory accounts 35
Total average AUS for alternative investments $ 211
Effective Fees (bps)
Corporate equity 118 57 72
Credit 102 53 98
Real estate 94 55 76
Hedge funds and other 65 55 62
Funds and discretionary accounts 87 56 72
Advisory accounts 17
Total average effective fee 63
Year Ended December 2020
Average AUS
Corporate equity $ 15 $ 58 $ 73
Credit 13 2 15
Real estate 7 6 13
Hedge funds and other 37 17 54
Funds and discretionary accounts $ 72 $ 83 $ 155
Advisory accounts 28
Total average AUS for alternative investments $ 183
Effective Fees (bps)
Corporate equity 132 57 73
Credit 95 52 89
Real estate 88 62 75
Hedge funds and other 63 53 60
Funds and discretionary accounts 86 57 70
Advisory accounts 13
Total average effective fee 61
In the table above,
•Direct strategies primarily includes our private equity, growth equity, private credit, liquid alternatives and real estate strategies. Fund of funds primarily includes our Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) business. AIMS invests in leading private equity, hedge fund, real estate and credit third-party managers as a limited partner, secondary-market investor, co-investor or management company partner.
•Certain AUS previously reported in Direct Strategies were reclassified to Fund of Funds to better reflect the nature of the underlying strategy. Prior periods amounts have been conformed to the current presentation.
The table below presents information about our period-end AUS for alternative investments, non-fee-earning alternative investments and total alternative investments.
$ in billions AUS Non-fee-earning
alternative
assets Total
alternative
assets
As of December 2022
Corporate equity $ 94 $ 76 $ 170
Credit 44 73 117
Real estate 18 36 54
Hedge funds and other 65 2 67
Funds and discretionary accounts 221 187 408
Advisory accounts 42 - 42
Total alternative investments $ 263 $ 187 $ 450
As of December 2021
Corporate equity $ 87 $ 78 $ 165
Credit 25 79 104
Real estate 16 39 55
Hedge funds and other 70 2 72
Funds and discretionary accounts 198 198 396
Advisory accounts 38 2 40
Total alternative investments $ 236 $ 200 $ 436
As of December 2020
Corporate equity $ 74 $ 50 $ 124
Credit 18 80 98
Real estate 13 43 56
Hedge funds and other 56 2 58
Funds and discretionary accounts 161 175 336
Advisory accounts 30 1 31
Total alternative investments $ 191 $ 176 $ 367
In the table above:
•Corporate equity primarily includes private equity.
•Total alternative investments included uncalled capital that is available for future investing of $54 billion as of December 2022, $42 billion as of December 2021 and $44 billion as of December 2020.
•Non-fee-earning alternative investments primarily includes investments that we hold on our balance sheet, our unfunded commitments, unfunded commitments of our clients (where we do not charge fees on commitments), credit facilities collateralized by fund assets and employee funds. Our calculation of non-fee-earning alternative investments may not be comparable to similar calculations used by other companies.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
•Non-fee-earning alternative investments primarily includes our direct investing strategies, including private equity, growth equity, private credit and real estate strategies.
We have announced a strategic objective of growing our third-party alternatives business, and have established a target of achieving gross inflows of $225 billion for alternative investments from 2020 through the end of 2024.
The table below presents information about third-party commitments raised in our alternatives business from 2020 through 2022.
As of
$ in billions December 2022
Included in AUS $ 118
Included in non-fee-earning alternative assets 61
Third-party commitments raised $ 179
In the table above, commitments included in non-fee-earning alternative investments included approximately $44 billion, which will begin to earn fees (and become AUS) if and when the commitments are drawn and assets are invested.
The table below presents information about alternative investments in Asset & Wealth Management that we hold on our balance sheet.
$ in billions Loans Debt
securities Equity
securities CIE
investments
and other Total
As of December 2022
Corporate equity $ - $ - $ 10 $ - $ 10
Credit 14 11 - - 25
Real estate 5 1 5 12 23
Other - - - 1 1
Total $ 19 $ 12 $ 15 $ 13 $ 59
As of December 2021
Corporate equity $ - $ - $ 14 $ - $ 14
Credit 15 11 - - 26
Real estate 7 2 4 14 27
Other - - - 1 1
Total $ 22 $ 13 $ 18 $ 15 $ 68
As of December 2020
Corporate equity $ - $ - $ 16 $ - $ 16
Credit 16 12 - - 28
Real estate 9 2 3 19 33
Other - - - 1 1
Total $ 25 $ 14 $ 19 $ 20 $ 78
As we continue to grow our third-party alternatives business, we remain focused on our strategic objective to reduce the capital intensity of our alternative investments in Asset & Wealth Management that we hold on our balance sheet. During 2022, we reduced our on-balance sheet alternative investments by $9 billion to $59 billion.
Loans and Debt Securities. The table below presents the concentration of loans and debt securities within our alternative investments by accounting classification, region and industry.
As of December
$ in billions 2022 2021
Loans $19 $22
Debt securities 12 13
Total $31 $35
Accounting Classification
Debt securities at fair value 39 % 38 %
Loans at amortized cost 49 % 53 %
Loans at fair value 6 % 9 %
Loans held for sale
6 % -
Total 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 51 % 50 %
EMEA 35 % 34 %
Asia 14 % 16 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Industry
Consumer & Retail
10 % 9 %
Financial Institutions 7 % 6 %
Healthcare 13 % 12 %
Industrials 16 % 16 %
Natural Resources & Utilities 2 % 4 %
Real Estate 20 % 25 %
Technology, Media & Telecommunications 25 % 22 %
Other 7 % 6 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Equity Securities. The table below presents the concentration of equity securities within our alternative investments by region and industry.
As of December
$ in billions 2022 2021
Equity securities $15 $18
Region
Americas 67 % 57 %
EMEA 15 % 23 %
Asia 18 % 20 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Industry
Consumer & Retail
6 % 8 %
Financial Institutions 10 % 9 %
Healthcare 9 % 11 %
Industrials 7 % 8 %
Natural Resources & Utilities 14 % 11 %
Real Estate 30 % 23 %
Technology, Media & Telecommunications 23 % 29 %
Other 1 % 1 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 77
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
In the table above:
•Equity securities included $13 billion as of December 2022 and $14 billion as of December 2021 of private equity positions, and $2 billion as of December 2022 and $4 billion as of December 2021 of public equity positions that converted from private equity upon the initial public offerings of the underlying companies.
•The concentrations for real estate equity securities as of December 2022 were 9% for multifamily (5% as of December 2021), 5% for office (5% as of December 2021), 8% for mixed use (7% as of December 2021) and 8% for other real estate equity securities (6% as of December 2021).
The table below presents the concentration of equity securities within our alternative investments by vintage.
Vintage
As of December 2022
2015 or earlier 26 %
2016 - 2018 26 %
2019 - thereafter 48 %
Total 100 %
As of December 2021
2014 or earlier 20 %
2015 - 2017 32 %
2018 - thereafter 48 %
Total 100 %
CIE Investments and Other. CIE investments and other included assets held by CIEs of $12 billion as of December 2022 and $14 billion as of December 2021, which were funded with liabilities of approximately $6 billion as of December 2022 and $7 billion as of December 2021. Substantially all such liabilities were nonrecourse, thereby reducing our equity at risk.
The table below presents the concentration of CIE assets, net of financings, within our alternative investments by region and asset class.
As of December
$ in billions 2022 2021
CIE assets, net of financings $6 $7
Region
Americas 65 % 63 %
EMEA 25 % 25 %
Asia 10 % 12 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Asset Class
Hospitality 4 % 4 %
Industrials 10 % 10 %
Multifamily 23 % 23 %
Office 22 % 24 %
Retail 3 % 5 %
Senior Housing 14 % 16 %
Student Housing 7 % 6 %
Other 17 % 12 %
Total 100 % 100 %
The table below presents the concentration of CIE assets, net of financings, within our alternative investments by vintage.
Vintage
As of December 2022
2015 or earlier 5 %
2016 - 2018 45 %
2019 - thereafter 50 %
Total 100 %
As of December 2021
2014 or earlier 2 %
2015 - 2017 29 %
2018 - thereafter 69 %
Total 100 %
Platform Solutions
Platform Solutions includes our consumer platforms, such as partnerships offering credit cards and point-of-sale financing, and transaction banking and other platform businesses.
Platform Solutions generates revenues from the following:
Consumer platforms. Our Consumer platforms business issues credit cards and provides point-of-sale financing to consumers to finance the purchases of goods or services. Consumer platforms revenues primarily includes net interest income earned on credit card lending and point-of-sale financing activities.
Transaction banking and other. We provide transaction banking and other services, including cash management services, such as deposit-taking and payment solutions for corporate and institutional clients. Transaction banking revenues include net interest income attributed to transaction banking deposits.
The table below presents our Platform Solutions assets.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Cash and cash equivalents $ 20,557 $ 20,025
Collateralized agreements 10,278 6,637
Customer and other receivables 2 3
Trading assets 8,597 6,257
Loans 15,300 7,289
Other assets 2,556 631
Total $ 57,290 $ 40,842
The table below presents details about our Platform Solutions loans.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Installment $ 1,852 $ 26
Credit cards 15,820 8,212
Loans, gross 17,672 8,238
Allowance for loan losses (2,372) (949)
Total loans $ 15,300 $ 7,289
The average Platform Solutions gross loans were $12.43 billion for 2022 and $5.51 billion for 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents our Platform Solutions operating results.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Consumer platforms $ 1,176 $ 424 $ 188
Transaction banking and other
326 216 146
Net revenues 1,502 640 334
Provision for credit losses 1,728 697 487
Operating expenses 1,763 990 630
Pre-tax earnings/(loss)
(1,989) (1,047) (783)
Provision for taxes (328) (210) (189)
Net earnings/(loss)
(1,661) (837) (594)
Preferred stock dividends 12 6 2
Net earnings/(loss) to common
$ (1,673) $ (843) $ (596)
Average common equity
$ 3,574 $ 1,777 $ 864
Return on average common equity (46.8) % (47.4) % (69.0) %
The table below presents our unaudited quarterly Platform Solutions operating results.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
$ in millions Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
Consumer platforms $ 201 $ 252 $ 290 $ 433
Transaction banking and other
67 91 88 80
Net revenues 268 343 378 513
Provision for credit losses 167 310 465 786
Operating expenses 334 399 525 505
Pre-tax earnings/(loss)
$ (233) $ (366) $ (612) $ (778)
Consumer platforms $ 90 $ 90 $ 119 $ 125
Transaction banking and other
49 49 54 64
Net revenues 139 139 173 189
Provision for credit losses 169 113 127 288
Operating expenses 230 187 269 304
Pre-tax earnings/(loss) $ (260) $ (161) $ (223) $ (403)
Consumer platforms $ 21 $ 50 $ 70 $ 47
Transaction banking and other
8 37 51 50
Net revenues 29 87 121 97
Provision for credit losses 92 107 84 204
Operating expenses 144 166 144 176
Pre-tax earnings/(loss) $ (207) $ (186) $ (107) $ (283)
Operating Environment. During 2022, Platform Solutions operated in an environment generally characterized by broad macroeconomic concerns. In the U.S., the rate of unemployment remained low and consumer spending increased slightly compared with 2021. Additionally, global central banks sought to address inflation by increasing policy interest rates several times over the course of the year.
In the future, if market and economic conditions deteriorate further, it may lead to a decrease in consumer spending or a deterioration in consumer credit, and net revenues and provision for credit losses in Platform Solutions would likely be negatively impacted.
2022 versus 2021. Net revenues in Platform Solutions were $1.50 billion for 2022, 135% higher than 2021, reflecting significantly higher net revenues in both Consumer platforms and Transaction banking and other.
The increase in Consumer platforms net revenues primarily reflected significantly higher credit card balances. The increase in Transaction banking and other net revenues reflected higher deposit balances.
Provision for credit losses was $1.73 billion for 2022, compared with $697 million for 2021. Provisions for 2022 primarily reflected growth in the credit card portfolio and net charge offs, while 2021 primarily reflected growth in the credit card portfolio, which was partially offset by reserve reductions as the broad economic environment continued to improve following the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating expenses were $1.76 billion for 2022, 78% higher than 2021, reflecting higher spend on growth initiatives in Consumer platforms, primarily from the inclusion of operating expenses related to GreenSky. Pre-tax loss was $1.99 billion for 2022, compared with $1.05 billion for 2021.
2021 versus 2020. Net revenues in Platform Solutions were $640 million for 2021, 92% higher than 2020, reflecting significantly higher net revenues in Consumer platforms and higher net revenues in Transaction banking and other.
Net revenues in Consumer platforms reflected higher credit card balances. Net revenues in Transaction banking and other reflected higher deposit balances.
Provision for credit losses was $697 million for 2021, 43% higher than 2020, primarily reflecting growth in the credit card portfolio, including approximately $185 million of the provisions related to the commitment to acquire the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio, partially offset by reserve reductions in the year reflecting continued improvement in the broad economic environment following challenging conditions in 2020 resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating expenses were $990 million for 2021, 57% higher than 2020, primarily reflecting higher spend on growth initiatives in Consumer platforms. Pre-tax loss was $1.05 billion for 2021, compared with $783 million for 2020.
Geographic Data
See Note 25 to the consolidated financial statements for a summary of our total net revenues, pre-tax earnings and net earnings by geographic region.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 79
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Balance Sheet and Funding Sources
Balance Sheet Management
One of our risk management disciplines is our ability to manage the size and composition of our balance sheet. While our asset base changes due to client activity, market fluctuations and business opportunities, the size and composition of our balance sheet also reflects factors, including (i) our overall risk tolerance, (ii) the amount of capital we hold and (iii) our funding profile, among other factors. See “Capital Management and Regulatory Capital - Capital Management” for information about our capital management process.
Although our balance sheet fluctuates on a day-to-day basis, our total assets at quarter-end are generally not materially different from those occurring within our reporting periods.
In order to ensure appropriate risk management, we seek to maintain a sufficiently liquid balance sheet and have processes in place to dynamically manage our assets and liabilities, which include (i) balance sheet planning, (ii) balance sheet limits, (iii) monitoring of key metrics and (iv) scenario analyses.
Balance Sheet Planning. We prepare a balance sheet plan that combines our projected total assets and composition of assets with our expected funding sources over a three-year time horizon. This plan is reviewed quarterly and may be adjusted in response to changing business needs or market conditions. The objectives of this planning process are:
•To develop our balance sheet projections, taking into account the general state of the financial markets and expected business activity levels, as well as regulatory requirements;
•To allow Treasury and our independent risk oversight and control functions to objectively evaluate balance sheet limit requests from our revenue-producing units in the context of our overall balance sheet constraints, including our liability profile and capital levels, and key metrics; and
•To inform the target amount, tenor and type of funding to raise, based on our projected assets and contractual maturities.
Treasury and our independent risk oversight and control functions, along with our revenue-producing units, review current and prior period information and expectations for the year to prepare our balance sheet plan. The specific information reviewed includes asset and liability size and composition, limit utilization, risk and performance measures, and capital usage.
Our consolidated balance sheet plan, including our balance sheets by business, funding projections and projected key metrics, is reviewed and approved by the Firmwide Asset Liability Committee and the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee. See “Risk Management - Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for an overview of our risk management structure.
Balance Sheet Limits. The Firmwide Asset Liability Committee and the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee have the responsibility to review and approve balance sheet limits. These limits are set at levels which are close to actual operating levels, rather than at levels which reflect our maximum risk appetite, in order to ensure prompt escalation and discussion among our revenue-producing units, Treasury and our independent risk oversight and control functions on a routine basis. Requests for changes in limits are evaluated after giving consideration to their impact on our key metrics. Compliance with limits is monitored by our revenue-producing units and Treasury, as well as our independent risk oversight and control functions.
Monitoring of Key Metrics. We monitor key balance sheet metrics both by business and on a consolidated basis, including asset and liability size and composition, limit utilization and risk measures. We attribute assets to businesses and review and analyze movements resulting from new business activity, as well as market fluctuations.
Scenario Analyses. We conduct various scenario analyses, including as part of the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Stress Tests (DFAST), as well as our resolution and recovery planning. See “Capital Management and Regulatory Capital - Capital Management” for further information about these scenario analyses. These scenarios cover short- and long-term time horizons using various macroeconomic and firm-specific assumptions, based on a range of economic scenarios. We use these analyses to assist us in developing our longer-term balance sheet management strategy, including the level and composition of assets, funding and capital. Additionally, these analyses help us develop approaches for maintaining appropriate funding, liquidity and capital across a variety of situations, including a severely stressed environment.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Balance Sheet Analysis and Metrics
As of December 2022, total assets in our consolidated balance sheets were $1.44 trillion, a decrease of $22.19 billion from December 2021, reflecting decreases in trading assets of $74.67 billion (primarily due to decreases in equity securities, corporate debt instruments, reflecting the impact of our and our clients' activities), customer and other receivables of $25.23 billion (primarily reflecting client activity), cash and cash equivalents of $19.21 billion (primarily reflecting our activity), partially offset by increases in investments of $41.91 billion (primarily due to an increase in U.S. government obligations accounted for as held-to-maturity), collateralized agreements of $29.68 billion (primarily reflecting the impact of our and our clients' activities), and loans of $20.72 billion (reflecting increases in other collateralized and consumer loans).
As of December 2022, total liabilities in our consolidated balance sheets were $1.32 trillion, a decrease of $29.45 billion from December 2021, reflecting decreases in collateralized financings of $75.91 billion (primarily reflecting the impact of our and our clients' activities), partially offset by increases in deposits of $22.44 billion (primarily due to increases in transaction banking and private bank and consumer deposits, partially offset by other deposits), customer and other payables of $10.11 billion (primarily reflecting client activity), and trading liabilities of $9.90 billion (primarily due to an increase in equity securities, partially offset by a decrease in government obligations, both reflecting the impact of our and our clients' activities).
Our total repurchase agreements, accounted for as collateralized financings, were $110.35 billion as of December 2022 and $165.88 billion as of December 2021, which were 15% lower as of December 2022 and 3% higher as of December 2021 than the average daily amount of repurchase agreements over the respective quarters, and 27% lower as of December 2022 and 14% higher as of December 2021 than the average daily amount of repurchase agreements over the respective years. As of December 2022, the decrease in our repurchase agreements relative to the average daily amount of repurchase agreements during the quarter and year resulted from lower levels of our and our clients’ activities at the end of the period.
The level of our repurchase agreements fluctuates between and within periods, primarily due to providing clients with access to highly liquid collateral, such as certain government and agency obligations, through collateralized financing activities.
The table below presents information about our balance sheet and leverage ratios.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Total assets $ 1,441,799 $ 1,463,988
Unsecured long-term borrowings $ 247,138 $ 254,092
Total shareholders’ equity $ 117,189 $ 109,926
Leverage ratio 12.3x 13.3x
Debt-to-equity ratio 2.1x 2.3x
In the table above:
•The leverage ratio equals total assets divided by total shareholders’ equity and measures the proportion of equity and debt we use to finance assets. This ratio is different from the leverage ratios included in Note 20 to the consolidated financial statements.
•The debt-to-equity ratio equals unsecured long-term borrowings divided by total shareholders’ equity.
The table below presents information about our shareholders’ equity and book value per common share, including the reconciliation of common shareholders’ equity to tangible common shareholders’ equity.
As of December
$ in millions, except per share amounts 2022 2021
Total shareholders’ equity $ 117,189 $ 109,926
Preferred stock (10,703) (10,703)
Common shareholders’ equity 106,486 99,223
Goodwill (6,374) (4,285)
Identifiable intangible assets (2,009) (418)
Tangible common shareholders’ equity $ 98,103 $ 94,520
Book value per common share
$ 303.55 $ 284.39
Tangible book value per common share $ 279.66 $ 270.91
In the table above:
•Tangible common shareholders’ equity is calculated as total shareholders’ equity less preferred stock, goodwill and identifiable intangible assets. We believe that tangible common shareholders’ equity is meaningful because it is a measure that we and investors use to assess capital adequacy. Tangible common shareholders’ equity is a non-GAAP measure and may not be comparable to similar non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
•Book value per common share and tangible book value per common share are based on common shares outstanding and restricted stock units granted to employees with no future service requirements and not subject to performance or market conditions (collectively, basic shares) of 350.8 million as of December 2022 and 348.9 million as of December 2021. We believe that tangible book value per common share (tangible common shareholders’ equity divided by basic shares) is meaningful because it is a measure that we and investors use to assess capital adequacy. Tangible book value per common share is a non-GAAP measure and may not be comparable to similar non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 81
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Funding Sources
Our primary sources of funding are deposits, collateralized financings, unsecured short- and long-term borrowings, and shareholders’ equity. We seek to maintain broad and diversified funding sources globally across products, programs, markets, currencies and creditors to avoid funding concentrations.
The table below presents information about our funding sources.
As of December
$ in millions 2022
Deposits $ 386,665 40 % $ 364,227 36 %
Collateralized financings 155,022 16 % 230,932 23 %
Unsecured short-term borrowings 60,961 6 % 46,955 5 %
Unsecured long-term borrowings 247,138 26 % 254,092 25 %
Total shareholders’ equity 117,189 12 % 109,926 11 %
Total $ 966,975 100 % $ 1,006,132 100 %
Our funding is primarily raised in U.S. dollar, Euro, British pound and Japanese yen. We generally distribute our funding products through our own sales force and third-party distributors to a large, diverse creditor base in a variety of markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia. We believe that our relationships with our creditors are critical to our liquidity. Our creditors include banks, governments, securities lenders, corporations, pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds and individuals. We have imposed various internal guidelines to monitor creditor concentration across our funding programs.
Deposits. Our deposits provide us with a diversified source of funding and reduce our reliance on wholesale funding. We raise deposits, including savings, demand and time deposits, from private bank clients, consumers, transaction banking clients, other institutional clients, and through internal and third-party broker-dealers. Substantially all of our deposits are raised through GS Bank USA, GSIB and Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE (GSBE). See Note 13 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our deposits, including a maturity profile of our time deposits.
Secured Funding. We fund a significant amount of inventory and a portion of investments on a secured basis. Secured funding includes collateralized financings in the consolidated balance sheets. See Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our collateralized financings, including its maturity profile. We may also pledge our inventory and investments as collateral for securities borrowed under a securities lending agreement. We also use our own inventory and investments to cover transactions in which we or our clients have sold securities that have not yet been purchased. Secured funding is less sensitive to changes in our credit quality than unsecured funding, due to our posting of collateral to our lenders. Nonetheless, we analyze the refinancing risk of our secured funding activities, taking into account trade tenors, maturity profiles, counterparty concentrations, collateral eligibility and counterparty rollover probabilities. We seek to mitigate our refinancing risk by executing term trades with staggered maturities, diversifying counterparties, raising excess secured funding and pre-funding residual risk through our GCLA.
We seek to raise secured funding with a term appropriate for the liquidity of the assets that are being financed, and we seek longer maturities for secured funding collateralized by asset classes that may be harder to fund on a secured basis, especially during times of market stress. Our secured funding, excluding funding collateralized by liquid government and agency obligations, is primarily executed for tenors of one month or greater and is primarily executed through term repurchase agreements and securities loaned contracts.
Assets that may be harder to fund on a secured basis during times of market stress include certain financial instruments in the following categories: mortgage- and other asset-backed loans and securities, non-investment-grade corporate debt securities, equity securities and emerging market securities.
We also raise financing through other types of collateralized financings, such as secured loans and notes. GS Bank USA has access to funding from the Federal Home Loan Bank. We had no outstanding borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank as of December 2022 and $100 million as of December 2021. Additionally, we have access to funding through the Federal Reserve discount window. However, we do not rely on this funding in our liquidity planning and stress testing.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Unsecured Short-Term Borrowings. A significant portion of our unsecured short-term borrowings was originally long-term debt that is scheduled to mature within one year of the reporting date. We use unsecured short-term borrowings, including U.S. and non-U.S. hybrid financial instruments and commercial paper, to finance liquid assets and for other cash management purposes. In accordance with regulatory requirements, Group Inc. does not issue debt with an original maturity of less than one year, other than to its subsidiaries. See Note 14 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our unsecured short-term borrowings.
Unsecured Long-Term Borrowings. Unsecured long-term borrowings, including structured notes, are raised through syndicated U.S. registered offerings, U.S. registered and Rule 144A medium-term note programs, offshore medium-term note offerings and other debt offerings. We issue in different tenors, currencies and products to maximize the diversification of our investor base.
The table below presents our quarterly unsecured long-term borrowings maturity profile.
$ in millions First
Quarter Second
Quarter Third
Quarter Fourth
Quarter Total
As of December 2022
2024 $ 18,136 $ 11,053 $ 9,964 $ 11,858 $ 51,011
2025 $ 12,131 $ 10,681 $ 6,443 $ 7,887 37,142
2026 $ 5,862 $ 3,835 $ 3,278 $ 9,227 22,202
2027 $ 8,580 $ 3,435 $ 6,568 $ 11,777 30,360
2028 - thereafter 106,423
Total $ 247,138
The weighted average maturity of our unsecured long-term borrowings as of December 2022 was approximately six years. To mitigate refinancing risk, we seek to limit the principal amount of debt maturing over the course of any monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual time horizon. We enter into interest rate swaps to convert a portion of our unsecured long-term borrowings into floating-rate obligations to manage our exposure to interest rates. See Note 14 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our unsecured long-term borrowings. We issued approximately $28 billion of benchmark debt during 2022, and we intend to issue significantly less benchmark debt in 2023 compared to our benchmark debt issuance in 2022, though actual issuances may differ due to business needs and market opportunities.
Shareholders’ Equity. Shareholders’ equity is a stable and perpetual source of funding. See Note 19 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our shareholders’ equity.
Capital Management and Regulatory Capital
Capital adequacy is of critical importance to us. We have in place a comprehensive capital management policy that provides a framework, defines objectives and establishes guidelines to assist us in maintaining the appropriate level and composition of capital in both business-as-usual and stressed conditions.
Capital Management
We determine the appropriate amount and composition of our capital by considering multiple factors, including our current and future regulatory capital requirements, the results of our capital planning and stress testing process, the results of resolution capital models and other factors, such as rating agency guidelines, subsidiary capital requirements, the business environment and conditions in the financial markets.
We manage our capital requirements and the levels of our capital usage principally by setting limits on the balance sheet and/or limits on risk, in each case at both the firmwide and business levels.
We principally manage the level and composition of our capital through issuances and repurchases of our common stock.
We may issue, redeem or repurchase our preferred stock and subordinated debt or other forms of capital as business conditions warrant. Prior to such redemptions or repurchases, we must receive approval from the FRB. See Notes 14 and 19 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our preferred stock and subordinated debt.
Capital Planning and Stress Testing Process. As part of capital planning, we project sources and uses of capital given a range of business environments, including stressed conditions. Our stress testing process is designed to identify and measure material risks associated with our business activities, including market risk, credit risk, operational risk and liquidity risk, as well as our ability to generate revenues.
Our capital planning process incorporates an internal capital adequacy assessment with the objective of ensuring that we are appropriately capitalized relative to the risks in our businesses. We incorporate stress scenarios into our capital planning process with a goal of holding sufficient capital to ensure we remain adequately capitalized after experiencing a severe stress event. Our assessment of capital adequacy is viewed in tandem with our assessment of liquidity adequacy and is integrated into our overall risk management structure, governance and policy framework.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Our stress tests incorporate our internally designed stress scenarios, including our internally developed severely adverse scenario, and those required by the FRB, and are designed to capture our specific vulnerabilities and risks. We provide further information about our stress test processes and a summary of the results on our website as described in “Business - Available Information” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K.
As required by the FRB’s CCAR rules, we submit an annual capital plan for review by the FRB. The purpose of the FRB’s review is to ensure that we have a robust, forward-looking capital planning process that accounts for our unique risks and that permits continued operation during times of economic and financial stress.
The FRB evaluates us based, in part, on whether we have the capital necessary to continue operating under the baseline and severely adverse scenarios provided by the FRB and those developed internally. This evaluation also takes into account our process for identifying risk, our controls and governance for capital planning, and our guidelines for making capital planning decisions. In addition, the FRB evaluates our plan to make capital distributions (i.e., dividend payments and repurchases or redemptions of stock, subordinated debt or other capital securities) and issue capital, across the range of macroeconomic scenarios and firm-specific assumptions. The FRB determines the stress capital buffer (SCB) applicable to us based on its own annual stress test. The SCB under the Standardized approach is calculated as (i) the difference between our starting and minimum projected CET1 capital ratios under the supervisory severely adverse scenario and (ii) our planned common stock dividends for each of the fourth through seventh quarters of the planning horizon, expressed as a percentage of risk-weighted assets (RWAs).
Based on our 2022 CCAR submission, the FRB reduced our SCB from 6.4% to 6.3% for the period from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. As a result, beginning on October 1, 2022, our Standardized CET1 capital ratio requirement was 13.3%. Additionally, effective January 1, 2023, our G-SIB surcharge increased from 2.5% to 3.0%, resulting in a Standardized CET1 capital ratio requirement of 13.8%. See “Share Repurchase Program” for further information about common stock repurchases and dividends and “Consolidated Regulatory Capital” for further information about the G-SIB surcharge. We published a summary of our annual DFAST results in June 2022. See “Business - Available Information” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K.
GS Bank USA is required to conduct stress tests on an annual basis and publish a summary of certain results. GS Bank USA published a summary of its annual DFAST results in June 2022. See “Business - Available Information” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K.
GSI, GSIB and GSBE also have their own capital planning and stress testing processes, which incorporate internally designed stress tests developed in accordance with the guidelines of their respective regulators.
Contingency Capital Plan. As part of our comprehensive capital management policy, we maintain a contingency capital plan. Our contingency capital plan provides a framework for analyzing and responding to a perceived or actual capital deficiency, including, but not limited to, identification of drivers of a capital deficiency, as well as mitigants and potential actions. It outlines the appropriate communication procedures to follow during a crisis period, including internal dissemination of information, as well as timely communication with external stakeholders.
Capital Attribution. We assess the capital usage of each of our businesses based on our attributed equity framework. This framework considers many factors, including our internal assessment of risks as well as the regulatory capital requirements related to our business activities. These regulatory capital requirements take into consideration our most binding capital constraints. Our most binding capital constraint is our CET1 capital ratio requirement under the Standardized Capital Rules. This requirement includes the SCB which is determined by the FRB based on its own annual stress test.
Share Repurchase Program. We use our share repurchase program to help maintain the appropriate level of common equity. The repurchase program is effected primarily through regular open-market purchases (which may include repurchase plans designed to comply with Rule 10b5-1 and accelerated share repurchases), the amounts and timing of which are determined primarily by our current and projected capital position and our capital plan submitted to the FRB as part of CCAR. The amounts and timing of the repurchases may also be influenced by general market conditions and the prevailing price and trading volumes of our common stock.
In the third quarter of 2022, the Board of Directors of Group Inc. (Board) approved an increase in our common stock dividend from $2.00 to $2.50 per share. During 2022, we returned a total of $6.70 billion to shareholders, including common stock repurchases of $3.50 billion and common stock dividends of $3.20 billion. During the fourth quarter of 2022, we returned a total of $2.38 billion to shareholders, including common stock repurchases of $1.50 billion and common stock dividends of $880 million. Consistent with our capital management philosophy, we will continue prioritizing deployment of capital for our clients where returns are attractive and return any excess capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. During the first quarter of 2023 through February 23, 2023, our common stock repurchases were approximately $2.25 billion.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
See “Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities” in Part II, Item 5 of this Form 10-K and Note 19 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our share repurchase program, and see above for information about our capital planning and stress testing process.
In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 introduced a one percent non-deductible excise tax (buyback tax) on the fair market value of certain corporate share repurchases after December 31, 2022. The fair market value of share repurchases subject to the tax is reduced by the fair market value of any stock issued during the calendar year, including stock issued to employees. Based on our current understanding, we do not expect the buyback tax to have a material impact on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows in 2023.
Resolution Capital Models. In connection with our resolution planning efforts, we have established a Resolution Capital Adequacy and Positioning framework, which is designed to ensure that our major subsidiaries (GS Bank USA, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.), GSI, GSIB, GSBE, Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd. (GSJCL), Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. and Goldman Sachs Asset Management International) have access to sufficient loss-absorbing capacity (in the form of equity, subordinated debt and unsecured senior debt) so that they are able to wind down following a Group Inc. bankruptcy filing in accordance with our preferred resolution strategy.
In addition, we have established a triggers and alerts framework, which is designed to provide the Board with information needed to make an informed decision on whether and when to commence bankruptcy proceedings for Group Inc.
Rating Agency Guidelines
The credit rating agencies assign credit ratings to the obligations of Group Inc., which directly issues or guarantees substantially all of our senior unsecured debt obligations. GS&Co. and GSI have been assigned long- and short-term issuer ratings by certain credit rating agencies. GS Bank USA, GSIB and GSBE have also been assigned long- and short-term issuer ratings, as well as ratings on their long- and short-term bank deposits. In addition, credit rating agencies have assigned ratings to debt obligations of certain other subsidiaries of Group Inc.
The level and composition of our capital are among the many factors considered in determining our credit ratings. Each agency has its own definition of eligible capital and methodology for evaluating capital adequacy, and assessments are generally based on a combination of factors rather than a single calculation. See “Risk Management - Liquidity Risk Management - Credit Ratings” for further information about credit ratings of Group Inc., GS Bank USA, GSIB, GSBE, GS&Co. and GSI.
Consolidated Regulatory Capital
We are subject to consolidated regulatory capital requirements which are calculated in accordance with the regulations of the FRB (Capital Framework). Under the Capital Framework, we are an “Advanced approaches” banking organization and have been designated as a G-SIB.
The capital requirements calculated under the Capital Framework include the capital conservation buffer requirements, which are comprised of a 2.5% buffer (under the Advanced Capital Rules), the SCB (under the Standardized Capital Rules), a countercyclical capital buffer (under both Capital Rules) and the G-SIB surcharge (under both Capital Rules). Our G-SIB surcharge was 2.5% for 2022 and is 3.0% for 2023 and 2024. The G-SIB surcharge and countercyclical capital buffer in the future may differ due to additional guidance from our regulators and/or positional changes, and our SCB is likely to change from year to year based on the results of the annual supervisory stress tests. Our target is to maintain capital ratios equal to the regulatory requirements plus a buffer of 50 to 100 basis points.
See Note 20 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about our risk-based capital ratios and leverage ratios, and the Capital Framework.
Total Loss-Absorbing Capacity (TLAC)
We are also subject to the FRB’s TLAC and related requirements. Failure to comply with the TLAC and related requirements would result in restrictions being imposed by the FRB and could limit our ability to repurchase shares, pay dividends and make certain discretionary compensation payments.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents TLAC and external long-term debt requirements.
Requirements
TLAC to RWAs 21.5 %
TLAC to leverage exposure 9.5 %
External long-term debt to RWAs 8.5 %
External long-term debt to leverage exposure 4.5 %
In the table above:
•The TLAC to RWAs requirement included (i) the 18% minimum, (ii) the 2.5% buffer, (iii) the countercyclical capital buffer, which the FRB has set to zero percent and (iv) the 1.0% G-SIB surcharge (Method 1). Beginning in January 2023, our TLAC to RWAs requirement increased to 22.0%.
•The TLAC to leverage exposure requirement includes (i) the 7.5% minimum and (ii) the 2.0% leverage exposure buffer.
•The external long-term debt to RWAs requirement includes (i) the 6% minimum and (ii) the 2.5% G-SIB surcharge (Method 2). Beginning in January 2023, our external long-term debt to RWAs requirement increased to 9.0%.
•The external long-term debt to total leverage exposure is the 4.5% minimum.
The table below presents information about our TLAC and external long-term debt ratios.
For the Three Months
Ended or as of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
TLAC $ 297,100 $ 297,765
External long-term debt $ 172,845 $ 174,500
RWAs $ 679,450 $ 676,863
Leverage exposure $ 1,867,358 $ 1,910,521
TLAC to RWAs
43.7 % 44.0 %
TLAC to leverage exposure 15.9 % 15.6 %
External long-term debt to RWAs 25.4 % 25.8 %
External long-term debt to leverage exposure 9.3 % 9.1 %
In the table above:
•TLAC includes common and preferred stock, and eligible long-term debt issued by Group Inc. Eligible long-term debt represents unsecured debt, which has a remaining maturity of at least one year and satisfies additional requirements.
•External long-term debt consists of eligible long-term debt subject to a haircut if it is due to be paid between one and two years.
•RWAs represent Advanced RWAs as of December 2022 and Standardized RWAs as of December 2021. In accordance with the TLAC rules, the higher of Advanced or Standardized RWAs are used in the calculation of TLAC and external long-term debt ratios and applicable requirements.
•Leverage exposure consists of average adjusted total assets and certain off-balance sheet exposures.
In the second half of 2022, based on regulatory feedback, we revised certain interpretations of the Capital Rules underlying the calculation of Standardized RWAs. As of December 2021, this change would have reduced our TLAC to RWAs ratio of 44.0% by 0.8 percentage points and our External long-term debt to RWAs ratio of 25.8% by 0.5 percentage points.
See “Business - Regulation” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K for further information about TLAC.
Subsidiary Capital Requirements
Many of our subsidiaries, including our bank and broker-dealer subsidiaries, are subject to separate regulation and capital requirements of the jurisdictions in which they operate.
Bank Subsidiaries. GS Bank USA is our primary U.S. banking subsidiary and GSIB and GSBE are our primary non-U.S. banking subsidiaries. These entities are subject to regulatory capital requirements. See Note 20 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about the regulatory capital requirements of our bank subsidiaries.
U.S. Regulated Broker-Dealer Subsidiaries. GS&Co., our primary U.S. regulated broker-dealer subsidiary, is also a registered futures commission merchant and a registered swap dealer with the CFTC, and a registered security-based swap dealer with the SEC, and therefore is subject to regulatory capital requirements imposed by the SEC, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., the CFTC, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the National Futures Association. Rule 15c3-1 of the SEC and Rules 1.17 and Part 23 Subpart E of the CFTC specify uniform minimum net capital requirements, as defined, for their registrants, and also effectively require that a significant part of the registrants’ assets be kept in relatively liquid form. GS&Co. has elected to calculate its minimum capital requirements in accordance with the “Alternative Net Capital Requirement” as permitted by Rule 15c3-1 of the SEC.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
GS&Co. had regulatory net capital, as defined by Rule 15c3-1, of $22.21 billion as of December 2022 and $22.18 billion as of December 2021, which exceeded the amount required by $17.46 billion as of December 2022 and $17.74 billion as of December 2021. In addition to its alternative minimum net capital requirements, GS&Co. is also required to hold tentative net capital in excess of $5 billion and net capital in excess of $1 billion in accordance with Rule 15c3-1. GS&Co. is also required to notify the SEC in the event that its tentative net capital is less than $6 billion. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GS&Co. had tentative net capital and net capital in excess of both the minimum and the notification requirements.
Non-U.S. Regulated Broker-Dealer Subsidiaries. Our principal non-U.S. regulated broker-dealer subsidiaries include GSI and GSJCL.
GSI, our U.K. broker-dealer, is regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). GSI is subject to the U.K. capital framework, which is largely based on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (Basel Committee) capital framework for strengthening international capital standards (Basel III).
The table below presents GSI’s risk-based capital requirements.
As of December
2022 2021
Risk-based capital requirements
CET1 capital ratio 8.7 % 8.1 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 10.7 % 9.9 %
Total capital ratio 13.3 % 12.4 %
In the table above, the risk-based capital requirements incorporate capital guidance received from the PRA and could change in the future.
The table below presents information about GSI’s risk-based capital ratios.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Risk-based capital and risk-weighted assets
CET1 capital $ 31,780 $ 28,810
Tier 1 capital $ 40,080 $ 37,110
Tier 2 capital $ 5,377 $ 5,377
Total capital $ 45,457 $ 42,487
RWAs $ 247,653 $ 269,762
Risk-based capital ratios
CET1 capital ratio 12.8% 10.7%
Tier 1 capital ratio 16.2% 13.8%
Total capital ratio 18.4% 15.7%
In the table above, the risk-based capital ratios as of December 2022 reflected profits after foreseeable charges that are still subject to audit by GSI’s external auditors and approval by GSI's Board of Directors for inclusion in risk-based capital. These profits contributed approximately 9 basis points to the CET1 capital ratio as of December 2022.
GSI is also subject to the minimum leverage ratio requirement of 3.25% established by the PRA, which became effective in January 2023. GSI had a leverage ratio of 6.1% as of December 2022. The leverage ratio as of December 2022 reflected profits after foreseeable charges that are still subject to audit by GSI’s external auditors and approval by GSI's Board of Directors for inclusion in risk-based capital. These profits contributed approximately 7 basis points to the leverage ratio as of December 2022.
GSI is a registered swap dealer with the CFTC and a registered security-based swap dealer with the SEC. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GSI was subject to and in compliance with applicable capital requirements for swap dealers and security-based swap dealers.
GSI is also subject to a minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities issued to affiliates. This requirement is subject to a transitional period which began to phase in from January 2019 and became fully effective beginning in January 2022. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GSI was in compliance with this requirement.
GSJCL, our Japanese broker-dealer, is regulated by Japan’s Financial Services Agency. GSJCL and certain other non-U.S. subsidiaries are also subject to capital requirements promulgated by authorities of the countries in which they operate. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, these subsidiaries were in compliance with their local capital requirements.
Regulatory and Other Matters
Regulatory Matters
Our businesses are subject to extensive regulation and supervision worldwide. Regulations have been adopted or are being considered by regulators and policy makers worldwide. Given that many of the new and proposed rules are highly complex, the full impact of regulatory reform will not be known until the rules are implemented and market practices develop under the final regulations.
See “Business - Regulation” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K for further information about the laws, rules and regulations and proposed laws, rules and regulations that apply to us and our operations.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Other Matters
Replacement of Interbank Offered Rates (IBORs), including LIBOR. On January 1, 2022, the publication of all EUR, CHF, JPY and GBP LIBOR (non-USD LIBOR) settings along with certain USD LIBOR settings ceased. The publication of the most commonly used USD LIBOR settings as representative rates will cease after June 2023. The FCA has allowed the publication and use of synthetic rates for certain GBP LIBOR settings in legacy GBP LIBOR-based derivative contracts through March 2024. The FCA has proposed to allow the publication and use of synthetic rates for certain USD LIBOR settings in legacy USD LIBOR-based derivative contracts through September 2024. The U.S. federal banking agencies’ guidance strongly encourages banking organizations to cease using USD LIBOR.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol (IBOR Protocol) has provided derivatives market participants with amended fallbacks for legacy and new derivative contracts to mitigate legal or economic uncertainty. Both counterparties have to adhere to the IBOR Protocol or engage in bilateral amendments for the terms to be effective for derivative contracts. ISDA has confirmed that the FCA’s formal announcement to cease both non-USD and USD LIBOR settings fixed the spread adjustment for all LIBOR rates and as a result fallbacks applied automatically for non-USD LIBOR settings following December 31, 2021 and will apply automatically for USD LIBOR settings following June 30, 2023. The Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act, that was enacted in March 2022, provides a statutory framework to replace USD LIBOR with a benchmark rate based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) for contracts governed by U.S. law that have no fallbacks or fallbacks that would require the use of a poll or LIBOR-based rate. In December 2022, the FRB adopted a final rule that implements the LIBOR Act, which will become effective on February 27, 2023. The final rule identifies different SOFR-based replacement rates for derivative contracts, for cash instruments such as floating-rate notes and preferred stock, for consumer contracts, for certain government-sponsored enterprise contracts and for certain student loan securitizations that lack a fallback to an alternative rate when USD LIBOR ceases to be published on June 30, 2023.
We facilitated an orderly transition from non-USD LIBORs to alternative risk-free reference rates and synthetic rates for us and our clients, and continue to make progress on our transition program as it relates to USD LIBOR.
Our risk exposure to USD LIBOR is primarily in connection with our derivative contracts and, to a lesser extent, our unsecured debt, preferred stock and loan portfolio. As of December 2022, the notional amount of our USD LIBOR-based derivative contracts was approximately $6 trillion, of which approximately $5 trillion will mature after June 2023 based on their contractual terms. Substantially all of such derivative contracts are with counterparties under bilateral agreements subject to the IBOR Protocol, or with central clearing counterparties or exchanges which have incorporated fallbacks consistent with the IBOR Protocol in their rulebooks and have announced that they plan to convert USD LIBOR contracts to alternative risk-free reference rates. Our unsecured benchmark debt and preferred stock with USD LIBOR exposure was approximately $29.0 billion as of December 2022, of which $26.4 billion will contractually mature after June 2023 or is perpetual and has no stated maturity date. Under the FRB’s final rule and the LIBOR Act, we will replace our USD LIBOR-based unsecured benchmark debt and preferred stock with term SOFR plus the statutorily prescribed tenor spread. This transition will take place following USD LIBOR cessation on June 30, 2023. In addition, our USD LIBOR-based loans were approximately $33.1 billion as of December 2022, of which approximately $30.5 billion will mature after June 2023 based on their contractual terms. A vast majority of such loans contain fallback provisions in the related loan agreements and we are actively engaging with our clients and syndicate partners to remediate the remaining loans agreements.
We have also issued debt and deposits linked to SOFR and Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) and executed SOFR- and SONIA-based derivative contracts to make markets and facilitate client activities. When appropriate, we continue to execute transactions in the market to reduce our USD LIBOR exposures arising from hedges to our fixed-rate debt issuances and replace them with alternative risk-free reference rate exposures.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
In the ordinary course of business, we enter into various types of off-balance sheet arrangements. Our involvement in these arrangements can take many different forms, including:
•Purchasing or retaining residual and other interests in special purpose entities, such as mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securitization vehicles;
•Holding senior and subordinated debt, interests in limited and general partnerships, and preferred and common stock in other nonconsolidated vehicles;
•Entering into interest rate, foreign currency, equity, commodity and credit derivatives, including total return swaps; and
•Providing guarantees, indemnifications, commitments, letters of credit and representations and warranties.
We enter into these arrangements for a variety of business purposes, including securitizations. The securitization vehicles that purchase mortgages, corporate bonds and other types of financial assets are critical to the functioning of several significant investor markets, including the mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities markets, since they offer investors access to specific cash flows and risks created through the securitization process.
We also enter into these arrangements to underwrite client securitization transactions; provide secondary market liquidity; make investments in performing and nonperforming debt, distressed loans, power-related assets, equity securities, real estate and other assets; and provide investors with credit-linked and asset-repackaged notes.
The table below presents where information about our various off-balance sheet arrangements may be found in this Form 10-K. In addition, see Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements for information about our consolidation policies.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement Disclosure in Form 10-K
Variable interests and other obligations, including contingent obligations, arising from variable interests in nonconsolidated variable interest entities (VIEs)
See Note 17 to the consolidated financial statements.
Guarantees, and lending and other commitments
See Note 18 to the consolidated financial statements.
Derivatives
See “Risk Management - Credit Risk Management - Credit Exposures - OTC Derivatives” and Notes 4, 5, 7 and 18 to the consolidated financial statements.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Risk Management
Risks are inherent in our businesses and include liquidity, market, credit, operational, model, legal, compliance, conduct, regulatory and reputational risks. For further information about our risk management processes, see “Overview and Structure of Risk Management,” and for information about our areas of risk, see “Liquidity Risk Management,” “Market Risk Management,” “Credit Risk Management,” “Operational Risk Management,” “Model Risk Management” and “Other Risk Management,” as well as “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K.
Overview and Structure of Risk Management
Overview
We believe that effective risk management is critical to our success. Accordingly, we have established an enterprise risk management framework that employs a comprehensive, integrated approach to risk management, and is designed to enable comprehensive risk management processes through which we identify, assess, monitor and manage the risks we assume in conducting our activities. Our risk management structure is built around three core components: governance, processes and people.
Governance. Risk management governance starts with the Board, which both directly and through its committees, including its Risk Committee, oversees our risk management policies and practices implemented through the enterprise risk management framework. The Board is also responsible for the annual review and approval of our risk appetite statement. The risk appetite statement describes the levels and types of risk we are willing to accept or to avoid, in order to achieve our objectives included in our strategic business plan, while remaining in compliance with regulatory requirements. The Board reviews our strategic business plan and is ultimately responsible for overseeing and providing direction about our strategy and risk appetite.
The Board receives regular briefings on firmwide risks, including liquidity risk, market risk, credit risk, operational risk, model risk and climate risk, from our independent risk oversight and control functions, including the chief risk officer, and on compliance risk and conduct risk from Compliance, on legal and regulatory enforcement matters from the chief legal officer, and on other matters impacting our reputation from the chair and vice-chairs of our Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee. The chief risk officer reports to our chief executive officer and to the Risk Committee of the Board. As part of the review of the firmwide risk portfolio, the chief risk officer regularly advises the Risk Committee of the Board of relevant risk metrics and material exposures, including risk limits and thresholds established in our risk appetite statement.
The implementation of our risk governance structure and core risk management processes is overseen by Enterprise Risk, which reports to our chief risk officer, and is responsible for ensuring that our enterprise risk management framework provides the Board, our risk committees and senior management with a consistent and integrated approach to managing our various risks in a manner consistent with our risk appetite.
Our revenue-producing units, as well as Treasury, Engineering, Human Capital Management, Operations, and Corporate and Workplace Solutions, are considered our first line of defense. They are accountable for the outcomes of our risk-generating activities, as well as for assessing and managing those risks within our risk appetite.
Our independent risk oversight and control functions are considered our second line of defense and provide independent assessment, oversight and challenge of the risks taken by our first line of defense, as well as lead and participate in risk committees. Independent risk oversight and control functions include Compliance, Conflicts Resolution, Controllers, Legal, Risk and Tax.
Internal Audit is considered our third line of defense, and our director of Internal Audit reports to the Audit Committee of the Board and administratively to our chief executive officer. Internal Audit includes professionals with a broad range of audit and industry experience, including risk management expertise. Internal Audit is responsible for independently assessing and validating the effectiveness of key controls, including those within the risk management framework, and providing timely reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board, senior management and regulators.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The three lines of defense structure promotes the accountability of first line risk takers, provides a framework for effective challenge by the second line and empowers independent review from the third line.
Processes. We maintain various processes that are critical components of our risk management framework, including (i) risk identification and control assessment, (ii) risk appetite, limit and threshold setting, (iii) risk metrics, reporting and monitoring, and (iv) risk decision-making.
•Risk Identification and Control Assessment. We believe the identification of our risks and related control assessment is a critical step in providing our Board and senior management transparency and insight into the range and materiality of our risks. We have a comprehensive data collection process, including firmwide policies and procedures that require all employees to report and escalate risk events. Our approach for risk identification and control assessment is comprehensive across all risk types, is dynamic and forward-looking to reflect and adapt to our changing risk profile and business environment, leverages subject matter expertise, and allows for prioritization of our most critical risks. This approach also encompasses our control assessment, led by our second line of defense, to review and challenge the control environment to ensure it supports our strategic business plan.
To effectively assess our risks, we maintain a daily discipline of marking substantially all of our inventory to current market levels. We carry our inventory at fair value, with changes in valuation reflected immediately in our risk management systems and in net revenues. We do so because we believe this discipline is one of the most effective tools for assessing and managing risk and that it provides transparent and realistic insight into our inventory exposures.
An important part of our risk management process is firmwide stress testing. It allows us to quantify our exposure to tail risks, highlight potential loss concentrations, undertake risk/reward analysis, and assess and mitigate our risk positions. Firmwide stress tests are performed on a regular basis and are designed to ensure a comprehensive analysis of our vulnerabilities and idiosyncratic risks combining financial and nonfinancial risks, including, but not limited to, credit, market, liquidity and funding, operational and compliance, strategic, systemic and emerging risks into a single combined scenario. We also perform ad hoc stress tests in anticipation of market events or conditions. Stress tests are also used to assess capital adequacy as part of our capital planning and stress testing process. See “Capital Management and Regulatory Capital - Capital Management” for further information.
•Risk Appetite, Limit and Threshold Setting. We apply a rigorous framework of limits and thresholds to control and monitor risk across transactions, products, businesses and markets. The Board, directly or indirectly through its Risk Committee, approves limits and thresholds included in our risk appetite statement at firmwide, business and product levels. In addition, the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee, through delegated authority from the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee, is responsible for approving our risk limits and thresholds policy, subject to the overall limits approved by the Risk Committee of the Board, and monitoring these limits.
The Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee is responsible for approving limits at firmwide, business and product levels. Certain limits may be set at levels that will require periodic adjustment, rather than at levels that reflect our maximum risk appetite. This fosters an ongoing dialogue about risk among our first and second lines of defense, committees and senior management, as well as rapid escalation of risk-related matters. Additionally, through delegated authority from the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee, Market Risk sets limits at certain product and desk levels, and Credit Risk sets limits for individual counterparties and their subsidiaries, industries and countries. Limits are reviewed regularly and amended on a permanent or temporary basis to reflect changing market conditions, business conditions or risk tolerance.
•Risk Metrics, Reporting and Monitoring. Effective risk reporting and risk decision-making depends on our ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time. As such, we focus on the rigor and effectiveness of our risk systems, with the objective of ensuring that our risk management technology systems provide us with complete, accurate and timely information. Our risk metrics, reporting and monitoring processes are designed to take into account information about both existing and emerging risks, thereby enabling our risk committees and senior management to perform their responsibilities with the appropriate level of insight into risk exposures. Furthermore, our limit and threshold breach processes provide means for timely escalation. We evaluate changes in our risk profile and our businesses, including changes in business mix or jurisdictions in which we operate, by monitoring risk factors at a firmwide level.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
•Risk Decision-Making. Our governance structure provides the protocol and responsibility for decision-making on risk management issues and ensures implementation of those decisions. We make extensive use of risk committees that meet regularly and serve as an important means to facilitate and foster ongoing discussions to manage and mitigate risks.
We maintain strong and proactive communication about risk and we have a culture of collaboration in decision-making among our first and second lines of defense, committees and senior management. While our first line of defense is responsible for management of their risk, we dedicate extensive resources to our second line of defense in order to ensure a strong oversight structure and an appropriate segregation of duties. We regularly reinforce our strong culture of escalation and accountability across all functions.
People. Even the best technology serves only as a tool for helping to make informed decisions in real time about the risks we are taking. Ultimately, effective risk management requires our people to interpret our risk data on an ongoing and timely basis and adjust risk positions accordingly. The experience of our professionals, and their understanding of the nuances and limitations of each risk measure, guides us in assessing exposures and maintaining them within prudent levels.
We reinforce a culture of effective risk management, consistent with our risk appetite, in our training and development programs, as well as in the way we evaluate performance, and recognize and reward our people. Our training and development programs, including certain sessions led by our most senior leaders, are focused on the importance of risk management, client relationships and reputational excellence. As part of our performance review process, we assess reputational excellence, including how an employee exercises good risk management and reputational judgment, and adheres to our code of conduct and compliance policies. Our review and reward processes are designed to communicate and reinforce to our professionals the link between behavior and how people are recognized, the need to focus on our clients and our reputation, and the need to always act in accordance with our highest standards.
Structure
Ultimate oversight of risk is the responsibility of our Board. The Board oversees risk both directly and through its committees, including its Risk Committee. We also have a series of committees with specific risk management mandates that have oversight or decision-making responsibilities for risk management activities. Committee membership generally consists of senior managers from both our first and second lines of defense. We have established procedures for these committees to ensure that appropriate information barriers are in place. Our primary risk committees, most of which also have additional sub-committees, councils or working groups, are described below. In addition to these committees, we have other risk committees that provide oversight for different businesses, activities, products, regions and entities. All of our committees have responsibility for considering the impact on our reputation of the transactions and activities that they oversee.
Membership of our risk committees is reviewed regularly and updated to reflect changes in the responsibilities of the committee members. Accordingly, the length of time that members serve on the respective committees varies as determined by the committee chairs and based on the responsibilities of the members.
The chart below presents an overview of our risk management governance structure.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Management Committee. The Management Committee oversees our global activities. It provides this oversight directly and through authority delegated to committees it has established. This committee consists of our most senior leaders, and is chaired by our chief executive officer. Most members of the Management Committee are also members of other committees. The following are the committees that are principally involved in firmwide risk management.
Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee. The Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee is responsible for overseeing all of our financial and nonfinancial risks. As part of such oversight, the committee is responsible for the ongoing review, approval and monitoring of our enterprise risk management framework, as well as our risk limits and thresholds policy, through delegated authority to the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee. This committee also reviews new significant strategic business initiatives to determine whether they are consistent with our risk appetite and risk management capabilities. Additionally, the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee performs enhanced reviews of significant risk events, the top residual and emerging risks, and the overall risk and control environment in each of our business units in order to propose uplifts, identify elements that are common to all business units and analyze the consolidated residual risks that we face. This committee, which reports to the Management Committee, is co-chaired by our president and chief operating officer and our chief risk officer, who are appointed as chairs by our chief executive officer, and the vice-chair is our chief financial officer, who is appointed as vice-chair by the chairs of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee. The following are the primary committees or councils that report to the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee (unless otherwise noted):
•Firmwide Risk Council. The Firmwide Risk Council is responsible for the ongoing monitoring of relevant financial risks and related risk limits at the firmwide, business and product levels. This council is co-chaired by our chief financial officer and our chief risk officer.
•Firmwide New Activity Committee. The Firmwide New Activity Committee is responsible for reviewing new activities and for establishing a process to identify and review previously approved activities that are significant and that have changed in complexity and/or structure or present different reputational and suitability concerns over time to consider whether these activities remain appropriate. This committee is co-chaired by our controller and chief accounting officer and our chief operating and strategy officer for Engineering, who are appointed as chairs by the chairs of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee.
•Firmwide Operational Risk and Resilience Committee. The Firmwide Operational Risk and Resilience Committee is responsible for overseeing operational risk, and for ensuring our business and operational resilience. To assist the Firmwide Operational Risk and Resilience Committee in carrying out its mandate, other risk committees with dedicated oversight for technology-related risks, including cybersecurity matters, report into the Firmwide Operational Risk and Resilience Committee. This committee is co-chaired by our chief administrative officer for EMEA and our head of Operational Risk, who are appointed as chairs by the chairs of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee.
•Firmwide Conduct Committee. The Firmwide Conduct Committee is responsible for the ongoing approval and monitoring of the frameworks and policies which govern our conduct risks. Conduct risk is the risk that our people fail to act in a manner consistent with our Business Principles and related core values, policies or codes, or applicable laws or regulations, thereby falling short in fulfilling their responsibilities to us, our clients, colleagues, other market participants or the broader community. This committee is chaired by our chief legal officer, who is appointed as chair by the chairs of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee.
•Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee. The Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee (through delegated authority from the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee) is responsible for the ongoing approval and monitoring of risk frameworks, policies and parameters related to our core risk management processes, as well as limits and thresholds, at firmwide, business and product levels. In addition, this committee is responsible for overseeing our financial risks and reviews the results of stress tests and scenario analyses. To assist the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee in carrying out its mandate, a number of other risk committees with dedicated oversight for stress testing, model risks, Volcker Rule compliance, as well as our investments or other capital commitments that may give rise to financial risk, report into the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee. This committee is chaired by our chief risk officer, who is appointed as chair by the chairs of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee. The Firmwide Capital Committee and Firmwide Commitments Committee report to the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee.
Firmwide Capital Committee. The Firmwide Capital Committee provides approval and oversight of debt-related transactions, including principal commitments of our capital. This committee aims to ensure that business, reputational and suitability standards for underwritings and capital commitments are maintained on a global basis. This committee is co-chaired by our head of Credit Risk and a co-head of our Global Financing Group, who are appointed as chairs by the chair of the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Firmwide Commitments Committee. The Firmwide Commitments Committee reviews our underwriting and distribution activities with respect to equity and equity-related product offerings, and sets and maintains policies and procedures designed to ensure that legal, reputational, regulatory and business standards are maintained on a global basis. In addition to reviewing specific transactions, this committee periodically conducts general strategic reviews of sectors and products and establishes policies in connection with transaction practices. This committee is co-chaired by our chief equity underwriting officer for the Americas, a co-chairman of our Global Financial Institutions Group and a co-head of our Global Investment Grade Capital Markets and Risk Management Group in Global Banking & Markets, who are appointed as chairs by the chair of the Firmwide Risk Appetite Committee.
•Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee. The Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee is responsible for assessing reputational risks arising from transactions that have been identified as having potential heightened reputational risk pursuant to the criteria established by the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee and as determined by committee leadership. This committee is also responsible for overseeing client-related business standards and addressing client-related reputational risk. This committee is chaired by our president and chief operating officer, who is appointed as chair by our chief executive officer, and the vice-chairs are our chief legal officer and the head of Conflicts Resolution, who are appointed as vice-chairs by the chair of the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee. This committee periodically provides updates to, and receives guidance from, the Public Responsibilities Committee of the Board. The Firmwide Suitability Committee reports to the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee.
Firmwide Suitability Committee. The Firmwide Suitability Committee is responsible for setting standards and policies for product, transaction and client suitability and providing a forum for consistency across functions, regions and products on suitability assessments. This committee also reviews suitability matters escalated from other committees. This committee is co-chaired by our chief compliance officer, and the head of Net Zero Transition Solutions in Global Banking & Markets, who are appointed as chairs by the chair of the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee.
Firmwide Asset Liability Committee. The Firmwide Asset Liability Committee reviews and approves the strategic direction for our financial resources, including capital, liquidity, funding and balance sheet. This committee has oversight responsibility for asset liability management, including interest rate and currency risk, funds transfer pricing, capital allocation and incentives, and credit ratings. This committee makes recommendations as to any adjustments to asset liability management and financial resource allocation in light of current events, risks, exposures, and regulatory requirements and approves related policies. This committee is co-chaired by our chief financial officer and our global treasurer, who are appointed as chairs by our chief executive officer, and reports to the Management Committee.
Liquidity Risk Management
Overview
Liquidity risk is the risk that we will be unable to fund ourselves or meet our liquidity needs in the event of firm-specific, broader industry or market liquidity stress events. We have in place a comprehensive and conservative set of liquidity and funding policies. Our principal objective is to be able to fund ourselves and to enable our core businesses to continue to serve clients and generate revenues, even under adverse circumstances.
Treasury, which reports to our chief financial officer, has primary responsibility for developing, managing and executing our liquidity and funding strategy within our risk appetite.
Liquidity Risk, which is independent of our revenue-producing units and Treasury, and reports to our chief risk officer, has primary responsibility for identifying, monitoring and managing our liquidity risk through firmwide oversight across our global businesses and the establishment of stress testing and limits frameworks.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Liquidity Risk Management Principles
We manage liquidity risk according to three principles: (i) hold sufficient excess liquidity in the form of GCLA to cover outflows during a stressed period, (ii) maintain appropriate Asset-Liability Management and (iii) maintain a viable Contingency Funding Plan.
GCLA. GCLA is liquidity that we maintain to meet a broad range of potential cash outflows and collateral needs in a stressed environment. A primary liquidity principle is to pre-fund our estimated potential cash and collateral needs during a liquidity crisis and hold this liquidity in the form of unencumbered, highly liquid securities and cash. We believe that the securities held in our GCLA would be readily convertible to cash in a matter of days, through liquidation, by entering into repurchase agreements or from maturities of resale agreements, and that this cash would allow us to meet immediate obligations without needing to sell other assets or depend on additional funding from credit-sensitive markets.
Our GCLA reflects the following principles:
•The first days or weeks of a liquidity crisis are the most critical to a company’s survival;
•Focus must be maintained on all potential cash and collateral outflows, not just disruptions to financing flows. Our businesses are diverse, and our liquidity needs are determined by many factors, including market movements, collateral requirements and client commitments, all of which can change dramatically in a difficult funding environment;
•During a liquidity crisis, credit-sensitive funding, including unsecured debt, certain deposits and some types of secured financing agreements, may be unavailable, and the terms (e.g., interest rates, collateral provisions and tenor) or availability of other types of secured financing may change and certain deposits may be withdrawn; and
•As a result of our policy to pre-fund liquidity that we estimate may be needed in a crisis, we hold more unencumbered securities and have larger funding balances than our businesses would otherwise require. We believe that our liquidity is stronger with greater balances of highly liquid unencumbered securities, even though it increases our total assets and our funding costs.
We maintain our GCLA across Group Inc., Goldman Sachs Funding LLC (Funding IHC) and Group Inc.’s major broker-dealer and bank subsidiaries, asset types and clearing agents to provide us with sufficient operating liquidity to ensure timely settlement in all major markets, even in a difficult funding environment. In addition to the GCLA, we maintain cash balances and securities in several of our other entities, primarily for use in specific currencies, entities or jurisdictions where we do not have immediate access to parent company liquidity.
Asset-Liability Management. Our liquidity risk management policies are designed to ensure we have a sufficient amount of financing, even when funding markets experience persistent stress. We manage the maturities and diversity of our funding across markets, products and counterparties, and seek to maintain a diversified funding profile with an appropriate tenor, taking into consideration the characteristics and liquidity profile of our assets.
Our approach to asset-liability management includes:
•Conservatively managing the overall characteristics of our funding book, with a focus on maintaining long-term, diversified sources of funding in excess of our current requirements. See “Balance Sheet and Funding Sources - Funding Sources” for further information;
•Actively managing and monitoring our asset base, with particular focus on the liquidity, holding period and ability to fund assets on a secured basis. We assess our funding requirements and our ability to liquidate assets in a stressed environment while appropriately managing risk. This enables us to determine the most appropriate funding products and tenors. See “Balance Sheet and Funding Sources - Balance Sheet Management” for further information about our balance sheet management process and “- Funding Sources - Secured Funding” for further information about asset classes that may be harder to fund on a secured basis; and
•Raising secured and unsecured financing that has a long tenor relative to the liquidity profile of our assets. This reduces the risk that our liabilities will come due in advance of our ability to generate liquidity from the sale of our assets. Because we maintain a highly liquid balance sheet, the holding period of certain of our assets may be materially shorter than their contractual maturity dates.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Our goal is to ensure that we maintain sufficient liquidity to fund our assets and meet our contractual and contingent obligations in normal times, as well as during periods of market stress. Through our dynamic balance sheet management process, we use actual and projected asset balances to determine secured and unsecured funding requirements. Funding plans are reviewed and approved by the Firmwide Asset Liability Committee. In addition, our independent risk oversight and control functions analyze, and the Firmwide Asset Liability Committee reviews, our consolidated total capital position (unsecured long-term borrowings plus total shareholders’ equity) so that we maintain a level of long-term funding that is sufficient to meet our long-term financing requirements. In a liquidity crisis, we would first use our GCLA in order to avoid reliance on asset sales (other than our GCLA). However, we recognize that orderly asset sales may be prudent or necessary in a severe or persistent liquidity crisis.
Subsidiary Funding Policies
The majority of our unsecured funding is raised by Group Inc., which provides the necessary funds to Funding IHC and other subsidiaries, some of which are regulated, to meet their asset financing, liquidity and capital requirements. In addition, Group Inc. provides its regulated subsidiaries with the necessary capital to meet their regulatory requirements. The benefits of this approach to subsidiary funding are enhanced control and greater flexibility to meet the funding requirements of our subsidiaries. Funding is also raised at the subsidiary level through a variety of products, including deposits, secured funding and unsecured borrowings.
Our intercompany funding policies assume that a subsidiary’s funds or securities are not freely available to its parent, Funding IHC or other subsidiaries unless (i) legally provided for and (ii) there are no additional regulatory, tax or other restrictions. In particular, many of our subsidiaries are subject to laws that authorize regulatory bodies to block or reduce the flow of funds from those subsidiaries to Group Inc. or Funding IHC. Regulatory action of that kind could impede access to funds that Group Inc. needs to make payments on its obligations. Accordingly, we assume that the capital provided to our regulated subsidiaries is not available to Group Inc. or other subsidiaries and any other financing provided to our regulated subsidiaries is not available to Group Inc. or Funding IHC until the maturity of such financing.
Group Inc. has provided substantial amounts of equity and subordinated indebtedness, directly or indirectly, to its regulated subsidiaries. For example, as of December 2022, Group Inc. had $39.33 billion of equity and subordinated indebtedness invested in GS&Co., its principal U.S. registered broker-dealer; $47.74 billion invested in GSI, a regulated U.K. broker-dealer; $2.62 billion invested in GSJCL, a regulated Japanese broker-dealer; $52.55 billion invested in GS Bank USA, a regulated New York State-chartered bank; and $4.25 billion invested in GSIB, a regulated U.K. bank. Group Inc. also provides financing, directly or indirectly, in the form of: $108.14 billion of unsubordinated loans (including secured loans of $52.93 billion) and $30.16 billion of collateral and cash deposits to these entities as of December 2022. In addition, as of December 2022, Group Inc. had significant amounts of capital invested in and loans to its other regulated subsidiaries.
Contingency Funding Plan. We maintain a contingency funding plan to provide a framework for analyzing and responding to a liquidity crisis situation or periods of market stress. Our contingency funding plan outlines a list of potential risk factors, key reports and metrics that are reviewed on an ongoing basis to assist in assessing the severity of, and managing through, a liquidity crisis and/or market dislocation. The contingency funding plan also describes in detail our potential responses if our assessments indicate that we have entered a liquidity crisis, which include pre-funding for what we estimate will be our potential cash and collateral needs, as well as utilizing secondary sources of liquidity. Mitigants and action items to address specific risks which may arise are also described and assigned to individuals responsible for execution.
The contingency funding plan identifies key groups of individuals and their responsibilities, which include fostering effective coordination, control and distribution of information, implementing liquidity maintenance activities and managing internal and external communication, all of which are critical in the management of a crisis or period of market stress.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Stress Tests
In order to determine the appropriate size of our GCLA, we model liquidity outflows over a range of scenarios and time horizons. One of our primary internal liquidity risk models, referred to as the Modeled Liquidity Outflow, quantifies our liquidity risks over a 30-day stress scenario. We also consider other factors, including, but not limited to, an assessment of our potential intraday liquidity needs through an additional internal liquidity risk model, referred to as the Intraday Liquidity Model, the results of our long-term stress testing models, our resolution liquidity models and other applicable regulatory requirements and a qualitative assessment of our condition, as well as the financial markets. The results of the Modeled Liquidity Outflow, the Intraday Liquidity Model, the long-term stress testing models and the resolution liquidity models are reported to senior management on a regular basis. We also perform firmwide stress tests. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about firmwide stress tests.
Modeled Liquidity Outflow. Our Modeled Liquidity Outflow is based on conducting multiple scenarios that include combinations of market-wide and firm-specific stress. These scenarios are characterized by the following qualitative elements:
•Severely challenged market environments, which include low consumer and corporate confidence, financial and political instability, and adverse changes in market values, including potential declines in equity markets and widening of credit spreads; and
•A firm-specific crisis potentially triggered by material losses, reputational damage, litigation and/or a ratings downgrade.
The following are key modeling elements of our Modeled Liquidity Outflow:
•Liquidity needs over a 30-day scenario;
•A two-notch downgrade of our long-term senior unsecured credit ratings;
•Changing conditions in funding markets, which limit our access to unsecured and secured funding;
•No support from additional government funding facilities. Although we have access to various central bank funding programs, we do not assume reliance on additional sources of funding in a liquidity crisis; and
•A combination of contractual outflows and contingent outflows arising from both our on- and off-balance sheet arrangements. Contractual outflows include, among other things, upcoming maturities of unsecured debt, term deposits and secured funding. Contingent outflows include, among other things, the withdrawal of customer credit balances in our prime brokerage business, increase in variation margin requirements due to adverse changes in the value of our exchange-traded and OTC-cleared derivatives, draws on unfunded commitments and withdrawals of deposits that have no contractual maturity. See notes to the consolidated financial statements for further information about contractual outflows, including Note 11 for collateralized financings, Note 13 for deposits, Note 14 for unsecured long-term borrowings and Note 15 for operating lease payments, and “Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements” for further information about our various types of off-balance sheet arrangements.
Intraday Liquidity Model. Our Intraday Liquidity Model measures our intraday liquidity needs using a scenario analysis characterized by the same qualitative elements as our Modeled Liquidity Outflow. The model assesses the risk of increased intraday liquidity requirements during a scenario where access to sources of intraday liquidity may become constrained.
Long-Term Stress Testing. We utilize longer-term stress tests to take a forward view on our liquidity position through prolonged stress periods in which we experience a severe liquidity stress and recover in an environment that continues to be challenging. We are focused on ensuring conservative asset-liability management to prepare for a prolonged period of potential stress, seeking to maintain a diversified funding profile with an appropriate tenor, taking into consideration the characteristics and liquidity profile of our assets.
Resolution Liquidity Models. In connection with our resolution planning efforts, we have established our Resolution Liquidity Adequacy and Positioning framework, which estimates liquidity needs of our major subsidiaries in a stressed environment. The liquidity needs are measured using our Modeled Liquidity Outflow assumptions and include certain additional inter-affiliate exposures. We have also established our Resolution Liquidity Execution Need framework, which measures the liquidity needs of our major subsidiaries to stabilize and wind down following a Group Inc. bankruptcy filing in accordance with our preferred resolution strategy.
In addition, we have established a triggers and alerts framework, which is designed to provide the Board with information needed to make an informed decision on whether and when to commence bankruptcy proceedings for Group Inc.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Limits
We use liquidity risk limits at various levels and across liquidity risk types to manage the size of our liquidity exposures. Limits are measured relative to acceptable levels of risk given our liquidity risk tolerance. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about the limit approval process.
Limits are monitored by Treasury and Liquidity Risk. Liquidity Risk is responsible for identifying and escalating to senior management and/or the appropriate risk committee, on a timely basis, instances where limits have been exceeded.
GCLA and Unencumbered Metrics
GCLA. Based on the results of our internal liquidity risk models, described above, as well as our consideration of other factors, including, but not limited to, a qualitative assessment of our condition, as well as the financial markets, we believe our liquidity position as of both December 2022 and December 2021 was appropriate. We strictly limit our GCLA to a narrowly defined list of securities and cash because they are highly liquid, even in a difficult funding environment. We do not include other potential sources of excess liquidity in our GCLA, such as less liquid unencumbered securities or committed credit facilities.
The table below presents information about our GCLA.
Average for the
Three Months
Year Ended
Ended December
December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2022 2021
Denomination
U.S. dollar $ 312,414 $ 230,720 $ 281,427 $ 217,797
Non-U.S. dollar 96,404 122,401 116,655 116,723
Total $ 408,818 $ 353,121 $ 398,082 $ 334,520
Asset Class
Overnight cash deposits $ 217,141 $ 188,223 $ 228,203 $ 173,000
U.S. government obligations 149,519 107,898 126,349 108,260
U.S. agency obligations 12,789 13,154 11,007 10,183
Non-U.S. government obligations 29,369 43,846 32,523 43,077
Total $ 408,818 $ 353,121 $ 398,082 $ 334,520
Entity Type
Group Inc. and Funding IHC $ 69,386 $ 54,489 $ 64,579 $ 53,205
Major broker-dealer subsidiaries 109,502 107,279 113,887 104,326
Major bank subsidiaries 229,930 191,353 219,616 176,989
Total $ 408,818 $ 353,121 $ 398,082 $ 334,520
In the table above:
•The U.S. dollar-denominated GCLA consists of (i) unencumbered U.S. government and agency obligations (including highly liquid U.S. agency mortgage-backed obligations), all of which are eligible as collateral in Federal Reserve open market operations and (ii) certain overnight U.S. dollar cash deposits.
•The non-U.S. dollar-denominated GCLA consists of non-U.S. government obligations (only unencumbered German, French, Japanese and U.K. government obligations) and certain overnight cash deposits in highly liquid currencies.
We maintain our GCLA to enable us to meet current and potential liquidity requirements of our parent company, Group Inc., and its subsidiaries. Our Modeled Liquidity Outflow and Intraday Liquidity Model incorporate a requirement for Group Inc., as well as a standalone requirement for each of our major broker-dealer and bank subsidiaries. Funding IHC is required to provide the necessary liquidity to Group Inc. during the ordinary course of business, and is also obligated to provide capital and liquidity support to major subsidiaries in the event of our material financial distress or failure. Liquidity held directly in each of our major broker-dealer and bank subsidiaries is intended for use only by that subsidiary to meet its liquidity requirements and is assumed not to be available to Group Inc. or Funding IHC unless (i) legally provided for and (ii) there are no additional regulatory, tax or other restrictions. In addition, the Modeled Liquidity Outflow and Intraday Liquidity Model also incorporate a broader assessment of standalone liquidity requirements for other subsidiaries and we hold a portion of our GCLA directly at Group Inc. or Funding IHC to support such requirements.
Other Unencumbered Assets. In addition to our GCLA, we have a significant amount of other unencumbered cash and financial instruments, including other government obligations, high-grade money market securities, corporate obligations, marginable equities, loans and cash deposits not included in our GCLA. The fair value of our unencumbered assets averaged $273.49 billion for the three months ended December 2022, $271.65 billion for the three months ended December 2021, $275.69 billion for the year ended December 2022 and $249.32 billion for the year ended December 2021. We do not consider these assets liquid enough to be eligible for our GCLA.
Liquidity Regulatory Framework
As a BHC, we are subject to a minimum Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) under the LCR rule approved by the U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies. The LCR rule requires organizations to maintain an adequate ratio of eligible high-quality liquid assets (HQLA) to expected net cash outflows under an acute, short-term liquidity stress scenario. Eligible HQLA excludes HQLA held by subsidiaries that is in excess of their minimum requirement and is subject to transfer restrictions. We are required to maintain a minimum LCR of 100%. We expect that fluctuations in client activity, business mix and the market environment will impact our LCR.
The table below presents information about our average daily LCR.
Average for the
Three Months Ended
December September December
$ in millions 2022 2022 2021
Total HQLA $ 401,836 $ 407,969 $ 342,047
Eligible HQLA $ 291,118 $ 279,121 $ 248,570
Net cash outflows $ 226,532 $ 224,408 $ 203,623
LCR
129 % 124 % 122 %
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
As a BHC, we are subject to a net stable funding ratio (NSFR) requirement established by the U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies, which requires large U.S. banking organizations to ensure they have access to stable funding over a one-year time horizon. The rule also requires disclosure of our quarterly average daily NSFR on a semi-annual basis and a description of the banking organization’s stable funding sources. We will begin doing so in August 2023. Our NSFR as of December 2022 exceeded the minimum requirement.
The following provides information about our subsidiary liquidity regulatory requirements:
•GS Bank USA. GS Bank USA is subject to a minimum LCR of 100% under the LCR rule approved by the U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies. As of December 2022, GS Bank USA’s LCR exceeded the minimum requirement. The NSFR requirement described above also applies to GS Bank USA. As of December 2022, GS Bank USA’s NSFR exceeded the minimum requirement.
•GSI and GSIB. GSI and GSIB are subject to a minimum LCR of 100% under the LCR rule approved by the U.K. regulatory authorities. GSI’s and GSIB’s average monthly LCR for the trailing twelve-month period ended December 2022 exceeded the minimum requirement. GSI and GSIB are subject to the applicable NSFR requirement in the U.K. As of December 2022, both GSI’s and GSIB’s NSFR exceeded the minimum requirement.
•GSBE. GSBE is subject to a minimum LCR of 100% under the LCR rule approved by the European Parliament and Council. GSBE’s average monthly LCR for the trailing twelve-month period ended December 2022 exceeded the minimum requirement. GSBE is subject to the applicable NSFR requirement in the E.U. As of December 2022, GSBE’s NSFR exceeded the minimum requirement.
•Other Subsidiaries. We monitor local regulatory liquidity requirements of our subsidiaries to ensure compliance. For many of our subsidiaries, these requirements either have changed or are likely to change in the future due to the implementation of the Basel Committee’s framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring, as well as other regulatory developments.
The implementation of these rules and any amendments adopted by the regulatory authorities could impact our liquidity and funding requirements and practices in the future.
Credit Ratings
We rely on the short- and long-term debt capital markets to fund a significant portion of our day-to-day operations and the cost and availability of debt financing is influenced by our credit ratings. Credit ratings are also important when we are competing in certain markets, such as OTC derivatives, and when we seek to engage in longer-term transactions. See “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K for information about the risks associated with a reduction in our credit ratings.
The table below presents the unsecured credit ratings and outlook of Group Inc.
As of December 2022
DBRS Fitch Moody’s R&I S&P
Short-term debt R-1 (middle) P-1 a-1 A-2
Long-term debt A (high) A A2 A BBB+
Subordinated debt A BBB+ Baa2 A- BBB
Trust preferred A BBB- Baa3 N/A BB+
Preferred stock BBB (high) BBB- Ba1 N/A BB+
Ratings outlook Stable Stable Stable Stable Stable
In the table above:
•The ratings and outlook are by DBRS, Inc. (DBRS), Fitch, Inc. (Fitch), Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s), Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I), and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).
•The ratings for trust preferred relate to the guaranteed preferred beneficial interests issued by Goldman Sachs Capital I.
•The DBRS, Fitch, Moody’s and S&P ratings for preferred stock include the APEX issued by Goldman Sachs Capital II and Goldman Sachs Capital III.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 99
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents the unsecured credit ratings and outlook of GS Bank USA, GSIB, GSBE, GS&Co. and GSI.
As of December 2022
Fitch Moody’s S&P
GS Bank USA
Short-term debt P-1 A-1
Long-term debt A+ A1 A+
Short-term bank deposits + P-1 N/A
Long-term bank deposits AA- A1 N/A
Ratings outlook Stable Stable Stable
GSIB
Short-term debt P-1 A-1
Long-term debt A+ A1 A+
Short-term bank deposits P-1 N/A
Long-term bank deposits A+ A1 N/A
Ratings outlook Stable Stable Stable
GSBE
Short-term debt P-1 A-1
Long-term debt A+ A1 A+
Short-term bank deposits N/A P-1 N/A
Long-term bank deposits N/A A1 N/A
Ratings outlook Stable Stable Stable
GS&Co.
Short-term debt N/A A-1
Long-term debt A+ N/A A+
Ratings outlook Stable N/A Stable
GSI
Short-term debt P-1 A-1
Long-term debt A+ A1 A+
Ratings outlook Stable Stable Stable
We believe our credit ratings are primarily based on the credit rating agencies’ assessment of:
•Our liquidity, market, credit and operational risk management practices;
•Our level and variability of earnings;
•Our capital base;
•Our franchise, reputation and management;
•Our corporate governance; and
•The external operating and economic environment, including, in some cases, the assumed level of government support or other systemic considerations, such as potential resolution.
Certain of our derivatives have been transacted under bilateral agreements with counterparties who may require us to post collateral or terminate the transactions based on changes in our credit ratings. We manage our GCLA to ensure we would, among other potential requirements, be able to make the additional collateral or termination payments that may be required in the event of a two-notch reduction in our long-term credit ratings, as well as collateral that has not been called by counterparties, but is available to them.
See Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about derivatives with credit-related contingent features and the additional collateral or termination payments related to our net derivative liabilities under bilateral agreements that could have been called by counterparties in the event of a one- or two-notch downgrade in our credit ratings.
Cash Flows
As a global financial institution, our cash flows are complex and bear little relation to our net earnings and net assets. Consequently, we believe that traditional cash flow analysis is less meaningful in evaluating our liquidity position than the liquidity and asset-liability management policies described above. Cash flow analysis may, however, be helpful in highlighting certain macro trends and strategic initiatives in our businesses.
Year Ended December 2022. Our cash and cash equivalents decreased by $19.21 billion to $241.83 billion at the end of 2022, primarily due to net cash used for investing activities, partially offset by net cash provided by financing activities. The net cash used for investing activities primarily reflected purchases of investments (primarily U.S. government obligations accounted for as held-to-maturity) and an increase in net lending activities (reflecting increases in other collateralized and consumer loans). The net cash provided by financing activities primarily reflected cash inflows from net issuances of unsecured long-term borrowings and deposits (reflecting increases in transaction banking and private bank and consumer deposits, partially offset by a decrease in other deposits). The net cash provided by operating activities primarily reflected cash inflows from trading assets and liabilities, customer and other receivables and payables, net (reflecting both a decrease in customer and other receivables and an increase in customer and other payables), net earnings and loans held for sale, net, partially offset by cash outflows from collateralized transactions (reflecting both a decrease in collateralized financings and an increase in collateralized agreements). The decrease in cash and cash equivalents as a result of changes in foreign exchange rates was due to the U.S. dollar strengthening during the year. Such amount was $11.56 billion for 2022 ($3.42 billion for the three months ended March 2022, $10.34 billion for the six months ended June 2022 and $18.17 billion for the nine months ended September 2022).
Year Ended December 2021. Our cash and cash equivalents increased by $105.19 billion to $261.04 billion at the end of 2021, primarily due to net cash provided by financing activities, partially offset by net cash used for investing activities. The net cash provided by financing activities primarily reflected an increase in net deposits (reflecting increases across channels) and net issuances of unsecured long-term borrowings. The net cash used for investing activities primarily reflected purchases of investments and an increase in net lending activities, partially offset by sales and paydowns of investments.
For an analysis of cash flows for the year ended December 2020, see Part II, Item 7 "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Market Risk Management
Overview
Market risk is the risk of an adverse impact to our earnings due to changes in market conditions. Our assets and liabilities that give rise to market risk primarily include positions held for market making for our clients and for our investing and financing activities, and these positions change based on client demands and our investment opportunities. We employ a variety of risk measures, each described in the respective sections below, to monitor market risk. Categories of market risk include the following:
•Interest rate risk: results from exposures to changes in the level, slope and curvature of yield curves, the volatilities of interest rates, prepayment speeds and credit spreads;
•Equity price risk: results from exposures to changes in prices and volatilities of individual equities, baskets of equities and equity indices;
•Currency rate risk: results from exposures to changes in spot prices, forward prices and volatilities of currency rates; and
•Commodity price risk: results from exposures to changes in spot prices, forward prices and volatilities of commodities, such as crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity, and precious and base metals.
Market Risk, which is independent of our revenue-producing units and reports to our chief risk officer, has primary responsibility for assessing, monitoring and managing our market risk through firmwide oversight across our global businesses.
Managers in revenue-producing units, Treasury and Market Risk discuss market information, positions and estimated loss scenarios on an ongoing basis. Managers in revenue-producing units and Treasury are accountable for managing risk within prescribed limits. These managers have in-depth knowledge of their positions, markets and the instruments available to hedge their exposures.
Market Risk Management Process
Our process for managing market risk includes the critical components of our risk management framework described in the “Overview and Structure of Risk Management,” as well as the following:
•Monitoring compliance with established market risk limits and reporting our exposures;
•Diversifying exposures;
•Controlling position sizes; and
•Evaluating mitigants, such as economic hedges in related securities or derivatives.
Our market risk management systems enable us to perform an independent calculation of Value-at-Risk (VaR), Earnings-at-Risk (EaR) and other stress measures, capture risk measures at individual position levels, attribute risk measures to individual risk factors of each position, report many different views of the risk measures (e.g., by desk, business, product type or entity) and produce ad hoc analyses in a timely manner.
Risk Measures
We produce risk measures and monitor them against established market risk limits. These measures reflect an extensive range of scenarios and the results are aggregated at product, business and firmwide levels.
We use a variety of risk measures to estimate the size of potential losses for both moderate and more extreme market moves over both short- and long-term time horizons. Our primary risk measures are VaR, EaR and other stress tests.
Our risk reports detail key risks, drivers and changes for each desk and business, and are distributed daily to senior management of both our revenue-producing units and our independent risk oversight and control functions.
Value-at-Risk. VaR is the potential loss in value due to adverse market movements over a defined time horizon with a specified confidence level. For assets and liabilities included in VaR, see “Financial Statement Linkages to Market Risk Measures.” We typically employ a one-day time horizon with a 95% confidence level. We use a single VaR model, which captures risks, including interest rates, equity prices, currency rates and commodity prices. As such, VaR facilitates comparison across portfolios of different risk characteristics. VaR also captures the diversification of aggregated risk at the firmwide level.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 101
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
We are aware of the inherent limitations to VaR and therefore use a variety of risk measures in our market risk management process. Inherent limitations to VaR include:
•VaR does not estimate potential losses over longer time horizons where moves may be extreme;
•VaR does not take account of the relative liquidity of different risk positions; and
•Previous moves in market risk factors may not produce accurate predictions of all future market moves.
To comprehensively capture our exposures and relevant risks in our VaR calculation, we use historical simulations with full valuation of market factors at the position level by simultaneously shocking the relevant market factors for that position. These market factors include spot prices, credit spreads, funding spreads, yield curves, volatility and correlation, and are updated periodically based on changes in the composition of positions, as well as variations in market conditions. We sample from five years of historical data to generate the scenarios for our VaR calculation. The historical data is weighted so that the relative importance of the data reduces over time. This gives greater importance to more recent observations and reflects current asset volatilities, which improves the accuracy of our estimates of potential loss. As a result, even if our positions included in VaR were unchanged, our VaR would increase with increasing market volatility and vice versa.
Given its reliance on historical data, VaR is most effective in estimating risk exposures in markets in which there are no sudden fundamental changes or shifts in market conditions.
Our VaR measure does not include:
•Positions that are not accounted for at fair value, such as held-to-maturity securities and loans, deposits and unsecured borrowings that are accounted for at amortized cost;
•Available-for-sale securities for which the related unrealized fair value gains and losses are included in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss);
•Positions that are best measured and monitored using sensitivity measures; and
•The impact of changes in counterparty and our own credit spreads on derivatives, as well as changes in our own credit spreads on financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected.
We perform daily backtesting of our VaR model (i.e., comparing daily net revenues for positions included in VaR to the VaR measure calculated as of the prior business day) at the firmwide level and for each of our businesses and major regulated subsidiaries.
Earnings-at-Risk. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022, we started managing our interest rate risk using the EaR metric. EaR measures the estimated impact of changes in interest rates to our net revenues and preferred stock dividends over a defined time horizon. EaR complements the VaR metric, which measures the impact of interest rate changes that have an immediate impact on the fair values of our assets and liabilities (i.e., mark-to-market changes). Our exposure to interest rate risk occurs due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:
•Differences in maturity or repricing dates of assets, liabilities, preferred stock and certain off-balance sheet instruments.
•Differences in the amounts of assets, liabilities, preferred stock and certain off-balance sheet instruments with the same maturity or repricing dates.
•Certain interest rate sensitive fees.
Treasury manages the aggregated interest rate risk from all businesses through our investment securities portfolio and interest rate derivatives. We measure EaR over a one-year time horizon following a 100-basis point instantaneous parallel shock in both short- and long-term interest rates. This sensitivity is calculated relative to a baseline market scenario, which takes into consideration, among other things, the market’s expectation of forward rates, as well as our expectation of future business activity. This scenario includes contractual elements of assets, liabilities, preferred stock, and certain off-balance sheet instruments, such as rates of interest, principal repayment schedules, maturity and reset dates, and any interest rate ceilings or floors, as well as assumptions with respect to our balance sheet size and composition, deposit repricing and prepayment behavior. We manage EaR with a goal to reduce potential volatility resulting from changes in interest rates so it remains within our EaR risk appetite. Our EaR scenario is regularly evaluated and updated, if necessary, to reflect changes in our business plans, market conditions and other macroeconomic factors. While management uses the best information available to estimate EaR, actual results may differ materially as a result of, among other things, changes in the economic environment or assumptions used in the process.
Risk, which is independent of our revenue-producing units, and Treasury, have primary responsibility for assessing and monitoring EaR through firmwide oversight, including oversight of EaR stress testing and assumptions, and the establishment of our EaR risk appetite.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Stress Testing. Stress testing is a method of determining the effect of various hypothetical stress scenarios. In addition to EaR, we use other stress tests to examine risks of specific portfolios, as well as the potential impact of our significant risk exposures. We use a variety of stress testing techniques to calculate the potential loss from a wide range of market moves on our portfolios, including firmwide stress tests, sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis. The results of our various stress tests are analyzed together for risk management purposes. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about firmwide stress tests.
Sensitivity analysis is used to quantify the impact of a market move in a single risk factor across all positions (e.g., equity prices or credit spreads) using a variety of defined market shocks, ranging from those that could be expected over a one-day time horizon up to those that could take many months to occur. We also use sensitivity analysis to quantify the impact of the default of any single entity, which captures the risk of large or concentrated exposures.
Scenario analysis is used to quantify the impact of a specified event, including how the event impacts multiple risk factors simultaneously. For example, for sovereign stress testing we calculate potential direct exposure associated with our sovereign positions, as well as the corresponding debt, equity and currency exposures associated with our non-sovereign positions that may be impacted by the sovereign distress. When conducting scenario analysis, we often consider a number of possible outcomes for each scenario, ranging from moderate to severely adverse market impacts. In addition, these stress tests are constructed using both historical events and forward-looking hypothetical scenarios.
Unlike VaR measures, which have an implied probability because they are calculated at a specified confidence level, there may not be an implied probability that our stress testing scenarios will occur. Instead, stress testing is used to model both moderate and more extreme moves in underlying market factors. When estimating potential loss, we generally assume that our positions cannot be reduced or hedged (although experience demonstrates that we are generally able to do so).
Limits
We use market risk limits at various levels to manage the size of our market exposures. These limits are set based on VaR, EaR and on a range of stress tests relevant to our exposures. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about the limit approval process.
Limits are monitored by Treasury and Risk. Risk is responsible for identifying and escalating to senior management and/or the appropriate risk committee, on a timely basis, instances where limits have been exceeded (e.g., due to positional changes or changes in market conditions, such as increased volatilities or changes in correlations). Such instances are remediated by a reduction in the positions we hold and/or a temporary or permanent increase to the limit, if warranted.
Metrics
We analyze VaR at the firmwide level and a variety of more detailed levels, including by risk category, business and region. Diversification effect in the tables below represents the difference between total VaR and the sum of the VaRs for the four risk categories. This effect arises because the four market risk categories are not perfectly correlated.
The table below presents our average daily VaR.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Categories
Interest rates $ 97 $ 60
Equity prices 33 43
Currency rates 32 13
Commodity prices 47 25
Diversification effect (95) (55)
Total $ 114 $ 86
Our average daily VaR increased to $114 million in 2022 from $86 million in 2021, due to higher levels of volatility, partially offset by reduced exposures. The total increase was driven by increases in the interest rates, commodity prices and currency rates categories, partially offset by an increase in the diversification effect and a decrease in the equity prices category.
The table below presents our period-end VaR.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Categories
Interest rates $ 108 $ 69
Equity prices 27 31
Currency rates 35 19
Commodity prices 18 30
Diversification effect (85) (58)
Total $ 103 $ 91
Our period-end VaR increased to $103 million as of December 2022 from $91 million as of December 2021, due to higher levels of volatility, partially offset by reduced exposures. The total increase was primarily driven by increases in the interest rates and currency rates categories, partially offset by an increase in the diversification effect and a decrease in the commodity prices category.
During 2022, the firmwide VaR risk limit was exceeded on six occasions (all of which occurred during March 2022) primarily due to higher levels of volatility generally resulting from broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns. These limit breaches were resolved by temporary increases in the firmwide VaR risk limit and subsequent risk reductions. During this period, the firmwide VaR risk limit was also permanently increased due to higher levels of volatility. During 2021, the firmwide VaR risk limit was not exceeded and there were no permanent or temporary changes to the firmwide VaR risk limit.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 103
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents our high and low VaR.
Year Ended December
2022 2021
$ in millions High Low High Low
Categories
Interest rates $ 139 $ 57 $ 74 $ 49
Equity prices $ 48 $ 25 $ 71 $ 30
Currency rates $ 55 $ 16 $ 20 $ 8
Commodity prices $ 82 $ 18 $ 45 $ 14
Firmwide
VaR $ 158 $ 76 $ 105 $ 69
The chart below presents our daily VaR for 2022.
The table below presents, by number of business days, the frequency distribution of our daily net revenues for positions included in VaR.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
>$100 92 53
$75 - $100 25 45
$50 - $75 29 42
$25 - $50 33 33
$0 - $25 36 45
$(25) - $0 17 24
$(50) - $(25) 13 6
$(75) - $(50) 1 2
$(100) - $(75) 3 1
<$(100) 2 1
Total 251 252
Daily net revenues for positions included in VaR are compared with VaR calculated as of the end of the prior business day. Net losses incurred on a single day for such positions exceeded our 95% one-day VaR (i.e., a VaR exception) on two occasions during 2022 and on one occasion during 2021.
During periods in which we have significantly more positive net revenue days than net revenue loss days, we expect to have fewer VaR exceptions because, under normal conditions, our business model generally produces positive net revenues. In periods in which our franchise revenues are adversely affected, we generally have more loss days, resulting in more VaR exceptions. The daily net revenues for positions included in VaR used to determine VaR exceptions reflect the impact of any intraday activity, including bid/offer net revenues, which are more likely than not to be positive by their nature.
Sensitivity Measures
Certain portfolios and individual positions are not included in VaR because VaR is not the most appropriate risk measure. Other sensitivity measures we use to analyze market risk are described below.
10% Sensitivity Measures. The table below presents our market risk by asset category for positions accounted for at fair value, that are not included in VaR.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Equity $ 1,621 $ 1,953
Debt 1,986 2,244
Total $ 3,607 $ 4,197
In the table above:
•The market risk of these positions is determined by estimating the potential reduction in net revenues of a 10% decline in the value of these positions.
•Equity positions relate to private and restricted public equity securities, including interests in funds that invest in corporate equities and real estate and interests in hedge funds.
•Debt positions include interests in funds that invest in corporate mezzanine and senior debt instruments, loans backed by commercial and residential real estate, corporate bank loans and other corporate debt, including acquired portfolios of distressed loans.
•Funded equity and debt positions are included in our consolidated balance sheets in investments and loans. See Note 8 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about investments and Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about loans.
•These measures do not reflect the diversification effect across asset categories or across other market risk measures.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Credit and Funding Spread Sensitivity on Derivatives and Financial Liabilities. VaR excludes the impact of changes in counterparty credit spreads, our own credit spreads and unsecured funding spreads on derivatives, as well as changes in our own credit spreads (debt valuation adjustment) on financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected. The estimated sensitivity to a one basis point increase in credit spreads (counterparty and our own) and unsecured funding spreads on derivatives (including hedges) was a loss of $1 million as of both December 2022 and December 2021. In addition, the estimated sensitivity to a one basis point increase in our own credit spreads on financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected was a gain of $37 million as of December 2022 and $33 million as of December 2021. However, the actual net impact of a change in our own credit spreads is also affected by the liquidity, duration and convexity (as the sensitivity is not linear to changes in yields) of those financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected, as well as the relative performance of any hedges undertaken.
Earnings-at-Risk. The table below presents the impact of a parallel shift in rates on our net revenues and preferred stock dividends over the next 12 months relative to the baseline scenario.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
+100 basis points parallel shift in rates $ 104 $ 782
-100 basis points parallel shift in rates $ (104) N.M.
In the table above:
•The EaR metric utilized various assumptions, including, among other things, balance sheet size and composition, deposit repricing and prepayment behavior, all of which have inherent uncertainties. The EaR metric does not represent a forecast of our net revenues and preferred stock dividends.
•The change in our sensitivities as of December 2022 compared to December 2021 primarily reflects the impact of changes in our investment securities portfolio and interest rate derivatives.
•The -100 basis points parallel shift in rates scenario was not meaningful as of December 2021 given the low interest rate environment.
Other Market Risk Considerations
We make investments in securities that are accounted for as available-for-sale, held-to-maturity or under the equity method which are included in investments in the consolidated balance sheets. See Note 8 to the consolidated financial statements for further information.
Direct investments in real estate are accounted for at cost less accumulated depreciation. See Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about other assets.
Financial Statement Linkages to Market Risk Measures
We employ a variety of risk measures, each described in the respective sections above, to monitor market risk across the consolidated balance sheets and consolidated statements of earnings. The related gains and losses on these positions are included in market making, other principal transactions, interest income and interest expense in the consolidated statements of earnings, and debt valuation adjustment and unrealized gains/(losses) on available-for-sale securities in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
The table below presents certain assets and liabilities accounted for at fair value in our consolidated balance sheets and the market risk measures used to assess those assets and liabilities.
Assets or Liabilities Market Risk Measures
Collateralized agreements and financings
VaR
Customer and other receivables
10% Sensitivity Measures
Trading assets and liabilities
VaR
Credit Spread Sensitivity
Investments
VaR
10% Sensitivity Measures
Loans
VaR
10% Sensitivity Measures
Other assets and liabilities VaR
Deposits
VaR
Credit Spread Sensitivity
Unsecured borrowings
VaR
Credit Spread Sensitivity
In addition to the above, we measure the interest rate risk for all positions within our consolidated balance sheets using the EaR metric.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 105
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Credit Risk Management
Overview
Credit risk represents the potential for loss due to the default or deterioration in credit quality of a counterparty (e.g., an OTC derivatives counterparty or a borrower) or an issuer of securities or other instruments we hold. Our exposure to credit risk comes mostly from client transactions in OTC derivatives and loans and lending commitments. Credit risk also comes from cash placed with banks, securities financing transactions (i.e., resale and repurchase agreements and securities borrowing and lending activities) and customer and other receivables.
Credit Risk, which is independent of our revenue-producing units and reports to our chief risk officer, has primary responsibility for assessing, monitoring and managing our credit risk through firmwide oversight across our global businesses. In addition, we hold other positions that give rise to credit risk (e.g., bonds and secondary bank loans). These credit risks are captured as a component of market risk measures, which are monitored and managed by Market Risk. We also enter into derivatives to manage market risk exposures. Such derivatives also give rise to credit risk, which is monitored and managed by Credit Risk.
Credit Risk Management Process
Our process for managing credit risk includes the critical components of our risk management framework described in the “Overview and Structure of Risk Management,” as well as the following:
•Monitoring compliance with established credit risk limits and reporting our credit exposures and credit concentrations;
•Establishing or approving underwriting standards;
•Assessing the likelihood that a counterparty will default on its payment obligations;
•Measuring our current and potential credit exposure and losses resulting from a counterparty default;
•Using credit risk mitigants, including collateral and hedging; and
•Maximizing recovery through active workout and restructuring of claims.
We also perform credit analyses, which incorporate initial and ongoing evaluations of the capacity and willingness of a counterparty to meet its financial obligations. For substantially all of our credit exposures, the core of our process is an annual counterparty credit evaluation or more frequently if deemed necessary as a result of events or changes in circumstances. We determine an internal credit rating for the counterparty by considering the results of the credit evaluations and assumptions with respect to the nature of and outlook for the counterparty’s industry and the economic environment. The internal credit rating does not take into consideration collateral received or other credit support arrangements. Senior personnel, with expertise in specific industries, inspect and approve credit reviews and internal credit ratings.
Our risk assessment process may also include, where applicable, reviewing certain key metrics, including, but not limited to, delinquency status, collateral value, FICO credit scores and other risk factors.
Our credit risk management systems capture credit exposure to individual counterparties and on an aggregate basis to counterparties and their subsidiaries. These systems also provide management with comprehensive information about our aggregate credit risk by product, internal credit rating, industry, country and region.
Risk Measures
We measure our credit risk based on the potential loss in the event of non-payment by a counterparty using current and potential exposure. For derivatives and securities financing transactions, current exposure represents the amount presently owed to us after taking into account applicable netting and collateral arrangements, while potential exposure represents our estimate of the future exposure that could arise over the life of a transaction based on market movements within a specified confidence level. Potential exposure also takes into account netting and collateral arrangements. For loans and lending commitments, the primary measure is a function of the notional amount of the position.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Stress Tests
We conduct regular stress tests to calculate the credit exposures, including potential concentrations that would result from applying shocks to counterparty credit ratings or credit risk factors (e.g., currency rates, interest rates, equity prices). These shocks cover a wide range of moderate and more extreme market movements, including shocks to multiple risk factors, consistent with the occurrence of a severe market or economic event. In the case of sovereign default, we estimate the direct impact of the default on our sovereign credit exposures, changes to our credit exposures arising from potential market moves in response to the default, and the impact of credit market deterioration on corporate borrowers and counterparties that may result from the sovereign default. Unlike potential exposure, which is calculated within a specified confidence level, stress testing does not generally assume a probability of these events occurring. We also perform firmwide stress tests. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about firmwide stress tests.
To supplement these regular stress tests, as described above, we also conduct tailored stress tests on an ad hoc basis in response to specific market events that we deem significant. We also utilize these stress tests to estimate the indirect impact of certain hypothetical events on our country exposures, such as the impact of credit market deterioration on corporate borrowers and counterparties along with the shocks to the risk factors described above. The parameters of these shocks vary based on the scenario reflected in each stress test. We review estimated losses produced by the stress tests in order to understand their magnitude, highlight potential loss concentrations, and assess and mitigate our exposures where necessary.
Limits
We use credit risk limits at various levels, as well as underwriting standards to manage the size and nature of our credit exposures. Limits for industries and countries are based on our risk appetite and are designed to allow for regular monitoring, review, escalation and management of credit risk concentrations. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about the limit approval process.
Credit Risk is responsible for monitoring these limits, and identifying and escalating to senior management and/or the appropriate risk committee, on a timely basis, instances where limits have been exceeded.
Risk Mitigants
To reduce our credit exposures on derivatives and securities financing transactions, we may enter into netting agreements with counterparties that permit us to offset receivables and payables with such counterparties. We may also reduce credit risk with counterparties by entering into agreements that enable us to obtain collateral from them on an upfront or contingent basis and/or to terminate transactions if the counterparty’s credit rating falls below a specified level. We monitor the fair value of the collateral to ensure that our credit exposures are appropriately collateralized. We seek to minimize exposures where there is a significant positive correlation between the creditworthiness of our counterparties and the market value of collateral we receive.
For loans and lending commitments, depending on the credit quality of the borrower and other characteristics of the transaction, we employ a variety of potential risk mitigants. Risk mitigants include collateral provisions, guarantees, covenants, structural seniority of the bank loan claims and, for certain lending commitments, provisions in the legal documentation that allow us to adjust loan amounts, pricing, structure and other terms as market conditions change. The type and structure of risk mitigants employed can significantly influence the degree of credit risk involved in a loan or lending commitment.
When we do not have sufficient visibility into a counterparty’s financial strength or when we believe a counterparty requires support from its parent, we may obtain third-party guarantees of the counterparty’s obligations. We may also mitigate our credit risk using credit derivatives or participation agreements.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Credit Exposures
As of December 2022, our aggregate credit exposure decreased compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting decreases in receivables from clearing organizations and cash deposits with central banks, partially offset by an increase in loans and lending commitments. The percentage of our credit exposures arising from non-investment-grade counterparties (based on our internally determined public rating agency equivalents) decreased compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting a decrease in non-investment-grade loans and lending commitments. Our credit exposures are described further below.
Cash and Cash Equivalents. Our credit exposure on cash and cash equivalents arises from our unrestricted cash, and includes both interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing deposits. To mitigate the risk of credit loss, we place substantially all of our deposits with highly rated banks and central banks.
The table below presents our credit exposure from unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, and the concentration by industry, region and internally determined public rating agency equivalents.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Cash and Cash Equivalents $224,889 $236,168
Industry
Financial Institutions 6 % 5 %
Sovereign 94 % 95 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 77 % 55 %
EMEA 19 % 36 %
Asia 4 % 9 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
AAA 89 % 64 %
AA 5 % 24 %
A 6 % 11 %
BBB - 1 %
Total 100 % 100 %
The table above excludes cash segregated for regulatory and other purposes of $16.94 billion as of December 2022 and $24.87 billion as of December 2021.
OTC Derivatives. Our credit exposure on OTC derivatives arises primarily from our market-making activities. As a market maker, we enter into derivative transactions to provide liquidity to clients and to facilitate the transfer and hedging of their risks. We also enter into derivatives to manage market risk exposures. We manage our credit exposure on OTC derivatives using the credit risk process, measures, limits and risk mitigants described above.
We generally enter into OTC derivatives transactions under bilateral collateral arrangements that require the daily exchange of collateral. As credit risk is an essential component of fair value, we include a credit valuation adjustment (CVA) in the fair value of derivatives to reflect counterparty credit risk, as described in Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements. CVA is a function of the present value of expected exposure, the probability of counterparty default and the assumed recovery upon default.
The table below presents our net credit exposure from OTC derivatives and the concentration by industry and region.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
OTC derivative assets $53,399 $58,637
Collateral (not netted under U.S. GAAP) (15,823) (17,245)
Net credit exposure $37,576 $41,392
Industry
Consumer & Retail 3 % 2 %
Diversified Industrials 8 % 10 %
Financial Institutions 20 % 15 %
Funds 19 % 13 %
Healthcare 1 % 1 %
Municipalities & Nonprofit 2 % 5 %
Natural Resources & Utilities 34 % 33 %
Sovereign 7 % 8 %
Technology, Media & Telecommunications 4 % 8 %
Other (including Special Purpose Vehicles) 2 % 5 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 49 % 53 %
EMEA 43 % 37 %
Asia 8 % 10 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Our credit exposure (before any potential recoveries) to OTC derivative counterparties that defaulted during 2022 remained low, representing less than 2% of our total credit exposure from OTC derivatives.
In the table above:
•OTC derivative assets, included in the consolidated balance sheets, are reported on a net-by-counterparty basis (i.e., the net receivable for a given counterparty) when a legal right of setoff exists under an enforceable netting agreement (counterparty netting) and are accounted for at fair value, net of cash collateral received under enforceable credit support agreements (cash collateral netting).
•Collateral represents cash collateral and the fair value of securities collateral, primarily U.S. and non-U.S. government and agency obligations, received under credit support agreements, that we consider when determining credit risk, but such collateral is not eligible for netting under U.S. GAAP.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
The table below presents the distribution of our net credit exposure from OTC derivatives by tenor.
$ in millions Investment-
Grade Non-Investment-
Grade / Unrated Total
As of December 2022
Less than 1 year $ 23,112 $ 8,812 $ 31,924
1 - 5 years 26,627 8,355 34,982
Greater than 5 years 58,354 4,342 62,696
Total 108,093 21,509 129,602
Netting (83,531) (8,495) (92,026)
Net credit exposure $ 24,562 $ 13,014 $ 37,576
As of December 2021
Less than 1 year $ 27,668 $ 11,203 $ 38,871
1 - 5 years 21,746 9,515 31,261
Greater than 5 years 64,670 6,590 71,260
Total 114,084 27,308 141,392
Netting (89,244) (10,756) (100,000)
Net credit exposure $ 24,840 $ 16,552 $ 41,392
In the table above:
•Tenor is based on remaining contractual maturity.
•Netting includes counterparty netting across tenor categories and collateral that we consider when determining credit risk (including collateral that is not eligible for netting under U.S. GAAP). Counterparty netting within the same tenor category is included within such tenor category.
The tables below present the distribution of our net credit exposure from OTC derivatives by tenor and internally determined public rating agency equivalents.
Investment-Grade
$ in millions AAA AA A BBB Total
As of December 2022
Less than 1 year $ 521 $ 2,113 $ 10,516 $ 9,962 $ 23,112
1 - 5 years 1,684 5,383 9,057 10,503 26,627
Greater than 5 years 5,594 16,063 21,060 15,637 58,354
Total 7,799 23,559 40,633 36,102 108,093
Netting (5,025) (20,582) (31,956) (25,968) (83,531)
Net credit exposure $ 2,774 $ 2,977 $ 8,677 $ 10,134 $ 24,562
As of December 2021
Less than 1 year $ 1,017 $ 4,926 $ 12,481 $ 9,244 $ 27,668
1 - 5 years 1,150 3,071 8,298 9,227 21,746
Greater than 5 years 13,777 5,421 23,867 21,605 64,670
Total 15,944 13,418 44,646 40,076 114,084
Netting (13,535) (9,501) (36,005) (30,203) (89,244)
Net credit exposure $ 2,409 $ 3,917 $ 8,641 $ 9,873 $ 24,840
Non-Investment-Grade / Unrated
$ in millions BB or lower
Unrated Total
As of December 2022
Less than 1 year $ 8,245 $ 567 $ 8,812
1 - 5 years 8,150 205 8,355
Greater than 5 years 4,232 110 4,342
Total 20,627 882 21,509
Netting (8,436) (59) (8,495)
Net credit exposure $ 12,191 $ 823 $ 13,014
As of December 2021
Less than 1 year $ 10,446 $ 757 $ 11,203
1 - 5 years 9,210 305 9,515
Greater than 5 years 6,320 270 6,590
Total 25,976 1,332 27,308
Netting (10,683) (73) (10,756)
Net credit exposure $ 15,293 $ 1,259 $ 16,552
Lending Activities. We manage our lending activities using the credit risk process, measures, limits and risk mitigants described above. Other lending positions, including secondary trading positions, are risk-managed as a component of market risk. In the fourth quarter of 2022, we changed the classification of our lending portfolio to better reflect the nature of the underlying collateral. Loans and lending commitments types in the table below include the addition of securities-based and other collateralized, as well as the removal of wealth management. This also resulted in reclassifications of certain loans and lending commitments in corporate and other to other collateralized. Prior periods have been conformed to the current presentation.
The table below presents our loans and lending commitments.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Corporate $ 40,135 $ 139,718 $ 179,853
Commercial real estate 28,879 4,271 33,150
Residential real estate 23,035 3,192 26,227
Securities-based
16,671 508 17,179
Other collateralized
51,702 14,407 66,109
Consumer:
Installment 6,326 1,882 8,208
Credit cards 15,820 62,216 78,036
Other 2,261 944 3,205
Total $ 184,829 $ 227,138 $ 411,967
Allowance for loan losses
$ (5,543) $ (774) $ (6,317)
As of December 2021
Corporate $ 37,643 $ 146,694 $ 184,337
Commercial real estate 29,000 6,736 35,736
Residential real estate 24,674 4,031 28,705
Securities-based 16,652 454 17,106
Other collateralized 38,263 17,253 55,516
Consumer:
Installment 3,672 9 3,681
Credit cards 8,212 35,932 44,144
Other 4,019 443 4,462
Total $ 162,135 $ 211,552 $ 373,687
Allowance for loan losses
$ (3,573) $ (776) $ (4,349)
In the table above, lending commitments excluded $4.85 billion as of December 2022 and $4.14 billion as of December 2021 relating to issued letters of credit which are classified as guarantees in our consolidated financial statements. See Note 18 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about guarantees.
See Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements for information about net charge-offs on wholesale and consumer loans, as well as past due and nonaccrual loans accounted for at amortized cost.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Corporate. Corporate loans and lending commitments include term loans, revolving lines of credit, letter of credit facilities and bridge loans, and are principally used for operating and general corporate purposes, or in connection with acquisitions. Corporate loans are secured (typically by a senior lien on the assets of the borrower) or unsecured, depending on the loan purpose, the risk profile of the borrower and other factors.
The table below presents our credit exposure from corporate loans and lending commitments, and the concentration by industry, region, internally determined public rating agency equivalents and other credit metrics.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Corporate $40,135 $139,718 $179,853
Industry
Consumer & Retail 10 % 13 % 12 %
Diversified Industrials 18 % 18 % 18 %
Financial Institutions 7 % 8 % 8 %
Funds 3 % 4 % 4 %
Healthcare 10 % 12 % 12 %
Natural Resources & Utilities 9 % 18 % 16 %
Real Estate 11 % 5 % 7 %
Technology, Media & Telecommunications 26 % 20 % 21 %
Other (including Special Purpose Vehicles) 6 % 2 % 2 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 57 % 77 % 73 %
EMEA 34 % 21 % 24 %
Asia 9 % 2 % 3 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
AAA - 2 % 1 %
AA 1 % 5 % 4 %
A 5 % 21 % 18 %
BBB 19 % 38 % 34 %
BB or lower 75 % 34 % 43 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Corporate $37,643 $146,694 $184,337
Industry
Consumer & Retail 11 % 14 % 13 %
Diversified Industrials 17 % 17 % 17 %
Financial Institutions 7 % 7 % 7 %
Funds 2 % 3 % 3 %
Healthcare 10 % 10 % 10 %
Natural Resources & Utilities 13 % 17 % 16 %
Real Estate 10 % 5 % 6 %
Technology, Media & Telecommunications 24 % 25 % 25 %
Other (including Special Purpose Vehicles) 6 % 2 % 3 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 52 % 76 % 71 %
EMEA 38 % 21 % 25 %
Asia 10 % 3 % 4 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
AAA - 1 % 1 %
AA 1 % 5 % 4 %
A 6 % 17 % 14 %
BBB 15 % 37 % 33 %
BB or lower 78 % 40 % 48 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Commercial Real Estate. Commercial real estate includes originated loans and lending commitments that are directly or indirectly secured by hotels, retail stores, multifamily housing complexes and commercial and industrial properties. Commercial real estate also includes loans and lending commitments extended to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly backed by commercial real estate. In addition, commercial real estate includes loans purchased by us.
The table below presents our credit exposure from commercial real estate loans and lending commitments, and the concentration by region, internally determined public rating agency equivalents and other credit metrics.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Commercial Real Estate $28,879 $4,271 $33,150
Region
Americas 79 % 74 % 78 %
EMEA 16 % 17 % 16 %
Asia 5 % 9 % 6 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 18 % 27 % 19 %
Non-investment-grade 82 % 72 % 80 %
Unrated
- 1 % 1 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Commercial Real Estate $29,000 $6,736 $35,736
Region
Americas 82 % 78 % 81 %
EMEA 13 % 10 % 13 %
Asia 5 % 12 % 6 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 22 % 20 % 21 %
Non-investment-grade 77 % 80 % 78 %
Unrated
1 % - 1 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
In the table above, credit exposure includes loans and lending commitments of $10.28 billion as of December 2022 and $11.65 billion as of December 2021 which are extended to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly backed by commercial real estate.
In addition, we also have credit exposure to commercial real estate loans held for securitization of $119 million as of December 2022 and $922 million as of December 2021. Such loans are included in trading assets in our consolidated balance sheets.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Residential Real Estate. Residential real estate loans and lending commitments are primarily extended to wealth management clients and to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly secured by residential real estate. In addition, residential real estate includes loans purchased by us.
The table below presents our credit exposure from residential real estate loans and lending commitments, and the concentration by region, internally determined public rating agency equivalents and other credit metrics.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Residential Real Estate $23,035 $3,192 $26,227
Region
Americas 96 % 93 % 95 %
EMEA 3 % 7 % 4 %
Asia 1 % - 1 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 16 % 8 % 15 %
Non-investment-grade 61 % 91 % 64 %
Other metrics
23 % 1 % 21 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Residential Real Estate $24,674 $4,031 $28,705
Region
Americas 96 % 82 % 94 %
EMEA 2 % 16 % 4 %
Asia 2 % 2 % 2 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 13 % 21 % 14 %
Non-investment-grade 65 % 70 % 66 %
Other metrics
21 % 9 % 19 %
Unrated
1 % - 1 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
In the table above:
•Credit exposure includes loans and lending commitments of $14.62 billion as of December 2022 and $16.89 billion as of December 2021 which are extended to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly secured by residential real estate.
•Other metrics category consists of loans where we use other key metrics to assess the borrower's credit quality, such as loan-to-value ratio, delinquency status, collateral value, expected cash flows and other risk factors.
In addition, we also have credit exposure to residential real estate loans held for securitization of $8.07 billion as of December 2022 and $11.57 billion as of December 2021. Such loans are included in trading assets in our consolidated balance sheets.
Securities-Based. Securities-based includes loans and lending commitments that are secured by stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. These loans and commitments are primarily extended to our wealth management clients and used for purposes other than purchasing, carrying or trading margin stocks. Securities-based loans require borrowers to post additional collateral based on changes in the underlying collateral's fair value.
The table below presents our credit exposure from securities-based loans and lending commitments, and the concentration by region, internally determined public rating agency equivalents and other credit metrics.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Securities-based
$16,671 $508 $17,179
Region
Americas 83 % 98 % 83 %
EMEA 15 % 2 % 15 %
Asia 2 % - 2 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 77 % 18 % 76 %
Non-investment-grade 5 % 2 % 4 %
Other metrics
18 % 80 % 20 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Securities-based $16,652 $454 $17,106
Region
Americas 77 % 100 % 78 %
EMEA 16 % - 15 %
Asia 7 % - 7 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 83 % 46 % 82 %
Non-investment-grade 3 % - 3 %
Other metrics
14 % 54 % 15 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
In the table above, other metrics category consists of loans where we use other key metrics to assess the borrower's credit quality, such as collateral value, loan-to-value ratio and delinquency status.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Other Collateralized. Other collateralized includes loans and lending commitments that are backed by specific collateral (other than securities and real estate). Such loans and lending commitments are extended to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly secured by corporate loans, consumer loans and other assets. Other collateralized also includes loans and lending commitments to investment funds (managed by third parties) that are collateralized by capital commitments of the funds' investors or assets held by the fund, as well as other secured loans and lending commitments extended to our wealth management clients.
The table below presents our credit exposure from other collateralized loans and lending commitments, and the concentration by region, internally determined public rating agency equivalents and other credit metrics.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Other Collateralized
$51,702 $14,407 $66,109
Region
Americas 86 % 93 % 87 %
EMEA 12 % 7 % 11 %
Asia 2 % - 2 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 64 % 66 % 65 %
Non-investment-grade 35 % 31 % 34 %
Other metrics
1 % - -
Unrated
- 3 % 1 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Other Collateralized
$38,263 $17,253 $55,516
Region
Americas 74 % 92 % 79 %
EMEA 23 % 7 % 18 %
Asia 3 % 1 % 3 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 58 % 69 % 62 %
Non-investment-grade 41 % 30 % 38 %
Other metrics
1 % - -
Unrated
- 1 % -
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
In the table above, credit exposure included loans and lending commitments extended to clients who warehouse assets of $16.89 billion as of December 2022 and $13.73 billion as of December 2021.
Installment and Credit Cards. We originate unsecured installment loans (including point-of-sale loans that we began to originate through the GreenSky platform in the third quarter of 2022) and credit card loans (pursuant to revolving lines of credit) to consumers in the Americas. The credit card lines are cancellable by us and therefore do not result in credit exposure.
The tables below present our credit exposure from originated installment and credit card funded loans, and the concentration by the five most concentrated U.S. states.
$ in millions Installment
As of December 2022
Loans, gross
$6,326
California
10 %
Texas 9 %
Florida 7 %
New York 6 %
Illinois 4 %
Other 64 %
Total 100 %
As of December 2021
Loans, gross
$3,672
California
11 %
Texas 9 %
Florida
7 %
New York
7 %
Illinois
4 %
Other 62 %
Total 100 %
$ in millions Credit Cards
As of December 2022
Loans, gross
$15,820
California
16 %
Texas 9 %
New York
8 %
Florida
8 %
Illinois 4 %
Other 55 %
Total 100 %
As of December 2021
Loans, gross
$8,212
California
18 %
Texas 9 %
New York 8 %
Florida 8 %
New Jersey 4 %
Other 53 %
Total 100 %
In addition, we had credit exposure of $1.88 billion as of December 2022 and $9 million as of December 2021 related to our commitments to provide unsecured installment loans to consumers.
See Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements for further information about the credit quality indicators of installment and credit card loans.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Other. Other includes unsecured loans extended to wealth management clients and unsecured consumer and credit card loans purchased by us.
The table below presents our credit exposure from other loans and lending commitments, and the concentration by region, internally determined public rating agency equivalents and other credit metrics.
$ in millions Loans Lending
Commitments Total
As of December 2022
Other $2,261 $944 $3,205
Region
Americas 89 % 99 % 92 %
EMEA 11 % 1 % 8 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 47 % 93 % 60 %
Non-investment-grade 26 % 7 % 21 %
Other metrics
27 % - 19 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Other $4,019 $443 $4,462
Region
Americas 89 % 100 % 90 %
EMEA 11 % - 10 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
Investment-grade 24 % 78 % 29 %
Non-investment-grade 23 % 14 % 22 %
Other metrics
51 % - 46 %
Unrated
2 % 8 % 3 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 %
In the table above, other metrics primarily includes consumer and credit card loans purchased by us. Our risk assessment process for such loans includes reviewing certain key metrics, such as expected cash flows, delinquency status and other risk factors.
In addition, we also have credit exposure to other loans held for securitization of $1.76 billion as of December 2022 and $467 million as of December 2021. Such loans are included in trading assets in our consolidated balance sheets.
Credit Hedges. To mitigate the credit risk associated with our lending activities, we obtain credit protection on certain loans and lending commitments through credit default swaps, both single-name and index-based contracts, and through the issuance of credit-linked notes.
Securities Financing Transactions. We enter into securities financing transactions in order to, among other things, facilitate client activities, invest excess cash, acquire securities to cover short positions and finance certain activities. We bear credit risk related to resale agreements and securities borrowed only to the extent that cash advanced or the value of securities pledged or delivered to the counterparty exceeds the value of the collateral received. We also have credit exposure on repurchase agreements and securities loaned to the extent that the value of securities pledged or delivered to the counterparty for these transactions exceeds the amount of cash or collateral received. Securities collateral for these transactions primarily includes U.S. and non-U.S. government and agency obligations.
The table below presents our credit exposure from securities financing transactions and the concentration by industry, region and internally determined public rating agency equivalents.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Securities Financing Transactions $34,762 $34,505
Industry
Financial Institutions 43 % 34 %
Funds 23 % 23 %
Municipalities & Nonprofit 5 % 5 %
Sovereign 28 % 35 %
Other (including Special Purpose Vehicles) 1 % 3 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 47 % 36 %
EMEA 34 % 44 %
Asia 19 % 20 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
AAA 20 % 19 %
AA 31 % 28 %
A 31 % 33 %
BBB 8 % 9 %
BB or lower 10 % 11 %
Total 100 % 100 %
The table above reflects both netting agreements and collateral that we consider when determining credit risk.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Other Credit Exposures. We are exposed to credit risk from our receivables from brokers, dealers and clearing organizations and customers and counterparties. Receivables from brokers, dealers and clearing organizations primarily consist of initial margin placed with clearing organizations and receivables related to sales of securities which have traded, but not yet settled. These receivables generally have minimal credit risk due to the low probability of clearing organization default and the short-term nature of receivables related to securities settlements. Receivables from customers and counterparties generally consist of collateralized receivables related to customer securities transactions and generally have minimal credit risk due to both the value of the collateral received and the short-term nature of these receivables.
The table below presents our other credit exposures and the concentration by industry, region and internally determined public rating agency equivalents.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Other Credit Exposures $48,916 $61,187
Industry
Financial Institutions 80 % 86 %
Funds 12 % 9 %
Other (including Special Purpose Vehicles) 8 % 5 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Region
Americas 41 % 50 %
EMEA 49 % 43 %
Asia 10 % 7 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Credit Quality (Credit Rating Equivalent)
AAA 7 % 4 %
AA 32 % 47 %
A 33 % 29 %
BBB 10 % 6 %
BB or lower 16 % 13 %
Unrated 2 % 1 %
Total 100 % 100 %
The table above reflects collateral that we consider when determining credit risk.
Selected Exposures
We have credit and market exposures, as described below, that have had heightened focus given recent events and broad market concerns. Credit exposure represents the potential for loss due to the default or deterioration in credit quality of a counterparty or borrower. Market exposure represents the potential for loss in value of our long and short positions due to changes in market prices.
Country Exposures. The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to negatively affect the global economy and has resulted in significant disruptions in financial markets and increased macroeconomic uncertainty. Governments around the world have responded to Russia’s invasion by imposing economic sanctions and export controls on specific industry sectors, companies and individuals in Russia. Retaliatory restrictions against investors, non-Russian owned businesses and other sovereign states have been implemented by Russia. Businesses in the U.S. and globally continue to experience shortages in materials and increased costs for transportation, energy and raw materials due, in part, to the negative effects of the war on the global economy. The escalation or continuation of the war between Russia and Ukraine presents heightened risks relating to cyber attacks, limited ability to settle securities transactions, third-party and agent bank dependencies, supply chain disruptions, and inflation, as well as the potential for increased volatility in commodity, currency and other financial markets. Complying with economic sanctions and restrictions imposed by governments has resulted in increased operational risk. The extent and duration of the war, sanctions and resulting market disruptions, as well as the potential adverse consequences for our business, liquidity and results of operations, are difficult to predict.
Our senior management, risk committees and the Board receive regular briefings from our independent risk oversight and control functions, including our chief risk officer, on Russian and Ukrainian exposures, as well as other relevant risk metrics. We have significantly reduced our exposure to Russia and Ukraine and have curtailed our operations in Russia to those necessary to meet our legal and regulatory obligations. The overall direct financial impact to our net revenues for 2022 from Russian and Ukrainian counterparties, borrowers, issuers and related instruments was not material. We have established a firmwide working group to identify and assess the operational risk associated with complying with economic sanctions and restrictions as a result of this invasion. In addition, to mitigate the risk of increased cyber attacks, we liaise with government agencies in order to update our monitoring processes with the latest information.
Our total credit exposure to Russian or Ukrainian counterparties or borrowers and our total market exposure relating to Russian or Ukrainian issuers was not material as of December 2022.
In addition, economic and/or political uncertainties in Argentina, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Venezuela have led to concerns about their financial stability. Our credit exposure to counterparties or borrowers and our market exposure to issuers relating to each of these countries was not material as of December 2022.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
We have a comprehensive framework to monitor, measure and assess our country exposures and to determine our risk appetite. We determine the country of risk by the location of the counterparty, issuer’s assets, where they generate revenue, the country in which they are headquartered, the jurisdiction where a claim against them could be enforced, and/or the government whose policies affect their ability to repay their obligations. We monitor our credit exposure to a specific country both at the individual counterparty level, as well as at the aggregate country level. See “Stress Tests” for information about stress tests that are designed to estimate the direct and indirect impact of events involving the above countries.
Operational Risk Management
Overview
Operational risk is the risk of an adverse outcome resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, systems or from external events. Our exposure to operational risk arises from routine processing errors, as well as extraordinary incidents, such as major systems failures or legal and regulatory matters.
Potential types of loss events related to internal and external operational risk include:
•Execution, delivery and process management;
•Business disruption and system failures;
•Employment practices and workplace safety;
•Clients, products and business practices;
•Damage to physical assets;
•Internal fraud; and
•External fraud.
Operational Risk, which is independent of our revenue-producing units and reports to our chief risk officer, has primary responsibility for developing and implementing a formalized framework for assessing, monitoring and managing operational risk with the goal of maintaining our exposure to operational risk at levels that are within our risk appetite.
Operational Risk Management Process
Our process for managing operational risk includes the critical components of our risk management framework described in the “Overview and Structure of Risk Management,” including a comprehensive data collection process, as well as firmwide policies and procedures, for operational risk events.
We combine top-down and bottom-up approaches to manage and measure operational risk. From a top-down perspective, our senior management assesses firmwide and business-level operational risk profiles. From a bottom-up perspective, our first and second lines of defense are responsible for risk identification and risk management on a day-to-day basis, including escalating operational risks and risk events to senior management.
We maintain a comprehensive control framework designed to provide a well-controlled environment to minimize operational risks. The Firmwide Operational Risk and Resilience Committee is responsible for overseeing operational risk, and for ensuring operational resilience of our business.
Our operational risk management framework is designed to comply with the operational risk measurement rules under the Capital Framework and has evolved based on the changing needs of our businesses and regulatory guidance.
We have established policies that require all employees and consultants to report and escalate operational risk events. When operational risk events are identified, our policies require that the events be documented and analyzed to determine whether changes are required in our systems and/or processes to further mitigate the risk of future events.
We use operational risk management applications to capture, analyze, aggregate and report operational risk event data and key metrics. One of our key risk identification and control assessment tools is an operational risk and control self-assessment process, which is performed by our managers. This process consists of the identification and rating of operational risks, on a forward-looking basis, and the related controls. The results from this process are analyzed to evaluate operational risk exposures and identify businesses, activities or products with heightened levels of operational risk.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Risk Measurement
We measure our operational risk exposure using both statistical modeling and scenario analyses, which involve qualitative and quantitative assessments of internal and external operational risk event data and internal control factors for each of our businesses. Operational risk measurement also incorporates an assessment of business environment factors, including:
•Evaluations of the complexity of our business activities;
•The degree of automation in our processes;
•New activity information;
•The legal and regulatory environment; and
•Changes in the markets for our products and services, including the diversity and sophistication of our customers and counterparties.
The results from these scenario analyses are used to monitor changes in operational risk and to determine business lines that may have heightened exposure to operational risk. These analyses are used in the determination of the appropriate level of operational risk capital to hold. We also perform firmwide stress tests. See “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” for information about firmwide stress tests.
Types of Operational Risks
Increased reliance on technology and third-party relationships has resulted in increased operational risks, such as information and cybersecurity risk, third-party risk and business resilience risk. We manage those risks as follows:
Information and Cybersecurity Risk. Information and cybersecurity risk is the risk of compromising the confidentiality, integrity or availability of our data and systems, leading to an adverse impact to us, our reputation, our clients and/or the broader financial system. We seek to minimize the occurrence and impact of unauthorized access, disruption or use of information and/or information systems. We deploy and operate preventive and detective controls and processes to mitigate emerging and evolving information security and cybersecurity threats, including monitoring our network for known vulnerabilities and signs of unauthorized attempts to access our data and systems. There is increased information risk through diversification of our data across external service providers, including use of a variety of cloud-provided or -hosted services and applications. See “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K for further information about information and cybersecurity risk.
Third-Party Risk. Third-party risk, including vendor risk, is the risk of an adverse impact due to reliance on third parties performing services or activities on our behalf. These risks may include legal, regulatory, information security, reputational, operational or any other risks inherent in engaging a third party. We identify, manage and report key third-party risks and conduct due diligence across multiple risk domains, including information security and cybersecurity, resilience and additional supply chain dependencies. The Third-Party Risk Program monitors, reviews and reassesses third-party risks on an ongoing basis. See “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K for further information about third-party risk.
Business Resilience Risk. Business resilience risk is the risk of disruption to our critical processes. We monitor threats and assess risks and seek to ensure our state of readiness in the event of a significant operational disruption to the normal operations of our critical functions or their dependencies, such as critical facilities, systems, third parties, data and/or personnel. Our resilience framework defines the fundamental principles for BCP and crisis management to ensure that critical functions can continue to operate in the event of a disruption. The business continuity program is comprehensive, consistent on a firmwide basis, and up-to-date, incorporating new information, including updated resilience capabilities as and when they become available. Our resilience assurance program encompasses testing of response and recovery strategies on a regular basis with the objective of minimizing and preventing significant operational disruptions. See “Business - Business Continuity and Information Security” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K for further information about business continuity.
Model Risk Management
Overview
Model risk is the potential for adverse consequences from decisions made based on model outputs that may be incorrect or used inappropriately. We rely on quantitative models across our business activities primarily to value certain financial assets and liabilities, to monitor and manage our risk, and to measure and monitor our regulatory capital.
Model Risk, which is independent of our revenue-producing units, model developers, model owners and model users, and reports to our chief risk officer, has primary responsibility for assessing, monitoring and managing our model risk through firmwide oversight across our global businesses, and provides periodic updates to senior management, risk committees and the Risk Committee of the Board.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Management’s Discussion and Analysis
Our model risk management framework is managed through a governance structure and risk management controls, which encompass standards designed to ensure we maintain a comprehensive model inventory, including risk assessment and classification, sound model development practices, independent review and model-specific usage controls. The Firmwide Model Risk Control Committee oversees our model risk management framework.
Model Review and Validation Process
Model Risk consists of quantitative professionals who perform an independent review, validation and approval of our models. This review includes an analysis of the model documentation, independent testing, an assessment of the appropriateness of the methodology used, and verification of compliance with model development and implementation standards.
We regularly refine and enhance our models to reflect changes in market or economic conditions and our business mix. All models are reviewed on an annual basis, and new models or significant changes to existing models and their assumptions are approved prior to implementation.
The model validation process incorporates a review of models and trade and risk parameters across a broad range of scenarios (including extreme conditions) in order to critically evaluate and verify:
•The model’s conceptual soundness, including the reasonableness of model assumptions, and suitability for intended use;
•The testing strategy utilized by the model developers to ensure that the models function as intended;
•The suitability of the calculation techniques incorporated in the model;
•The model’s accuracy in reflecting the characteristics of the related product and its significant risks;
•The model’s consistency with models for similar products; and
•The model’s sensitivity to input parameters and assumptions.
See “Critical Accounting Policies - Fair Value - Review of Valuation Models,” “Liquidity Risk Management,” “Market Risk Management,” “Credit Risk Management” and “Operational Risk Management” for further information about our use of models within these areas.
Other Risk Management
In addition to the areas of risks discussed above, we also manage other risks, including capital, climate, compliance and conflicts. These areas of risks are discussed below.
Capital Risk Management
Capital risk is the risk that our capital is insufficient to support our business activities under normal and stressed market conditions or we face capital reductions or RWA increases, including from new or revised rules or changes in interpretations of existing rules, and are therefore unable to meet our internal capital targets or external regulatory capital requirements. Capital adequacy is of critical importance to us. Accordingly, we have in place a comprehensive capital management policy that provides a framework, defines objectives and establishes guidelines to maintain an appropriate level and composition of capital in both business-as-usual and stressed conditions. Our capital management framework is designed to provide us with the information needed to identify and comprehensively manage risk, and develop and apply projected stress scenarios that capture idiosyncratic vulnerabilities with a goal of holding sufficient capital to remain adequately capitalized even after experiencing a severe stress event. See “Capital Management and Regulatory Capital” for further information about our capital management process.
We have established a comprehensive governance structure to manage and oversee our day-to-day capital management activities and to ensure compliance with capital rules and related policies. Our capital management activities are overseen by the Board and its committees. The Board is responsible for approving our annual capital plan and the Risk Committee of the Board approves our capital management policy, which details the risk committees and members of senior management who are responsible for the ongoing monitoring of our capital adequacy and evaluation of current and future regulatory capital requirements, the review of the results of our capital planning and stress tests processes, and the results of our capital models. In addition, our risk committees and senior management are responsible for the review of our contingency capital plan, key capital adequacy metrics, including regulatory capital ratios, and capital plan metrics, such as the payout ratio, as well as monitoring capital targets and potential breaches of capital requirements.
Our process for managing capital risk also includes independent review by Risk that, among other things, assesses regulatory capital policies and related interpretations, escalates certain interpretations to senior management and/or the appropriate risk committee, and performs calculation testing to corroborate alignment with applicable capital rules.
Climate Risk Management
We categorize climate risk into physical risk and transition risk. Physical risk is the risk that asset values may decline or operations may be disrupted as a result of changes in the climate, while transition risk is the risk that asset values may decline because of changes in climate policies or changes in the underlying economy due to decarbonization.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
As a global financial institution, climate-related risks manifest in different ways across our businesses and we have continued to make significant enhancements to our climate risk management framework, including steps to further integrate climate into our broader risk management processes. We have integrated oversight of climate-related risks into our risk management governance structure, from senior management to our Board and its committees, including the Risk and Public Responsibilities Committees. The Risk Committee of the Board oversees firmwide financial and nonfinancial risks, which include climate risk, and, as part of its oversight, receives updates on our risk management approach to climate risk, including our approaches towards scenario analysis and integration into existing risk management processes. The Public Responsibilities Committee of the Board assists the Board in its oversight of our firmwide sustainability strategy and sustainability issues affecting us, including with respect to climate change. As part of its oversight, the Public Responsibilities Committee receives periodic updates on our sustainability strategy, and also periodically reviews our governance and related policies and processes for sustainability and climate change-related risks. Senior management within Risk is responsible for the development of our climate risk program.
We have begun incorporating climate risk into our credit evaluation and underwriting processes for select industries. Climate risk factors are now evaluated as part of transaction due diligence for select loan commitments.
See “Business - Sustainability” in Part I, Item 1 and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K for information about our sustainability initiatives, including in relation to climate transition.
Compliance Risk Management
Compliance risk is the risk of legal or regulatory sanctions, material financial loss or damage to our reputation arising from our failure to comply with the requirements of applicable laws, rules and regulations, and our internal policies and procedures. Compliance risk is inherent in all activities through which we conduct our businesses. Our Compliance Risk Management Program, administered by Compliance, assesses our compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads our responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. We monitor and review business practices to assess whether they meet or exceed minimum regulatory and legal standards in all markets and jurisdictions in which we conduct business.
Conflicts Management
Conflicts of interest and our approach to dealing with them are fundamental to our client relationships, our reputation and our long-term success. The term “conflict of interest” does not have a universally accepted meaning, and conflicts can arise in many forms within a business or between businesses. The responsibility for identifying potential conflicts, as well as complying with our policies and procedures, is shared by all of our employees.
We have a multilayered approach to resolving conflicts and addressing reputational risk. Our senior management oversees policies related to conflicts resolution and, in conjunction with Conflicts Resolution, Legal and Compliance, and internal committees, formulates policies, standards and principles, and assists in making judgments regarding the appropriate resolution of particular conflicts. Resolving potential conflicts necessarily depends on the facts and circumstances of a particular situation and the application of experienced and informed judgment.
As a general matter, Conflicts Resolution reviews financing and advisory assignments in Global Banking & Markets and certain of our investing, lending and other activities. In addition, we have various transaction oversight committees, such as the Firmwide Capital, Commitments and Suitability Committees and other committees that also review new underwritings, loans, investments and structured products. These groups and committees work with internal and external counsel and Compliance to evaluate and address any actual or potential conflicts. The head of Conflicts Resolution reports to our chief legal officer, who reports to our chief executive officer.
We regularly assess our policies and procedures that address conflicts of interest in an effort to conduct our business in accordance with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.
For further information about our risk management processes, see “Overview and Structure of Risk Management” and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk are set forth in “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Risk Management” in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K.

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Management of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (the firm), is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. The firm’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of the firm’s principal executive and principal financial officers to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the firm’s financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
As of December 31, 2022, management conducted an assessment of the firm’s internal control over financial reporting based on the framework established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on this assessment, management has determined that the firm’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022 was effective.
Our internal control over financial reporting includes policies and procedures that pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect transactions and dispositions of assets; provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and the directors of the firm; and provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the firm’s assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
The firm’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022 has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PCAOB ID 238), an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report appearing on pages 120 to 122, which expresses an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the firm’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022.
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Report of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.:
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the related consolidated statements of earnings, of comprehensive income, of changes in shareholders’ equity and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2022, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2022 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the COSO.
Change in Accounting Principle
As discussed in Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed the manner in which it accounts for credit losses on certain financial instruments in 2020.
Basis for Opinions
The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
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Report of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (i) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Valuation of Certain Level 3 Financial Instruments
As described in Notes 4 and 5 to the consolidated financial statements, as of December 31, 2022, the Company carries financial instruments at fair value, which includes $26.0 billion of financial assets and $22.8 billion of financial liabilities classified in Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy, as one or more inputs to the financial instrument’s valuation technique are significant and unobservable. Significant unobservable inputs used by management to value certain of these Level 3 financial instruments included (i) industry multiples and public comparables, (ii) credit spreads or (iii) correlation.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the valuation of these certain Level 3 financial instruments is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment by management in valuing the financial instruments, which in turn led to a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence related to the aforementioned significant unobservable inputs used in the valuation of certain Level 3 financial instruments, and (ii) the audit effort involved the use of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the valuation of financial instruments, including controls over the methods and significant unobservable inputs used in the valuation of certain Level 3 financial instruments. These procedures also included, among others, for a sample of financial instruments, the involvement of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge to assist in (i) developing an independent estimate of fair value or (ii) testing management’s process to determine the fair value of these financial instruments. Developing the independent estimate involved (i) testing the completeness and accuracy of data provided by management, (ii) evaluating and utilizing management’s significant unobservable inputs or developing independent significant unobservable inputs, and (iii) comparing management’s estimate to the independently developed estimate of fair value. Testing management’s process included evaluating the reasonableness of the aforementioned significant unobservable inputs, evaluating the appropriateness of the techniques used, and testing the completeness and accuracy of data used by management to determine the fair value of these instruments.
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Report of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
Allowance for Loan Losses - Wholesale Loan Portfolio
As described in Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s allowance for loan losses for the wholesale loan portfolio reflects management’s estimate of loan losses over the remaining expected life of the loans and also considers forecasts of future economic conditions. As of December 31, 2022, $2.6 billion of the allowance for loan losses and $150.4 billion of the loans accounted for at amortized cost related to the wholesale loan portfolio. The allowance for loan losses for the wholesale loan portfolio is measured on a collective basis for loans that exhibit similar risk characteristics using a modeled approach and on an asset-specific basis for loans that do not share similar risk characteristics. In addition, it includes qualitative components to reflect the uncertain nature of economic forecasting, capture uncertainty regarding model inputs, and account for model imprecision and concentration risk. The wholesale models determine the probability of default and loss given default based on various risk factors, including internal credit ratings, industry default and loss data, expected life, macroeconomic indicators, the borrower’s capacity to meet its financial obligations, the borrower’s country of risk and industry, loan seniority and collateral type. The most significant inputs to the forecast model for wholesale loans include forecasted U.S. unemployment rates, GDP, credit spreads, commercial and industrial delinquency rates, short- and long-term interest rates, and oil prices.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the allowance for loan losses for the wholesale loan portfolio is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment and estimation by management in the determinations of internal credit ratings and the forecasted U.S. unemployment rates, which in turn led to a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence related to management’s determinations, and (ii) the audit effort involved the use of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to the Company’s allowance for loan losses for the wholesale loan portfolio, including controls over the model, certain data, and significant assumptions. These procedures also included, among others, testing management’s process for estimating the allowance for loan losses for the wholesale loan portfolio using a modeled approach, which involved evaluating the appropriateness of the methodology and testing the completeness and accuracy of certain data used in estimating the allowance for loan losses. The procedures also involved the use of professionals with specialized skill and knowledge to assist in evaluating (i) the appropriateness of the model and methodology and (ii) the reasonableness of the internal credit ratings and the forecasted U.S. unemployment rates used in estimating the allowance for loan losses for the wholesale loan portfolio.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
New York, New York
February 23, 2023
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 1922.
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Consolidated Statements of Earnings
Year Ended December
in millions, except per share amounts 2022 2021 2020
Revenues
Investment banking $ 7,360 $ 14,136 $ 9,100
Investment management 9,005 8,171 6,986
Commissions and fees 4,034 3,590 3,539
Market making 18,634 15,357 15,428
Other principal transactions 654 11,615 4,756
Total non-interest revenues 39,687 52,869 39,809
Interest income
29,024 12,120 13,689
Interest expense 21,346 5,650 8,938
Net interest income 7,678 6,470 4,751
Total net revenues 47,365 59,339 44,560
Provision for credit losses
2,715 357 3,098
Operating expenses
Compensation and benefits 15,148 17,719 13,309
Transaction based 5,312 4,710 4,141
Market development 812 553 401
Communications and technology 1,808 1,573 1,347
Depreciation and amortization 2,455 2,015 1,902
Occupancy 1,026 981 960
Professional fees 1,887 1,648 1,306
Other expenses 2,716 2,739 5,617
Total operating expenses 31,164 31,938 28,983
Pre-tax earnings
13,486 27,044 12,479
Provision for taxes 2,225 5,409 3,020
Net earnings 11,261 21,635 9,459
Preferred stock dividends 497 484 544
Net earnings applicable to common shareholders $ 10,764 $ 21,151 $ 8,915
Earnings per common share
Basic $ 30.42 $ 60.25 $ 24.94
Diluted $ 30.06 $ 59.45 $ 24.74
Average common shares
Basic 352.1 350.5 356.4
Diluted 358.1 355.8 360.3
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Net earnings $ 11,261 $ 21,635 $ 9,459
Other comprehensive income/(loss) adjustments, net of tax:
Currency translation (47) (42) (80)
Debt valuation adjustment 1,403 322 (261)
Pension and postretirement liabilities (172) 41 (26)
Available-for-sale securities (2,126) (955) 417
Other comprehensive income/(loss) (942) (634) 50
Comprehensive income $ 10,319 $ 21,001 $ 9,509
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Consolidated Balance Sheets
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 241,825 $ 261,036
Collateralized agreements:
Securities purchased under agreements to resell (at fair value)
225,117 205,703
Securities borrowed (includes $38,578 and $39,955 at fair value)
189,041 178,771
Customer and other receivables (includes $25 and $42 at fair value)
135,448 160,673
Trading assets (at fair value and includes $40,143 and $68,208 pledged as collateral)
301,245 375,916
Investments (includes $78,201 and $83,427 at fair value, and $9,818 and $12,840 pledged as collateral)
130,629 88,719
Loans (net of allowance of $5,543 and $3,573, and includes $7,655 and $10,769 at fair value)
179,286 158,562
Other assets (includes $145 and $0 at fair value)
39,208 34,608
Total assets $ 1,441,799 $ 1,463,988
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity
Deposits (includes $15,746 and $35,425 at fair value)
$ 386,665 $ 364,227
Collateralized financings:
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase (at fair value) 110,349 165,883
Securities loaned (includes $4,372 and $9,170 at fair value)
30,727 46,505
Other secured financings (includes $12,756 and $17,074 at fair value)
13,946 18,544
Customer and other payables 262,045 251,931
Trading liabilities (at fair value) 191,324 181,424
Unsecured short-term borrowings (includes $39,731 and $29,832 at fair value)
60,961 46,955
Unsecured long-term borrowings (includes $73,147 and $52,390 at fair value)
247,138 254,092
Other liabilities (includes $159 and $359 at fair value)
21,455 24,501
Total liabilities 1,324,610 1,354,062
Commitments, contingencies and guarantees
Shareholders’ equity
Preferred stock; aggregate liquidation preference of $10,703 and $10,703
10,703 10,703
Common stock; 917,815,030 and 906,430,314 shares issued, and 334,918,639 and 333,573,254 shares outstanding
9 9
Share-based awards 5,696 4,211
Nonvoting common stock; no shares issued and outstanding - -
Additional paid-in capital 59,050 56,396
Retained earnings 139,372 131,811
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (3,010) (2,068)
Stock held in treasury, at cost; 582,896,393 and 572,857,062 shares
(94,631) (91,136)
Total shareholders’ equity 117,189 109,926
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity $ 1,441,799 $ 1,463,988
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Preferred stock
Beginning balance $ 10,703 $ 11,203 $ 11,203
Issued - 2,175 350
Redeemed - (2,675) (350)
Ending balance 10,703 10,703 11,203
Common stock
Beginning balance 9 9 9
Issued - - -
Ending balance 9 9 9
Share-based awards
Beginning balance 4,211 3,468 3,195
Issuance and amortization of share-based awards 4,110 2,527 1,967
Delivery of common stock underlying share-based awards (2,468) (1,626) (1,601)
Forfeiture of share-based awards (157) (158) (93)
Ending balance 5,696 4,211 3,468
Additional paid-in capital
Beginning balance 56,396 55,679 54,883
Delivery of common stock underlying share-based awards 2,516 1,678 1,619
Cancellation of share-based awards in satisfaction of withholding tax requirements (1,591) (984) (829)
Issuance costs of redeemed preferred stock - 24 -
Issuance of common stock in connection with acquisition 1,730 - -
Other (1) (1) 6
Ending balance 59,050 56,396 55,679
Retained earnings
Beginning balance, as previously reported
131,811 112,947 106,465
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle for current expected credit losses, net of tax - - (638)
Beginning balance, adjusted
131,811 112,947 105,827
Net earnings 11,261 21,635 9,459
Dividends and dividend equivalents declared on common stock and share-based awards (3,203) (2,287) (1,795)
Dividends declared on preferred stock (497) (443) (543)
Preferred stock redemption premium - (41) (1)
Ending balance 139,372 131,811 112,947
Accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss)
Beginning balance (2,068) (1,434) (1,484)
Other comprehensive income/(loss) (942) (634) 50
Ending balance (3,010) (2,068) (1,434)
Stock held in treasury, at cost
Beginning balance (91,136) (85,940) (84,006)
Repurchased (3,500) (5,200) (1,928)
Reissued 20 11 11
Other (15) (7) (17)
Ending balance (94,631) (91,136) (85,940)
Total shareholders’ equity $ 117,189 $ 109,926 $ 95,932
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Cash flows from operating activities
Net earnings $ 11,261 $ 21,635 $ 9,459
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash provided by/(used for) operating activities
Depreciation and amortization 2,455 2,015 1,902
Deferred income taxes
(2,412) 5 (833)
Share-based compensation 4,083 2,348 1,920
Gain related to extinguishment of unsecured borrowings
- - (1)
Provision for credit losses 2,715 357 3,098
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Customer and other receivables and payables, net 35,014 21,971 (30,895)
Collateralized transactions (excluding other secured financings), net (100,996) (70,058) (13,007)
Trading assets 45,278 15,232 (33,405)
Trading liabilities 8,062 26,616 44,892
Loans held for sale, net 3,161 (5,556) 1,820
Other, net 87 (8,267) (3,485)
Net cash provided by/(used for) operating activities 8,708 6,298 (18,535)
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of property, leasehold improvements and equipment (3,748) (4,667) (6,309)
Proceeds from sales of property, leasehold improvements and equipment 2,706 3,933 2,970
Net cash used for business acquisitions (2,115) - (231)
Purchase of investments (60,536) (39,912) (48,670)
Proceeds from sales and paydowns of investments 12,961 45,701 29,057
Loans (excluding loans held for sale), net (25,228) (35,520) (11,173)
Net cash used for investing activities (75,960) (30,465) (34,356)
Cash flows from financing activities
Unsecured short-term borrowings, net 321 2,137 7,707
Other secured financings (short-term), net (2,283) (1,320) 2,861
Proceeds from issuance of other secured financings (long-term) 1,800 4,795 8,073
Repayment of other secured financings (long-term), including the current portion (3,407) (6,590) (4,137)
Purchase of Trust Preferred securities
- - (11)
Proceeds from issuance of unsecured long-term borrowings 84,522 92,717 47,250
Repayment of unsecured long-term borrowings, including the current portion (42,806) (52,608) (55,040)
Derivative contracts with a financing element, net 1,797 1,121 1,037
Deposits, net 28,074 103,538 67,343
Preferred stock redemption - (2,675) (350)
Common stock repurchased (3,500) (5,200) (1,928)
Settlement of share-based awards in satisfaction of withholding tax requirements (1,595) (985) (830)
Dividends and dividend equivalents paid on common stock, preferred stock and share-based awards (3,682) (2,725) (2,336)
Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock, net of issuance costs - 2,172 349
Other financing, net 361 361 392
Net cash provided by financing activities 59,602 134,738 70,380
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
(11,561) (5,377) 4,807
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (19,211) 105,194 22,296
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning balance 261,036 155,842 133,546
Cash and cash equivalents, ending balance $ 241,825 $ 261,036 $ 155,842
Supplemental disclosures:
Cash payments for interest, net of capitalized interest $ 19,022 $ 5,521 $ 9,091
Cash payments for income taxes, net $ 4,555 $ 6,195 $ 2,754
See Notes 12 and 16 for information about non-cash activities.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1.
Description of Business
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Group Inc. or parent company), a Delaware corporation, together with its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, the firm), is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.
Commencing with the fourth quarter of 2022, consistent with the firm's previously announced organizational changes, the firm began managing and reporting its activities in the following three business segments: Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management and Platform Solutions. Prior periods are presented on a comparable basis.
Global Banking & Markets
The firm provides a broad range of services to a diverse group of corporations, financial institutions, investment funds and governments. Services include strategic advisory assignments with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings and spin-offs, and equity and debt underwriting of public offerings and private placements. The firm facilitates client transactions and makes markets in fixed income, equity, currency and commodity products. In addition, the firm makes markets in and clears institutional client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide and provides prime brokerage and other equities financing activities, including securities lending, margin lending and swaps. The firm also provides lending to corporate clients, including through relationship lending and acquisition financing, and secured lending, through structured credit and asset-backed lending. In addition, the firm provides financing through securities purchased under agreements to resell (resale agreements) and provides securities-based loans to individuals. The firm also makes equity and debt investments related to Global Banking & Markets activities.
Asset & Wealth Management
The firm manages assets and offers investment products across all major asset classes to a diverse set of clients, both institutional and individuals, including through a network of third-party distributors around the world. The firm also provides investing and wealth advisory solutions, including financial planning and counseling, and executing brokerage transactions for wealth management clients. The firm issues loans to wealth management clients, accepts deposits through its consumer banking digital platform, Marcus by Goldman Sachs (Marcus), and through its private bank, and provides investing services through Marcus Invest to U.S. customers. The firm has also issued unsecured loans to consumers through Marcus and has started a process to cease offering new loans. The firm makes equity investments, which include investing activities related to public and private equity investments in corporate, real estate and infrastructure assets, as well as investments through consolidated investment entities, substantially all of which are engaged in real estate investment activities. The firm also invests in debt instruments and engages in lending activities to middle-market clients, and provides financing for real estate and other assets.
Platform Solutions
The firm issues credit cards through partnership arrangements and provides point-of-sale financing through GreenSky, Inc. (GreenSky) to consumers. The firm also provides transaction banking and other services, including cash management services, such as deposit-taking and payment solutions for corporate and institutional clients.
Note 2.
Basis of Presentation
These consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (U.S. GAAP) and include the accounts of Group Inc. and all other entities in which the firm has a controlling financial interest. Intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.
All references to 2022, 2021 and 2020 refer to the firm’s years ended, or the dates, as the context requires, December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. Any reference to a future year refers to a year ending on December 31 of that year. Certain reclassifications have been made to previously reported amounts to conform to the current presentation.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 3.
Significant Accounting Policies
The firm’s significant accounting policies include when and how to measure the fair value of assets and liabilities, measuring the allowance for credit losses on loans and lending commitments accounted for at amortized cost, and when to consolidate an entity. See Note 4 for policies on fair value measurements, Note 9 for policies on the allowance for credit losses, and below and Note 17 for policies on consolidation accounting. All other significant accounting policies are either described below or included in the following footnotes:
Fair Value Measurements Note 4
Fair Value Hierarchy Note 5
Trading Assets and Liabilities Note 6
Derivatives and Hedging Activities Note 7
Investments Note 8
Loans Note 9
Fair Value Option Note 10
Collateralized Agreements and Financings Note 11
Other Assets Note 12
Deposits Note 13
Unsecured Borrowings Note 14
Other Liabilities Note 15
Securitization Activities Note 16
Variable Interest Entities Note 17
Commitments, Contingencies and Guarantees Note 18
Shareholders’ Equity Note 19
Regulation and Capital Adequacy Note 20
Earnings Per Common Share Note 21
Transactions with Affiliated Funds Note 22
Interest Income and Interest Expense Note 23
Income Taxes Note 24
Business Segments Note 25
Credit Concentrations Note 26
Legal Proceedings Note 27
Employee Benefit Plans Note 28
Employee Incentive Plans Note 29
Parent Company Note 30
Consolidation
The firm consolidates entities in which the firm has a controlling financial interest. The firm determines whether it has a controlling financial interest in an entity by first evaluating whether the entity is a voting interest entity or a variable interest entity (VIE).
Voting Interest Entities. Voting interest entities are entities in which (i) the total equity investment at risk is sufficient to enable the entity to finance its activities independently and (ii) the equity holders have the power to direct the activities of the entity that most significantly impact its economic performance, the obligation to absorb the losses of the entity and the right to receive the residual returns of the entity. The usual condition for a controlling financial interest in a voting interest entity is ownership of a majority voting interest. If the firm has a controlling majority voting interest in a voting interest entity, the entity is consolidated.
Variable Interest Entities. A VIE is an entity that lacks one or more of the characteristics of a voting interest entity. The firm has a controlling financial interest in a VIE when the firm has a variable interest or interests that provide it with (i) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. See Note 17 for further information about VIEs.
Equity-Method Investments. When the firm does not have a controlling financial interest in an entity but can exert significant influence over the entity’s operating and financial policies, the investment is generally accounted for at fair value by electing the fair value option available under U.S. GAAP. Significant influence generally exists when the firm owns 20% to 50% of the entity’s common stock or in-substance common stock.
In certain cases, the firm applies the equity method of accounting to new investments that are strategic in nature or closely related to the firm’s principal business activities, when the firm has a significant degree of involvement in the cash flows or operations of the investee or when cost-benefit considerations are less significant. See Note 8 for further information about equity-method investments.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Investment Funds. The firm has formed investment funds with third-party investors. These funds are typically organized as limited partnerships or limited liability companies for which the firm acts as general partner or manager. Generally, the firm does not hold a majority of the economic interests in these funds. These funds are usually voting interest entities and generally are not consolidated because third-party investors typically have rights to terminate the funds or to remove the firm as general partner or manager. Investments in these funds are generally measured at net asset value (NAV) and are included in investments. See Notes 8, 18 and 22 for further information about investments in funds.
Use of Estimates
Preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions, the most important of which relate to fair value measurements, the allowance for credit losses on loans and lending commitments accounted for at amortized cost, accounting for goodwill and identifiable intangible assets, provisions for losses that may arise from litigation and regulatory proceedings (including governmental investigations), and accounting for income taxes. These estimates and assumptions are based on the best available information, but actual results could be materially different.
Revenue Recognition
Financial Assets and Liabilities at Fair Value. Trading assets and liabilities and certain investments are carried at fair value either under the fair value option or in accordance with other U.S. GAAP. In addition, the firm has elected to account for certain of its loans and other financial assets and liabilities at fair value by electing the fair value option. The fair value of a financial instrument is the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Financial assets are marked to bid prices and financial liabilities are marked to offer prices. Fair value measurements do not include transaction costs. Fair value gains or losses are generally included in market making or other principal transactions. See Note 4 for further information about fair value measurements.
Revenue from Contracts with Clients. The firm recognizes revenue earned from contracts with clients for services, such as investment banking, investment management, and execution and clearing (contracts with clients), when the performance obligations related to the underlying transaction are completed.
Revenues from contracts with clients represent approximately 50% of total non-interest revenues for 2022 (including approximately 85% of investment banking revenues, approximately 95% of investment management revenues and all commissions and fees), approximately 45% of total non-interest revenues for 2021 (including approximately 90% of both investment banking revenues and investment management revenues, and all commissions and fees), and approximately 45% of total non-interest revenues for 2020 (including approximately 90% of investment banking revenues, approximately 95% of investment management revenues and all commissions and fees). See Note 25 for information about net revenues by business segment.
Investment Banking
Advisory. Fees from financial advisory assignments are recognized in revenues when the services related to the underlying transaction are completed under the terms of the assignment. Non-refundable deposits and milestone payments in connection with financial advisory assignments are recognized in revenues upon completion of the underlying transaction or when the assignment is otherwise concluded.
Expenses associated with financial advisory assignments are recognized when incurred and are included in transaction based expenses. Client reimbursements for such expenses are included in investment banking revenues.
Underwriting. Fees from underwriting assignments are recognized in revenues upon completion of the underlying transaction based on the terms of the assignment.
Expenses associated with underwriting assignments are generally deferred until the related revenue is recognized or the assignment is otherwise concluded. Such expenses are included in transaction based expenses for completed assignments.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Investment Management
The firm earns management fees and incentive fees for investment management services, which are included in investment management revenues. The firm makes payments to brokers and advisors related to the placement of the firm’s investment funds (distribution fees), which are included in transaction based expenses.
Management Fees. Management fees for mutual funds are calculated as a percentage of daily net asset value and are received monthly. Management fees for hedge funds and separately managed accounts are calculated as a percentage of month-end net asset value and are generally received quarterly. Management fees for private equity funds are calculated as a percentage of monthly invested capital or committed capital and are received quarterly, semi-annually or annually, depending on the fund. Management fees are recognized over time in the period the services are provided.
Distribution fees paid by the firm are calculated based on either a percentage of the management fee, the investment fund’s net asset value or the committed capital. Such fees are included in transaction based expenses.
Incentive Fees. Incentive fees are calculated as a percentage of a fund’s or separately managed account’s return, or excess return above a specified benchmark or other performance target. Incentive fees are generally based on investment performance over a twelve-month period or over the life of a fund. Fees that are based on performance over a twelve-month period are subject to adjustment prior to the end of the measurement period. For fees that are based on investment performance over the life of the fund, future investment underperformance may require fees previously distributed to the firm to be returned to the fund.
Incentive fees earned from a fund or separately managed account are recognized when it is probable that a significant reversal of such fees will not occur, which is generally when such fees are no longer subject to fluctuations in the market value of investments held by the fund or separately managed account. Therefore, incentive fees recognized during the period may relate to performance obligations satisfied in previous periods.
Commissions and Fees
The firm earns substantially all commissions and fees from executing and clearing client transactions on stock, options and futures markets, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. Commissions and fees are recognized on the day the trade is executed. The firm also provides third-party research services to clients in connection with certain soft-dollar arrangements. Third-party research costs incurred by the firm in connection with such arrangements are presented net within commissions and fees.
Remaining Performance Obligations
Remaining performance obligations are services that the firm has committed to perform in the future in connection with its contracts with clients. The firm’s remaining performance obligations are generally related to its financial advisory assignments and certain investment management activities. Revenues associated with remaining performance obligations relating to financial advisory assignments cannot be determined until the outcome of the transaction. For the firm’s investment management activities, where fees are calculated based on the net asset value of the fund or separately managed account, future revenues associated with such remaining performance obligations cannot be determined as such fees are subject to fluctuations in the market value of investments held by the fund or separately managed account.
The firm is able to determine the future revenues associated with management fees calculated based on committed capital. As of December 2022, substantially all future net revenues associated with such remaining performance obligations will be recognized through 2030. Annual revenues associated with such performance obligations average less than $300 million through 2030.
Transfers of Financial Assets
Transfers of financial assets are accounted for as sales when the firm has relinquished control over the assets transferred. For transfers of financial assets accounted for as sales, any gains or losses are recognized in net revenues. Assets or liabilities that arise from the firm’s continuing involvement with transferred financial assets are initially recognized at fair value. For transfers of financial assets that are not accounted for as sales, the assets are generally included in trading assets and the transfer is accounted for as a collateralized financing, with the related interest expense recognized over the life of the transaction. See Note 11 for further information about transfers of financial assets accounted for as collateralized financings and Note 16 for further information about transfers of financial assets accounted for as sales.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The firm defines cash equivalents as highly liquid overnight deposits held in the ordinary course of business. Cash and cash equivalents included cash and due from banks of $7.87 billion as of December 2022 and $10.14 billion as of December 2021. Cash and cash equivalents also included interest-bearing deposits with banks of $233.96 billion as of December 2022 and $250.90 billion as of December 2021.
The firm segregates cash for regulatory and other purposes related to client activity. Cash and cash equivalents segregated for regulatory and other purposes were $16.94 billion as of December 2022 and $24.87 billion as of December 2021. In addition, the firm segregates securities for regulatory and other purposes related to client activity. See Note 11 for further information about segregated securities.
Customer and Other Receivables
Customer and other receivables included receivables from customers and counterparties of $67.88 billion as of December 2022 and $103.82 billion as of December 2021, and receivables from brokers, dealers and clearing organizations of $67.57 billion as of December 2022 and $56.85 billion as of December 2021. Such receivables primarily consist of collateral posted in connection with certain derivative transactions, customer margin loans and receivables resulting from unsettled transactions.
Substantially all of these receivables are accounted for at amortized cost net of any allowance for credit losses, which generally approximates fair value. As these receivables are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these receivables been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, substantially all would have been classified in level 2 as of both December 2022 and December 2021. See Note 10 for further information about customer and other receivables accounted for at fair value under the fair value option. Interest on customer and other receivables is recognized over the life of the transaction and included in interest income.
Customer and other receivables includes receivables from contracts with clients and contract assets. Contract assets represent the firm’s right to receive consideration for services provided in connection with its contracts with clients for which collection is conditional and not merely subject to the passage of time. The firm’s receivables from contracts with clients were $3.01 billion as of both December 2022 and December 2021. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, contract assets were not material.
Customer and Other Payables
Customer and other payables included payables to customers and counterparties of $238.12 billion as of December 2022 and $241.93 billion as of December 2021, and payables to brokers, dealers and clearing organizations of $23.93 billion as of December 2022 and $10.00 billion as of December 2021. Such payables primarily consist of customer credit balances related to the firm’s prime brokerage activities. Customer and other payables are accounted for at cost plus accrued interest, which generally approximates fair value. As these payables are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these payables been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, substantially all would have been classified in level 2 as of both December 2022 and December 2021. Interest on customer and other payables is recognized over the life of the transaction and included in interest expense.
Offsetting Assets and Liabilities
To reduce credit exposures on derivatives and securities financing transactions, the firm may enter into master netting agreements or similar arrangements (collectively, netting agreements) with counterparties that permit it to offset receivables and payables with such counterparties. A netting agreement is a contract with a counterparty that permits net settlement of multiple transactions with that counterparty, including upon the exercise of termination rights by a non-defaulting party. Upon exercise of such termination rights, all transactions governed by the netting agreement are terminated and a net settlement amount is calculated. In addition, the firm receives and posts cash and securities collateral with respect to its derivatives and securities financing transactions, subject to the terms of the related credit support agreements or similar arrangements (collectively, credit support agreements). An enforceable credit support agreement grants the non-defaulting party exercising termination rights the right to liquidate the collateral and apply the proceeds to any amounts owed. In order to assess enforceability of the firm’s right of setoff under netting and credit support agreements, the firm evaluates various factors, including applicable bankruptcy laws, local statutes and regulatory provisions in the jurisdiction of the parties to the agreement.
Derivatives are reported on a net-by-counterparty basis (i.e., the net payable or receivable for derivative assets and liabilities for a given counterparty) in the consolidated balance sheets when a legal right of setoff exists under an enforceable netting agreement. Resale agreements and securities sold under agreements to repurchase (repurchase agreements) and securities borrowed and loaned transactions with the same settlement date are presented on a net-by-counterparty basis in the consolidated balance sheets when such transactions meet certain settlement criteria and are subject to netting agreements.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In the consolidated balance sheets, derivatives are reported net of cash collateral received and posted under enforceable credit support agreements, when transacted under an enforceable netting agreement. In the consolidated balance sheets, resale and repurchase agreements, and securities borrowed and loaned, are not reported net of the related cash and securities received or posted as collateral. See Note 11 for further information about collateral received and pledged, including rights to deliver or repledge collateral. See Notes 7 and 11 for further information about offsetting assets and liabilities.
Foreign Currency Translation
Assets and liabilities denominated in non-U.S. currencies are translated at rates of exchange prevailing on the date of the consolidated balance sheets and revenues and expenses are translated at average rates of exchange for the period. Foreign currency remeasurement gains or losses on transactions in nonfunctional currencies are recognized in earnings. Gains or losses on translation of the financial statements of a non-U.S. operation, when the functional currency is other than the U.S. dollar, are included, net of hedges and taxes, in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
Recent Accounting Developments
Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (ASC 848). In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, “Reference Rate Reform - Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting.” This ASU, as amended in 2022, provides optional relief from applying generally accepted accounting principles to contracts, hedging relationships and other transactions affected by reference rate reform. In addition, in January 2021 the FASB issued ASU No. 2021-01, “Reference Rate Reform - Scope,” which clarified the scope of ASC 848 relating to contract modifications. The firm adopted these ASUs upon issuance and elected to apply the relief available to certain modified derivatives. The adoption of these ASUs did not have a material impact on the firm’s consolidated financial statements.
Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures (ASC 326). In March 2022, the FASB issued ASU No. 2022-02, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326) - Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures.” This ASU eliminates the recognition and measurement guidance for troubled debt restructurings (TDRs) and requires enhanced disclosures about loan modifications for borrowers experiencing financial difficulty. This ASU also requires enhanced disclosure for loans that have been charged off. The ASU became effective in January 2023 under a prospective approach. Adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on the firm’s consolidated financial statements.
Accounting for Obligations to Safeguard Crypto-Assets an Entity Holds for Platform Users (SAB 121). In March 2022, the SEC staff issued SAB 121 (SAB 121) - “Accounting for obligations to safeguard crypto-assets an entity holds for platform users.” SAB 121 adds interpretive guidance requiring an entity to recognize a liability on its balance sheet to reflect the obligation to safeguard the crypto-assets held for its platform users, along with a corresponding asset. The firm adopted SAB 121 in June 2022 under a modified retrospective approach and adoption did not have a material impact on the firm’s consolidated financial statements.
Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions (ASC 820). In June 2022, the FASB issued ASU No. 2022-03, “Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions.” This ASU clarifies that a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security should not be considered in measuring its fair value. In addition, the ASU requires specific disclosures related to equity securities that are subject to contractual sale restrictions. The ASU is effective in January 2024 under a prospective approach. Early adoption is permitted. Adoption of this ASU is not expected to have a material impact on the firm’s consolidated financial statements.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 4.
Fair Value Measurements
The fair value of a financial instrument is the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Financial assets are marked to bid prices and financial liabilities are marked to offer prices. Fair value measurements do not include transaction costs. The firm measures certain financial assets and liabilities as a portfolio (i.e., based on its net exposure to market and/or credit risks).
The best evidence of fair value is a quoted price in an active market. If quoted prices in active markets are not available, fair value is determined by reference to prices for similar instruments, quoted prices or recent transactions in less active markets, or internally developed models that primarily use market-based or independently sourced inputs, including, but not limited to, interest rates, volatilities, equity or debt prices, foreign exchange rates, commodity prices, credit spreads and funding spreads (i.e., the spread or difference between the interest rate at which a borrower could finance a given financial instrument relative to a benchmark interest rate).
U.S. GAAP has a three-level hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. This hierarchy prioritizes inputs to the valuation techniques used to measure fair value, giving the highest priority to level 1 inputs and the lowest priority to level 3 inputs. A financial instrument’s level in this hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to its fair value measurement. In evaluating the significance of a valuation input, the firm considers, among other factors, a portfolio’s net risk exposure to that input. The fair value hierarchy is as follows:
Level 1. Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets to which the firm had access at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities.
Level 2. Inputs to valuation techniques are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3. One or more inputs to valuation techniques are significant and unobservable.
The fair values for substantially all of the firm’s financial assets and liabilities are based on observable prices and inputs and are classified in levels 1 and 2 of the fair value hierarchy. Certain level 2 and level 3 financial assets and liabilities may require valuation adjustments that a market participant would require to arrive at fair value for factors, such as counterparty and the firm’s credit quality, funding risk, transfer restrictions, liquidity and bid/offer spreads. Valuation adjustments are generally based on market evidence.
The table below presents financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Total level 1 financial assets $ 194,698 $ 255,774
Total level 2 financial assets 485,134 498,527
Total level 3 financial assets 26,048 24,083
Investments in funds at NAV 2,941 3,469
Counterparty and cash collateral netting (57,855) (66,041)
Total financial assets at fair value $ 650,966 $ 715,812
Total assets
$ 1,441,799 $ 1,463,988
Total level 3 financial assets divided by:
Total assets 1.8 % 1.6%
Total financial assets at fair value 4.0 % 3.4%
Total level 1 financial liabilities $ 119,578 $ 110,030
Total level 2 financial liabilities 353,060 403,627
Total level 3 financial liabilities 22,830 29,169
Counterparty and cash collateral netting (47,884) (51,269)
Total financial liabilities at fair value $ 447,584 $ 491,557
Total liabilities $ 1,324,610 $ 1,354,062
Total level 3 financial liabilities divided by:
Total liabilities 1.7 % 2.2%
Total financial liabilities at fair value 5.1 % 5.9%
In the table above:
•Counterparty netting among positions classified in the same level is included in that level.
•Counterparty and cash collateral netting represents the impact on derivatives of netting across levels.
The table below presents a summary of level 3 financial assets.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Trading assets:
Trading cash instruments $ 1,734 $ 1,889
Derivatives 5,461 5,938
Investments 16,942 13,902
Loans 1,837 2,354
Other assets
74 -
Total $ 26,048 $ 24,083
Level 3 financial assets as of December 2022 increased compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting an increase in level 3 investments. See Note 5 for further information about level 3 financial assets (including information about unrealized gains and losses related to level 3 financial assets and transfers in and out of level 3).
The valuation techniques and nature of significant inputs used to determine the fair value of the firm’s financial instruments are described below. See Note 5 for further information about significant unobservable inputs used to value level 3 financial instruments.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Valuation Techniques and Significant Inputs for Trading Cash Instruments, Investments and Loans
Level 1. Level 1 instruments include U.S. government obligations, most non-U.S. government obligations, certain agency obligations, certain corporate debt instruments, certain money market instruments and actively traded listed equities. These instruments are valued using quoted prices for identical unrestricted instruments in active markets. The firm defines active markets for equity instruments based on the average daily trading volume both in absolute terms and relative to the market capitalization for the instrument. The firm defines active markets for debt instruments based on both the average daily trading volume and the number of days with trading activity.
Level 2. Level 2 instruments include certain non-U.S. government obligations, most agency obligations, most mortgage-backed loans and securities, most corporate debt instruments, most state and municipal obligations, most money market instruments, most other debt obligations, restricted or less liquid listed equities, certain private equities, commodities and certain lending commitments.
Valuations of level 2 instruments can be verified to quoted prices, recent trading activity for identical or similar instruments, broker or dealer quotations or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency. Consideration is given to the nature of the quotations (e.g., indicative or executable) and the relationship of recent market activity to the prices provided from alternative pricing sources.
Valuation adjustments are typically made to level 2 instruments (i) if the instrument is subject to transfer restrictions and/or (ii) for other premiums and liquidity discounts that a market participant would require to arrive at fair value. Valuation adjustments are generally based on market evidence.
Level 3. Level 3 instruments have one or more significant valuation inputs that are not observable. Absent evidence to the contrary, level 3 instruments are initially valued at transaction price, which is considered to be the best initial estimate of fair value. Subsequently, the firm uses other methodologies to determine fair value, which vary based on the type of instrument. Valuation inputs and assumptions are changed when corroborated by substantive observable evidence, including values realized on sales.
Valuation techniques of level 3 instruments vary by instrument, but are generally based on discounted cash flow techniques. The valuation techniques and the nature of significant inputs used to determine the fair values of each type of level 3 instrument are described below:
Loans and Securities Backed by Commercial Real Estate
Loans and securities backed by commercial real estate are directly or indirectly collateralized by a single property or a portfolio of properties, and may include tranches of varying levels of subordination. Significant inputs are generally determined based on relative value analyses and include:
•Market yields implied by transactions of similar or related assets and/or current levels and changes in market indices, such as the CMBX (an index that tracks the performance of commercial mortgage bonds);
•Transaction prices in both the underlying collateral and instruments with the same or similar underlying collateral;
•A measure of expected future cash flows in a default scenario (recovery rates) implied by the value of the underlying collateral, which is mainly driven by current performance of the underlying collateral and capitalization rates. Recovery rates are expressed as a percentage of notional or face value of the instrument and reflect the benefit of credit enhancements on certain instruments; and
•Timing of expected future cash flows (duration) which, in certain cases, may incorporate the impact of any loan forbearances and other unobservable inputs (e.g., prepayment speeds).
Loans and Securities Backed by Residential Real Estate
Loans and securities backed by residential real estate are directly or indirectly collateralized by portfolios of residential real estate and may include tranches of varying levels of subordination. Significant inputs are generally determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons to instruments with similar collateral and risk profiles. Significant inputs include:
•Market yields implied by transactions of similar or related assets;
•Transaction prices in both the underlying collateral and instruments with the same or similar underlying collateral;
•Cumulative loss expectations, driven by default rates, home price projections, residential property liquidation timelines, related costs and subsequent recoveries; and
•Duration, driven by underlying loan prepayment speeds and residential property liquidation timelines.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Corporate Debt Instruments
Corporate debt instruments includes corporate loans, debt securities and convertible debentures. Significant inputs for corporate debt instruments are generally determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons both to prices of credit default swaps that reference the same or similar underlying instrument or entity and to other debt instruments for the same or similar issuer for which observable prices or broker quotations are available. Significant inputs include:
•Market yields implied by transactions of similar or related assets and/or current levels and trends of market indices, such as the CDX (an index that tracks the performance of corporate credit);
•Current performance and recovery assumptions and, where the firm uses credit default swaps to value the related instrument, the cost of borrowing the underlying reference obligation;
•Duration; and
•Market and transaction multiples for corporate debt instruments with convertibility or participation options.
Equity Securities
Equity securities consists of private equities. Recent third-party completed or pending transactions (e.g., merger proposals, debt restructurings, tender offers) are considered the best evidence for any change in fair value. When these are not available, the following valuation methodologies are used, as appropriate:
•Industry multiples (primarily EBITDA and revenue multiples) and public comparables;
•Transactions in similar instruments;
•Discounted cash flow techniques; and
•Third-party appraisals.
The firm also considers changes in the outlook for the relevant industry and financial performance of the issuer as compared to projected performance. Significant inputs include:
•Market and transaction multiples;
•Discount rates and capitalization rates; and
•For equity securities with debt-like features, market yields implied by transactions of similar or related assets, current performance and recovery assumptions, and duration.
Other Trading Cash Instruments, Investments and Loans
The significant inputs to the valuation of other instruments, such as non-U.S. government and agency obligations, state and municipal obligations, and other loans and debt obligations are generally determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons both to prices of credit default swaps that reference the same or similar underlying instrument or entity and to other debt instruments for the same issuer for which observable prices or broker quotations are available. Significant inputs include:
•Market yields implied by transactions of similar or related assets and/or current levels and trends of market indices;
•Current performance and recovery assumptions and, where the firm uses credit default swaps to value the related instrument, the cost of borrowing the underlying reference obligation; and
•Duration.
Valuation Techniques and Significant Inputs for Derivatives
The firm’s level 2 and level 3 derivatives are valued using derivative pricing models (e.g., discounted cash flow models, correlation models and models that incorporate option pricing methodologies, such as Monte Carlo simulations). Price transparency of derivatives can generally be characterized by product type, as described below.
•Interest Rate. In general, the key inputs used to value interest rate derivatives are transparent, even for most long-dated contracts. Interest rate swaps and options denominated in the currencies of leading industrialized nations are characterized by high trading volumes and tight bid/offer spreads. Interest rate derivatives that reference indices, such as an inflation index, or the shape of the yield curve (e.g., 10-year swap rate vs. 2-year swap rate) are more complex, but the key inputs are generally observable.
•Credit. Price transparency for credit default swaps, including both single names and baskets of credits, varies by market and underlying reference entity or obligation. Credit default swaps that reference indices, large corporates and major sovereigns generally exhibit the most price transparency. For credit default swaps with other underliers, price transparency varies based on credit rating, the cost of borrowing the underlying reference obligations, and the availability of the underlying reference obligations for delivery upon the default of the issuer. Credit default swaps that reference loans, asset-backed securities and emerging market debt instruments tend to have less price transparency than those that reference corporate bonds. In addition, more complex credit derivatives, such as those sensitive to the correlation between two or more underlying reference obligations, generally have less price transparency.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
•Currency. Prices for currency derivatives based on the exchange rates of leading industrialized nations, including those with longer tenors, are generally transparent. The primary difference between the price transparency of developed and emerging market currency derivatives is that emerging markets tend to be only observable for contracts with shorter tenors.
•Commodity. Commodity derivatives include transactions referenced to energy (e.g., oil, natural gas and electricity), metals (e.g., precious and base) and soft commodities (e.g., agricultural). Price transparency varies based on the underlying commodity, delivery location, tenor and product quality (e.g., diesel fuel compared to unleaded gasoline). In general, price transparency for commodity derivatives is greater for contracts with shorter tenors and contracts that are more closely aligned with major and/or benchmark commodity indices.
•Equity. Price transparency for equity derivatives varies by market and underlier. Options on indices and the common stock of corporates included in major equity indices exhibit the most price transparency. Equity derivatives generally have observable market prices, except for contracts with long tenors or reference prices that differ significantly from current market prices. More complex equity derivatives, such as those sensitive to the correlation between two or more individual stocks, generally have less price transparency.
Liquidity is essential to the observability of all product types. If transaction volumes decline, previously transparent prices and other inputs may become unobservable. Conversely, even highly structured products may at times have trading volumes large enough to provide observability of prices and other inputs.
Level 1. Level 1 derivatives include short-term contracts for future delivery of securities when the underlying security is a level 1 instrument, and exchange-traded derivatives if they are actively traded and are valued at their quoted market price.
Level 2. Level 2 derivatives include OTC derivatives for which all significant valuation inputs are corroborated by market evidence and exchange-traded derivatives that are not actively traded and/or that are valued using models that calibrate to market-clearing levels of OTC derivatives.
The selection of a particular model to value a derivative depends on the contractual terms of and specific risks inherent in the instrument, as well as the availability of pricing information in the market. For derivatives that trade in liquid markets, model selection does not involve significant management judgment because outputs of models can be calibrated to market-clearing levels.
Valuation models require a variety of inputs, such as contractual terms, market prices, yield curves, discount rates (including those derived from interest rates on collateral received and posted as specified in credit support agreements for collateralized derivatives), credit curves, measures of volatility, prepayment rates, loss severity rates and correlations of such inputs. Significant inputs to the valuations of level 2 derivatives can be verified to market transactions, broker or dealer quotations or other alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency. Consideration is given to the nature of the quotations (e.g., indicative or executable) and the relationship of recent market activity to the prices provided from alternative pricing sources.
Level 3. Level 3 derivatives are valued using models which utilize observable level 1 and/or level 2 inputs, as well as unobservable level 3 inputs. The significant unobservable inputs used to value the firm’s level 3 derivatives are described below.
•For level 3 interest rate and currency derivatives, significant unobservable inputs include correlations of certain currencies and interest rates (e.g., the correlation between Euro inflation and Euro interest rates) and specific interest rate and currency volatilities.
•For level 3 credit derivatives, significant unobservable inputs include illiquid credit spreads and upfront credit points, which are unique to specific reference obligations and reference entities, and recovery rates.
•For level 3 commodity derivatives, significant unobservable inputs include volatilities for options with strike prices that differ significantly from current market prices and prices or spreads for certain products for which the product quality or physical location of the commodity is not aligned with benchmark indices.
•For level 3 equity derivatives, significant unobservable inputs generally include equity volatility inputs for options that are long-dated and/or have strike prices that differ significantly from current market prices. In addition, the valuation of certain structured trades requires the use of level 3 correlation inputs, such as the correlation of the price performance of two or more individual stocks or the correlation of the price performance for a basket of stocks to another asset class, such as commodities.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Subsequent to the initial valuation of a level 3 derivative, the firm updates the level 1 and level 2 inputs to reflect observable market changes and any resulting gains and losses are classified in level 3. Level 3 inputs are changed when corroborated by evidence, such as similar market transactions, third-party pricing services and/or broker or dealer quotations or other empirical market data. In circumstances where the firm cannot verify the model value by reference to market transactions, it is possible that a different valuation model could produce a materially different estimate of fair value. See Note 5 for further information about significant unobservable inputs used in the valuation of level 3 derivatives.
Valuation Adjustments. Valuation adjustments are integral to determining the fair value of derivative portfolios and are used to adjust the mid-market valuations produced by derivative pricing models to the exit price valuation. These adjustments incorporate bid/offer spreads, the cost of liquidity, and credit and funding valuation adjustments, which account for the credit and funding risk inherent in the uncollateralized portion of derivative portfolios. The firm also makes funding valuation adjustments to collateralized derivatives where the terms of the agreement do not permit the firm to deliver or repledge collateral received. Market-based inputs are generally used when calibrating valuation adjustments to market-clearing levels.
In addition, for derivatives that include significant unobservable inputs, the firm makes model or exit price adjustments to account for the valuation uncertainty present in the transaction.
Valuation Techniques and Significant Inputs for Other Financial Instruments at Fair Value
In addition to trading cash instruments, derivatives, and certain investments and loans, the firm accounts for certain of its other financial assets and liabilities at fair value under the fair value option. Such instruments include resale and repurchase agreements; certain securities borrowed and loaned transactions; certain customer and other receivables, including certain margin loans; certain time deposits, including structured certificates of deposit, which are hybrid financial instruments; substantially all other secured financings, including transfers of assets accounted for as financings; certain unsecured short- and long-term borrowings, substantially all of which are hybrid financial instruments; and certain other assets and liabilities. These instruments are generally valued based on discounted cash flow techniques, which incorporate inputs with reasonable levels of price transparency, and are generally classified in level 2 because the inputs are observable. Valuation adjustments may be made for liquidity and for counterparty and the firm’s credit quality. The significant inputs used to value the firm’s other financial instruments are described below.
Resale and Repurchase Agreements and Securities Borrowed and Loaned. The significant inputs to the valuation of resale and repurchase agreements and securities borrowed and loaned are funding spreads, the amount and timing of expected future cash flows and interest rates.
Customer and Other Receivables. The significant inputs to the valuation of receivables are interest rates, the amount and timing of expected future cash flows and funding spreads.
Deposits. The significant inputs to the valuation of time deposits are interest rates and the amount and timing of future cash flows. The inputs used to value the embedded derivative component of hybrid financial instruments are consistent with the inputs used to value the firm’s other derivative instruments described above. See Note 7 for further information about derivatives and Note 13 for further information about deposits.
Other Secured Financings. The significant inputs to the valuation of other secured financings are the amount and timing of expected future cash flows, interest rates, funding spreads and the fair value of the collateral delivered by the firm (determined using the amount and timing of expected future cash flows, market prices, market yields and recovery assumptions). See Note 11 for further information about other secured financings.
Unsecured Short- and Long-Term Borrowings. The significant inputs to the valuation of unsecured short- and long-term borrowings are the amount and timing of expected future cash flows, interest rates, the credit spreads of the firm and commodity prices for prepaid commodity transactions. The inputs used to value the embedded derivative component of hybrid financial instruments are consistent with the inputs used to value the firm’s other derivative instruments described above. See Note 7 for further information about derivatives and Note 14 for further information about borrowings.
Other Assets and Liabilities. The significant inputs to the valuation of other assets and liabilities are the amount and timing of expected future cash flows, interest rates, market yields, volatility and correlation inputs. The inputs used to value the embedded derivative component of hybrid financial instruments are consistent with the inputs used to value the firm’s other derivative instruments described above. See Note 7 for further information about derivatives.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 5.
Fair Value Hierarchy
Financial assets and liabilities at fair value includes trading cash instruments, derivatives, and certain investments, loans and other financial assets and liabilities at fair value.
Fair Value of Trading Cash Instruments by Level
The table below presents trading cash instruments by level within the fair value hierarchy.
$ in millions Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
As of December 2022
Assets
Government and agency obligations:
U.S. $ 75,598 $ 31,783 $ - $ 107,381
Non-U.S. 22,794 15,238 67 38,099
Loans and securities backed by:
Commercial real estate - 1,135 66 1,201
Residential real estate - 9,706 88 9,794
Corporate debt instruments 249 27,555 1,238 29,042
State and municipal obligations - 707 20 727
Other debt obligations 27 2,349 153 2,529
Equity securities 44,909 2,141 100 47,150
Commodities - 5,907 2 5,909
Total $ 143,577 $ 96,521 $ 1,734 $ 241,832
Liabilities
Government and agency obligations:
U.S. $ (23,339) $ (36) $ - $ (23,375)
Non-U.S. (28,537) (2,172) - (30,709)
Loans and securities backed by:
Commercial real estate - (30) - (30)
Residential real estate - (16) - (16)
Corporate debt instruments (64) (14,217) (61) (14,342)
Other debt obligations - (35) (2) (37)
Equity securities (67,591) (488) (1) (68,080)
Commodities - - - -
Total $ (119,531) $ (16,994) $ (64) $ (136,589)
As of December 2021
Assets
Government and agency obligations:
U.S. $ 63,388 $ 27,427 $ - $ 90,815
Non-U.S. 35,284 13,511 19 48,814
Loans and securities backed by:
Commercial real estate - 1,717 137 1,854
Residential real estate - 13,083 152 13,235
Corporate debt instruments 590 36,874 1,318 38,782
State and municipal obligations - 568 36 604
Other debt obligations 69 1,564 66 1,699
Equity securities 105,233 2,958 156 108,347
Commodities - 7,801 5 7,806
Total $ 204,564 $ 105,503 $ 1,889 $ 311,956
Liabilities
Government and agency obligations:
U.S. $ (21,002) $ (25) $ - $ (21,027)
Non-U.S. (39,983) (2,602) - (42,585)
Loans and securities backed by:
Commercial real estate - (40) (2) (42)
Residential real estate - (5) - (5)
Corporate debt instruments (23) (15,781) (71) (15,875)
Equity securities (48,991) (915) (31) (49,937)
Total $ (109,999) $ (19,368) $ (104) $ (129,471)
Trading cash instruments consists of instruments held in connection with the firm’s market-making or risk management activities. These instruments are carried at fair value and the related fair value gains and losses are recognized in the consolidated statements of earnings.
In the table above:
•Trading cash instrument assets are shown as positive amounts and trading cash instrument liabilities are shown as negative amounts.
•Corporate debt instruments includes corporate loans, debt securities, convertible debentures, prepaid commodity transactions and transfers of assets accounted for as secured loans rather than purchases.
•Other debt obligations includes other asset-backed securities and money market instruments.
•Equity securities includes public equities and exchange-traded funds.
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of trading cash instruments.
Significant Unobservable Inputs for Trading Cash Instrument Assets
The table below presents the amount of level 3 assets, and ranges and weighted averages of significant unobservable inputs used to value level 3 trading cash instrument assets.
As of December 2022 As of December 2021
$ in millions Amount or
Range
Weighted
Average
Amount or
Range
Weighted
Average
Loans and securities backed by real estate
Level 3 assets $ 154 $ 289
Yield 3.0% to 36.0%
14.2 % 0.4% to 28.5%
9.7 %
Recovery rate 35.8% to 76.1%
54.7 % 5.1% to 86.5%
55.0 %
Cumulative loss rate
3.7% to 29.9%
10.4 % 0.1% to 43.4%
17.7 %
Duration (years) 0.9 to 12.3
4.6 0.1 to 17.2
4.3
Corporate debt instruments
Level 3 assets $ 1,238 $ 1,318
Yield 1.1% to 34.3%
6.9 % 0.0% to 18.0%
7.1 %
Recovery rate 11.5% to 77.0%
48.0 % 9.0% to 69.9%
52.0 %
Duration (years) 0.3 to 20.3
4.5 2.0 to 28.5
4.5
Other
Level 3 assets $ 342 $ 282
Yield 2.8% to 47.8%
10.0 % 1.1% to 44.8%
9.4 %
Multiples 3.3x to 4.5x
4.3x N/A N/A
Duration (years) 1.2 to 14.4
6.1 0.9 to 5.2
2.4
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In the table above:
•Other includes government and agency obligations, state and municipal obligations, other debt obligations, equity securities and commodities. In other, the significant unobservable inputs for multiples as of December 2021 did not have a range (and there was no weighted average) as each pertained to a single position. Therefore, such unobservable inputs are not included in the table above.
•Ranges represent the significant unobservable inputs that were used in the valuation of each type of trading cash instrument.
•Weighted averages are calculated by weighting each input by the relative fair value of the trading cash instruments.
•The ranges and weighted averages of these inputs are not representative of the appropriate inputs to use when calculating the fair value of any one trading cash instrument. For example, the highest recovery rate for corporate debt instruments is appropriate for valuing a specific corporate debt instrument, but may not be appropriate for valuing any other corporate debt instrument. Accordingly, the ranges of inputs do not represent uncertainty in, or possible ranges of, fair value measurements of level 3 trading cash instruments.
•Increases in yield, duration or cumulative loss rate used in the valuation of level 3 trading cash instruments would have resulted in a lower fair value measurement, while increases in recovery rate or multiples would have resulted in a higher fair value measurement as of both December 2022 and December 2021. Due to the distinctive nature of each level 3 trading cash instrument, the interrelationship of inputs is not necessarily uniform within each product type.
•Trading cash instruments are valued using discounted cash flows.
Level 3 Rollforward for Trading Cash Instruments
The table below presents a summary of the changes in fair value for level 3 trading cash instruments.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Assets
Beginning balance $ 1,889 $ 1,237
Net realized gains/(losses) 167 80
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (1,889) 52
Purchases 1,271 1,241
Sales (704) (456)
Settlements (345) (273)
Transfers into level 3 1,680 272
Transfers out of level 3 (335) (264)
Ending balance $ 1,734 $ 1,889
Liabilities
Beginning balance $ (104) $ (80)
Net realized gains/(losses) 18 6
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 65 (5)
Purchases 137 36
Sales (106) (64)
Settlements 5 13
Transfers into level 3 (89) (16)
Transfers out of level 3 10 6
Ending balance $ (64) $ (104)
In the table above:
•Changes in fair value are presented for all trading cash instruments that are classified in level 3 as of the end of the period.
•Net unrealized gains/(losses) relates to trading cash instruments that were still held at period-end.
•Transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy are reported at the beginning of the reporting period in which they occur. If a trading cash instrument was transferred to level 3 during a reporting period, its entire gain or loss for the period is classified in level 3.
•For level 3 trading cash instrument assets, increases are shown as positive amounts, while decreases are shown as negative amounts. For level 3 trading cash instrument liabilities, increases are shown as negative amounts, while decreases are shown as positive amounts.
•Level 3 trading cash instruments are frequently economically hedged with level 1 and level 2 trading cash instruments and/or level 1, level 2 or level 3 derivatives. Accordingly, gains or losses that are classified in level 3 can be partially offset by gains or losses attributable to level 1 or level 2 trading cash instruments and/or level 1, level 2 or level 3 derivatives. As a result, gains or losses included in the level 3 rollforward below do not necessarily represent the overall impact on the firm’s results of operations, liquidity or capital resources.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information, by product type, for assets included in the summary table above.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Loans and securities backed by real estate
Beginning balance $ 289 $ 334
Net realized gains/(losses) 11 12
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (11) 3
Purchases 51 135
Sales (127) (75)
Settlements (26) (53)
Transfers into level 3 19 42
Transfers out of level 3 (52) (109)
Ending balance $ 154 $ 289
Corporate debt instruments
Beginning balance $ 1,318 $ 797
Net realized gains/(losses) 29 57
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (111) 28
Purchases 607 894
Sales (372) (330)
Settlements (247) (182)
Transfers into level 3 278 207
Transfers out of level 3 (264) (153)
Ending balance $ 1,238 $ 1,318
Other
Beginning balance $ 282 $ 106
Net realized gains/(losses) 127 11
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (1,767) 21
Purchases 613 212
Sales (205) (51)
Settlements (72) (38)
Transfers into level 3 1,383 23
Transfers out of level 3 (19) (2)
Ending balance $ 342 $ 282
In the table above, other includes government and agency obligations, state and municipal obligations, other debt obligations, equity securities and commodities.
Level 3 Rollforward Commentary for Trading Cash Instruments
Year Ended December 2022. The net realized and unrealized losses on level 3 trading cash instrument assets of $1.72 billion (reflecting $167 million of net realized gains and $1.89 billion of net unrealized losses) for 2022 included gains/(losses) of $(1.77) billion reported in market making and $54 million reported in interest income.
The net unrealized losses on level 3 trading cash instrument assets for 2022 primarily reflected losses on certain equity securities (included in other cash instruments), principally driven by broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns.
Transfers into level 3 trading cash instrument assets during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain equity securities (included in other cash instruments) and corporate debt instruments from both level 1 and level 2 (in each case, principally due to reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 trading cash instrument assets during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain corporate debt instruments to level 2 (principally due to increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions in these instruments).
Year Ended December 2021. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 trading cash instrument assets of $132 million (reflecting $80 million of net realized gains and $52 million of net unrealized gains) for 2021 included gains of $45 million reported in market making and $87 million reported in interest income.
The drivers of the net unrealized gains on level 3 trading cash instrument assets for 2021 were not material.
Transfers into level 3 trading cash instrument assets during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain corporate debt instruments from level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable yield and duration inputs becoming significant to the valuation of these instruments, and reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 trading cash instrument assets during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain corporate debt instruments, and loans and securities backed by real estate to level 2 (in each case, principally due to increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions in these instruments, and certain unobservable yield and duration inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these instruments).
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Fair Value of Derivatives by Level
The table below presents derivatives on a gross basis by level and product type, as well as the impact of netting.
$ in millions Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
As of December 2022
Assets
Interest rates $ 69 $ 269,590 $ 700 $ 270,359
Credit - 9,690 2,577 12,267
Currencies - 103,450 494 103,944
Commodities - 38,331 1,609 39,940
Equities 113 49,481 967 50,561
Gross fair value 182 470,542 6,347 477,071
Counterparty netting in levels - (358,917) (886) (359,803)
Subtotal $ 182 $ 111,625 $ 5,461 $ 117,268
Cross-level counterparty netting (1,079)
Cash collateral netting (56,776)
Net fair value $ 59,413
Liabilities
Interest rates $ (32) $ (247,871) $ (1,159) $ (249,062)
Credit - (10,163) (1,117) (11,280)
Currencies - (111,840) (332) (112,172)
Commodities - (32,435) (690) (33,125)
Equities (15) (55,240) (1,528) (56,783)
Gross fair value (47) (457,549) (4,826) (462,422)
Counterparty netting in levels - 358,917 886 359,803
Subtotal $ (47) $ (98,632) $ (3,940) $ (102,619)
Cross-level counterparty netting 1,079
Cash collateral netting 46,805
Net fair value $ (54,735)
As of December 2021
Assets
Interest rates $ 2 $ 246,525 $ 1,065 $ 247,592
Credit - 12,823 3,433 16,256
Currencies - 86,773 237 87,010
Commodities - 34,501 1,044 35,545
Equities 33 72,570 963 73,566
Gross fair value 35 453,192 6,742 459,969
Counterparty netting in levels - (329,164) (804) (329,968)
Subtotal $ 35 $ 124,028 $ 5,938 $ 130,001
Cross-level counterparty netting (1,924)
Cash collateral netting (64,117)
Net fair value $ 63,960
Liabilities
Interest rates $ (2) $ (217,438) $ (882) $ (218,322)
Credit - (14,176) (1,579) (15,755)
Currencies - (85,925) (384) (86,309)
Commodities - (31,925) (606) (32,531)
Equities (29) (77,393) (2,851) (80,273)
Gross fair value (31) (426,857) (6,302) (433,190)
Counterparty netting in levels - 329,164 804 329,968
Subtotal $ (31) $ (97,693) $ (5,498) $ (103,222)
Cross-level counterparty netting 1,924
Cash collateral netting 49,345
Net fair value $ (51,953)
In the table above:
•Gross fair values exclude the effects of both counterparty netting and collateral netting, and therefore are not representative of the firm’s exposure.
•Counterparty netting is reflected in each level to the extent that receivable and payable balances are netted within the same level and is included in counterparty netting in levels. Where the counterparty netting is across levels, the netting is included in cross-level counterparty netting.
•Derivative assets are shown as positive amounts and derivative liabilities are shown as negative amounts.
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of derivatives.
Significant Unobservable Inputs for Derivatives
The table below presents the amount of level 3 derivative assets (liabilities), and ranges, averages and medians of significant unobservable inputs used to value level 3 derivatives.
As of December 2022 As of December 2021
$ in millions, except inputs Amount or Range Average/ Median Amount or Range Average/ Median
Interest rates, net $ (459) $ 183
Correlation (10)% to 81%
61%/60%
25% to 81%
63%/62%
Volatility (bps) 31 to 101
60/57
31 to 100
59/54
Credit, net $ 1,460 $ 1,854
Credit spreads (bps) 5 to 935
149/116
1 to 568
136/107
Upfront credit points (1) to 100
29/18
2 to 100
34/26
Recovery rates 20% to 50%
40%/40%
20% to 50%
37%/40%
Currencies, net $ 162 $ (147)
Correlation 20% to 71%
40%/23%
20% to 71%
40%/41%
Volatility 20% to 21%
20%/20%
19% to 19%
19%/19%
Commodities, net $ 919 $ 438
Volatility 20% to 118%
50%/46%
15% to 93%
32%/29%
Natural gas spread
$(3.21) to $5.85
$(0.20)/ $(0.27)
$(1.33) to $2.60
$(0.11)/ $(0.07)
Oil spread
$12.68 to $48.92
$20.42/ $20.36
$8.64 to $22.68
$13.36/ $12.69
Electricity price
$3.00 to $329.28
$47.19/ $39.69
$1.50 to $289.96
$37.42/ $32.20
Equities, net $ (561) $ (1,888)
Correlation (75)% to 100%
66%/75%
(70)% to 99%
59%/62%
Volatility 2% to 74%
13%/7%
3% to 150%
17%/17%
In the table above:
•Derivative assets are shown as positive amounts and derivative liabilities are shown as negative amounts.
•Ranges represent the significant unobservable inputs that were used in the valuation of each type of derivative.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
•Averages represent the arithmetic average of the inputs and are not weighted by the relative fair value or notional amount of the respective financial instruments. An average greater than the median indicates that the majority of inputs are below the average. For example, the difference between the average and the median for credit spreads indicates that the majority of the inputs fall in the lower end of the range.
•The ranges, averages and medians of these inputs are not representative of the appropriate inputs to use when calculating the fair value of any one derivative. For example, the highest correlation for interest rate derivatives is appropriate for valuing a specific interest rate derivative but may not be appropriate for valuing any other interest rate derivative. Accordingly, the ranges of inputs do not represent uncertainty in, or possible ranges of, fair value measurements of level 3 derivatives.
•Interest rates, currencies and equities derivatives are valued using option pricing models, credit derivatives are valued using option pricing, correlation and discounted cash flow models, and commodities derivatives are valued using option pricing and discounted cash flow models.
•The fair value of any one instrument may be determined using multiple valuation techniques. For example, option pricing models and discounted cash flow models are typically used together to determine fair value. Therefore, the level 3 balance encompasses both of these techniques.
•Correlation within currencies and equities includes cross-product type correlation.
•Natural gas spread represents the spread per million British thermal units of natural gas.
•Oil spread represents the spread per barrel of oil and refined products.
•Electricity price represents the price per megawatt hour of electricity.
Range of Significant Unobservable Inputs for Derivatives
The following provides information about the ranges of significant unobservable inputs used to value the firm’s level 3 derivative instruments:
•Correlation. Ranges for correlation cover a variety of underliers both within one product type (e.g., equity index and equity single stock names) and across product types (e.g., correlation of an interest rate and a currency), as well as across regions. Generally, cross-product type correlation inputs are used to value more complex instruments and are lower than correlation inputs on assets within the same derivative product type.
•Volatility. Ranges for volatility cover numerous underliers across a variety of markets, maturities and strike prices. For example, volatility of equity indices is generally lower than volatility of single stocks.
•Credit spreads, upfront credit points and recovery rates. The ranges for credit spreads, upfront credit points and recovery rates cover a variety of underliers (index and single names), regions, sectors, maturities and credit qualities (high-yield and investment-grade). The broad range of this population gives rise to the width of the ranges of significant unobservable inputs.
•Commodity prices and spreads. The ranges for commodity prices and spreads cover variability in products, maturities and delivery locations.
Sensitivity of Fair Value Measurement to Changes in Significant Unobservable Inputs for Derivatives
The following is a description of the directional sensitivity of the firm’s level 3 fair value measurements to changes in significant unobservable inputs, in isolation, as of each period-end:
•Correlation. In general, for contracts where the holder benefits from the convergence of the underlying asset or index prices (e.g., interest rates, credit spreads, foreign exchange rates, inflation rates and equity prices), an increase in correlation results in a higher fair value measurement.
•Volatility. In general, for purchased options, an increase in volatility results in a higher fair value measurement.
•Credit spreads, upfront credit points and recovery rates. In general, the fair value of purchased credit protection increases as credit spreads or upfront credit points increase or recovery rates decrease. Credit spreads, upfront credit points and recovery rates are strongly related to distinctive risk factors of the underlying reference obligations, which include reference entity-specific factors, such as leverage, volatility and industry, market-based risk factors, such as borrowing costs or liquidity of the underlying reference obligation, and macroeconomic conditions.
•Commodity prices and spreads. In general, for contracts where the holder is receiving a commodity, an increase in the spread (price difference from a benchmark index due to differences in quality or delivery location) or price results in a higher fair value measurement.
Due to the distinctive nature of each of the firm’s level 3 derivatives, the interrelationship of inputs is not necessarily uniform within each product type.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Level 3 Rollforward for Derivatives
The table below presents a summary of the changes in fair value for level 3 derivatives.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Total level 3 derivatives, net
Beginning balance $ 440 $ 1,175
Net realized gains/(losses) 839 265
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 1,817 452
Purchases 510 501
Sales (1,592) (1,541)
Settlements 100 (59)
Transfers into level 3 (482) (131)
Transfers out of level 3 (111) (222)
Ending balance $ 1,521 $ 440
In the table above:
•Changes in fair value are presented for all derivative assets and liabilities that are classified in level 3 as of the end of the period.
•Net unrealized gains/(losses) relates to instruments that were still held at period-end.
•Transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy are reported at the beginning of the reporting period in which they occur. If a derivative was transferred into level 3 during a reporting period, its entire gain or loss for the period is classified in level 3.
•Positive amounts for transfers into level 3 and negative amounts for transfers out of level 3 represent net transfers of derivative assets. Negative amounts for transfers into level 3 and positive amounts for transfers out of level 3 represent net transfers of derivative liabilities.
•A derivative with level 1 and/or level 2 inputs is classified in level 3 in its entirety if it has at least one significant level 3 input.
•If there is one significant level 3 input, the entire gain or loss from adjusting only observable inputs (i.e., level 1 and level 2 inputs) is classified in level 3.
•Gains or losses that have been classified in level 3 resulting from changes in level 1 or level 2 inputs are frequently offset by gains or losses attributable to level 1 or level 2 derivatives and/or level 1, level 2 and level 3 trading cash instruments. As a result, gains/(losses) included in the level 3 rollforward below do not necessarily represent the overall impact on the firm’s results of operations, liquidity or capital resources.
The table below presents information, by product type, for derivatives included in the summary table above.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Interest rates, net
Beginning balance $ 183 $ 267
Net realized gains/(losses) 88 72
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 137 316
Purchases 50 124
Sales (585) (341)
Settlements (20) 18
Transfers into level 3 (13) 2
Transfers out of level 3 (299) (275)
Ending balance $ (459) $ 183
Credit, net
Beginning balance $ 1,854 $ 1,778
Net realized gains/(losses) 217 (21)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (343) 409
Purchases 107 53
Sales (90) (217)
Settlements (27) (77)
Transfers into level 3 (21) (70)
Transfers out of level 3 (237) (1)
Ending balance $ 1,460 $ 1,854
Currencies, net
Beginning balance $ (147) $ (338)
Net realized gains/(losses) 95 9
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 270 155
Purchases 41 7
Sales (36) (10)
Settlements 19 32
Transfers into level 3 (83) (17)
Transfers out of level 3 3 15
Ending balance $ 162 $ (147)
Commodities, net
Beginning balance $ 438 $ 300
Net realized gains/(losses) (59) (80)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 741 355
Purchases 31 42
Sales (30) (15)
Settlements (245) (149)
Transfers into level 3 182 (3)
Transfers out of level 3 (139) (12)
Ending balance $ 919 $ 438
Equities, net
Beginning balance $ (1,888) $ (832)
Net realized gains/(losses) 498 285
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 1,012 (783)
Purchases 281 275
Sales (851) (958)
Settlements 373 117
Transfers into level 3 (547) (43)
Transfers out of level 3 561 51
Ending balance $ (561) $ (1,888)
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 143
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Level 3 Rollforward Commentary for Derivatives
Year Ended December 2022. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 derivatives of $2.66 billion (reflecting $839 million of net realized gains and $1.82 billion of net unrealized gains) for 2022 included gains of $2.65 billion reported in market making and gains of $3 million reported in other principal transactions.
The net unrealized gains on level 3 derivatives for 2022 were attributable to gains on certain equity derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of a decrease in equity prices), gains on certain commodity derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of an increase in commodity prices), gains on certain currency derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of changes in foreign exchange rates and an increase in interest rates), and gains on certain interest rate derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of an increase in interest rates), partially offset by losses on certain credit derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of an increase in interest rates).
Transfers into level 3 derivatives during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain equity derivative liabilities from level 2 (principally due to decreased transparency of certain unobservable volatility inputs used to value these derivatives), partially offset by transfers of certain commodity derivative assets from level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable electricity price inputs becoming significant to the valuation of these derivatives).
Transfers out of level 3 derivatives during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain interest rate derivative assets to level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable volatility inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these derivatives), certain credit derivative assets to level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable credit spread inputs no longer being significant to the net risk of certain portfolios), and certain commodity derivative assets to level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable natural gas spread and electricity price inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these derivatives), partially offset by transfers of certain equity derivative liabilities to level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable volatility inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these derivatives).
Year Ended December 2021. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 derivatives of $717 million (reflecting $265 million of net realized gains and $452 million of net unrealized gains) for 2021 included gains of $700 million reported in market making and gains of $17 million reported in other principal transactions.
The net unrealized gains on level 3 derivatives for 2021 were primarily attributable to gains on certain credit and currency derivatives (in each case, primarily reflecting the impact of changes in foreign exchange rates), gains on certain commodity derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of an increase in commodity prices) and gains on certain interest rate derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of an increase in interest rates), partially offset by losses on certain equity derivatives (primarily reflecting the impact of an increase in equity prices).
The drivers of transfers into level 3 derivatives during 2021 were not material.
Transfers out of level 3 derivatives during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain interest rate derivative assets to level 2 (principally due to increased transparency of certain volatility inputs used to value these derivatives).
Fair Value of Investments by Level
The table below presents investments accounted for at fair value by level within the fair value hierarchy.
$ in millions Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
As of December 2022
Government and agency obligations:
U.S. $ 47,055 $ - $ - $ 47,055
Non-U.S. 2,169 66 - 2,235
Corporate debt securities 145 2,950 7,003 10,098
Securities backed by real estate - 176 827 1,003
Money market instruments 48 957 - 1,005
Other debt obligations - 3 256 259
Equity securities 1,522 3,227 8,856 13,605
Subtotal $ 50,939 $ 7,379 $ 16,942 $ 75,260
Investments in funds at NAV 2,941
Total investments $ 78,201
As of December 2021
Government and agency obligations:
U.S. $ 46,322 $ - $ - $ 46,322
Non-U.S. 2,612 - - 2,612
Corporate debt securities 65 5,201 4,527 9,793
Securities backed by real estate - 1,202 1,078 2,280
Money market instruments 41 1,355 - 1,396
Other debt obligations - 35 382 417
Equity securities 2,135 7,088 7,915 17,138
Subtotal $ 51,175 $ 14,881 $ 13,902 $ 79,958
Investments in funds at NAV 3,469
Total investments
$ 83,427
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of investments.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Significant Unobservable Inputs for Investments
The table below presents the amount of level 3 investments, and ranges and weighted averages of significant unobservable inputs used to value such investments.
As of December 2022 As of December 2021
$ in millions Amount or
Range
Weighted
Average Amount or Range Weighted
Average
Corporate debt securities
Level 3 assets $ 7,003 $ 4,527
Yield 5.0% to 21.8%
11.6 % 2.0% to 29.0%
10.8 %
Recovery rate 10.0% to 70.0%
55.5 % 9.1% to 76.0%
59.1 %
Duration (years) 1.3 to 5.7
3.3 1.4 to 6.4
3.8
Multiples 1.8x to 83.4x
8.3x
0.5x to 28.2x
6.9x
Securities backed by real estate
Level 3 assets $ 827 $ 1,078
Yield 8.0% to 20.3%
14.6 % 8.3% to 20.3%
13.1 %
Recovery rate N/A N/A 55.1% to 61.0%
56.4 %
Duration (years) 0.6 to 4.2
4.1 0.1 to 2.6
1.2
Other debt obligations
Level 3 assets $ 256 $ 382
Yield 5.2% to 8.4%
7.4 % 2.3% to 10.6%
3.2 %
Duration (years) N/A
N/A 0.9 to 9.3
4.8
Equity securities
Level 3 assets $ 8,856 $ 7,915
Multiples 0.5x to 34.3x
8.3x
0.4x to 30.5x
10.1x
Discount rate/yield 5.4% to 38.5%
14.6 % 2.0% to 35.0%
14.1 %
Capitalization rate 4.0% to 10.8%
5.4 % 3.5% to 14.0%
5.7 %
In the table above:
•Ranges represent the significant unobservable inputs that were used in the valuation of each type of investment.
•Weighted averages are calculated by weighting each input by the relative fair value of the investment.
•The ranges and weighted averages of these inputs are not representative of the appropriate inputs to use when calculating the fair value of any one investment. For example, the highest multiple for private equity securities is appropriate for valuing a specific private equity security but may not be appropriate for valuing any other private equity security. Accordingly, the ranges of inputs do not represent uncertainty in, or possible ranges of, fair value measurements of level 3 investments.
•Increases in yield, discount rate, capitalization rate or duration used in the valuation of level 3 investments would have resulted in a lower fair value measurement, while increases in recovery rate or multiples would have resulted in a higher fair value measurement as of both December 2022 and December 2021. Due to the distinctive nature of each level 3 investment, the interrelationship of inputs is not necessarily uniform within each product type.
•Corporate debt securities, securities backed by real estate and other debt obligations are valued using discounted cash flows, and equity securities are valued using market comparables and discounted cash flows.
•The fair value of any one instrument may be determined using multiple valuation techniques. For example, market comparables and discounted cash flows may be used together to determine fair value. Therefore, the level 3 balance encompasses both of these techniques.
•The significant unobservable inputs for recovery rate (related to securities backed by real estate) and for duration (related to other debt obligations) as of December 2022 did not have a range (and there was no weighted average) as each pertained to a single position. Therefore, such unobservable inputs are not included in the table above.
Level 3 Rollforward for Investments
The table below presents a summary of the changes in fair value for level 3 investments.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Beginning balance $ 13,902 $ 16,423
Net realized gains/(losses) 563 449
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (1,649) 1,263
Purchases 2,362 1,600
Sales (1,514) (2,135)
Settlements (1,995) (3,265)
Transfers into level 3 6,345 3,080
Transfers out of level 3 (1,072) (3,513)
Ending balance $ 16,942 $ 13,902
In the table above:
•Changes in fair value are presented for all investments that are classified in level 3 as of the end of the period.
•Net unrealized gains/(losses) relates to investments that were still held at period-end.
•Transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy are reported at the beginning of the reporting period in which they occur. If an investment was transferred to level 3 during a reporting period, its entire gain or loss for the period is classified in level 3.
•For level 3 investments, increases are shown as positive amounts, while decreases are shown as negative amounts.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 145
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information, by product type, for investments included in the summary table above.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate debt securities
Beginning balance $ 4,527 $ 5,286
Net realized gains/(losses) 352 167
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (173) 311
Purchases 1,007 431
Sales (125) (594)
Settlements (1,117) (1,876)
Transfers into level 3 2,790 1,871
Transfers out of level 3 (258) (1,069)
Ending balance $ 7,003 $ 4,527
Securities backed by real estate
Beginning balance $ 1,078 $ 998
Net realized gains/(losses) 42 45
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (338) 6
Purchases 199 182
Sales (169) (44)
Settlements (320) (234)
Transfers into level 3 344 142
Transfers out of level 3 (9) (17)
Ending balance $ 827 $ 1,078
Other debt obligations
Beginning balance $ 382 $ 497
Net realized gains/(losses) 12 12
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (5) 1
Purchases 25 63
Sales (6) -
Settlements (147) (96)
Transfers out of level 3 (5) (95)
Ending balance $ 256 $ 382
Equity securities
Beginning balance $ 7,915 $ 9,642
Net realized gains/(losses) 157 225
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (1,133) 945
Purchases 1,131 924
Sales (1,214) (1,497)
Settlements (411) (1,059)
Transfers into level 3 3,211 1,067
Transfers out of level 3 (800) (2,332)
Ending balance $ 8,856 $ 7,915
Level 3 Rollforward Commentary for Investments
Year Ended December 2022. The net realized and unrealized losses on level 3 investments of $1.09 billion (reflecting $563 million of net realized gains and $1.65 billion of net unrealized losses) for 2022 included gains/(losses) of $(1.52) billion reported in other principal transactions and $433 million reported in interest income.
The net unrealized losses on level 3 investments for 2022 primarily reflected losses on certain equity securities and corporate debt securities (in each case, principally driven by broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns) and securities backed by real estate (principally driven by an increase in interest rates).
Transfers into level 3 investments during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain equity securities and corporate debt securities from level 2 (in each case, principally due to reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments), and transfers of certain corporate debt securities from level 2 (due to certain unobservable yield and duration inputs becoming significant to the valuation of these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 investments during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain equity securities and corporate debt securities to level 2 (in each case, principally due to increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions in these instruments and certain unobservable yield and duration inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these instruments).
Year Ended December 2021. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 investments of $1.71 billion (reflecting $449 million of net realized gains and $1.26 billion of net unrealized gains) for 2021 included gains of $1.53 billion reported in other principal transactions and $180 million reported in interest income.
The net unrealized gains on level 3 investments for 2021 primarily reflected gains on certain private equity securities and corporate debt securities (in each case, principally driven by corporate performance and company-specific events).
Transfers into level 3 investments during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain corporate debt securities from level 2 (principally due to reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments, and certain unobservable yield and duration inputs becoming significant to the valuation of these instruments) and transfers of certain private equity securities from level 2 (principally due to reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 investments during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain private equity securities to level 2 (principally due to increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions in these instruments) and transfers of certain corporate debt securities to level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable yield and duration inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these instruments, and increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions of these instruments).
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Fair Value of Loans by Level
The table below presents loans held for investment accounted for at fair value under the fair value option by level within the fair value hierarchy.
$ in millions Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
As of December 2022
Loan Type
Corporate $ - $ 359 $ 637 $ 996
Real estate:
Commercial
- 435 711 1,146
Residential
- 4,437 74 4,511
Other collateralized
- 576 140 716
Other - 11 275 286
Total $ - $ 5,818 $ 1,837 $ 7,655
As of December 2021
Loan Type
Corporate $ - $ 937 $ 672 $ 1,609
Real estate:
Commercial
- 605 983 1,588
Residential
- 5,980 205 6,185
Other collateralized
- 726 229 955
Other - 167 265 432
Total $ - $ 8,415 $ 2,354 $ 10,769
The gains/(losses) as a result of changes in the fair value of loans held for investment for which the fair value option was elected were $(367) million for 2022 and $216 million for 2021. These gains/(losses) were included in other principal transactions.
Significant Unobservable Inputs for Loans
The table below presents the amount of level 3 loans, and ranges and weighted averages of significant unobservable inputs used to value such loans.
As of December 2022 As of December 2021
$ in millions Amount or
Range
Weighted
Average Amount or
Range
Weighted
Average
Corporate
Level 3 assets $ 637 $ 672
Yield 4.1% to 26.9%
9.6 % 1.5% to 55.6%
17.8 %
Recovery rate 23.1% to 95.0%
66.0 % 20.0% to 92.0%
46.6 %
Duration (years) 1.6 to 3.3
2.6 1.0 to 4.3
2.5
Real estate
Level 3 assets $ 785 $ 1,188
Yield 3.0% to 27.0%
16.1 % 2.1% to 20.0%
13.2 %
Recovery rate 3.6% to 66.2%
54.4 % 3.8% to 99.5%
43.7 %
Duration (years) 0.6 to 6.7
2.5 0.1 to 4.0
1.7
Other collateralized
Level 3 assets $ 140 $ 229
Yield 5.8% to 12.7%
7.7 % 1.8% to 4.3%
3.3 %
Duration (years) 2.5 to 2.9
2.7 0.9 to 6.8
3.2
Other
Level 3 assets $ 275 $ 265
Yield 9.4% to 10.0%
9.9 % 3.8% to 18.7%
7.9 %
Duration (years) N/A
N/A 2.9 to 5.5
3.6
In the table above:
•Ranges represent the significant unobservable inputs that were used in the valuation of each type of loan.
•Weighted averages are calculated by weighting each input by the relative fair value of the loan.
•The ranges and weighted averages of these inputs are not representative of the appropriate inputs to use when calculating the fair value of any one loan. For example, the highest yield for real estate loans is appropriate for valuing a specific real estate loan but may not be appropriate for valuing any other real estate loan. Accordingly, the ranges of inputs do not represent uncertainty in, or possible ranges of, fair value measurements of level 3 loans.
•Increases in yield or duration used in the valuation of level 3 loans would have resulted in a lower fair value measurement, while increases in recovery rate would have resulted in a higher fair value measurement as of both December 2022 and December 2021. Due to the distinctive nature of each level 3 loan, the interrelationship of inputs is not necessarily uniform within each product type.
•Loans are valued using discounted cash flows.
•The significant unobservable inputs for duration related to other loans as of December 2022 did not have a range (and there was no weighted average) as it related to a purchased portfolio of revolving loans with a single duration.
Level 3 Rollforward for Loans
The table below presents a summary of the changes in fair value for level 3 loans.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Beginning balance $ 2,354 $ 2,678
Net realized gains/(losses) 82 99
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (129) (33)
Purchases 113 272
Sales
(82) (54)
Settlements (403) (668)
Transfers into level 3 236 369
Transfers out of level 3 (334) (309)
Ending balance $ 1,837 $ 2,354
In the table above:
•Changes in fair value are presented for loans that are classified in level 3 as of the end of the period.
•Net unrealized gains/(losses) relates to loans that were still held at period-end.
•Purchases includes originations and secondary purchases.
•Transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy are reported at the beginning of the reporting period in which they occur. If a loan was transferred to level 3 during a reporting period, its entire gain or loss for the period is classified in level 3.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 147
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information, by loan type, for loans included in the summary table above.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate
Beginning balance $ 672 $ 896
Net realized gains/(losses) 29 30
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (40) (34)
Purchases 27 81
Sales (74) (17)
Settlements (95) (228)
Transfers into level 3 121 37
Transfers out of level 3 (3) (93)
Ending balance $ 637 $ 672
Real estate
Beginning balance $ 1,188 $ 1,364
Net realized gains/(losses) 45 57
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (108) (62)
Purchases 65 78
Sales (8) (10)
Settlements (233) (353)
Transfers into level 3 102 242
Transfers out of level 3 (266) (128)
Ending balance $ 785 $ 1,188
Other collateralized
Beginning balance $ 229 $ 97
Net realized gains/(losses) 3 1
Net unrealized gains/(losses) (2) (1)
Purchases 3 62
Settlements (55) (20)
Transfers into level 3 13 90
Transfers out of level 3 (51) -
Ending balance $ 140 $ 229
Other
Beginning balance $ 265 $ 321
Net realized gains/(losses) 5 11
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 21 64
Purchases 18 51
Sales - (27)
Settlements (20) (67)
Transfers out of level 3 (14) (88)
Ending balance $ 275 $ 265
Level 3 Rollforward Commentary for Loans
Year Ended December 2022. The net realized and unrealized losses on level 3 loans of $47 million (reflecting $82 million of net realized gains and $129 million of net unrealized losses) for 2022 included gains/(losses) of $(78) million reported in other principal transactions and $31 million reported in interest income.
The net unrealized losses on level 3 loans for 2022 primarily reflected losses on certain loans backed by real estate (principally due to the impact of an increase in interest rates).
Transfers into level 3 loans during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain corporate loans and loans backed by real estate from level 2 (in each case, principally due to reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 loans during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain loans backed by real estate to level 2 (principally due to increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions in these instruments).
Year Ended December 2021. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 loans of $66 million (reflecting $99 million of net realized gains and $33 million of net unrealized losses) for 2021 included gains of $42 million reported in other principal transactions and $24 million reported in interest income.
The drivers of net unrealized losses on level 3 loans for 2021 were not material.
Transfers into level 3 loans during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain loans backed by real estate from level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable yield and duration inputs becoming significant to the valuation of these instruments) and transfers of certain other collateralized loans from level 2 (principally due to reduced price transparency as a result of a lack of market evidence, including fewer market transactions in these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 loans during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain loans backed by real estate, corporate loans and other loans to level 2 (in each case, principally due to increased price transparency as a result of market evidence, including market transactions in these instruments).
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Fair Value of Other Financial Assets and Liabilities by Level
The table below presents, by level within the fair value hierarchy, other financial assets and liabilities at fair value, substantially all of which are accounted for at fair value under the fair value option.
$ in millions Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
As of December 2022
Assets
Resale agreements $ - $ 225,117 $ - $ 225,117
Securities borrowed - 38,578 - 38,578
Customer and other receivables - 25 - 25
Other assets
- 71 74 145
Total $ - $ 263,791 $ 74 $ 263,865
Liabilities
Deposits $ - $ (13,003) $ (2,743) $ (15,746)
Repurchase agreements - (110,349) - (110,349)
Securities loaned - (4,372) - (4,372)
Other secured financings - (10,914) (1,842) (12,756)
Unsecured borrowings:
Short-term - (35,641) (4,090) (39,731)
Long-term - (63,081) (10,066) (73,147)
Other liabilities - (74) (85) (159)
Total $ - $ (237,434) $ (18,826) $ (256,260)
As of December 2021
Assets
Resale agreements $ - $ 205,703 $ - $ 205,703
Securities borrowed - 39,955 - 39,955
Customer and other receivables - 42 - 42
Total $ - $ 245,700 $ - $ 245,700
Liabilities
Deposits $ - $ (31,812) $ (3,613) $ (35,425)
Repurchase agreements - (165,883) - (165,883)
Securities loaned - (9,170) - (9,170)
Other secured financings - (14,508) (2,566) (17,074)
Unsecured borrowings:
Short-term - (22,003) (7,829) (29,832)
Long-term - (42,977) (9,413) (52,390)
Other liabilities - (213) (146) (359)
Total $ - $ (286,566) $ (23,567) $ (310,133)
In the table above, other financial assets are shown as positive amounts and other financial liabilities are shown as negative amounts.
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of other financial assets and liabilities.
Significant Unobservable Inputs for Other Financial Instruments at Fair Value
See below for information about the significant unobservable inputs used to value level 3 other financial liabilities at fair value as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
Other Secured Financings. The ranges and weighted averages of significant unobservable inputs used to value level 3 other secured financings are presented below. These ranges and weighted averages exclude unobservable inputs that are only relevant to a single instrument, and therefore are not meaningful.
As of December 2022:
•Yield: 4.5% to 9.4% (weighted average: 5.9%)
•Duration: 0.6 to 5.1 years (weighted average: 2.2 years)
As of December 2021:
•Yield: 1.3% to 6.4% (weighted average: 2.1%)
•Duration: 0.6 to 7.1 years (weighted average: 3.7 years)
Generally, increases in yield or duration, in isolation, would have resulted in a lower fair value measurement as of period-end. Due to the distinctive nature of each of level 3 other secured financings, the interrelationship of inputs is not necessarily uniform across such financings. See Note 11 for further information about other secured financings.
Deposits, Unsecured Borrowings and Other Assets and Liabilities. Substantially all of the firm’s deposits, unsecured short- and long-term borrowings, and other assets and liabilities that are classified in level 3 are hybrid financial instruments. As the significant unobservable inputs used to value hybrid financial instruments primarily relate to the embedded derivative component of these deposits, unsecured borrowings and other assets and liabilities, these unobservable inputs are incorporated in the firm’s derivative disclosures. See Note 12 for further information about other assets, Note 13 for further information about deposits, Note 14 for further information about unsecured borrowings and Note 15 for further information about other liabilities.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 149
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Level 3 Rollforward for Other Financial Instruments at Fair Value
The table below presents a summary of the changes in fair value for level 3 other financial instruments accounted for at fair value.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Assets
Beginning balance $ - $ -
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 65 -
Purchases
9 -
Ending balance $ 74 $ -
Liabilities
Beginning balance $ (23,567) $ (28,058)
Net realized gains/(losses) (311) (401)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 4,459 825
Issuances (10,090) (12,632)
Settlements 10,255 14,930
Transfers into level 3 (1,851) (736)
Transfers out of level 3 2,279 2,505
Ending balance $ (18,826) $ (23,567)
In the table above:
•Changes in fair value are presented for all other financial instruments that are classified in level 3 as of the end of the period.
•Net unrealized gains/(losses) relates to other financial instruments that were still held at period-end.
•Transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy are reported at the beginning of the reporting period in which they occur. If a financial instrument was transferred to level 3 during a reporting period, its entire gain or loss for the period is classified in level 3.
•For level 3 other financial assets, increases are shown as positive amounts, while decreases are shown as negative amounts. For level 3 other financial liabilities, increases are shown as negative amounts, while decreases are shown as positive amounts.
•Level 3 other financial instruments are frequently economically hedged with trading assets and liabilities. Accordingly, gains or losses that are classified in level 3 can be partially offset by gains or losses attributable to level 1, 2 or 3 trading assets and liabilities. As a result, gains or losses included in the level 3 rollforward below do not necessarily represent the overall impact on the firm’s results of operations, liquidity or capital resources.
The table below presents information, by the consolidated balance sheet line items, for liabilities included in the summary table above.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Deposits
Beginning balance $ (3,613) $ (4,221)
Net realized gains/(losses) (5) (28)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 391 (110)
Issuances (937) (473)
Settlements 1,264 1,203
Transfers into level 3 (13) (70)
Transfers out of level 3 170 86
Ending balance $ (2,743) $ (3,613)
Repurchase agreements
Beginning balance $ - $ (2)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) - 1
Settlements - 1
Ending balance $ - $ -
Other secured financings
Beginning balance $ (2,566) $ (3,474)
Net realized gains/(losses) (12) (27)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 31 63
Issuances (621) (145)
Settlements 850 779
Transfers into level 3 (110) (135)
Transfers out of level 3 586 373
Ending balance $ (1,842) $ (2,566)
Unsecured short-term borrowings
Beginning balance $ (7,829) $ (7,523)
Net realized gains/(losses) (112) (134)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 730 374
Issuances (3,497) (7,878)
Settlements 6,201 7,188
Transfers into level 3 (265) (163)
Transfers out of level 3 682 307
Ending balance $ (4,090) $ (7,829)
Unsecured long-term borrowings
Beginning balance $ (9,413) $ (12,576)
Net realized gains/(losses) (182) (212)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 3,246 381
Issuances (5,035) (4,136)
Settlements 1,940 5,759
Transfers into level 3 (1,463) (368)
Transfers out of level 3 841 1,739
Ending balance $ (10,066) $ (9,413)
Other liabilities
Beginning balance $ (146) $ (262)
Net unrealized gains/(losses) 61 116
Ending balance $ (85) $ (146)
Level 3 Rollforward Commentary for Other Financial Instruments at Fair Value
Year Ended December 2022. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 other financial liabilities of $4.15 billion (reflecting $311 million of net realized losses and $4.46 billion of net unrealized gains) for 2022 included gains/(losses) of $3.60 billion reported in market making, $64 million reported in other principal transactions and $(21) million reported in interest expense in the consolidated statements of earnings, and $503 million reported in debt valuation adjustment in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The net unrealized gains on level 3 other financial liabilities for 2022 primarily reflected gains on certain hybrid financial instruments included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings (principally due to a decrease in global equity prices and an increase in interest rates).
Transfers into level 3 other financial liabilities during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain hybrid financial instruments included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings from level 2 (principally due to reduced transparency of certain volatility and correlation inputs used to value these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 other financial liabilities during 2022 primarily reflected transfers of certain hybrid financial instruments included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings to level 2 (principally due to increased price transparency of certain volatility and correlation inputs used to value these instruments) and transfers of certain other secured financings to level 2 (principally due to certain unobservable yield and duration inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these instruments).
Year Ended December 2021. The net realized and unrealized gains on level 3 other financial liabilities of $424 million (reflecting $401 million of net realized losses and $825 million of net unrealized gains) for 2021 included gains/(losses) of $355 million reported in market making, $32 million reported in other principal transactions and $(20) million reported in interest expense in the consolidated statements of earnings, and $57 million reported in debt valuation adjustment in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
The net unrealized gains on level 3 other financial liabilities for 2021 primarily reflected gains on certain hybrid financial instruments included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings (principally due to an increase in interest rates).
Transfers into level 3 other financial liabilities during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain hybrid financial instruments included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings from level 2 (principally due to reduced price transparency of certain volatility and correlation inputs used to value these instruments) and certain other secured financings from level 2 (principally due to reduced price transparency of certain yield and duration inputs used to value these instruments).
Transfers out of level 3 other financial liabilities during 2021 primarily reflected transfers of certain hybrid financial instruments included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings to level 2 (principally due to increased price transparency of certain volatility and correlation inputs used to value these instruments, and certain unobservable volatility inputs no longer being significant to the valuation of these instruments) and certain other secured financings to level 2 (principally due to increased price transparency of certain yield and duration inputs used to value these instruments).
Note 6.
Trading Assets and Liabilities
Trading assets and liabilities include trading cash instruments and derivatives held in connection with the firm’s market-making or risk management activities. These assets and liabilities are carried at fair value either under the fair value option or in accordance with other U.S. GAAP, and the related fair value gains and losses are generally recognized in the consolidated statements of earnings.
The table below presents a summary of trading assets and liabilities.
Trading Trading
$ in millions Assets
Liabilities
As of December 2022
Trading cash instruments $ 241,832 $ 136,589
Derivatives 59,413 54,735
Total $ 301,245 $ 191,324
As of December 2021
Trading cash instruments $ 311,956 $ 129,471
Derivatives 63,960 51,953
Total $ 375,916 $ 181,424
See Note 5 for further information about trading cash instruments and Note 7 for further information about derivatives.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 151
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Gains and Losses from Market Making
The table below presents market making revenues by major product type.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Interest rates $ (4,890) $ (2,664) $ 6,074
Credit 1,095 1,739 3,269
Currencies 11,662 5,627 (3,312)
Equities 7,734 8,459 6,792
Commodities 3,033 2,196 2,605
Total $ 18,634 $ 15,357 $ 15,428
In the table above:
•Gains/(losses) include both realized and unrealized gains and losses. Gains/(losses) exclude related interest income and interest expense. See Note 23 for further information about interest income and interest expense.
•Gains/(losses) included in market making are primarily related to the firm’s trading assets and liabilities, including both derivative and non-derivative financial instruments.
•Gains/(losses) are not representative of the manner in which the firm manages its business activities because many of the firm’s market-making and client facilitation strategies utilize financial instruments across various product types. Accordingly, gains or losses in one product type frequently offset gains or losses in other product types. For example, most of the firm’s longer-term derivatives across product types are sensitive to changes in interest rates and may be economically hedged with interest rate swaps. Similarly, a significant portion of the firm’s trading cash instruments and derivatives across product types has exposure to foreign currencies and may be economically hedged with foreign currency contracts.
Note 7.
Derivatives and Hedging Activities
Derivative Activities
Derivatives are instruments that derive their value from underlying asset prices, indices, reference rates and other inputs, or a combination of these factors. Derivatives may be traded on an exchange (exchange-traded) or they may be privately negotiated contracts, which are usually referred to as OTC derivatives. Certain of the firm’s OTC derivatives are cleared and settled through central clearing counterparties (OTC-cleared), while others are bilateral contracts between two counterparties (bilateral OTC).
Market Making. As a market maker, the firm enters into derivative transactions to provide liquidity to clients and to facilitate the transfer and hedging of their risks. In this role, the firm typically acts as principal and is required to commit capital to provide execution, and maintains market-making positions in response to, or in anticipation of, client demand.
Risk Management. The firm also enters into derivatives to actively manage risk exposures that arise from its market-making and investing and financing activities. The firm’s holdings and exposures are hedged, in many cases, on either a portfolio or risk-specific basis, as opposed to an instrument-by-instrument basis. The offsetting impact of this economic hedging is reflected in the same business segment as the related revenues. In addition, the firm may enter into derivatives designated as hedges under U.S. GAAP. These derivatives are used to manage interest rate exposure of certain fixed-rate unsecured borrowings and deposits and certain U.S. government securities classified as available-for-sale, foreign exchange risk of certain available-for-sale securities and the net investment in certain non-U.S. operations, and the price risk of certain commodities.
The firm enters into various types of derivatives, including:
•Futures and Forwards. Contracts that commit counterparties to purchase or sell financial instruments, commodities or currencies in the future.
•Swaps. Contracts that require counterparties to exchange cash flows, such as currency or interest payment streams. The amounts exchanged are based on the specific terms of the contract with reference to specified rates, financial instruments, commodities, currencies or indices.
•Options. Contracts in which the option purchaser has the right, but not the obligation, to purchase from or sell to the option writer financial instruments, commodities or currencies within a defined time period for a specified price.
Derivatives are reported on a net-by-counterparty basis (i.e., the net payable or receivable for derivative assets and liabilities for a given counterparty) when a legal right of setoff exists under an enforceable netting agreement (counterparty netting). Derivatives are accounted for at fair value, net of cash collateral received or posted under enforceable credit support agreements (cash collateral netting). Derivative assets are included in trading assets and derivative liabilities are included in trading liabilities. Realized and unrealized gains and losses on derivatives not designated as hedges are included in market making (for derivatives included in Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) and Equities within Global Banking & Markets), and other principal transactions (for derivatives included in Investment banking fees and Other within Global Banking & Markets, as well as derivatives in Asset & Wealth Management) in the consolidated statements of earnings. For both 2022 and 2021, substantially all of the firm’s derivatives were included in Global Banking & Markets.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The tables below present the gross fair value and the notional amounts of derivative contracts by major product type, the amounts of counterparty and cash collateral netting in the consolidated balance sheets, as well as cash and securities collateral posted and received under enforceable credit support agreements that do not meet the criteria for netting under U.S. GAAP.
As of December 2022 As of December 2021
$ in millions Derivative
Assets Derivative
Liabilities Derivative
Assets Derivative
Liabilities
Not accounted for as hedges
Exchange-traded $ 675 $ 1,385 $ 256 $ 557
OTC-cleared 74,297 72,979 13,795 12,692
Bilateral OTC 195,052 174,687 232,595 205,073
Total interest rates 270,024 249,051 246,646 218,322
OTC-cleared 1,516 1,802 3,665 4,053
Bilateral OTC 10,751 9,478 12,591 11,702
Total credit 12,267 11,280 16,256 15,755
Exchange-traded 1,041 22 417 10
OTC-cleared 520 589 423 338
Bilateral OTC 102,301 111,276 86,076 85,795
Total currencies 103,862 111,887 86,916 86,143
Exchange-traded 9,225 9,542 6,534 6,189
OTC-cleared 698 838 652 373
Bilateral OTC 30,017 22,745 28,359 25,969
Total commodities 39,940 33,125 35,545 32,531
Exchange-traded 26,302 26,607 33,840 35,518
OTC-cleared 685 19 8 5
Bilateral OTC 23,574 30,157 39,718 44,750
Total equities 50,561 56,783 73,566 80,273
Subtotal 476,654 462,126 458,929 433,024
Accounted for as hedges
OTC-cleared - - 1 -
Bilateral OTC 335 11 945 -
Total interest rates 335 11 946 -
OTC-cleared 29 29 34 27
Bilateral OTC 53 256 60 139
Total currencies 82 285 94 166
Subtotal 417 296 1,040 166
Total gross fair value $ 477,071 $ 462,422 $ 459,969 $ 433,190
Offset in the consolidated balance sheets
Exchange-traded $ (31,229) $ (31,229) $ (35,724) $ (35,724)
OTC-cleared (75,349) (75,349) (16,979) (16,979)
Bilateral OTC (254,304) (254,304) (279,189) (279,189)
Counterparty netting (360,882) (360,882) (331,892) (331,892)
OTC-cleared (1,388) (406) (1,033) (361)
Bilateral OTC (55,388) (46,399) (63,084) (48,984)
Cash collateral netting (56,776) (46,805) (64,117) (49,345)
Total amounts offset $ (417,658) $ (407,687) $ (396,009) $ (381,237)
Included in the consolidated balance sheets
Exchange-traded $ 6,014 $ 6,327 $ 5,323 $ 6,550
OTC-cleared 1,008 501 566 148
Bilateral OTC 52,391 47,907 58,071 45,255
Total $ 59,413 $ 54,735 $ 63,960 $ 51,953
Not offset in the consolidated balance sheets
Cash collateral $ (298) $ (1,887) $ (1,008) $ (1,939)
Securities collateral (15,229) (4,329) (15,751) (7,349)
Total $ 43,886 $ 48,519 $ 47,201 $ 42,665
Notional Amounts as of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Not accounted for as hedges
Exchange-traded $ 4,241,937 $ 2,630,915
OTC-cleared 13,104,682 17,874,504
Bilateral OTC 11,137,127 11,122,871
Total interest rates 28,483,746 31,628,290
Exchange-traded 369 -
OTC-cleared 529,543 463,477
Bilateral OTC 577,542 616,095
Total credit 1,107,454 1,079,572
Exchange-traded 9,012 14,617
OTC-cleared 150,561 194,124
Bilateral OTC 5,304,069 6,606,927
Total currencies 5,463,642 6,815,668
Exchange-traded 341,526 308,917
OTC-cleared 3,188 3,647
Bilateral OTC 255,208 234,322
Total commodities 599,922 546,886
Exchange-traded 1,107,659 1,149,777
OTC-cleared 1,639 198
Bilateral OTC 1,026,736 1,173,103
Total equities 2,136,034 2,323,078
Subtotal 37,790,798 42,393,494
Accounted for as hedges
OTC-cleared 257,739 219,083
Bilateral OTC 3,156 4,499
Total interest rates 260,895 223,582
OTC-cleared 2,048 2,758
Bilateral OTC 7,701 18,658
Total currencies 9,749 21,416
Exchange-traded - 1,050
Total commodities - 1,050
Subtotal 270,644 246,048
Total notional amounts $ 38,061,442 $ 42,639,542
In the tables above:
•Gross fair values exclude the effects of both counterparty netting and collateral, and therefore are not representative of the firm’s exposure.
•Where the firm has received or posted collateral under credit support agreements, but has not yet determined such agreements are enforceable, the related collateral has not been netted.
•Notional amounts, which represent the sum of gross long and short derivative contracts, provide an indication of the volume of the firm’s derivative activity and do not represent anticipated losses.
•Total gross fair value of derivatives included derivative assets of $10.08 billion as of December 2022 and $17.48 billion as of December 2021, and derivative liabilities of $12.71 billion as of December 2022 and $17.29 billion as of December 2021, which are not subject to an enforceable netting agreement or are subject to a netting agreement that the firm has not yet determined to be enforceable.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 153
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
OTC Derivatives
The table below presents OTC derivative assets and liabilities by tenor and major product type.
$ in millions Less than
1 Year 1 - 5
Years Greater than 5 Years Total
As of December 2022
Assets
Interest rates $ 5,509 $ 16,963 $ 53,943 $ 76,415
Credit 921 2,622 2,142 5,685
Currencies 12,284 7,819 7,085 27,188
Commodities 10,525 7,513 2,574 20,612
Equities 5,346 4,007 1,782 11,135
Counterparty netting in tenors (2,661) (3,942) (4,830) (11,433)
Subtotal $ 31,924 $ 34,982 $ 62,696 $ 129,602
Cross-tenor counterparty netting (19,427)
Cash collateral netting (56,776)
Total OTC derivative assets $ 53,399
Liabilities
Interest rates $ 9,351 $ 23,589 $ 21,467 $ 54,407
Credit 993 2,635 1,071 4,699
Currencies 18,987 8,736 8,712 36,435
Commodities 6,400 6,135 945 13,480
Equities 7,629 7,249 2,174 17,052
Counterparty netting in tenors (2,661) (3,942) (4,830) (11,433)
Subtotal $ 40,699 $ 44,402 $ 29,539 $ 114,640
Cross-tenor counterparty netting (19,427)
Cash collateral netting (46,805)
Total OTC derivative liabilities $ 48,408
As of December 2021
Assets
Interest rates $ 6,076 $ 11,655 $ 61,380 $ 79,111
Credit 1,800 2,381 3,113 7,294
Currencies 13,366 6,642 6,570 26,578
Commodities 10,178 7,348 770 18,296
Equities 11,075 6,592 2,100 19,767
Counterparty netting in tenors (3,624) (3,357) (2,673) (9,654)
Subtotal $ 38,871 $ 31,261 $ 71,260 $ 141,392
Cross-tenor counterparty netting (18,638)
Cash collateral netting (64,117)
Total OTC derivative assets $ 58,637
Liabilities
Interest rates $ 3,929 $ 10,932 $ 34,676 $ 49,537
Credit 1,695 3,257 1,841 6,793
Currencies 14,122 6,581 5,580 26,283
Commodities 7,591 6,274 1,763 15,628
Equities 8,268 12,944 3,587 24,799
Counterparty netting in tenors (3,624) (3,357) (2,673) (9,654)
Subtotal $ 31,981 $ 36,631 $ 44,774 $ 113,386
Cross-tenor counterparty netting (18,638)
Cash collateral netting (49,345)
Total OTC derivative liabilities $ 45,403
In the table above:
•Tenor is based on remaining contractual maturity.
•Counterparty netting within the same product type and tenor category is included within such product type and tenor category.
•Counterparty netting across product types within the same tenor category is included in counterparty netting in tenors. Where the counterparty netting is across tenor categories, the netting is included in cross-tenor counterparty netting.
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of derivatives, and Note 5 for information about derivatives within the fair value hierarchy.
Credit Derivatives
The firm enters into a broad array of credit derivatives to facilitate client transactions and to manage the credit risk associated with market-making and investing and financing activities. Credit derivatives are actively managed based on the firm’s net risk position. Credit derivatives are generally individually negotiated contracts and can have various settlement and payment conventions. Credit events include failure to pay, bankruptcy, acceleration of indebtedness, restructuring, repudiation and dissolution of the reference entity.
The firm enters into the following types of credit derivatives:
•Credit Default Swaps. Single-name credit default swaps protect the buyer against the loss of principal on one or more bonds, loans or mortgages (reference obligations) in the event the issuer of the reference obligations suffers a credit event. The buyer of protection pays an initial or periodic premium to the seller and receives protection for the period of the contract. If there is no credit event, as defined in the contract, the seller of protection makes no payments to the buyer. If a credit event occurs, the seller of protection is required to make a payment to the buyer, calculated according to the terms of the contract.
•Credit Options. In a credit option, the option writer assumes the obligation to purchase or sell a reference obligation at a specified price or credit spread. The option purchaser buys the right, but does not assume the obligation, to sell the reference obligation to, or purchase it from, the option writer. The payments on credit options depend either on a particular credit spread or the price of the reference obligation.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
•Credit Indices, Baskets and Tranches. Credit derivatives may reference a basket of single-name credit default swaps or a broad-based index. If a credit event occurs in one of the underlying reference obligations, the protection seller pays the protection buyer. The payment is typically a pro-rata portion of the transaction’s total notional amount based on the underlying defaulted reference obligation. In certain transactions, the credit risk of a basket or index is separated into various portions (tranches), each having different levels of subordination. The most junior tranches cover initial defaults and once losses exceed the notional amount of these junior tranches, any excess loss is covered by the next most senior tranche.
•Total Return Swaps. A total return swap transfers the risks relating to economic performance of a reference obligation from the protection buyer to the protection seller. Typically, the protection buyer receives a floating rate of interest and protection against any reduction in fair value of the reference obligation, and the protection seller receives the cash flows associated with the reference obligation, plus any increase in the fair value of the reference obligation.
The firm economically hedges its exposure to written credit derivatives primarily by entering into offsetting purchased credit derivatives with identical underliers. Substantially all of the firm’s purchased credit derivative transactions are with financial institutions and are subject to stringent collateral thresholds. In addition, upon the occurrence of a specified trigger event, the firm may take possession of the reference obligations underlying a particular written credit derivative, and consequently may, upon liquidation of the reference obligations, recover amounts on the underlying reference obligations in the event of default.
As of December 2022, written credit derivatives had a total gross notional amount of $528.31 billion and purchased credit derivatives had a total gross notional amount of $579.14 billion, for total net notional purchased protection of $50.83 billion. As of December 2021, written credit derivatives had a total gross notional amount of $510.24 billion and purchased credit derivatives had a total gross notional amount of $569.34 billion, for total net notional purchased protection of $59.10 billion. The firm’s written and purchased credit derivatives primarily consist of credit default swaps.
The table below presents information about credit derivatives.
Credit Spread on Underlier (basis points)
$ in millions 0 - 250 251 -
500 501 -
1,000 Greater
than
1,000 Total
As of December 2022
Maximum Payout/Notional Amount of Written Credit Derivatives by Tenor
Less than 1 year $ 108,703 $ 12,166 $ 1,879 $ 4,135 $ 126,883
1 - 5 years 306,484 28,188 13,724 9,092 357,488
Greater than 5 years 39,302 2,916 1,416 305 43,939
Total $ 454,489 $ 43,270 $ 17,019 $ 13,532 $ 528,310
Maximum Payout/Notional Amount of Purchased Credit Derivatives
Offsetting $ 372,360 $ 33,149 $ 14,817 $ 11,757 $ 432,083
Other 128,828 13,211 2,615 2,407 147,061
Fair Value of Written Credit Derivatives
Asset $ 5,405 $ 460 $ 132 $ 84 $ 6,081
Liability 681 1,081 1,027 2,673 5,462
Net asset/(liability) $ 4,724 $ (621) $ (895) $ (2,589) $ 619
As of December 2021
Maximum Payout/Notional Amount of Written Credit Derivatives by Tenor
Less than 1 year $ 120,456 $ 6,173 $ 1,656 $ 4,314 $ 132,599
1 - 5 years 305,255 14,328 12,754 3,814 336,151
Greater than 5 years 35,558 3,087 2,529 311 41,485
Total $ 461,269 $ 23,588 $ 16,939 $ 8,439 $ 510,235
Maximum Payout/Notional Amount of Purchased Credit Derivatives
Offsetting $ 381,715 $ 17,210 $ 12,806 $ 6,714 $ 418,445
Other $ 138,214 $ 7,780 $ 3,576 $ 1,322 $ 150,892
Fair Value of Written Credit Derivatives
Asset $ 9,803 $ 924 $ 318 $ 137 $ 11,182
Liability 941 123 1,666 1,933 4,663
Net asset/(liability) $ 8,862 $ 801 $ (1,348) $ (1,796) $ 6,519
In the table above:
•Fair values exclude the effects of both netting of receivable balances with payable balances under enforceable netting agreements, and netting of cash received or posted under enforceable credit support agreements, and therefore are not representative of the firm’s credit exposure.
•Tenor is based on remaining contractual maturity.
•The credit spread on the underlier, together with the tenor of the contract, are indicators of payment/performance risk. The firm is less likely to pay or otherwise be required to perform where the credit spread and the tenor are lower.
•Offsetting purchased credit derivatives represent the notional amount of purchased credit derivatives that economically hedge written credit derivatives with identical underliers.
•Other purchased credit derivatives represent the notional amount of all other purchased credit derivatives not included in offsetting.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 155
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Impact of Credit and Funding Spreads on Derivatives
The firm realizes gains or losses on its derivative contracts. These gains or losses include credit valuation adjustments (CVA) relating to uncollateralized derivative assets and liabilities, which represent the gains or losses (including hedges) attributable to the impact of changes in credit exposure, counterparty credit spreads, liability funding spreads (which include the firm’s own credit), probability of default and assumed recovery. These gains or losses also include funding valuation adjustments (FVA) relating to uncollateralized derivative assets, which represent the gains or losses (including hedges) attributable to the impact of changes in expected funding exposures and funding spreads.
The table below presents information about CVA and FVA.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
CVA, net of hedges $ 320 $ 25 $ (143)
FVA, net of hedges (193) 60 173
Total $ 127 $ 85 $ 30
Bifurcated Embedded Derivatives
The table below presents the fair value and the notional amount of derivatives that have been bifurcated from their related borrowings.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Fair value of assets $ 288 $ 845
Fair value of liabilities (392) (124)
Net asset/(liability) $ (104) $ 721
Notional amount
$ 8,892 $ 10,743
In the table above, derivatives that have been bifurcated from their related borrowings are recorded at fair value and primarily consist of interest rate, equity and commodity products. These derivatives are included in unsecured short- and long-term borrowings, as well as other secured financings, with the related borrowings.
Derivatives with Credit-Related Contingent Features
Certain of the firm’s derivatives have been transacted under bilateral agreements with counterparties who may require the firm to post collateral or terminate the transactions based on changes in the firm’s credit ratings. The firm assesses the impact of these bilateral agreements by determining the collateral or termination payments that would occur assuming a downgrade by all rating agencies. A downgrade by any one rating agency, depending on the agency’s relative ratings of the firm at the time of the downgrade, may have an impact which is comparable to the impact of a downgrade by all rating agencies.
The table below presents information about net derivative liabilities under bilateral agreements (excluding collateral posted), the fair value of collateral posted and additional collateral or termination payments that could have been called by counterparties in the event of a one- or two-notch downgrade in the firm’s credit ratings.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Net derivative liabilities under bilateral agreements $ 33,059 $ 34,315
Collateral posted $ 27,657 $ 29,214
Additional collateral or termination payments:
One-notch downgrade $ 343 $ 345
Two-notch downgrade $ 1,115 $ 1,536
Hedge Accounting
The firm applies hedge accounting for (i) interest rate swaps used to manage the interest rate exposure of certain fixed-rate unsecured long- and short-term borrowings, certain fixed-rate certificates of deposit and certain U.S. government securities classified as available-for-sale, (ii) foreign currency forward contracts used to manage the foreign exchange risk of certain available-for-sale, (iii) foreign currency forward contracts and foreign currency-denominated debt used to manage foreign exchange risk on the firm’s net investment in certain non-U.S. operations and (iv) commodity futures contracts used to manage the price risk of certain commodities.
To qualify for hedge accounting, the hedging instrument must be highly effective at reducing the risk from the exposure being hedged. Additionally, the firm must formally document the hedging relationship at inception and assess the hedging relationship at least on a quarterly basis to ensure the hedging instrument continues to be highly effective over the life of the hedging relationship.
Fair Value Hedges
The firm designates interest rate swaps as fair value hedges of certain fixed-rate unsecured long- and short-term debt and fixed-rate certificates of deposit and, beginning in the second quarter of 2022, of certain U.S. government securities classified as available-for-sale. These interest rate swaps hedge changes in fair value attributable to the designated benchmark interest rate (e.g., London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) or Overnight Index Swap Rate), effectively converting a substantial portion of these fixed-rate financial instruments into floating-rate financial instruments.
The firm applies a statistical method that utilizes regression analysis when assessing the effectiveness of these hedging relationships in achieving offsetting changes in the fair values of the hedging instrument and the risk being hedged (i.e., interest rate risk). An interest rate swap is considered highly effective in offsetting changes in fair value attributable to changes in the hedged risk when the regression analysis results in a coefficient of determination of 80% or greater and a slope between 80% and 125%.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
For qualifying interest rate fair value hedges, gains or losses on derivatives are included in interest income/expense. The change in fair value of the hedged items attributable to the risk being hedged is reported as an adjustment to its carrying value (hedging adjustment) and is also included in interest income/expense. When a derivative is no longer designated as a hedge, any remaining difference between the carrying value and par value of the hedged item is amortized in interest income/expense over the remaining life of the hedged item using the effective interest method. See Note 23 for further information about interest income and interest expense.
The table below presents the gains/(losses) from interest rate derivatives accounted for as hedges and the related hedged items.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Investments
Interest rate hedges $ 366 $ - $ -
Hedged investments (350) - -
Gains/(losses) $ 16 $ - $ -
Borrowings and deposits
Interest rate hedges $ (22,183) $ (6,638) $ 3,862
Hedged borrowings and deposits 21,662 6,085 (4,557)
Gains/(losses) $ (521) $ (553) $ (695)
The table below presents the carrying value of investments, deposits and unsecured borrowings that are designated in an interest rate hedging relationship and the related cumulative hedging adjustment (increase/(decrease)) from current and prior hedging relationships included in such carrying values.
$ in millions Carrying
Value Cumulative
Hedging
Adjustment
As of December 2022
Assets
Investments $ 10,804 $ (350)
Liabilities
Deposits $ 6,311 $ (280)
Unsecured short-term borrowings $ 7,295 $ (47)
Unsecured long-term borrowings $ 151,215 $ (15,134)
As of December 2021
Liabilities
Deposits $ 14,131 $ 246
Unsecured short-term borrowings $ 2,167 $ 5
Unsecured long-term borrowings $ 144,934 $ 6,169
In the table above:
•Cumulative hedging adjustment included $5.09 billion as of December 2022 and $5.91 billion as of December 2021 of hedging adjustments from prior hedging relationships that were de-designated and substantially all were related to unsecured long-term borrowings.
•The amortized cost of investments was $11.49 billion as of December 2022.
In addition, cumulative hedging adjustments for items no longer designated in a hedging relationship were $111 million as of December 2022 and $68 million as of December 2021 and were substantially all related to unsecured long-term borrowings.
The firm designates foreign currency forward contracts as fair value hedges of the foreign exchange risk of non-U.S. government securities classified as available-for-sale. See Note 8 for information about the amortized cost and fair value of such securities. The effectiveness of such hedges is assessed based on changes in spot rates. The gains/(losses) on the hedges (relating to both spot and forward points) and the foreign exchange gains/(losses) on the related available-for-sale securities are included in market making. The net gains/(losses) on hedges and related available-for-sale securities were $(30) million (reflecting a gain of $266 million related to hedges and a loss of $296 million on the related hedged available-for-sale securities) for 2022. The gross and net gains/(losses) were not material for both 2021 and 2020.
The firm designates commodity futures contracts as fair value hedges of the price risk of certain precious metals included in commodities within trading assets. As of December 2022, there were no such hedges outstanding, and as of December 2021, the carrying value of such commodities was $1.05 billion and the amortized cost was $1.02 billion. Changes in spot rates of such commodities are reflected as an adjustment to their carrying value, and the related gains/(losses) on both the commodities and the designated futures contracts are included in market making. The contractual forward points on the designated futures contracts are amortized into earnings ratably over the life of the contract and other gains/(losses) as a result of changes in the forward points are included in other comprehensive income/(loss). The cumulative hedging adjustment was not material as of both December 2022 and December 2021, and the related gains/(losses) were not material for both 2022 and 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 157
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Net Investment Hedges
The firm seeks to reduce the impact of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates on its net investments in certain non-U.S. operations through the use of foreign currency forward contracts and foreign currency-denominated debt. For foreign currency forward contracts designated as hedges, the effectiveness of the hedge is assessed based on the overall changes in the fair value of the forward contracts (i.e., based on changes in forward rates). For foreign currency-denominated debt designated as a hedge, the effectiveness of the hedge is assessed based on changes in spot rates. For qualifying net investment hedges, all gains or losses on the hedging instruments are included in currency translation.
The table below presents the gains/(losses) from net investment hedging.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Hedges:
Foreign currency forward contract $ 1,713 $ 755 $ (126)
Foreign currency-denominated debt $ (269) $ 386 $ (297)
Gains or losses on individual net investments in non-U.S. operations are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) to other principal transactions in the consolidated statements of earnings when such net investments are sold or substantially liquidated. The gross and net gains and losses on hedges and the related net investments in non-U.S. operations reclassified to earnings from accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) were not material for both 2022 and 2021, and $61 million (reflecting a gain of $214 million related to hedges and a loss of $153 million on the related net investments in non-U.S. operations) for 2020.
The firm had designated $21.46 billion as of December 2022 and $3.71 billion as of December 2021 of foreign currency-denominated debt, included in unsecured long- and short-term borrowings, as hedges of net investments in non-U.S. subsidiaries.
Note 8.
Investments
Investments includes debt instruments and equity securities that are accounted for at fair value and are generally held by the firm in connection with its long-term investing activities. In addition, investments includes debt securities classified as available-for-sale and held-to-maturity that are generally held in connection with the firm’s asset-liability management activities. Investments also consists of equity securities that are accounted for under the equity method.
The table below presents information about investments.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Equity securities, at fair value $ 14,892 $ 18,937
Debt instruments, at fair value 14,075 15,558
Available-for-sale securities, at fair value 49,234 48,932
Investments, at fair value 78,201 83,427
Held-to-maturity securities 51,662 4,699
Equity method investments 766 593
Total investments $ 130,629 $ 88,719
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of investments, and Note 5 for information about investments within the fair value hierarchy.
Equity Securities and Debt Instruments, at Fair Value
Equity securities and debt instruments, at fair value are accounted for at fair value either under the fair value option or in accordance with other U.S. GAAP, and the related fair value gains and losses are recognized in the consolidated statements of earnings.
Equity Securities, at Fair Value. Equity securities, at fair value consists of the firm’s public and private equity investments in corporate and real estate entities.
The table below presents information about equity securities, at fair value.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Equity securities, at fair value $ 14,892 $ 18,937
Equity Type
Public equity 13 % 24 %
Private equity 87 % 76 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Asset Class
Corporate 71 % 78 %
Real estate 29 % 22 %
Total 100 % 100 %
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In the table above:
•Equity securities, at fair value included investments accounted for at fair value under the fair value option where the firm would otherwise apply the equity method of accounting of $5.35 billion as of December 2022 and $5.81 billion as of December 2021. Gains/(losses) recognized as a result of changes in the fair value of equity securities for which the fair value option was elected were $(86) million for 2022 and $2.12 billion for 2021. These gains/(losses) are included in other principal transactions.
•Equity securities, at fair value included $1.30 billion as of December 2022 and $1.80 billion as of December 2021 of investments in funds that are measured at NAV.
Debt Instruments, at Fair Value. Debt instruments, at fair value primarily includes mezzanine, senior and distressed debt.
The table below presents information about debt instruments, at fair value.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate debt securities $ 10,098 $ 9,793
Securities backed by real estate 1,003 2,280
Money market instruments 1,005 1,396
Other 1,969 2,089
Total $ 14,075 $ 15,558
In the table above:
•Money market instruments primarily includes time deposits and investments in money market funds.
•Other included $1.64 billion as of December 2022 and $1.67 billion as of December 2021 of investments in credit funds that are measured at NAV.
Investments in Funds at Net Asset Value Per Share. Equity securities and debt instruments, at fair value include investments in funds that are measured at NAV of the investment fund. The firm uses NAV to measure the fair value of fund investments when (i) the fund investment does not have a readily determinable fair value and (ii) the NAV of the investment fund is calculated in a manner consistent with the measurement principles of investment company accounting, including measurement of the investments at fair value.
Substantially all of the firm’s investments in funds at NAV consist of investments in firm-sponsored private equity, credit, real estate and hedge funds where the firm co-invests with third-party investors.
Private equity funds primarily invest in a broad range of industries worldwide, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, growth investments and distressed investments. Credit funds generally invest in loans and other fixed income instruments and are focused on providing private high-yield capital for leveraged and management buyout transactions, recapitalizations, financings, refinancings, acquisitions and restructurings for private equity firms, private family companies and corporate issuers. Real estate funds invest globally, primarily in real estate companies, loan portfolios, debt recapitalizations and property. Private equity, credit and real estate funds are closed-end funds in which the firm’s investments are generally not eligible for redemption. Distributions will be received from these funds as the underlying assets are liquidated or distributed, the timing of which is uncertain.
The firm also invests in hedge funds, primarily multi-disciplinary hedge funds that employ a fundamental bottom-up investment approach across various asset classes and strategies. The firm’s investments in hedge funds primarily include interests where the underlying assets are illiquid in nature, and proceeds from redemptions will not be received until the underlying assets are liquidated or distributed, the timing of which is uncertain.
The firm's investments in funds at NAV includes investments in “covered funds” as defined in the Volcker Rule of the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). To achieve conformance with the covered fund provisions of the Volcker Rule by July 2022, the firm restructured certain legacy “illiquid funds” (as defined by the Volcker Rule) to be non-covered funds as liquidating trusts. However, based on recent interpretations of the covered fund provisions of the Volcker Rule, the firm was required to seek an additional extension from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) to bring these funds into conformance. The FRB granted the firm an additional extension to July 2023. If the firm does not conform such funds by July 2023, the firm will be required to sell such interests. If that occurs, the firm may receive a value for its interests that is less than the then carrying value as there could be a limited secondary market for these investments and the firm may be unable to sell them in orderly transactions. As of December 2022, the amount by which the firm’s investment in such funds would need to be reduced in order to achieve conformance was approximately $200 million (net of the firm’s pro rata share of cash in the funds).
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 159
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents the fair value of investments in funds at NAV and the related unfunded commitments.
$ in millions Fair Value of
Investments
Unfunded
Commitments
As of December 2022
Private equity funds $ 815 $ 647
Credit funds 1,645 303
Hedge funds 68 -
Real estate funds 413 138
Total $ 2,941 $ 1,088
As of December 2021
Private equity funds $ 1,411 $ 619
Credit funds 1,686 556
Hedge funds 84 -
Real estate funds 288 147
Total $ 3,469 $ 1,322
Available-for-Sale Securities
Available-for-sale securities are accounted for at fair value, and the related unrealized fair value gains and losses are included in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) unless designated in a fair value hedging relationship. See Note 7 for information about available-for-sale securities that are designated in a hedging relationship.
The table below presents information about available-for-sale securities by tenor.
$ in millions Amortized
Cost
Fair
Value
Weighted
Average
Yield
As of December 2022
Less than 1 year $ 8,103 $ 7,861 0.37 %
1 year to 5 years 41,479 38,706 0.74 %
5 years to 10 years 538 488 1.86 %
Total U.S. government obligations 50,120 47,055 0.69 %
1 year to 5 years
10 10 0.27 %
5 years to 10 years
2,616 2,169 0.40 %
Total non-U.S. government obligations 2,626 2,179 0.40 %
Total available-for-sale securities $ 52,746 $ 49,234 0.68 %
As of December 2021
Less than 1 year $ 25 $ 25 0.12 %
1 year to 5 years 41,536 41,066 0.47 %
5 years to 10 years 5,337 5,229 0.92 %
Greater than 10 years 2 2 2.00 %
Total U.S. government obligations 46,900 46,322 0.53 %
5 years to 10 years
2,693 2,610 0.33 %
Total non-U.S. government obligations 2,693 2,610 0.33 %
Total available-for-sale securities $ 49,593 $ 48,932 0.52 %
In the table above:
•Available-for-sale securities were classified in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•The weighted average yield for available-for-sale securities is presented on a pre-tax basis and computed using the effective interest rate of each security at the end of the period, weighted based on the fair value of each security.
•The gross unrealized gains included in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) were not material and the gross unrealized losses included in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) were $3.52 billion as of December 2022 and primarily related to U.S. government obligations in a continuous unrealized loss position for more than a year. The gross unrealized gains included in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) were $118 million and the gross unrealized losses included in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) were $779 million as of December 2021 and primarily related to U.S. government obligations in a continuous unrealized loss position for less than a year. Net unrealized losses included in other comprehensive income/(loss) were $2.85 billion ($2.13 billion, net of tax) for 2022 and $1.28 billion ($955 million, net of tax) for 2021.
•If the fair value of available-for-sale securities is less than amortized cost, such securities are considered impaired. If the firm has the intent to sell the debt security, or if it is more likely than not that the firm will be required to sell the debt security before recovery of its amortized cost, the difference between the amortized cost (net of allowance, if any) and the fair value of the securities is recognized as an impairment loss in earnings. The firm did not record any such impairment losses during either 2022 or 2021. Impaired available-for-sale debt securities that the firm has the intent and ability to hold are reviewed to determine if an allowance for credit losses should be recorded. The firm considers various factors in such determination, including market conditions, changes in issuer credit ratings and severity of the unrealized losses. The firm did not record any provision for credit losses on such securities during either 2022 or 2021.
The table below presents gross realized gains/(losses) and the proceeds from the sales of available-for-sale securities.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Gross realized gains $ - $ 206 $ 319
Gross realized losses - (19) -
Gains/(losses)
$ - $ 187 $ 319
Proceeds from sales $ 2 $ 24,882 $ 4,489
In the table above, the realized gains/(losses) were reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) to other principal transactions in the consolidated statements of earnings.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Held-to-Maturity Securities
Held-to-maturity securities are accounted for at amortized cost.
The table below presents information about held-to-maturity securities by type and tenor.
$ in millions Amortized
Cost
Fair
Value
Weighted
Average
Yield
As of December 2022
Less than 1 year $ 5,319 $ 5,282 2.98 %
1 year to 5 years 45,154 43,852 3.00 %
5 years to 10 years 1,026 966 2.89 %
Total U.S. government obligations 51,499 50,100 2.99 %
5 years to 10 years 2 2 5.63 %
Greater than 10 years 161 158 3.18 %
Total securities backed by real estate 163 160 3.24 %
Total held-to-maturity securities $ 51,662 $ 50,260 2.99 %
As of December 2021
1 year to 5 years $ 4,054 $ 4,200 2.30 %
Total U.S. government obligations 4,054 4,200 2.30 %
5 years to 10 years 3 3 2.78 %
Greater than 10 years 642 670 1.03 %
Total securities backed by real estate 645 673 1.04 %
Total held-to-maturity securities $ 4,699 $ 4,873 2.13 %
In the table above:
•Substantially all of the securities backed by real estate consist of securities backed by residential real estate.
•As these securities are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these securities been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, U.S. government obligations would have been classified in level 1 and securities backed by real estate would have been primarily classified in level 2 of the fair value hierarchy as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•The weighted average yield for held-to-maturity securities is presented on a pre-tax basis and computed using the effective interest rate of each security at the end of the period, weighted based on the amortized cost of each security.
•The gross unrealized gains were not material as of December 2022 and were $175 million as of December 2021. The gross unrealized losses were $1.44 billion as of December 2022 and were not material as of December 2021.
•Held-to-maturity securities are reviewed to determine if an allowance for credit losses should be recorded in the consolidated statements of earnings. The firm considers various factors in such determination, including market conditions, changes in issuer credit ratings, historical credit losses and sovereign guarantees. Provision for credit losses on such securities was not material during either 2022 or 2021.
Note 9.
Loans
Loans includes (i) loans held for investment that are accounted for at amortized cost net of allowance for loan losses or at fair value under the fair value option and (ii) loans held for sale that are accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value. Interest on loans is recognized over the life of the loan and is recorded on an accrual basis.
The table below presents information about loans.
$ in millions Amortized
Cost Fair Value Held For Sale Total
As of December 2022
Loan Type
Corporate $ 36,822 $ 996 $ 2,317 $ 40,135
Commercial real estate 26,222 1,146 1,511 28,879
Residential real estate 18,523 4,511 1 23,035
Securities-based
16,671 - - 16,671
Other collateralized
50,473 716 513 51,702
Consumer:
Installment 6,326 - - 6,326
Credit cards 15,820 - - 15,820
Other 1,723 286 252 2,261
Total loans, gross 172,580 7,655 4,594 184,829
Allowance for loan losses (5,543) - - (5,543)
Total loans $ 167,037 $ 7,655 $ 4,594 $ 179,286
As of December 2021
Loan Type
Corporate $ 34,663 $ 1,609 $ 1,371 $ 37,643
Commercial real estate 24,267 1,588 3,145 29,000
Residential real estate 18,389 6,185 100 24,674
Securities-based
16,652 - - 16,652
Other collateralized
35,916 955 1,392 38,263
Consumer:
Installment 3,672 - - 3,672
Credit cards 8,212 - - 8,212
Other 1,736 432 1,851 4,019
Total loans, gross 143,507 10,769 7,859 162,135
Allowance for loan losses (3,573) - - (3,573)
Total loans $ 139,934 $ 10,769 $ 7,859 $ 158,562
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 161
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In the fourth quarter of 2022, the firm changed the classification of loans to better reflect the nature of the underlying collateral. This includes the addition of the securities-based and other collateralized loan types, as well as the removal of the wealth management loan type. This also resulted in reclassifications of certain loans in the corporate and other loan types to the other collateralized loan type. Prior periods have been conformed to the current presentation.
In the table above:
•The increase in credit cards from December 2021 to December 2022 included approximately $2.0 billion relating to the firm’s acquisition of the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio.
•Loans held for investment that are accounted for at amortized cost include net deferred fees and costs, and unamortized premiums and discounts, which are amortized over the life of the loan. These amounts were less than 1% of loans accounted for at amortized cost as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
The following is a description of the loan types in the table above:
•Corporate. Corporate loans includes term loans, revolving lines of credit, letter of credit facilities and bridge loans, and are principally used for operating and general corporate purposes, or in connection with acquisitions. Corporate loans are secured (typically by a senior lien on the assets of the borrower) or unsecured, depending on the loan purpose, the risk profile of the borrower and other factors.
•Commercial Real Estate. Commercial real estate loans includes originated loans that are directly or indirectly secured by hotels, retail stores, multifamily housing complexes and commercial and industrial properties. Commercial real estate loans also includes loans extended to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly backed by commercial real estate. In addition, commercial real estate includes loans purchased by the firm.
•Residential Real Estate. Residential real estate loans primarily includes loans extended to wealth management clients and to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly secured by residential real estate. In addition, residential real estate includes loans purchased by the firm.
•Securities-Based. Securities-based loans includes loans that are secured by stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. These loans are primarily extended to the firm's wealth management clients and used for purposes other than purchasing, carrying or trading margin stocks. Securities-based loans require borrowers to post additional collateral based on changes in the underlying collateral's fair value.
•Other Collateralized. Other collateralized loans includes loans that are backed by specific collateral (other than securities and real estate). Such loans are extended to clients who warehouse assets that are directly or indirectly secured by corporate loans, consumer loans and other assets. Other collateralized loans also includes loans to investment funds (managed by third parties) that are collateralized by capital commitments of the funds' investors or assets held by the fund, as well as other secured loans extended to the firm's wealth management clients.
•Installment. Installment loans are unsecured loans originated by the firm (including point-of-sale loans that the firm began to originate through the GreenSky platform in the third quarter of 2022).
•Credit Cards. Credit card loans are loans made pursuant to revolving lines of credit issued to consumers by the firm.
•Other. Other loans includes unsecured loans extended to wealth management clients and unsecured consumer and credit card loans purchased by the firm.
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of loans, and Note 5 for information about loans within the fair value hierarchy.
Credit Quality
Risk Assessment. The firm’s risk assessment process includes evaluating the credit quality of its loans by the firm’s independent risk oversight and control function. For corporate loans and a majority of securities-based, real estate, other collateralized and other loans, the firm performs credit analyses which incorporate initial and ongoing evaluations of the capacity and willingness of a borrower to meet its financial obligations. These credit evaluations are performed on an annual basis or more frequently if deemed necessary as a result of events or changes in circumstances. The firm determines an internal credit rating for the borrower by considering the results of the credit evaluations and assumptions with respect to the nature of and outlook for the borrower’s industry and the economic environment. The internal credit rating does not take into consideration collateral received or other credit support arrangements. For consumer loans and for loans that are not assigned an internal credit rating, the firm reviews certain key metrics, including, but not limited to, the Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) credit scores, delinquency status, collateral value and other risk factors.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents gross loans by an internally determined public rating agency equivalent or other credit metrics and the concentration of secured and unsecured loans.
$ in millions Investment-Grade
Non-Investment- Grade Other Metrics/Unrated Total
As of December 2022
Accounting Method
Amortized cost $ 63,971 $ 79,648 $ 28,961 $ 172,580
Fair value 1,735 3,349 2,571 7,655
Held for sale 466 4,082 46 4,594
Total $ 66,172 $ 87,079 $ 31,578 $ 184,829
Loan Type
Corporate $ 10,200 $ 29,935 $ - $ 40,135
Real estate:
Commercial 5,208 23,536 135 28,879
Residential 3,710 13,954 5,371 23,035
Securities-based
12,901 764 3,006 16,671
Other collateralized
33,093 18,291 318 51,702
Consumer:
Installment - - 6,326 6,326
Credit cards - - 15,820 15,820
Other 1,060 599 602 2,261
Total $ 66,172 $ 87,079 $ 31,578 $ 184,829
Secured 85 % 93 % 27 % 79 %
Unsecured 15 % 7 % 73 % 21 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Accounting Method
Amortized cost $ 50,923 $ 75,179 $ 17,405 $ 143,507
Fair value 2,301 4,634 3,834 10,769
Held for sale 1,650 4,747 1,462 7,859
Total $ 54,874 $ 84,560 $ 22,701 $ 162,135
Loan Type
Corporate $ 8,345 $ 29,183 $ 115 $ 37,643
Real estate:
Commercial 6,283 22,344 373 29,000
Residential 3,194 16,071 5,409 24,674
Securities-based
13,801 447 2,404 16,652
Other collateralized
22,290 15,601 372 38,263
Consumer:
Installment - - 3,672 3,672
Credit cards - - 8,212 8,212
Other 961 914 2,144 4,019
Total $ 54,874 $ 84,560 $ 22,701 $ 162,135
Secured 85 % 92 % 36 % 82 %
Unsecured 15 % 8 % 64 % 18 %
Total 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
In the table above:
•Substantially all residential real estate, securities-based, other collateralized and other loans included in the other metrics/unrated category consists of loans where the firm uses other key metrics to assess the borrower’s credit quality, such as loan-to-value ratio, delinquency status, collateral value, expected cash flows, FICO credit score (which measures a borrower’s creditworthiness by considering factors such as payment and credit history) and other risk factors.
•For installment and credit card loans included in the other metrics/unrated category, the evaluation of credit quality incorporates the borrower’s FICO credit score. FICO credit scores are periodically refreshed by the firm to assess the updated creditworthiness of the borrower. See “Vintage” below for information about installment and credit card loans by FICO credit scores.
The firm also assigns a regulatory risk rating to its loans based on the definitions provided by the U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies. Total loans included 93% of loans as of December 2022 and 92% of loans as of December 2021 that were rated pass/non-criticized.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 163
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Vintage. The tables below present gross loans accounted for at amortized cost (excluding installment and credit card loans) by an internally determined public rating agency equivalent or other credit metrics and origination year for term loans.
As of December 2022
$ in millions Investment-
Grade Non-Investment-
Grade Other Metrics/
Unrated Total
2022 $ 2,607 $ 4,042 $ 2 $ 6,651
2021 1,669 4,273 - 5,942
2020 684 2,595 - 3,279
2019 209 2,779 - 2,988
2018 759 1,911 - 2,670
2017 or earlier 508 2,329 - 2,837
Revolving 3,709 8,746 - 12,455
Corporate 10,145 26,675 2 36,822
2022 734 3,971 2 4,707
2021 744 3,487 - 4,231
2020 407 1,740 - 2,147
2019 335 1,412 - 1,747
2018 212 469 - 681
2017 or earlier 1,238 797 11 2,046
Revolving 1,281 9,382 - 10,663
Commercial real estate 4,951 21,258 13 26,222
2022 941 1,385 1,307 3,633
2021 932 1,219 1,357 3,508
2020 - 14 89 103
2019 7 - 99 106
2018 10 50 138 198
2017 or earlier 31 10 142 183
Revolving 773 10,019 - 10,792
Residential real estate 2,694 12,697 3,132 18,523
2022 5 - - 5
2018 1 - - 1
2017 or earlier - 291 - 291
Revolving 12,895 473 3,006 16,374
Securities-based 12,901 764 3,006 16,671
2022 4,095 1,212 113 5,420
2021 1,860 2,577 146 4,583
2020 777 1,795 36 2,608
2019 235 367 12 614
2018 504 149 6 659
2017 or earlier 294 301 - 595
Revolving 24,504 11,488 2 35,994
Other collateralized 32,269 17,889 315 50,473
2022 44 105 - 149
2021 17 162 - 179
2020 - 29 262 291
2019 - 10 - 10
2017 or earlier - - 5 5
Revolving 950 59 80 1,089
Other 1,011 365 347 1,723
Total $ 63,971 $ 79,648 $ 6,815 $ 150,434
Percentage of total 42 % 53 % 5 % 100 %
As of December 2021
$ in millions Investment-
Grade Non-Investment-
Grade Other Metrics/
Unrated Total
2021 $ 2,932 $ 6,843 $ - $ 9,775
2020 675 3,051 7 3,733
2019 314 3,630 - 3,944
2018 1,310 2,751 - 4,061
2017 431 1,737 - 2,168
2016 or earlier 273 1,648 - 1,921
Revolving 2,180 6,806 75 9,061
Corporate 8,115 26,466 82 34,663
2021 799 4,139 94 5,032
2020 532 2,081 - 2,613
2019 444 1,548 - 1,992
2018 478 854 - 1,332
2017 760 625 - 1,385
2016 or earlier 692 824 7 1,523
Revolving 1,883 8,507 - 10,390
Commercial real estate 5,588 18,578 101 24,267
2021 864 2,744 1,517 5,125
2020 271 564 103 938
2019 9 - 173 182
2018 - 96 165 261
2017 25 73 119 217
2016 or earlier - 1 56 57
Revolving 690 10,919 - 11,609
Residential real estate 1,859 14,397 2,133 18,389
2018 - 1 - 1
2017 - 22 - 22
2016 or earlier 264 - - 264
Revolving 13,537 424 2,404 16,365
Securities-based
13,801 447 2,404 16,652
2021 1,876 4,316 304 6,496
2020 1,378 1,598 48 3,024
2019 243 464 19 726
2018 595 180 - 775
2017 303 125 - 428
2016 or earlier 15 47 - 62
Revolving 16,257 8,148 - 24,405
Other collateralized 20,667 14,878 371 35,916
2021 68 290 10 368
2020 - 60 330 390
2019 30 20 - 50
2017 - - 8 8
Revolving 795 43 82 920
Other 893 413 430 1,736
Total $ 50,923 $ 75,179 $ 5,521 $ 131,623
Percentage of total
39 % 57 % 4 % 100 %
In the tables above, revolving loans which converted to term loans were $725 million as of December 2022, and primarily included other collateralized loans. Such loans were not material as of December 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents gross installment loans by refreshed FICO credit scores and origination year and gross credit card loans by refreshed FICO credit scores.
$ in millions Greater than or
equal to 660 Less than 660 Total
As of December 2022
2022 $ 4,349 $ 242 $ 4,591
2021 1,080 109 1,189
2020 251 23 274
2019 160 23 183
2018 70 13 83
2017 or earlier 5 1 6
Installment 5,915 411 6,326
Credit cards 10,762 5,058 15,820
Total $ 16,677 $ 5,469 $ 22,146
Percentage of total:
Installment 94 % 6 % 100 %
Credit cards 68 % 32 % 100 %
Total 75 % 25 % 100 %
As of December 2021
2021 $ 2,017 $ 42 $ 2,059
2020 665 40 705
2019 508 61 569
2018 257 42 299
2017 32 7 39
2016 1 - 1
Installment 3,480 192 3,672
Credit cards 6,100 2,112 8,212
Total $ 9,580 $ 2,304 $ 11,884
Percentage of total:
Installment 95 % 5 % 100 %
Credit cards 74 % 26 % 100 %
Total 81 % 19 % 100 %
In the table above, credit card loans consist of revolving lines of credit.
Credit Concentrations. The table below presents the concentration of gross loans by region.
$ in millions Carrying
Value Americas EMEA Asia Total
As of December 2022
Corporate $ 40,135 57 % 34 % 9 % 100 %
Commercial real estate 28,879 79 % 16 % 5 % 100 %
Residential real estate 23,035 96 % 3 % 1 % 100 %
Securities-based
16,671 83 % 15 % 2 % 100 %
Other collateralized
51,702 86 % 12 % 2 % 100 %
Consumer:
Installment 6,326 100 % - - 100 %
Credit cards 15,820 100 % - - 100 %
Other 2,261 89 % 11 % - 100 %
Total $ 184,829 81 % 15 % 4 % 100 %
As of December 2021
Corporate $ 37,643 52 % 38 % 10 % 100 %
Commercial real estate 29,000 82 % 13 % 5 % 100 %
Residential real estate 24,674 96 % 2 % 2 % 100 %
Securities-based
16,652 77 % 16 % 7 % 100 %
Other collateralized
38,263 74 % 23 % 3 % 100 %
Consumer:
Installment 3,672 100 % - - 100 %
Credit cards 8,212 100 % - - 100 %
Other 4,019 89 % 11 % - 100 %
Total $ 162,135 76 % 19 % 5 % 100 %
In the table above:
•EMEA represents Europe, Middle East and Africa.
•The top five industry concentrations for corporate loans as of December 2022 were 26% for technology, media & telecommunications, 18% for diversified industrials, 11% for real estate, 10% for healthcare and 10% for consumer & retail.
•The top five industry concentrations for corporate loans as of December 2021 were 24% for technology, media & telecommunications, 17% for diversified industrials, 13% for natural resources & utilities, 11% for consumer & retail and 10% for healthcare.
Nonaccrual and Past Due Loans. Loans accounted for at amortized cost (other than credit card loans) are placed on nonaccrual status when it is probable that the firm will not collect all principal and interest due under the contractual terms, regardless of the delinquency status or if a loan is past due for 90 days or more, unless the loan is both well collateralized and in the process of collection. At that time, all accrued but uncollected interest is reversed against interest income and interest subsequently collected is recognized on a cash basis to the extent the loan balance is deemed collectible. Otherwise, all cash received is used to reduce the outstanding loan balance. A loan is considered past due when a principal or interest payment has not been made according to its contractual terms. Credit card loans are not placed on nonaccrual status and accrue interest until the loan is paid in full or is charged off.
In certain circumstances, the firm may modify the original terms of a loan agreement by granting a concession to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty, typically in the form of a modification of loan covenants, but may also include forbearance of interest or principal, payment extensions or interest rate reductions. These modifications, to the extent significant, are considered TDRs. Loan modifications that extend payment terms for a period of less than 90 days are generally considered insignificant and therefore not reported as TDRs.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information about past due loans.
$ in millions 30-89 days 90 days
or more Total
As of December 2022
Corporate $ - $ 92 $ 92
Commercial real estate 47 362 409
Residential real estate 4 6 10
Securities-based
1 - 1
Other collateralized
10 5 15
Consumer:
Installment 46 17 63
Credit cards 291 265 556
Other 17 5 22
Total $ 416 $ 752 $ 1,168
Total divided by gross loans at amortized cost 0.7 %
As of December 2021
Corporate $ 5 $ 90 $ 95
Commercial real estate 7 158 165
Residential real estate 3 4 7
Securities-based
- 5 5
Consumer:
Installment 20 7 27
Credit cards 86 71 157
Other 15 3 18
Total $ 136 $ 338 $ 474
Total divided by gross loans at amortized cost 0.3 %
The table below presents information about nonaccrual loans.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate $ 1,432 $ 1,421
Commercial real estate 1,079 856
Residential real estate 93 5
Securities-based
- 5
Other collateralized
65 139
Installment 41 43
Total $ 2,710 $ 2,469
Total divided by gross loans at amortized cost 1.6 % 1.7 %
In the table above:
•Nonaccrual loans included $483 million as of December 2022 and $254 million as of December 2021 of loans that were 30 days or more past due.
•Loans that were 90 days or more past due and still accruing were not material as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•Nonaccrual loans included $204 million of corporate loans as of December 2022 and $267 million of corporate and commercial real estate loans as of December 2021 that were modified in a TDR. The firm’s lending commitments related to these loans were not material as of both December 2022 and December 2021. Installment loans that were modified in a TDR were not material as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•Allowance for loan losses as a percentage of total nonaccrual loans was 204.5% as of December 2022 and 144.7% as of December 2021.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The firm’s allowance for credit losses consists of the allowance for losses on loans and lending commitments accounted for at amortized cost. Loans and lending commitments accounted for at fair value or accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value are not subject to an allowance for credit losses.
To determine the allowance for credit losses, the firm classifies its loans and lending commitments accounted for at amortized cost into wholesale and consumer portfolios. These portfolios represent the level at which the firm has developed and documented its methodology to determine the allowance for credit losses. The allowance for credit losses is measured on a collective basis for loans that exhibit similar risk characteristics using a modeled approach and on an asset-specific basis for loans that do not share similar risk characteristics.
The allowance for credit losses takes into account the weighted average of a range of forecasts of future economic conditions over the expected life of the loan and lending commitments. The expected life of each loan or lending commitment is determined based on the contractual term adjusted for extension options or demand features, or is modeled in the case of revolving credit card loans. The forecasts include baseline, favorable and adverse economic scenarios over a three-year period. For loans with expected lives beyond three years, the model reverts to historical loss information based on a non-linear modeled approach. The forecasted economic scenarios consider a number of risk factors relevant to the wholesale and consumer portfolios described below. The firm applies judgment in weighing individual scenarios each quarter based on a variety of factors, including the firm’s internally derived economic outlook, market consensus, recent macroeconomic conditions and industry trends.
The allowance for credit losses also includes qualitative components which allow management to reflect the uncertain nature of economic forecasting, capture uncertainty regarding model inputs, and account for model imprecision and concentration risk.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Management’s estimate of credit losses entails judgment about the expected life of the loan and loan collectability at the reporting dates, and there are uncertainties inherent in those judgments. The allowance for credit losses is subject to a governance process that involves review and approval by senior management within the firm’s independent risk oversight and control functions. Personnel within the firm’s independent risk oversight and control functions are responsible for forecasting the economic variables that underlie the economic scenarios that are used in the modeling of expected credit losses. While management uses the best information available to determine this estimate, future adjustments to the allowance may be necessary based on, among other things, changes in the economic environment or variances between actual results and the original assumptions used.
The table below presents gross loans and lending commitments accounted for at amortized cost by portfolio.
As of December
2022 2021
$ in millions Loans Lending Commitments
Loans Lending Commitments
Wholesale
Corporate $ 36,822 $ 137,149 $ 34,663 $ 135,968
Commercial real estate 26,222 3,692 24,267 5,229
Residential real estate 18,523 3,089 18,389 3,949
Securities-based
16,671 508 16,652 454
Other collateralized
50,473 13,209 35,916 15,137
Other 1,723 944 1,736 442
Consumer
Installment 6,326 1,882 3,672 9
Credit cards 15,820 62,216 8,212 35,932
Total $ 172,580 $ 222,689 $ 143,507 $ 197,120
In the table above:
•Wholesale loans included $2.67 billion as of December 2022 and $2.43 billion as of December 2021 of nonaccrual loans for which the allowance for credit losses was measured on an asset-specific basis. The allowance for credit losses on these loans was $535 million as of December 2022 and $543 million as of December 2021. These loans included $384 million as of December 2022 and $140 million as of December 2021 of loans which did not require a reserve as the loan was deemed to be recoverable.
•Credit card lending commitments included $62.22 billion as of December 2022 and $33.97 billion as of December 2021 related to credit card lines issued by the firm to consumers. These credit card lines are cancellable by the firm. The increase in credit card lending commitments from December 2021 to December 2022 reflected approximately $15.0 billion relating to the firm’s acquisition of the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio. In addition, credit card lending commitments as of December 2021 included a commitment of approximately $2.0 billion to acquire the outstanding credit card loans related to the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio. See Note 18 for further information about lending commitments.
•The increase in installment lending commitments from December 2021 to December 2022 primarily relates to commitments extended in connection with point-of-sale financing through GreenSky. See Note 18 for further information about lending commitments.
The following is a description of the methodology used to calculate the allowance for credit losses:
Wholesale. The allowance for credit losses for wholesale loans and lending commitments that exhibit similar risk characteristics is measured using a modeled approach. These models determine the probability of default and loss given default based on various risk factors, including internal credit ratings, industry default and loss data, expected life, macroeconomic indicators, the borrower’s capacity to meet its financial obligations, the borrower’s country of risk and industry, loan seniority and collateral type. For lending commitments, the methodology also considers the probability of drawdowns or funding. In addition, for loans backed by real estate, risk factors include the loan-to-value ratio, debt service ratio and home price index. The most significant inputs to the forecast model for wholesale loans and lending commitments include unemployment rates, GDP, credit spreads, commercial and industrial delinquency rates, short- and long-term interest rates, and oil prices.
The allowance for loan losses for wholesale loans that do not share similar risk characteristics, such as nonaccrual loans or loans in a TDR, is calculated using the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s original effective rate, the observable market price of the loan or the fair value of the collateral.
Wholesale loans are charged off against the allowance for loan losses when deemed to be uncollectible.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Consumer. The allowance for credit losses for consumer loans that exhibit similar risk characteristics is calculated using a modeled approach which classifies consumer loans into pools based on borrower-related and exposure-related characteristics that differentiate a pool’s risk characteristics from other pools. The factors considered in determining a pool are generally consistent with the risk characteristics used for internal credit risk measurement and management and include key metrics, such as FICO credit scores, delinquency status, loan vintage and macroeconomic indicators. The most significant inputs to the forecast model for consumer loans include unemployment rates and delinquency rates. The expected life of revolving credit card loans is determined by modeling expected future draws and the timing and amount of repayments allocated to the funded balance. The firm also recognizes an allowance for credit losses on commitments to acquire loans and commitments extended in connection with point-of-sale financing. However, no allowance for credit losses is recognized on credit card lending commitments as they are cancellable by the firm.
The allowance for credit losses for consumer loans that do not share similar risk characteristics, such as loans in a TDR, is calculated using the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan’s original effective rate.
Installment loans are charged off when they are 120 days past due. Credit card loans are charged off when they are 180 days past due.
Allowance for Credit Losses Rollforward
The table below presents information about the allowance for credit losses.
$ in millions Wholesale Consumer Total
Year Ended December 2022
Allowance for loan losses
Beginning balance $ 2,135 $ 1,438 $ 3,573
Net (charge-offs)/recoveries (253) (473) (726)
Provision 699 2,016 2,715
Other (19) - (19)
Ending balance $ 2,562 $ 2,981 $ 5,543
Allowance ratio 1.7 % 13.5 % 3.2 %
Net charge-off ratio 0.2 % 2.8 % 0.5 %
Allowance for losses on lending commitments
Beginning balance $ 589 $ 187 $ 776
Provision 124 (124) -
Other (2) - (2)
Ending balance $ 711 $ 63 $ 774
Year Ended December 2021
Allowance for loan losses
Beginning balance $ 2,584 $ 1,290 $ 3,874
Net (charge-offs)/recoveries (130) (203) (333)
Provision (231) 351 120
Other (88) - (88)
Ending balance $ 2,135 $ 1,438 $ 3,573
Allowance ratio 1.6 % 12.1 % 2.5 %
Net charge-off ratio 0.1 % 2.3 % 0.3 %
Allowance for losses on lending commitments
Beginning balance $ 557 $ - $ 557
Provision 50 187 237
Other (18) - (18)
Ending balance $ 589 $ 187 $ 776
In the table above:
•For the year ended December 2021, other primarily represented the reduction to the allowance related to loans and lending commitments transferred to held for sale.
•The allowance ratio is calculated by dividing the allowance for loan losses by gross loans accounted for at amortized cost.
•The net charge-off ratio is calculated by dividing net (charge-offs)/recoveries by average gross loans accounted for at amortized cost.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Forecast Model Inputs as of December 2022
When modeling expected credit losses, the firm employs a weighted, multi-scenario forecast, which includes baseline, adverse and favorable economic scenarios. As of December 2022, this multi-scenario forecast was weighted towards the baseline and adverse economic scenarios.
The table below presents the forecasted U.S. unemployment and U.S. GDP growth rates used in the baseline economic scenario of the forecast model.
As of December 2022
U.S. unemployment rate
Forecast for the quarter ended:
June 2023 4.2 %
December 2023 4.6 %
June 2024 4.6 %
Growth in U.S. GDP
Forecast for the year:
2023 0.4 %
2024 1.3 %
2025 1.7 %
The adverse economic scenario of the forecast model reflects a global recession in 2023 and a more aggressive tightening of monetary policy by central banks, resulting in an economic contraction and rising unemployment rates. In this scenario, the U.S. unemployment rate peaks at approximately 7.4% during the first quarter of 2024 and the maximum decline in the quarterly U.S. GDP relative to the fourth quarter of 2022 is approximately 2.7%, which occurs during the fourth quarter of 2023.
In the table above:
•U.S. unemployment rate represents the rate forecasted as of the respective quarter-end.
•Growth in U.S. GDP represents the year-over-year growth rate forecasted for the respective years.
•While the U.S. unemployment and U.S. GDP growth rates are significant inputs to the forecast model, the model contemplates a variety of other inputs across a range of scenarios to provide a forecast of future economic conditions. Given the complex nature of the forecasting process, no single economic variable can be viewed in isolation and independently of other inputs.
Allowance for Credit Losses Commentary
Year Ended December 2022. The allowance for credit losses increased by $1.97 billion during 2022, reflecting growth in the firm's consumer lending portfolios (principally in credit cards) and higher modeled expected losses due to broad macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns. In addition, the allowance for credit losses for wholesale loans was impacted by asset-specific provisions and ratings downgrades primarily related to borrowers in the technology, media & telecommunications, real estate, and consumer & retail industries.
Net (charge-offs)/recoveries for 2022 for wholesale loans were primarily related to corporate loans and net (charge-offs)/recoveries for consumer loans were primarily related to credit cards.
Year Ended December 2021. The allowance for credit losses decreased by $82 million during 2021, reflecting reserve reduction driven by improved broader economic environment, partially offset by growth in the firm’s lending portfolios, primarily in the consumer portfolio related to credit cards, including a provision for credit losses of approximately $185 million related to the acquisition of the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio.
Net (charge-offs)/recoveries for 2021 for wholesale loans were primarily related to corporate loans and net (charge-offs)/recoveries for consumer loans were primarily related to credit cards.
Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (ASC 326)
The firm adopted ASU No. 2016-13, "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326) - Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments" as of January 1, 2020. As a result of adopting this ASU, the firm's allowance for credit losses on financial assets and commitments that are accounted for at amortized cost reflects management's estimate of credit losses over the remaining life of such assets. The cumulative effect of adopting this ASU as of January 1, 2020, was a decrease to retained earnings of $638 million (net of tax).
Estimated Fair Value
The table below presents the estimated fair value of loans that are not accounted for at fair value and in what level of the fair value hierarchy they would have been classified if they had been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy.
Carrying Value Estimated Fair Value
$ in millions Level 2 Level 3 Total
As of December 2022
Amortized cost $ 167,037 $ 85,921 $ 83,121 $ 169,042
Held for sale $ 4,594 $ 2,592 $ 2,014 $ 4,606
As of December 2021
Amortized cost $ 139,934 $ 87,676 $ 54,127 $ 141,803
Held for sale $ 7,859 $ 5,970 $ 1,917 $ 7,887
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of loans, and Note 5 for information about loans within the fair value hierarchy.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 10.
Fair Value Option
Other Financial Assets and Liabilities at Fair Value
In addition to trading assets and liabilities, and certain investments and loans, the firm accounts for certain of its other financial assets and liabilities at fair value, substantially all under the fair value option. The primary reasons for electing the fair value option are to:
•Reflect economic events in earnings on a timely basis;
•Mitigate volatility in earnings from using different measurement attributes (e.g., transfers of financial assets accounted for as financings are recorded at fair value, whereas the related secured financing would be recorded on an accrual basis absent electing the fair value option); and
•Address simplification and cost-benefit considerations (e.g., accounting for hybrid financial instruments at fair value in their entirety versus bifurcation of embedded derivatives and hedge accounting for debt hosts).
Hybrid financial instruments are instruments that contain bifurcatable embedded derivatives and do not require settlement by physical delivery of nonfinancial assets (e.g., physical commodities). If the firm elects to bifurcate the embedded derivative from the associated debt, the derivative is accounted for at fair value and the host contract is accounted for at amortized cost, adjusted for the effective portion of any fair value hedges. If the firm does not elect to bifurcate, the entire hybrid financial instrument is accounted for at fair value under the fair value option.
Other financial assets and liabilities accounted for at fair value under the fair value option include:
•Resale and repurchase agreements;
•Certain securities borrowed and loaned transactions;
•Certain customer and other receivables and certain other assets and liabilities;
•Certain time deposits (deposits with no stated maturity are not eligible for a fair value option election), including structured certificates of deposit, which are hybrid financial instruments;
•Substantially all other secured financings, including transfers of assets accounted for as financings; and
•Certain unsecured short- and long-term borrowings, substantially all of which are hybrid financial instruments.
See Note 4 for an overview of the firm’s fair value measurement policies, valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine the fair value of other financial assets and liabilities, and Note 5 for information about other financial assets and liabilities within the fair value hierarchy.
Gains and Losses on Other Financial Assets and Liabilities Accounted for at Fair Value Under the Fair Value Option
The table below presents the gains and losses recognized in earnings as a result of the election to apply the fair value option to certain financial assets and liabilities.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Unsecured short-term borrowings $ 4,055 $ (1,016) $ 206
Unsecured long-term borrowings 6,506 (2,393) (2,804)
Other 1,072 (135) (563)
Total $ 11,633 $ (3,544) $ (3,161)
In the table above:
•Gains/(losses) were substantially all included in market making.
•Gains/(losses) exclude contractual interest, which is included in interest income and interest expense, for all instruments other than hybrid financial instruments. See Note 23 for further information about interest income and interest expense.
•Gains/(losses) included in unsecured short- and long-term borrowings were substantially all related to the embedded derivative component of hybrid financial instruments. These gains and losses would have been recognized under other U.S. GAAP even if the firm had not elected to account for the entire hybrid financial instrument at fair value.
•Gains/(losses) included in other were substantially all related to resale and repurchase agreements, deposits, other secured financings and other liabilities.
•Other financial assets and liabilities at fair value are frequently economically hedged with trading assets and liabilities. Accordingly, gains or losses on such other financial assets and liabilities can be partially offset by gains or losses on trading assets and liabilities. As a result, gains or losses on other financial assets and liabilities do not necessarily represent the overall impact on the firm’s results of operations, liquidity or capital resources.
See Note 8 for information about gains/(losses) on equity securities and Note 9 for information about gains/(losses) on loans which are accounted for at fair value under the fair value option. Gains/(losses) on trading assets and liabilities accounted for at fair value under the fair value option are included in market making. See Note 6 for further information about gains/(losses) from market making.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Long-Term Debt Instruments
The difference between the aggregate contractual principal amount and the related fair value of long-term other secured financings, for which the fair value option was elected, was not material as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
The aggregate contractual principal amount of unsecured long-term borrowings, for which the fair value option was elected, exceeded the related fair value by $5.03 billion as of December 2022. The related amount was not material as of December 2021.
These debt instruments include both principal-protected and non-principal-protected long-term borrowings.
Debt Valuation Adjustment
The firm calculates the fair value of financial liabilities for which the fair value option is elected by discounting future cash flows at a rate which incorporates the firm’s credit spreads.
The table below presents information about the net debt valuation adjustment (DVA) gains/(losses) on financial liabilities for which the fair value option was elected.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Pre-tax DVA $ 1,882 $ 433 $ (347)
After-tax DVA
$ 1,403 $ 322 $ (261)
In the table above:
•After-tax DVA is included in debt valuation adjustment in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
•The gains/(losses) reclassified to market making in the consolidated statements of earnings from accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) upon extinguishment of such financial liabilities were not material for 2022, 2021 and 2020.
Loans and Lending Commitments
The table below presents the difference between the aggregate fair value and the aggregate contractual principal amount for loans (included in trading assets and loans in the consolidated balance sheets) for which the fair value option was elected.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Performing loans
Aggregate contractual principal in excess of fair value $ 2,645 $ 1,373
Loans on nonaccrual status and/or more than 90 days past due
Aggregate contractual principal in excess of fair value $ 3,331 $ 8,600
Aggregate fair value $ 2,633 $ 3,559
In the table above, the aggregate contractual principal amount of loans on nonaccrual status and/or more than 90 days past due (which excludes loans carried at zero fair value and considered uncollectible) exceeds the related fair value primarily because the firm regularly purchases loans, such as distressed loans, at values significantly below the contractual principal amounts.
The fair value of unfunded lending commitments for which the fair value option was elected was a liability of $22 million as of December 2022 and $20 million as of December 2021, and the related total contractual amount of these lending commitments was $307 million as of December 2022 and $611 million as of December 2021. See Note 18 for further information about lending commitments.
Impact of Credit Spreads on Loans and Lending Commitments
The estimated net gain/(loss) attributable to changes in instrument-specific credit spreads on loans and lending commitments for which the fair value option was elected was $(281) million for 2022, $277 million for 2021 and $(106) million for 2020. The firm generally calculates the fair value of loans and lending commitments for which the fair value option is elected by discounting future cash flows at a rate which incorporates the instrument-specific credit spreads. For floating-rate loans and lending commitments, substantially all changes in fair value are attributable to changes in instrument-specific credit spreads, whereas for fixed-rate loans and lending commitments, changes in fair value are also attributable to changes in interest rates.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 11.
Collateralized Agreements and Financings
Collateralized agreements are resale agreements and securities borrowed. Collateralized financings are repurchase agreements, securities loaned and other secured financings. The firm enters into these transactions in order to, among other things, facilitate client activities, invest excess cash, acquire securities to cover short positions and finance certain firm activities.
Collateralized agreements and financings with the same settlement date are presented on a net-by-counterparty basis when such transactions meet certain settlement criteria and are subject to netting agreements. Interest on collateralized agreements, which is included in interest income, and collateralized financings, which is included in interest expense, is recognized over the life of the transaction. See Note 23 for further information about interest income and interest expense.
Resale and Repurchase Agreements
A resale agreement is a transaction in which the firm purchases financial instruments from a seller, typically in exchange for cash, and simultaneously enters into an agreement to resell the same or substantially the same financial instruments to the seller at a stated price plus accrued interest at a future date.
A repurchase agreement is a transaction in which the firm sells financial instruments to a buyer, typically in exchange for cash, and simultaneously enters into an agreement to repurchase the same or substantially the same financial instruments from the buyer at a stated price plus accrued interest at a future date.
Even though repurchase and resale agreements (including “repos- and reverses-to-maturity”) involve the legal transfer of ownership of financial instruments, they are accounted for as financing arrangements because they require the financial instruments to be repurchased or resold before or at the maturity of the agreement. The financial instruments purchased or sold in resale and repurchase agreements typically include U.S. government and agency, and investment-grade sovereign obligations.
The firm receives financial instruments purchased under resale agreements and makes delivery of financial instruments sold under repurchase agreements. To mitigate credit exposure, the firm monitors the market value of these financial instruments on a daily basis, and delivers or obtains additional collateral due to changes in the market value of the financial instruments, as appropriate. For resale agreements, the firm typically requires collateral with a fair value approximately equal to the carrying value of the relevant assets in the consolidated balance sheets.
Securities Borrowed and Loaned Transactions
In a securities borrowed transaction, the firm borrows securities from a counterparty in exchange for cash or securities. When the firm returns the securities, the counterparty returns the cash or securities. Interest is generally paid periodically over the life of the transaction.
In a securities loaned transaction, the firm lends securities to a counterparty in exchange for cash or securities. When the counterparty returns the securities, the firm returns the cash or securities posted as collateral. Interest is generally paid periodically over the life of the transaction.
The firm receives securities borrowed and makes delivery of securities loaned. To mitigate credit exposure, the firm monitors the market value of these securities on a daily basis, and delivers or obtains additional collateral due to changes in the market value of the securities, as appropriate. For securities borrowed transactions, the firm typically requires collateral with a fair value approximately equal to the carrying value of the securities borrowed transaction.
Securities borrowed and loaned within FICC financing are recorded at fair value under the fair value option. See Note 5 for further information about securities borrowed and loaned accounted for at fair value.
Substantially all of the securities borrowed and loaned within Equities financing are recorded based on the amount of cash collateral advanced or received plus accrued interest. The firm also reviews such securities borrowed to determine if an allowance for credit losses should be recorded by taking into consideration the fair value of collateral received. As these agreements generally can be terminated on demand, they exhibit little, if any, sensitivity to changes in interest rates. Therefore, the carrying value of such agreements approximates fair value. As these agreements are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these agreements been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, they would have been classified in level 2 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Offsetting Arrangements
The table below presents resale and repurchase agreements and securities borrowed and loaned transactions included in the consolidated balance sheets, as well as the amounts not offset in the consolidated balance sheets.
Assets Liabilities
$ in millions Resale agreements Securities borrowed Repurchase agreements Securities loaned
As of December 2022
Included in the consolidated balance sheets
Gross carrying value $ 334,042 $ 199,623 $ 219,274 $ 41,309
Counterparty netting (108,925) (10,582) (108,925) (10,582)
Total 225,117 189,041 110,349 30,727
Amounts not offset
Counterparty netting (15,350) (4,576) (15,350) (4,576)
Collateral (204,843) (171,997) (92,997) (25,578)
Total $ 4,924 $ 12,468 $ 2,002 $ 573
As of December 2021
Included in the consolidated balance sheets
Gross carrying value $ 334,725 $ 190,197 $ 294,905 $ 57,931
Counterparty netting (129,022) (11,426) (129,022) (11,426)
Total 205,703 178,771 165,883 46,505
Amounts not offset
Counterparty netting (27,376) (12,822) (27,376) (12,822)
Collateral (173,915) (157,752) (134,465) (33,143)
Total $ 4,412 $ 8,197 $ 4,042 $ 540
In the table above:
•Substantially all of the gross carrying values of these arrangements are subject to enforceable netting agreements.
•Where the firm has received or posted collateral under credit support agreements, but has not yet determined such agreements are enforceable, the related collateral has not been netted.
•Amounts not offset includes counterparty netting that does not meet the criteria for netting under U.S. GAAP and the fair value of collateral received or posted subject to enforceable credit support agreements.
•Resale agreements and repurchase agreements are carried at fair value under the fair value option. See Note 4 for further information about the valuation techniques and significant inputs used to determine fair value.
•Securities borrowed included in the consolidated balance sheets of $38.58 billion as of December 2022 and $39.96 billion as of December 2021, and securities loaned of $4.37 billion as of December 2022 and $9.17 billion as of December 2021 were at fair value under the fair value option. See Note 5 for further information about securities borrowed and securities loaned accounted for at fair value.
Gross Carrying Value of Repurchase Agreements and Securities Loaned
The table below presents the gross carrying value of repurchase agreements and securities loaned by class of collateral pledged.
$ in millions Repurchase agreements Securities loaned
As of December 2022
Money market instruments $ 10 $ -
U.S. government and agency obligations 112,825 55
Non-U.S. government and agency obligations 87,828 594
Securities backed by commercial real estate 172 -
Securities backed by residential real estate 466 -
Corporate debt securities 11,398 295
State and municipal obligations 143 -
Other debt obligations
108 -
Equity securities 6,324 40,365
Total $ 219,274 $ 41,309
As of December 2021
Money market instruments $ 328 $ 14
U.S. government and agency obligations 132,049 503
Non-U.S. government and agency obligations 126,397 1,254
Securities backed by commercial real estate 362 -
Securities backed by residential real estate 919 -
Corporate debt securities 11,034 510
State and municipal obligations 248 -
Other debt obligations 374 -
Equity securities 23,194 55,650
Total $ 294,905 $ 57,931
The table below presents the gross carrying value of repurchase agreements and securities loaned by maturity.
As of December 2022
$ in millions Repurchase agreements Securities loaned
No stated maturity and overnight $ 86,835 $ 27,791
2 - 30 days 70,351 956
31 - 90 days 17,776 936
91 days - 1 year 35,096 7,596
Greater than 1 year 9,216 4,030
Total $ 219,274 $ 41,309
In the table above:
•Repurchase agreements and securities loaned that are repayable prior to maturity at the option of the firm are reflected at their contractual maturity dates.
•Repurchase agreements and securities loaned that are redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the holder are reflected at the earliest dates such options become exercisable.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 173
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Other Secured Financings
In addition to repurchase agreements and securities loaned transactions, the firm funds certain assets through the use of other secured financings and pledges financial instruments and other assets as collateral in these transactions. These other secured financings include:
•Liabilities of consolidated VIEs;
•Transfers of assets accounted for as financings rather than sales (e.g., pledged commodities, bank loans and mortgage whole loans); and
•Other structured financing arrangements.
Other secured financings included nonrecourse arrangements. Nonrecourse other secured financings were $7.94 billion as of December 2022 and $8.64 billion as of December 2021.
The firm has elected to apply the fair value option to substantially all other secured financings because the use of fair value eliminates non-economic volatility in earnings that would arise from using different measurement attributes. See Note 10 for further information about other secured financings that are accounted for at fair value.
Other secured financings that are not recorded at fair value are recorded based on the amount of cash received plus accrued interest, which generally approximates fair value. As these financings are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these financings been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, substantially all would have been classified in level 3 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
The table below presents information about other secured financings.
$ in millions U.S.
Dollar Non-U.S. Dollar Total
As of December 2022
Other secured financings (short-term):
At fair value $ 3,478 $ 2,963 $ 6,441
At amortized cost 398 - 398
Other secured financings (long-term):
At fair value 3,793 2,522 6,315
At amortized cost 395 397 792
Total other secured financings $ 8,064 $ 5,882 $ 13,946
Other secured financings collateralized by:
Financial instruments $ 3,817 $ 4,895 $ 8,712
Other assets $ 4,247 $ 987 $ 5,234
As of December 2021
Other secured financings (short-term):
At fair value $ 5,315 $ 3,664 $ 8,979
At amortized cost - 191 191
Other secured financings (long-term):
At fair value 4,170 3,925 8,095
At amortized cost 827 452 1,279
Total other secured financings $ 10,312 $ 8,232 $ 18,544
Other secured financings collateralized by:
Financial instruments $ 5,990 $ 6,834 $ 12,824
Other assets $ 4,322 $ 1,398 $ 5,720
In the table above:
•Short-term other secured financings includes financings maturing within one year of the financial statement date and financings that are redeemable within one year of the financial statement date at the option of the holder.
•U.S. dollar-denominated short-term other secured financings at amortized cost had a weighted average interest rate of 5.56% as of December 2022. These rates include the effect of hedging activities.
•Non-U.S. dollar-denominated short-term other secured financings at amortized cost had a weighted average interest rate of 0.22% as of December 2021. This rate includes the effect of hedging activities.
•U.S. dollar-denominated long-term other secured financings at amortized cost had a weighted average interest rate of 3.54% as of December 2022 and 1.06% as of December 2021. These rates include the effect of hedging activities.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
•Non-U.S. dollar-denominated long-term other secured financings at amortized cost had a weighted average interest rate of 0.45% as of December 2022 and 0.46% as of December 2021. These rates include the effect of hedging activities.
•Total other secured financings included $1.69 billion as of December 2022 and $1.97 billion as of December 2021 related to transfers of financial assets accounted for as financings rather than sales. Such financings were collateralized by financial assets, primarily included in trading assets, of $1.64 billion as of December 2022 and $2.02 billion as of December 2021.
•Other secured financings collateralized by financial instruments included $7.49 billion as of December 2022 and $10.37 billion as of December 2021 of other secured financings collateralized by trading assets, investments and loans, and included $1.22 billion as of December 2022 and $2.45 billion as of December 2021 of other secured financings collateralized by financial instruments received as collateral and repledged.
The table below presents other secured financings by maturity.
As of
$ in millions December 2022
Other secured financings (short-term) $ 6,839
Other secured financings (long-term):
2024 2,956
2025 1,053
2026 978
2027 152
2028 - thereafter 1,968
Total other secured financings (long-term) 7,107
Total other secured financings $ 13,946
In the table above:
•Long-term other secured financings that are repayable prior to maturity at the option of the firm are reflected at their contractual maturity dates.
•Long-term other secured financings that are redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the holder are reflected at the earliest dates such options become exercisable.
Collateral Received and Pledged
The firm receives cash and securities (e.g., U.S. government and agency obligations, other sovereign and corporate obligations, as well as equity securities) as collateral, primarily in connection with resale agreements, securities borrowed, derivative transactions and customer margin loans. The firm obtains cash and securities as collateral on an upfront or contingent basis for derivative instruments and collateralized agreements to reduce its credit exposure to individual counterparties.
In many cases, the firm is permitted to deliver or repledge financial instruments received as collateral when entering into repurchase agreements and securities loaned transactions, primarily in connection with secured client financing activities. The firm is also permitted to deliver or repledge these financial instruments in connection with other secured financings, collateralized derivative transactions and firm or customer settlement requirements.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 175
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The firm also pledges certain trading assets in connection with repurchase agreements, securities loaned transactions and other secured financings, and other assets (substantially all real estate and cash) in connection with other secured financings to counterparties who may or may not have the right to deliver or repledge them.
The table below presents financial instruments at fair value received as collateral that were available to be delivered or repledged and were delivered or repledged.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Collateral available to be delivered or repledged $ 971,699 $ 1,057,195
Collateral that was delivered or repledged $ 797,919 $ 875,213
The table below presents information about assets pledged.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Pledged to counterparties that had the right to deliver or repledge
Trading assets $ 40,143 $ 68,208
Investments $ 9,818 $ 12,840
Pledged to counterparties that did not have the right to deliver or repledge
Trading assets $ 70,912 $ 102,259
Investments $ 1,726 $ 8,683
Loans $ 6,600 $ 6,808
Other assets $ 7,525 $ 8,878
The firm also segregates securities for regulatory and other purposes related to client activity. Such securities are segregated from trading assets and investments, as well as from securities received as collateral under resale agreements and securities borrowed transactions. Securities segregated by the firm were $49.60 billion as of December 2022 and $41.49 billion as of December 2021.
Note 12.
Other Assets
The table below presents other assets by type.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Property, leasehold improvements and equipment $ 17,074 $ 18,094
Goodwill 6,374 4,285
Identifiable intangible assets 2,009 418
Operating lease right-of-use assets 2,172 2,292
Income tax-related assets 7,012 3,860
Miscellaneous receivables and other 4,567 5,659
Total $ 39,208 $ 34,608
During 2022, the firm completed the acquisitions of (i) GreenSky, a leading technology company facilitating point-of-sale financing for merchants and consumers, in an all-stock transaction, (ii) NN Investment Partners (NNIP), a leading European asset manager, in an all-cash transaction, and (iii) NextCapital Group, Inc. (NextCapital), a digital retirement advice provider, in an all-cash transaction. These acquisitions were accounted for under the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations and had an aggregate purchase price of $3.83 billion, substantially all of which related to GreenSky and NNIP. The purchase price of GreenSky has been preliminarily allocated to goodwill of approximately $1.05 billion, identifiable intangible assets of approximately $710 million and tangible assets of approximately $960 million (primarily cash and other assets), and to liabilities assumed of approximately $990 million (primarily unsecured short-term borrowings and customer and other payables). The purchase price of NNIP has been preliminarily allocated to goodwill of approximately $880 million, identifiable intangible assets of approximately $900 million, tangible assets of approximately $540 million (primarily cash and customer and other receivables), and to liabilities assumed of approximately $500 million (primarily deferred tax liabilities and customer and other payables). See below for further information about goodwill and identifiable intangible assets related to these acquisitions.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Property, Leasehold Improvements and Equipment
Property, leasehold improvements and equipment is net of accumulated depreciation and amortization of $12.19 billion as of December 2022 and $10.81 billion as of December 2021. Property, leasehold improvements and equipment included $7.17 billion as of December 2022 and $6.71 billion as of December 2021 that the firm uses in connection with its operations, and $89 million as of December 2022 and $194 million as of December 2021 of foreclosed real estate primarily related to distressed loans that were purchased by the firm. The remainder is held by investment entities, including VIEs, consolidated by the firm. Substantially all property and equipment is depreciated on a straight-line basis over the useful life of the asset. Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the improvement or the term of the lease. Capitalized costs of software developed or obtained for internal use are amortized on a straight-line basis over three years.
The firm tests property, leasehold improvements and equipment for impairment when events or changes in circumstances suggest that an asset’s or asset group’s carrying value may not be fully recoverable. To the extent the carrying value of an asset or asset group exceeds the projected undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposal of the asset or asset group, the firm determines the asset or asset group is impaired and records an impairment equal to the difference between the estimated fair value and the carrying value of the asset or asset group. In addition, the firm will recognize an impairment prior to the sale of an asset or asset group if the carrying value of the asset or asset group exceeds its estimated fair value.
The firm had impairments of $314 million during 2022, $143 million during 2021, and $171 million during 2020, primarily related to properties held by the firm’s investment entities within Asset & Wealth Management.
Goodwill
Goodwill is the cost of acquired companies in excess of the fair value of net assets, including identifiable intangible assets, at the acquisition date.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, in connection with the changes to the firm’s business segments, the firm reassigned the goodwill to its new reporting units using a relative fair value approach in accordance with ASC 350.
The table below presents the carrying value of goodwill by reporting unit.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Global Banking & Markets:
Investment banking
$ 267 $ 267
FICC
269 269
Equities
2,647 2,647
Asset & Wealth Management:
Asset management 1,385 349
Wealth management 1,310 718
Platform Solutions:
Consumer platforms
482 21
Transaction banking and other
14 14
Total $ 6,374 $ 4,285
In the table above:
•Goodwill of $14 million previously in Investment Banking was reassigned to the Transaction banking and other reporting unit related to the transfer of the transaction banking business. The amount of goodwill reassigned was based on the relative fair values of the transferred business and the remaining business within Investment Banking.
•Goodwill of $9 million previously in Wealth management was reassigned to the Equities reporting unit related to the transfer of a securities-based loans business of the firm. The amount of goodwill reassigned was based on the relative fair values of the transferred business and the remaining business within Wealth management.
•All goodwill previously in Consumer banking was reassigned to Wealth management and Consumer platforms based on the relative fair values of the businesses transferred to each reporting unit.
•Goodwill previously in FICC, Equities and Asset Management was not reassigned as no businesses were transferred out of these reporting units.
•Substantially all of the increase in goodwill from December 2021 to December 2022 was driven by the acquisitions of GreenSky and NNIP.
Goodwill is assessed for impairment annually in the fourth quarter or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change that indicate an impairment may exist. When assessing goodwill for impairment, first, a qualitative assessment can be made to determine whether it is more likely than not that the estimated fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. If the results of the qualitative assessment are not conclusive, a quantitative goodwill test is performed. Alternatively, a quantitative goodwill test can be performed without performing a qualitative assessment.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 177
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The quantitative goodwill test compares the estimated fair value of each reporting unit with its carrying value (including goodwill and identifiable intangible assets). If the reporting unit’s estimated fair value exceeds its carrying value, goodwill is not impaired. An impairment is recognized if the estimated fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, goodwill was tested for impairment using a quantitative test (both prior to and following the firm’s changes to its business segments). For each test, the estimated fair value of each of the reporting units exceeded its respective carrying value, and therefore, goodwill was not impaired.
The estimated fair value of each reporting unit was based on valuation techniques the firm believes market participants would use to value these reporting units. Estimated fair values are generally derived from utilizing a relative value technique, which applies observable price-to-earnings multiples or price-to-book multiples of comparable competitors to the reporting units’ net earnings or net book value, or a discounted cash flow valuation approach, for reporting units with businesses in early stages of development. The carrying value of each reporting unit reflects an allocation of total shareholders’ equity and represents the estimated amount of total shareholders’ equity required to support the activities of the reporting unit under currently applicable regulatory capital requirements.
Identifiable Intangible Assets
The table below presents identifiable intangible assets by type.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Customer lists and merchant relationships
Gross carrying value $ 3,225 $ 1,460
Accumulated amortization (1,275) (1,130)
Net carrying value 1,950 330
Acquired leases and other
Gross carrying value 486 500
Accumulated amortization (427) (412)
Net carrying value 59 88
Total gross carrying value 3,711 1,960
Total accumulated amortization (1,702) (1,542)
Total net carrying value $ 2,009 $ 418
The firm acquired approximately $1.79 billion of identifiable intangible assets (with a weighted average amortization period of 13 years) during 2022, substantially all in connection with the acquisitions of GreenSky and NNIP. Substantially all of these identifiable intangible assets consisted of customer lists and merchant relationships. During 2021, the amount of identifiable intangible assets acquired by the firm was not material.
Substantially all of the firm’s identifiable intangible assets have finite useful lives and are amortized over their estimated useful lives generally using the straight-line method.
The tables below present information about the amortization of identifiable intangible assets.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Amortization $ 174 $ 120 $ 147
As of
$ in millions December 2022
Estimated future amortization
2023 $ 200
2024 $ 188
2025 $ 171
2026 $ 164
2027 $ 163
The firm tests identifiable intangible assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances suggest that an asset’s or asset group’s carrying value may not be fully recoverable. To the extent the carrying value of an asset or asset group exceeds the projected undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposal of the asset or asset group, the firm determines the asset or asset group is impaired and records an impairment equal to the difference between the estimated fair value and the carrying value of the asset or asset group. In addition, the firm will recognize an impairment prior to the sale of an asset or asset group if the carrying value of the asset or asset group exceeds its estimated fair value. There were no material impairments during 2022, 2021 and 2020.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Operating Lease Right-of-Use Assets
The firm enters into operating leases for real estate, office equipment and other assets, substantially all of which are used in connection with its operations. For leases longer than one year, the firm recognizes a right-of-use asset representing the right to use the underlying asset for the lease term, and a lease liability representing the liability to make payments. The lease term is generally determined based on the contractual maturity of the lease. For leases where the firm has the option to terminate or extend the lease, an assessment of the likelihood of exercising the option is incorporated into the determination of the lease term. Such assessment is initially performed at the inception of the lease and is updated if events occur that impact the original assessment.
An operating lease right-of-use asset is initially determined based on the operating lease liability, adjusted for initial direct costs, lease incentives and amounts paid at or prior to lease commencement. This amount is then amortized over the lease term. Right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities recognized (in non-cash transactions for leases entered into or assumed) by the firm were $256 million for 2022, $305 million for 2021 and $182 million for 2020. See Note 15 for information about operating lease liabilities.
For leases where the firm will derive no economic benefit from leased space that it has vacated or where the firm has shortened the term of a lease when space is no longer needed, the firm will record an impairment or accelerated amortization of right-of-use assets. There were no material impairments or accelerated amortizations during 2022 and 2021.
Miscellaneous Receivables and Other
Miscellaneous receivables and other included:
•Investments in qualified affordable housing projects of $793 million as of December 2022 and $714 million as of December 2021.
•Assets classified as held for sale of $285 million as of December 2022 and $1.02 billion as of December 2021 related to certain of the firm’s consolidated investments within Asset & Wealth Management, primarily consisted of property and equipment.
Note 13.
Deposits
The table below presents the types and sources of deposits.
$ in millions Savings and
Demand Time Total
As of December 2022
Private bank and consumer
$ 192,713 $ 33,046 $ 225,759
Brokered certificates of deposit - 32,624 32,624
Deposit sweep programs 44,819 - 44,819
Transaction banking 65,155 5,069 70,224
Other 808 12,431 13,239
Total $ 303,495 $ 83,170 $ 386,665
As of December 2021
Private bank and consumer $ 174,577 $ 30,198 $ 204,775
Brokered certificates of deposit - 30,816 30,816
Deposit sweep programs 37,965 - 37,965
Transaction banking 48,618 5,689 54,307
Other 275 36,089 36,364
Total $ 261,435 $ 102,792 $ 364,227
In the table above:
•Substantially all deposits are interest-bearing.
•Savings and demand accounts consist of money market deposit accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts and demand deposit accounts that have no stated maturity or expiration date.
•Time deposits included $15.75 billion as of December 2022 and $35.43 billion as of December 2021 of deposits accounted for at fair value under the fair value option. See Note 10 for further information about deposits accounted for at fair value.
•Time deposits had a weighted average maturity of approximately 0.9 years as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•Deposit sweep programs include long-term contractual agreements with U.S. broker-dealers who sweep client cash to FDIC-insured deposits.
•Transaction banking deposits consists of deposits that the firm raised through its cash management services business for corporate and other institutional clients.
•Other deposits represent deposits from institutional clients.
•Deposits insured by the FDIC were $184.88 billion as of December 2022 and $156.66 billion as of December 2021.
•Deposits insured by non-U.S. insurance programs were $31.74 billion as of December 2022 and $31.44 billion as of December 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 179
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents the location of deposits.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
U.S. offices $ 313,598 $ 283,705
Non-U.S. offices 73,067 80,522
Total $ 386,665 $ 364,227
In the table above, U.S. deposits were held at Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank USA) and substantially all non-U.S. deposits were held at Goldman Sachs International Bank (GSIB) and Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE (GSBE).
The table below presents maturities of time deposits held in U.S. and non-U.S. offices.
As of December 2022
$ in millions U.S. Non-U.S. Total
2023 $ 42,113 $ 19,364 $ 61,477
2024 11,457 310 11,767
2025 3,828 217 4,045
2026 2,522 257 2,779
2027 1,179 185 1,364
2028 - thereafter 1,382 356 1,738
Total $ 62,481 $ 20,689 $ 83,170
As of December 2022, deposits in U.S. offices included $14.81 billion and deposits in non-U.S. offices included $18.96 billion of time deposits in denominations that met or exceeded the applicable insurance limits, or were otherwise not covered by insurance.
The firm’s savings and demand deposits are recorded based on the amount of cash received plus accrued interest, which approximates fair value. In addition, the firm designates certain derivatives as fair value hedges to convert a portion of its time deposits not accounted for at fair value from fixed-rate obligations into floating-rate obligations. The carrying value of time deposits not accounted for at fair value approximated fair value as of both December 2022 and December 2021. As these savings and demand deposits and time deposits are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these deposits been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, they would have been classified in level 2 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
Note 14.
Unsecured Borrowings
The table below presents information about unsecured borrowings.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Unsecured short-term borrowings $ 60,961 $ 46,955
Unsecured long-term borrowings 247,138 254,092
Total $ 308,099 $ 301,047
Unsecured Short-Term Borrowings
Unsecured short-term borrowings includes the portion of unsecured long-term borrowings maturing within one year of the financial statement date and unsecured long-term borrowings that are redeemable within one year of the financial statement date at the option of the holder.
The firm accounts for certain hybrid financial instruments at fair value under the fair value option. See Note 10 for further information about unsecured short-term borrowings that are accounted for at fair value. In addition, the firm designates certain derivatives as fair value hedges to convert a portion of its unsecured short-term borrowings not accounted for at fair value from fixed-rate obligations into floating-rate obligations. The carrying value of unsecured short-term borrowings that are not recorded at fair value generally approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of the obligations. As these unsecured short-term borrowings are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these borrowings been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, substantially all would have been classified in level 2 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
The table below presents information about unsecured short-term borrowings.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Current portion of unsecured long-term borrowings $ 38,635 $ 18,118
Hybrid financial instruments 18,383 20,073
Commercial paper 1,718 6,730
Other unsecured short-term borrowings 2,225 2,034
Total unsecured short-term borrowings $ 60,961 $ 46,955
Weighted average interest rate 3.71 % 2.34 %
In the table above:
•The current portion of unsecured long-term borrowings included $21.75 billion as of December 2022 and $9.16 billion as of December 2021 issued by Group Inc.
•The weighted average interest rates for these borrowings include the effect of hedging activities and exclude unsecured short-term borrowings accounted for at fair value under the fair value option. See Note 7 for further information about hedging activities.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Unsecured Long-Term Borrowings
The table below presents information about unsecured long-term borrowings.
$ in millions U.S. Dollar Non-U.S.
Dollar Total
As of December 2022
Fixed-rate obligations:
Group Inc.
$ 117,092 $ 35,541 $ 152,633
Subsidiaries
1,894 2,997 4,891
Floating-rate obligations:
Group Inc.
19,308 14,032 33,340
Subsidiaries
36,381 19,893 56,274
Total $ 174,675 $ 72,463 $ 247,138
As of December 2021
Fixed-rate obligations:
Group Inc.
$ 124,731 $ 43,219 $ 167,950
Subsidiaries
1,803 3,189 4,992
Floating-rate obligations:
Group Inc.
23,452 17,394 40,846
Subsidiaries
27,543 12,761 40,304
Total $ 177,529 $ 76,563 $ 254,092
In the table above:
•Unsecured long-term borrowings consists principally of senior borrowings, which have maturities extending through 2065.
•Floating-rate obligations includes equity-linked, credit-linked and indexed instruments. Floating interest rates are generally based on Euro Interbank Offered Rate, SOFR or USD LIBOR.
•U.S. dollar-denominated debt had interest rates ranging from 0.66% to 6.75% (with a weighted average rate of 3.51%) as of December 2022 and 0.48% to 7.68% (with a weighted average rate of 3.34%) as of December 2021. These rates exclude unsecured long-term borrowings accounted for at fair value under the fair value option.
•Non-U.S. dollar-denominated debt had interest rates ranging from 0.13% to 7.25% (with a weighted average rate of 1.85%) as of December 2022 and 0.13% to 13.00% (with a weighted average rate of 1.86%) as of December 2021. These rates exclude unsecured long-term borrowings accounted for at fair value under the fair value option.
The table below presents unsecured long-term borrowings by maturity.
As of December 2022
$ in millions Group Inc.
Subsidiaries
Total
2024 $ 34,130 $ 16,881 $ 51,011
2025 26,690 10,452 37,142
2026 17,662 4,540 22,202
2027 21,835 8,525 30,360
2028 - thereafter 85,655 20,768 106,423
Total $ 185,972 $ 61,166 $ 247,138
In the table above:
•Unsecured long-term borrowings maturing within one year of the financial statement date and unsecured long-term borrowings that are redeemable within one year of the financial statement date at the option of the holder are excluded as they are included in unsecured short-term borrowings.
•Unsecured long-term borrowings that are repayable prior to maturity at the option of the firm are reflected at their contractual maturity dates.
•Unsecured long-term borrowings that are redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the holder are reflected at the earliest dates such options become exercisable.
•Unsecured long-term borrowings included $(15.01) billion of adjustments to the carrying value of certain unsecured long-term borrowings resulting from the application of hedge accounting by year of maturity as follows: $(539) million in 2024, $(1.25) billion in 2025, $(800) million in 2026, $(1.55) billion in 2027 and $(10.87) billion in 2028 and thereafter.
The firm designates certain derivatives as fair value hedges to convert a portion of fixed-rate unsecured long-term borrowings not accounted for at fair value into floating-rate obligations. See Note 7 for further information about hedging activities.
The table below presents unsecured long-term borrowings, after giving effect to such hedging activities.
$ in millions Group Inc.
Subsidiaries
Total
As of December 2022
Fixed-rate obligations:
At fair value $ 6,094 $ 53 $ 6,147
At amortized cost 2,667 3,398 6,065
Floating-rate obligations:
At fair value 16,328 50,672 67,000
At amortized cost 160,884 7,042 167,926
Total $ 185,973 $ 61,165 $ 247,138
As of December 2021
Fixed-rate obligations:
At fair value $ 4,798 $ 65 $ 4,863
At amortized cost 27,133 3,237 30,370
Floating-rate obligations:
At fair value 12,864 34,663 47,527
At amortized cost 164,001 7,331 171,332
Total $ 208,796 $ 45,296 $ 254,092
In the table above, the aggregate amounts of unsecured long-term borrowings had weighted average interest rates of 4.97% (4.08% related to fixed-rate obligations and 5.00% related to floating-rate obligations) as of December 2022 and 1.60% (2.25% related to fixed-rate obligations and 1.48% related to floating-rate obligations) as of December 2021. These rates exclude unsecured long-term borrowings accounted for at fair value under the fair value option.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 181
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The carrying value of unsecured long-term borrowings for which the firm did not elect the fair value option was $173.99 billion as of December 2022 and $201.70 billion as of December 2021. The estimated fair value of such unsecured long-term borrowings was $173.70 billion as of December 2022 and $209.37 billion as of December 2021. As these borrowings are not accounted for at fair value, they are not included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy in Notes 4 and 5. Had these borrowings been included in the firm’s fair value hierarchy, substantially all would have been classified in level 2 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
Subordinated Borrowings
Unsecured long-term borrowings includes subordinated debt and junior subordinated debt. Subordinated debt that matures within one year is included in unsecured short-term borrowings. Junior subordinated debt is junior in right of payment to other subordinated borrowings, which are junior to senior borrowings. Long-term subordinated debt had maturities ranging from 2025 to 2045 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
The table below presents information about subordinated borrowings.
$ in millions Par
Amount Carrying
Value Rate
As of December 2022
Subordinated debt $ 12,261 $ 11,882 6.40 %
Junior subordinated debt 968 1,054 4.86 %
Total $ 13,229 $ 12,936 6.29 %
As of December 2021
Subordinated debt $ 12,437 $ 15,571 1.74 %
Junior subordinated debt 968 1,321 1.31 %
Total $ 13,405 $ 16,892 1.71 %
In the table above:
•The par amount of subordinated debt issued by Group Inc. was $12.26 billion as of December 2022 and $12.44 billion as of December 2021, and the carrying value of subordinated debt issued by Group Inc. was $11.88 billion as of December 2022 and $15.57 billion as of December 2021.
•The rate is the weighted average interest rate for these borrowings (excluding borrowings accounted for at fair value under the fair value option), including the effect of fair value hedges used to convert fixed-rate obligations into floating-rate obligations. See Note 7 for further information about hedging activities.
Junior Subordinated Debt
In 2004, Group Inc. issued $2.84 billion of junior subordinated debt to Goldman Sachs Capital I, a Delaware statutory trust. Goldman Sachs Capital I issued $2.75 billion of guaranteed preferred beneficial interests (Trust Preferred securities) to third parties and $85 million of common beneficial interests to Group Inc. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, the outstanding par amount of junior subordinated debt held by Goldman Sachs Capital I was $968 million and the outstanding par amount of Trust Preferred securities and common beneficial interests issued by Goldman Sachs Capital I was $939 million and $29 million, respectively. Goldman Sachs Capital I is a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of the firm for regulatory and legal purposes but is not consolidated for accounting purposes.
The firm pays interest semi-annually on the junior subordinated debt at an annual rate of 6.345% and the debt matures on February 15, 2034. The coupon rate and the payment dates applicable to the beneficial interests are the same as the interest rate and payment dates for the junior subordinated debt. The firm has the right, from time to time, to defer payment of interest on the junior subordinated debt, and therefore cause payment on Goldman Sachs Capital I’s preferred beneficial interests to be deferred, in each case up to ten consecutive semi-annual periods. During any such deferral period, the firm will not be permitted to, among other things, pay dividends on or make certain repurchases of its common stock. Goldman Sachs Capital I is not permitted to pay any distributions on the common beneficial interests held by Group Inc. unless all dividends payable on the preferred beneficial interests have been paid in full.
Note 15.
Other Liabilities
The table below presents other liabilities by type.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Compensation and benefits $ 7,225 $ 10,838
Income tax-related liabilities 2,669 2,360
Operating lease liabilities 2,154 2,288
Noncontrolling interests 649 840
Employee interests in consolidated funds 25 29
Accrued expenses and other 8,733 8,146
Total $ 21,455 $ 24,501
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Operating Lease Liabilities
For leases longer than one year, the firm recognizes a right-of-use asset representing the right to use the underlying asset for the lease term, and a lease liability representing the liability to make payments. See Note 12 for information about operating lease right-of-use assets.
The table below presents information about operating lease liabilities.
$ in millions Operating
lease liabilities
As of December 2022
2023 $ 325
2024 334
2025 283
2026 236
2027 203
2028 - thereafter 1,424
Total undiscounted lease payments 2,805
Imputed interest (651)
Total operating lease liabilities $ 2,154
Weighted average remaining lease term 13 years
Weighted average discount rate 3.66 %
As of December 2021
2022 $ 305
2023 307
2024 284
2025 258
2026 216
2027 - thereafter 1,655
Total undiscounted lease payments 3,025
Imputed interest (737)
Total operating lease liabilities $ 2,288
Weighted average remaining lease term 14 years
Weighted average discount rate 3.61 %
In the table above, the weighted average discount rate represents the firm’s incremental borrowing rate as of January 2019 for operating leases existing on the date of adoption of ASU No. 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” and at the lease inception date for leases entered into subsequent to the adoption of this ASU.
Operating lease costs were $462 million for 2022, $463 million for 2021 and $458 million for 2020. Variable lease costs, which are included in operating lease costs, were not material for 2022, 2021 and 2020. Total occupancy expenses for space held in excess of the firm’s current requirements were not material for 2022, 2021 and 2020.
Lease payments relating to operating lease arrangements that were signed but had not yet commenced were $1.48 billion as of December 2022.
Accrued Expenses and Other
Accrued expenses and other included:
•Liabilities classified as held for sale were not material as of December 2022 and $310 million as of December 2021 related to certain of the firm’s consolidated investments within Asset & Wealth Management, substantially all of which consisted of other secured financings primarily carried at fair value under the fair value option, and were related to assets classified as held for sale. See Note 12 for further information about assets held for sale.
•Contract liabilities, which represent consideration received by the firm in connection with its contracts with clients prior to providing the service, were $113 million as of December 2022 and were not material as of December 2021.
Note 16.
Securitization Activities
The firm securitizes residential and commercial mortgages, corporate bonds, loans and other types of financial assets by selling these assets to securitization vehicles (e.g., trusts, corporate entities and limited liability companies) or through a resecuritization. The firm acts as underwriter of the beneficial interests that are sold to investors. The firm’s residential mortgage securitizations are primarily in connection with government agency securitizations.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 183
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The firm accounts for a securitization as a sale when it has relinquished control over the transferred financial assets. Prior to securitization, the firm generally accounts for assets pending transfer at fair value and therefore does not typically recognize significant gains or losses upon the transfer of assets. Net revenues from underwriting activities are recognized in connection with the sales of the underlying beneficial interests to investors.
The firm generally receives cash in exchange for the transferred assets but may also have continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets, including ownership of beneficial interests in securitized financial assets, primarily in the form of debt instruments. The firm may also purchase senior or subordinated securities issued by securitization vehicles (which are typically VIEs) in connection with secondary market-making activities.
The primary risks included in beneficial interests and other interests from the firm’s continuing involvement with securitization vehicles are the performance of the underlying collateral, the position of the firm’s investment in the capital structure of the securitization vehicle and the market yield for the security. Interests accounted for at fair value are primarily classified in level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. Interests not accounted for at fair value are carried at amounts that approximate fair value. See Note 4 for further information about fair value measurements.
The table below presents the amount of financial assets securitized and the cash flows received on retained interests in securitization entities in which the firm had continuing involvement as of the end of the period.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Residential mortgages $ 26,717 $ 29,048 $ 20,167
Commercial mortgages 13,935 18,396 14,904
Other financial assets 3,617 4,377 1,775
Total financial assets securitized $ 44,269 $ 51,821 $ 36,846
Retained interests cash flows $ 551 $ 513 $ 331
The firm securitized assets of $792 million during 2022, $886 million during 2021 and $551 million during 2020, in a non-cash exchange for loans and investments.
The table below presents information about nonconsolidated securitization entities to which the firm sold assets and had continuing involvement as of the end of the period.
$ in millions Outstanding
Principal
Amount Retained
Interests Purchased
Interests
As of December 2022
U.S. government agency-issued CMOs $ 38,617 $ 1,835 $ -
Other residential mortgage-backed 27,075 1,461 117
Other commercial mortgage-backed 59,688 1,349 82
Corporate debt and other asset-backed 8,750 398 46
Total $ 134,130 $ 5,043 $ 245
As of December 2021
U.S. government agency-issued CMOs $ 33,984 $ 955 $ 3
Other residential mortgage-backed 23,262 1,114 96
Other commercial mortgage-backed 50,350 1,123 130
Corporate debt and other asset-backed 7,755 360 37
Total $ 115,351 $ 3,552 $ 266
In the table above:
•CMOs represents collateralized mortgage obligations.
•The outstanding principal amount is presented for the purpose of providing information about the size of the securitization entities and is not representative of the firm’s risk of loss.
•The firm’s risk of loss from retained or purchased interests is limited to the carrying value of these interests.
•Purchased interests represent senior and subordinated interests, purchased in connection with secondary market-making activities, in securitization entities in which the firm also holds retained interests.
•Substantially all of the total outstanding principal amount and total retained interests relate to securitizations during 2018 and thereafter.
•The fair value of retained interests was $5.03 billion as of December 2022 and $3.57 billion as of December 2021.
In addition to the interests in the table above, the firm had other continuing involvement in the form of derivative transactions and commitments with certain nonconsolidated VIEs. The carrying value of these derivatives and commitments was a net asset of $72 million as of December 2022 and $81 million as of December 2021, and the notional amount of these derivatives and commitments was $1.90 billion as of December 2022 and $1.81 billion as of December 2021. The notional amounts of these derivatives and commitments are included in maximum exposure to loss in the nonconsolidated VIE table in Note 17.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information about the weighted average key economic assumptions used in measuring the fair value of mortgage-backed retained interests.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Fair value of retained interests $ 4,644 $ 3,209
Weighted average life (years) 6.6 5.1
Constant prepayment rate 7.7% 14.1%
Impact of 10% adverse change $ (27) $ (38)
Impact of 20% adverse change $ (48) $ (69)
Discount rate 9.5% 5.6%
Impact of 10% adverse change $ (138) $ (49)
Impact of 20% adverse change $ (266) $ (96)
In the table above:
•Amounts do not reflect the benefit of other financial instruments that are held to mitigate risks inherent in these retained interests.
•Changes in fair value based on an adverse variation in assumptions generally cannot be extrapolated because the relationship of the change in assumptions to the change in fair value is not usually linear.
•The impact of a change in a particular assumption is calculated independently of changes in any other assumption. In practice, simultaneous changes in assumptions might magnify or counteract the sensitivities disclosed above.
•The constant prepayment rate is included only for positions for which it is a key assumption in the determination of fair value.
•The discount rate for retained interests that relate to U.S. government agency-issued CMOs does not include any credit loss. Expected credit loss assumptions are reflected in the discount rate for the remainder of retained interests.
The firm has other retained interests not reflected in the table above with a fair value of $384 million and a weighted average life of 6.4 years as of December 2022, and a fair value of $360 million and a weighted average life of 3.6 years as of December 2021. Due to the nature and fair value of certain of these retained interests, the weighted average assumptions for constant prepayment and discount rates and the related sensitivity to adverse changes are not meaningful as of both December 2022 and December 2021. The firm’s maximum exposure to adverse changes in the value of these interests is the carrying value of $398 million as of December 2022 and $360 million as of December 2021.
Note 17.
Variable Interest Entities
A variable interest in a VIE is an investment (e.g., debt or equity) or other interest (e.g., derivatives or loans and lending commitments) that will absorb portions of the VIE’s expected losses and/or receive portions of the VIE’s expected residual returns.
The firm’s variable interests in VIEs include senior and subordinated debt; loans and lending commitments; limited and general partnership interests; preferred and common equity; derivatives that may include foreign currency, equity and/or credit risk; guarantees; and certain of the fees the firm receives from investment funds. Certain interest rate, foreign currency and credit derivatives the firm enters into with VIEs are not variable interests because they create, rather than absorb, risk.
VIEs generally finance the purchase of assets by issuing debt and equity securities that are either collateralized by or indexed to the assets held by the VIE. The debt and equity securities issued by a VIE may include tranches of varying levels of subordination. The firm’s involvement with VIEs includes securitization of financial assets, as described in Note 16, and investments in and loans to other types of VIEs, as described below. See Note 3 for the firm’s consolidation policies, including the definition of a VIE.
VIE Consolidation Analysis
The enterprise with a controlling financial interest in a VIE is known as the primary beneficiary and consolidates the VIE. The firm determines whether it is the primary beneficiary of a VIE by performing an analysis that principally considers:
•Which variable interest holder has the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance;
•Which variable interest holder has the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE;
•The VIE’s purpose and design, including the risks the VIE was designed to create and pass through to its variable interest holders;
•The VIE’s capital structure;
•The terms between the VIE and its variable interest holders and other parties involved with the VIE; and
•Related-party relationships.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 185
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The firm reassesses its evaluation of whether an entity is a VIE when certain reconsideration events occur. The firm reassesses its determination of whether it is the primary beneficiary of a VIE on an ongoing basis based on current facts and circumstances.
VIE Activities
The firm is principally involved with VIEs through the following business activities:
Mortgage-Backed VIEs. The firm sells residential and commercial mortgage loans and securities to mortgage-backed VIEs and may retain beneficial interests in the assets sold to these VIEs. The firm purchases and sells beneficial interests issued by mortgage-backed VIEs in connection with market-making activities. In addition, the firm may enter into derivatives with certain of these VIEs, primarily interest rate swaps, which are typically not variable interests. The firm generally enters into derivatives with other counterparties to mitigate its risk.
Real Estate, Credit- and Power-Related and Other Investing VIEs. The firm purchases equity and debt securities issued by and makes loans to VIEs that hold real estate, performing and nonperforming debt, distressed loans, power-related assets and equity securities. The firm generally does not sell assets to, or enter into derivatives with, these VIEs.
Corporate Debt and Other Asset-Backed VIEs. The firm structures VIEs that issue notes to clients, purchases and sells beneficial interests issued by corporate debt and other asset-backed VIEs in connection with market-making activities, and makes loans to VIEs that warehouse corporate debt. Certain of these VIEs synthetically create the exposure for the beneficial interests they issue by entering into credit derivatives with the firm, rather than purchasing the underlying assets. In addition, the firm may enter into derivatives, such as total return swaps, with certain corporate debt and other asset-backed VIEs, under which the firm pays the VIE a return due to the beneficial interest holders and receives the return on the collateral owned by the VIE. The collateral owned by these VIEs is primarily other asset-backed loans and securities. The firm may be removed as the total return swap counterparty and may enter into derivatives with other counterparties to mitigate its risk related to these swaps. The firm may sell assets to the corporate debt and other asset-backed VIEs it structures.
Principal-Protected Note VIEs. The firm structures VIEs that issue principal-protected notes to clients. These VIEs own portfolios of assets, principally with exposure to hedge funds. Substantially all of the principal protection on the notes issued by these VIEs is provided by the asset portfolio rebalancing that is required under the terms of the notes. The firm enters into total return swaps with these VIEs under which the firm pays the VIE the return due to the principal-protected note holders and receives the return on the assets owned by the VIE. The firm may enter into derivatives with other counterparties to mitigate its risk. The firm also obtains funding through these VIEs.
Investments in Funds. The firm makes equity investments in certain investment fund VIEs it manages and is entitled to receive fees from these VIEs. The firm has generally not sold assets to, or entered into derivatives with, these VIEs.
Nonconsolidated VIEs
The table below presents a summary of the nonconsolidated VIEs in which the firm holds variable interests.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Total nonconsolidated VIEs
Assets in VIEs $ 181,697 $ 176,809
Carrying value of variable interests - assets $ 12,325 $ 9,582
Carrying value of variable interests - liabilities $ 659 $ 928
Maximum exposure to loss:
Retained interests $ 5,043 $ 3,552
Purchased interests 861 1,071
Commitments and guarantees 3,087 2,440
Derivatives 8,802 8,682
Debt and equity 6,026 4,639
Total $ 23,819 $ 20,384
In the table above:
•The nature of the firm’s variable interests is described in the rows under maximum exposure to loss.
•The firm’s exposure to the obligations of VIEs is generally limited to its interests in these entities. In certain instances, the firm provides guarantees, including derivative guarantees, to VIEs or holders of variable interests in VIEs.
•The maximum exposure to loss excludes the benefit of offsetting financial instruments that are held to mitigate the risks associated with these variable interests.
•The maximum exposure to loss from retained interests, purchased interests, and debt and equity is the carrying value of these interests.
•The maximum exposure to loss from commitments and guarantees, and derivatives is the notional amount, which does not represent anticipated losses and has not been reduced by unrealized losses. As a result, the maximum exposure to loss exceeds liabilities recorded for commitments and guarantees, and derivatives.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information, by principal business activity, for nonconsolidated VIEs included in the summary table above.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Mortgage-backed
Assets in VIEs $ 127,290 $ 120,343
Carrying value of variable interests - assets $ 4,977 $ 4,147
Maximum exposure to loss:
Retained interests $ 4,645 $ 3,192
Purchased interests 332 955
Commitments and guarantees 64 34
Derivatives 2 18
Total $ 5,043 $ 4,199
Real estate, credit- and power-related and other investing
Assets in VIEs $ 29,193 $ 26,867
Carrying value of variable interests - assets $ 4,415 $ 3,923
Carrying value of variable interests - liabilities $ 2 $ 8
Maximum exposure to loss:
Commitments and guarantees $ 2,679 $ 2,030
Derivatives - 64
Debt and equity 4,414 3,923
Total $ 7,093 $ 6,017
Corporate debt and other asset-backed
Assets in VIEs $ 19,428 $ 18,391
Carrying value of variable interests - assets $ 2,817 $ 1,156
Carrying value of variable interests - liabilities $ 657 $ 920
Maximum exposure to loss:
Retained interests $ 398 $ 360
Purchased interests 529 116
Commitments and guarantees 190 250
Derivatives 8,800 8,597
Debt and equity 1,496 360
Total $ 11,413 $ 9,683
Investments in funds
Assets in VIEs $ 5,786 $ 11,208
Carrying value of variable interests - assets $ 116 $ 356
Maximum exposure to loss:
Commitments and guarantees $ 154 $ 126
Derivatives - 3
Debt and equity 116 356
Total $ 270 $ 485
As of both December 2022 and December 2021, the carrying values of the firm’s variable interests in nonconsolidated VIEs are included in the consolidated balance sheets as follows:
•Mortgage-backed: Assets primarily included in trading assets and loans.
•Real estate, credit- and power-related and other investing: Assets primarily included in investments and loans, and liabilities included in trading liabilities and other liabilities.
•Corporate debt and other asset-backed: Assets included in loans and trading assets, and liabilities included in trading liabilities.
•Investments in funds: Assets included in investments.
Consolidated VIEs
The table below presents a summary of the carrying value and balance sheet classification of assets and liabilities in consolidated VIEs.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Total consolidated VIEs
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 348 $ 501
Customer and other receivables
7 -
Trading assets 103 122
Investments 101 153
Loans 1,177 1,988
Other assets 336 314
Total $ 2,072 $ 3,078
Liabilities
Other secured financings $ 952 $ 1,143
Customer and other payables 51 34
Trading liabilities 9 7
Unsecured short-term borrowings 58 146
Unsecured long-term borrowings 16 81
Other liabilities 112 163
Total $ 1,198 $ 1,574
In the table above:
•Assets and liabilities are presented net of intercompany eliminations and exclude the benefit of offsetting financial instruments that are held to mitigate the risks associated with the firm’s variable interests.
•VIEs in which the firm holds a majority voting interest are excluded if (i) the VIE meets the definition of a business and (ii) the VIE’s assets can be used for purposes other than the settlement of its obligations.
•Substantially all assets can only be used to settle obligations of the VIE.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 187
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information, by principal business activity, for consolidated VIEs included in the summary table above.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Real estate, credit-related and other investing
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 339 $ 274
Customer and other receivables
7 -
Trading assets 42 16
Investments 101 153
Loans 1,177 1,988
Other assets 336 314
Total $ 2,002 $ 2,745
Liabilities
Other secured financings $ 170 $ 150
Customer and other payables 51 34
Trading liabilities 9 7
Other liabilities 112 163
Total $ 342 $ 354
Corporate debt and other asset-backed
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents $ 9 $ 227
Trading assets 20 17
Total $ 29 $ 244
Liabilities
Other secured financings $ 482 $ 602
Total $ 482 $ 602
Principal-protected notes
Assets
Trading assets $ 41 $ 89
Total $ 41 $ 89
Liabilities
Other secured financings $ 300 $ 391
Unsecured short-term borrowings 58 146
Unsecured long-term borrowings 16 81
Total $ 374 $ 618
In the table above:
•The majority of the assets in principal-protected notes VIEs are intercompany and are eliminated in consolidation.
•Creditors and beneficial interest holders of real estate, credit-related and other investing VIEs do not have recourse to the general credit of the firm.
Note 18.
Commitments, Contingencies and Guarantees
Commitments
The table below presents commitments by type.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Commitment Type
Commercial lending:
Investment-grade $ 97,659 $ 95,585
Non-investment-grade 56,265 69,635
Warehouse financing 9,116 10,391
Consumer
64,098 35,941
Total lending 227,138 211,552
Risk participations 9,173 10,016
Collateralized agreement 105,301 101,031
Collateralized financing 22,532 29,561
Investment 7,705 11,381
Other 9,690 9,143
Total commitments $ 381,539 $ 372,684
The table below presents commitments by expiration.
As of December 2022
2024 - 2026 - 2028 -
$ in millions 2023 2025 2027 Thereafter
Commitment Type
Commercial lending:
Investment-grade $ 14,764 $ 26,601 $ 54,258 $ 2,036
Non-investment-grade 4,850 17,875 27,601 5,939
Warehouse financing 1,633 6,248 1,197 38
Consumer
64,097 1 - -
Total lending 85,344 50,725 83,056 8,013
Risk participations 2,932 3,394 2,760 87
Collateralized agreement 104,392 909 - -
Collateralized financing 21,816 716 - -
Investment 1,266 1,379 2,344 2,716
Other 9,168 285 - 237
Total commitments $ 224,918 $ 57,408 $ 88,160 $ 11,053
Lending Commitments
The firm’s commercial and warehouse financing lending commitments are agreements to lend with fixed termination dates and depend on the satisfaction of all contractual conditions to borrowing. These commitments are presented net of amounts syndicated to third parties. The total commitment amount does not necessarily reflect actual future cash flows because the firm may syndicate portions of these commitments. In addition, commitments can expire unused or be reduced or cancelled at the counterparty’s request. The firm also provides credit to consumers by issuing credit card lines and through commitments to provide unsecured installment loans.
The table below presents information about lending commitments.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Held for investment $ 222,689 $ 197,120
Held for sale 3,355 13,175
At fair value 1,094 1,257
Total $ 227,138 $ 211,552
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In the table above:
•Held for investment lending commitments are accounted for at amortized cost. The carrying value of lending commitments was a liability of $1.01 billion (including allowance for credit losses of $774 million) as of December 2022 and $1.05 billion (including allowance for credit losses of $776 million) as of December 2021. The estimated fair value of such lending commitments was a liability of $5.95 billion as of December 2022 and $4.17 billion as of December 2021. Had these lending commitments been carried at fair value and included in the fair value hierarchy, $3.11 billion as of December 2022 and $1.91 billion as of December 2021 would have been classified in level 2, and $2.84 billion as of December 2022 and $2.26 billion as of December 2021 would have been classified in level 3.
•Held for sale lending commitments are accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value. The carrying value of lending commitments held for sale was a liability of $88 million as of December 2022 and $91 million as of December 2021. The estimated fair value of such lending commitments approximates the carrying value. Had these lending commitments been included in the fair value hierarchy, they would have been primarily classified in level 3 as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•Gains or losses related to lending commitments at fair value, if any, are generally recorded net of any fees in other principal transactions.
Commercial Lending. The firm’s commercial lending commitments were primarily extended to investment-grade corporate borrowers. Such commitments primarily included $127.60 billion as of December 2022 and $120.99 billion as of December 2021, related to relationship lending activities (principally used for operating and general corporate purposes), and $7.71 billion as of December 2022 and $21.07 billion as of December 2021, related to other investment banking activities (generally extended for contingent acquisition financing and are often intended to be short-term in nature, as borrowers often seek to replace them with other funding sources). The firm also extends lending commitments in connection with other types of corporate lending, commercial real estate financing and other collateralized lending. See Note 9 for further information about funded loans.
To mitigate the credit risk associated with the firm’s commercial lending activities, the firm obtains credit protection on certain loans and lending commitments through credit default swaps, both single-name and index-based contracts, and through the issuance of credit-linked notes.
Warehouse Financing. The firm provides financing to clients who warehouse financial assets. These arrangements are collateralized by the warehoused assets, primarily consisting of residential real estate, consumer and corporate loans.
Consumer. The firm’s consumer lending commitments includes:
•Credit card lines issued by the firm to consumers were $62.22 billion as of December 2022 and $33.97 billion as of December 2021. These credit card lines are cancellable by the firm. The increase in credit card lending commitments from December 2021 to December 2022 included approximately $15.0 billion relating to the firm’s acquisition of the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio in February 2022. In addition, consumer lending commitments as of December 2021 included a commitment of approximately $2.0 billion to acquire the outstanding credit card loans related to the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio.
•Commitments to provide unsecured installment loans to consumers were $1.88 billion as of December 2022 and $9 million as of December 2021. The increase in these lending commitments from December 2021 to December 2022 primarily related to commitments extended in connection with point-of-sale financing.
Risk Participations
The firm also risk participates certain of its commercial lending commitments to other financial institutions. In the event of a risk participant’s default, the firm will be responsible to fund the borrower.
Collateralized Agreement Commitments/ Collateralized Financing Commitments
Collateralized agreement commitments includes forward starting resale and securities borrowing agreements, and collateralized financing commitments includes forward starting repurchase and secured lending agreements that settle at a future date, generally within three business days. Collateralized agreement commitments also includes transactions where the firm has entered into commitments to provide contingent financing to its clients and counterparties through resale agreements. The firm’s funding of these commitments depends on the satisfaction of all contractual conditions to the resale agreement and these commitments can expire unused.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 189
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Investment Commitments
Investment commitments includes commitments to invest in private equity, real estate and other assets directly and through funds that the firm raises and manages. Investment commitments included $1.29 billion as of December 2022 and $1.60 billion as of December 2021, related to commitments to invest in funds managed by the firm. If these commitments are called, they would be funded at market value on the date of investment.
Investment commitments as of December 2021 included approximately $1.90 billion related to the firm’s commitment to acquire NNIP and approximately $2.0 billion related to the firm’s commitment to acquire GreenSky. These acquisitions were completed in 2022. See Note 12 for information about these acquisitions. In addition, as of December 2021, the firm had an undrawn commitment of approximately $600 million (included within other commitments) to GreenSky to acquire loans originated by GreenSky’s bank partners, which was terminated upon completion of the acquisition.
Contingencies
Legal Proceedings. See Note 27 for information about legal proceedings.
Guarantees
The table below presents derivatives that meet the definition of a guarantee, securities lending and clearing guarantees and certain other financial guarantees.
$ in millions Derivatives Securities
lending and
clearing Other
financial
guarantees
As of December 2022
Carrying Value of Net Liability $ 7,485 $ - $ 395
Maximum Payout/Notional Amount by Period of Expiration
2023 $ 110,599 $ 20,970 $ 1,634
2024 - 2025 133,090 - 3,308
2026 - 2027 20,252 - 1,837
2028 - thereafter 27,518 - 93
Total $ 291,459 $ 20,970 $ 6,872
As of December 2021
Carrying Value of Net Liability $ 3,406 $ - $ 234
Maximum Payout/Notional Amount by Period of Expiration
2022 $ 68,212 $ 11,046 $ 871
2023 - 2024 48,273 - 3,608
2025 - 2026 19,706 - 2,015
2027 - thereafter 30,006 - 97
Total $ 166,197 $ 11,046 $ 6,591
In the table above:
•The maximum payout is based on the notional amount of the contract and does not represent anticipated losses.
•Amounts exclude certain commitments to issue standby letters of credit that are included in lending commitments. See the tables in “Commitments” above for a summary of the firm’s commitments.
•The carrying value for derivatives included derivative assets of $578 million as of December 2022 and $1.10 billion as of December 2021, and derivative liabilities of $8.06 billion as of December 2022 and $4.51 billion as of December 2021.
Derivative Guarantees. The firm enters into various derivatives that meet the definition of a guarantee under U.S. GAAP, including written equity and commodity put options, written currency contracts and interest rate caps, floors and swaptions. These derivatives are risk managed together with derivatives that do not meet the definition of a guarantee, and therefore the amounts in the table above do not reflect the firm’s overall risk related to derivative activities. Disclosures about derivatives are not required if they may be cash settled and the firm has no basis to conclude it is probable that the counterparties held the underlying instruments at the inception of the contract. The firm has concluded that these conditions have been met for certain large, internationally active commercial and investment bank counterparties, central clearing counterparties, hedge funds and certain other counterparties. Accordingly, the firm has not included such contracts in the table above. See Note 7 for information about credit derivatives that meet the definition of a guarantee, which are not included in the table above.
Derivatives are accounted for at fair value and therefore the carrying value is considered the best indication of payment/performance risk for individual contracts. However, the carrying values in the table above exclude the effect of counterparty and cash collateral netting.
Securities Lending and Clearing Guarantees. Securities lending and clearing guarantees include the indemnifications and guarantees that the firm provides in its capacity as an agency lender and in its capacity as a sponsoring member of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation.
As an agency lender, the firm indemnifies most of its securities lending customers against losses incurred in the event that borrowers do not return securities and the collateral held is insufficient to cover the market value of the securities borrowed. The maximum payout of such indemnifications was $12.23 billion as of December 2022 and $11.05 billion as of December 2021. Collateral held by the lenders in connection with securities lending indemnifications was $12.62 billion as of December 2022 and $11.36 billion as of December 2021. Because the contractual nature of these arrangements requires the firm to obtain collateral with a market value that exceeds the value of the securities lent to the borrower, there is minimal performance risk associated with these indemnifications.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
As a sponsoring member of the Government Securities Division of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, the firm guarantees the performance of its sponsored member clients to the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation in connection with certain resale and repurchase agreements. To minimize potential losses on such guarantees, the firm obtains a security interest in the collateral that the sponsored client placed with the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation. Therefore, the risk of loss on such guarantees is minimal. As of December 2022, the maximum payout on this guarantee was $8.74 billion and the related collateral held was $8.70 billion. There were no amounts outstanding under the guarantee as of December 2021.
Other Financial Guarantees. In the ordinary course of business, the firm provides other financial guarantees of the obligations of third parties (e.g., standby letters of credit and other guarantees to enable clients to complete transactions and fund-related guarantees). These guarantees represent obligations to make payments to beneficiaries if the guaranteed party fails to fulfill its obligation under a contractual arrangement with that beneficiary. Other financial guarantees also include a guarantee that the firm has provided to the Government of Malaysia that it will receive, by August 2025, at least $1.4 billion in assets and proceeds from assets seized by governmental authorities around the world related to 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a sovereign wealth fund in Malaysia (1MDB). In connection with this guarantee, the firm is also required to make a one-time interim payment of $250 million towards the $1.4 billion if the Government of Malaysia has not received at least $500 million in assets and proceeds by August 2022. The firm considers the reports that it receives on a semi-annual basis, expected in February and August, in evaluating the progress of Malaysia’s recovery efforts. The firm and the Government of Malaysia disagree about and, following an extension of the contractual dispute resolution period, continue to discuss whether the Government of Malaysia did, in fact, recover at least $500 million as of August 2022 and whether any interim payment was due. If the parties are unable to resolve this dispute, it would be settled by arbitration. Any amounts paid by the firm would, in any event, be subject to reimbursement in the event the assets and proceeds received by the Government of Malaysia through August 18, 2028 exceed $1.4 billion. See Note 27 for further information about matters related to 1MDB.
Guarantees of Securities Issued by Trusts. The firm has established trusts, including Goldman Sachs Capital I, Goldman Sachs Capital II and Goldman Sachs Capital III (the Trusts), and other entities, for the limited purpose of issuing securities to third parties, lending the proceeds to the firm and entering into contractual arrangements with the firm and third parties related to this purpose. The firm does not consolidate these entities. See Notes 14 and 19 for further information about the transactions involving the Trusts.
The firm effectively provides for the full and unconditional guarantee of the securities issued by these entities. Timely payment by the firm of amounts due to these entities under the guarantee, borrowing, preferred stock and related contractual arrangements will be sufficient to cover payments due on the securities issued by these entities. No subsidiary of Group Inc. guarantees the securities of the Trusts.
Management believes that it is unlikely that any circumstances will occur, such as nonperformance on the part of paying agents or other service providers, that would make it necessary for the firm to make payments related to these entities other than those required under the terms of the guarantee, borrowing, preferred stock and related contractual arrangements and in connection with certain expenses incurred by these entities.
Indemnities and Guarantees of Service Providers. In the ordinary course of business, the firm indemnifies and guarantees certain service providers, such as clearing and custody agents, trustees and administrators, against specified potential losses in connection with their acting as an agent of, or providing services to, the firm or its affiliates.
The firm may also be liable to some clients or other parties for losses arising from its custodial role or caused by acts or omissions of third-party service providers, including sub-custodians and third-party brokers. In certain cases, the firm has the right to seek indemnification from these third-party service providers for certain relevant losses incurred by the firm. In addition, the firm is a member of payment, clearing and settlement networks, as well as securities exchanges around the world that may require the firm to meet the obligations of such networks and exchanges in the event of member defaults and other loss scenarios.
In connection with the firm’s prime brokerage and clearing businesses, the firm agrees to clear and settle transactions entered into by clients with other brokerage firms. The firm’s obligations in respect of such transactions are secured by the assets in the client’s account and proceeds received from the transactions cleared and settled by the firm on behalf of the client. In connection with joint venture investments, the firm may issue loan guarantees under which it may be liable in the event of fraud, misappropriation, environmental liabilities and other matters involving the borrower.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 191
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The firm is unable to develop an estimate of the maximum payout under these guarantees and indemnifications. However, management believes that it is unlikely the firm will have to make any material payments under these arrangements, and no material liabilities related to these guarantees and indemnifications have been recognized in the consolidated balance sheets as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
Other Representations, Warranties and Indemnifications. The firm provides representations and warranties to counterparties in connection with a variety of commercial transactions and occasionally indemnifies them against potential losses caused by the breach of those representations and warranties. The firm may also provide indemnifications protecting against changes in or adverse application of certain U.S. tax laws in connection with ordinary-course transactions, such as securities issuances, borrowings or derivatives.
In addition, the firm may provide indemnifications to some counterparties to protect them in the event additional taxes are owed or payments are withheld, due either to a change in or an adverse application of certain non-U.S. tax laws.
These indemnifications generally are standard contractual terms and are entered into in the ordinary course of business. Generally, there are no stated or notional amounts included in these indemnifications, and the contingencies triggering the obligation to indemnify are not expected to occur. The firm is unable to develop an estimate of the maximum payout under these guarantees and indemnifications. However, management believes that it is unlikely the firm will have to make any material payments under these arrangements, and no material liabilities related to these arrangements have been recognized in the consolidated balance sheets as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
Guarantees of Subsidiaries. Group Inc. is the entity that fully and unconditionally guarantees the securities issued by GS Finance Corp., a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of the firm. Group Inc. has guaranteed the payment obligations of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.), GS Bank USA and Goldman Sachs Paris Inc. et Cie, subject to certain exceptions. In addition, Group Inc. has provided guarantees to Goldman Sachs International (GSI) and GSBE related to agreements that each entity has entered into with certain of its counterparties. Group Inc. guarantees many of the obligations of its other consolidated subsidiaries on a transaction-by-transaction basis, as negotiated with counterparties. Group Inc. is unable to develop an estimate of the maximum payout under its subsidiary guarantees. However, because these obligations are also obligations of consolidated subsidiaries, Group Inc.’s liabilities as guarantor are not separately disclosed.
Note 19.
Shareholders’ Equity
Common Equity
As of both December 2022 and December 2021, the firm had 4.00 billion authorized shares of common stock and 200 million authorized shares of nonvoting common stock, each with a par value of $0.01 per share. During 2022, in connection with the acquisition of GreenSky, the firm issued approximately 5.5 million shares of common stock, including approximately 325,000 shares subject to future service.
The firm’s share repurchase program is intended to help maintain the appropriate level of common equity. The share repurchase program is effected primarily through regular open-market purchases (which may include repurchase plans designed to comply with Rule 10b5-1 and accelerated share repurchases), the amounts and timing of which are determined primarily by the firm’s current and projected capital position, and capital deployment opportunities, but which may also be influenced by general market conditions and the prevailing price and trading volumes of the firm’s common stock.
The table below presents information about common stock repurchases.
Year Ended December
in millions, except per share amounts 2022 2021 2020
Common share repurchases 10.1 15.3 8.2
Average cost per share $ 346.07 $ 339.81 $ 236.35
Total cost of common share repurchases $ 3,500 $ 5,200 $ 1,928
Pursuant to the terms of certain share-based compensation plans, employees may remit shares to the firm or the firm may cancel share-based awards to satisfy statutory employee tax withholding requirements. Under these plans, 11,644 shares in 2022, 1,830 shares in 2021 and 3,476 shares in 2020 were remitted with a total value of $4 million in 2022, $0.5 million in 2021 and $0.9 million in 2020, and the firm cancelled 4.6 million share-based awards in 2022, and 3.4 million in both 2021 and 2020, with a total value of $1.59 billion in 2022, $984 million in 2021 and $829 million in 2020.
The table below presents common stock dividends declared.
Year Ended December
2022 2021 2020
Dividends declared per common share $ 9.00 $ 6.50 $ 5.00
On January 13, 2023, the Board of Directors of Group Inc. (Board) declared a dividend of $2.50 per common share to be paid on March 30, 2023 to common shareholders of record on March 2, 2023.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Preferred Equity
The tables below present information about the perpetual preferred stock issued and outstanding as of December 2022.
Series Shares
Authorized Shares
Issued Shares
Outstanding Depositary Shares
Per Share
A 50,000 30,000 29,999 1,000
C 25,000 8,000 8,000 1,000
D 60,000 54,000 53,999 1,000
E 17,500 7,667 7,667 N.A.
F 5,000 1,615 1,615 N.A.
J 46,000 40,000 40,000 1,000
K 32,200 28,000 28,000 1,000
O 26,000 26,000 26,000 25
P 66,000 60,000 60,000 25
Q 20,000 20,000 20,000 25
R 24,000 24,000 24,000 25
S 14,000 14,000 14,000 25
T 27,000 27,000 27,000 25
U 30,000 30,000 30,000 25
V 30,000 30,000 30,000 25
Total 472,700 400,282 400,280
Series Earliest Redemption Date Liquidation
Preference Redemption Value
($ in millions)
A Currently redeemable $ 25,000 $ 750
C Currently redeemable $ 25,000 200
D Currently redeemable $ 25,000 1,350
E Currently redeemable $ 100,000 767
F Currently redeemable $ 100,000 161
J May 10, 2023 $ 25,000 1,000
K May 10, 2024 $ 25,000 700
O November 10, 2026 $ 25,000 650
P Currently redeemable $ 25,000 1,500
Q August 10, 2024 $ 25,000 500
R February 10, 2025 $ 25,000 600
S February 10, 2025 $ 25,000 350
T May 10, 2026 $ 25,000 675
U August 10, 2026 $ 25,000 750
V November 10, 2026 $ 25,000 750
Total $ 10,703
In the tables above:
•All shares have a par value of $0.01 per share and, where applicable, each share is represented by the specified number of depositary shares.
•The earliest redemption date represents the date on which each share of non-cumulative preferred stock is redeemable at the firm’s option.
•Prior to redeeming preferred stock, the firm must receive approval from the FRB.
•The redemption price per share for Series A through F and Series Q through V Preferred Stock is the liquidation preference plus declared and unpaid dividends. The redemption price per share for Series J through P Preferred Stock is the liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends.
•All series of preferred stock are pari passu and have a preference over the firm’s common stock on liquidation.
•The firm’s ability to declare or pay dividends on, or purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, its common stock is subject to certain restrictions in the event that the firm fails to pay or set aside full dividends on the preferred stock for the latest completed dividend period.
•Series E and Series F Preferred Stock are held by Goldman Sachs Capital II and Goldman Sachs Capital III, respectively. These trusts are Delaware statutory trusts sponsored by the firm and wholly-owned finance subsidiaries of the firm for regulatory and legal purposes but are not consolidated for accounting purposes.
In 2021, the firm redeemed all outstanding shares of its (i) Series N 6.30% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock with a redemption value of $675 million ($25,000 per share), plus accrued and unpaid dividends and (ii) Series M 5.375% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock with a redemption value of $2 billion ($25,000 per share), plus accrued and unpaid dividends. The difference between the redemption value and net carrying value at the time of these redemptions was $41 million, which was recorded as an addition to preferred stock dividends in 2021.
In 2020, the firm redeemed the remaining 14,000 outstanding shares of its Series L 5.70% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock with a redemption value of $350 million ($25,000 per share), plus accrued and unpaid dividends. The difference between the redemption value and net carrying value was $1 million, which was recorded as an addition to preferred stock dividends in 2020.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 193
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents the dividend rates of perpetual preferred stock as of December 2022.
Series Per Annum Dividend Rate
A 3 month LIBOR + 0.75%, with floor of 3.75%, payable quarterly
C 3 month LIBOR + 0.75%, with floor of 4.00%, payable quarterly
D 3 month LIBOR + 0.67%, with floor of 4.00%, payable quarterly
E 3 month LIBOR + 0.7675%, with floor of 4.00%, payable quarterly
F 3 month LIBOR + 0.77%, with floor of 4.00%, payable quarterly
J 5.50% to, but excluding, May 10, 2023;
3 month LIBOR + 3.64% thereafter, payable quarterly
K 6.375% to, but excluding, May 10, 2024;
3 month LIBOR + 3.55% thereafter, payable quarterly
O 5.30%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
November 10, 2026; 3 month LIBOR + 3.834%, payable quarterly, thereafter
P 3 month LIBOR + 2.874%, payable quarterly
Q 5.50%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
August 10, 2024; 5 year treasury rate + 3.623%, payable semi-annually, thereafter
R 4.95%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
February 10, 2025; 5 year treasury rate + 3.224%, payable semi-annually, thereafter
S 4.40%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
February 10, 2025; 5 year treasury rate + 2.85%, payable semi-annually thereafter
T 3.80%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
May 10, 2026; 5 year treasury rate + 2.969%, payable semi-annually, thereafter
U 3.65%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
August 10, 2026; 5 year treasury rate + 2.915%, payable semi-annually, thereafter
V 4.125%, payable semi-annually, from issuance date to, but excluding,
November 10, 2026; 5 year treasury rate + 2.949%, payable semi-annually, thereafter
In the table above, dividends on each series of preferred stock are payable in arrears for the periods specified.
The table below presents preferred stock dividends declared.
Year Ended December
2022 2021 2020
Series per share $ in millions per share $ in millions per share $ in millions
A $ 950.51 $ 28 $ 950.51 $ 28 $ 947.92 $ 28
C $ 1,013.90 8 $ 1,013.90 8 $ 1,011.12 8
D $ 1,013.90 55 $ 1,013.90 55 $ 1,011.12 55
E $ 4,055.55 31 $ 4,055.55 31 $ 4,055.55 31
F $ 4,055.55 6 $ 4,055.55 7 $ 4,055.55 6
J $ 1,375.00 55 $ 1,375.00 55 $ 1,375.00 55
K $ 1,593.76 45 $ 1,593.76 44 $ 1,593.76 45
L $ - - $ - - $ 361.54 4
M $ - - $ - - $ 1,217.16 97
N $ - - $ 787.50 19 $ 1,575.00 43
O $ 1,325.00 34 $ 1,325.00 34 $ 1,325.00 34
P $ 1,250.00 75 $ 1,250.00 75 $ 1,250.00 75
Q $ 1,375.00 28 $ 1,375.00 28 $ 1,577.43 32
R $ 1,237.50 30 $ 1,237.50 30 $ 910.94 22
S $ 1,100.00 16 $ 1,100.00 15 $ 586.67 8
T $ 950.00 26 $ 511.94 14 $ - -
U $ 942.92 28 $ - - $ - -
V $ 1,062.76 32 $ - - $ - -
Total $ 497 $ 443 $ 543
On January 5, 2023, Group Inc. declared dividends of $341.29 per share of Series A Preferred Stock, $341.29 per share of Series C Preferred Stock, $336.18 per share of Series D Preferred Stock, $343.75 per share of Series J Preferred Stock, $398.44 per share of Series K Preferred Stock, $476.99 per share of Series P Preferred Stock, $687.50 per share of Series Q Preferred Stock, $618.75 per share of Series R Preferred Stock, $550.00 per share of Series S Preferred Stock and $456.25 per share of Series U Preferred Stock to be paid on February 10, 2023 to preferred shareholders of record on January 26, 2023. In addition, the firm declared dividends of $1,382.02 per share of Series E Preferred Stock and $1,382.64 per share of Series F Preferred Stock to be paid on March 1, 2023 to preferred shareholders of record on February 14, 2023.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income/(Loss)
The table below presents changes in accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss), net of tax, by type.
$ in millions Beginning
balance Other
comprehensive
income/(loss)
adjustments,
net of tax Ending
balance
Year Ended December 2022
Currency translation $ (738) $ (47) $ (785)
Debt valuation adjustment (511) 1,403 892
Pension and postretirement liabilities (327) (172) (499)
Available-for-sale securities (492) (2,126) (2,618)
Total $ (2,068) $ (942) $ (3,010)
Year Ended December 2021
Currency translation $ (696) $ (42) $ (738)
Debt valuation adjustment (833) 322 (511)
Pension and postretirement liabilities (368) 41 (327)
Available-for-sale securities 463 (955) (492)
Total $ (1,434) $ (634) $ (2,068)
Year Ended December 2020
Currency translation $ (616) $ (80) $ (696)
Debt valuation adjustment (572) (261) (833)
Pension and postretirement liabilities (342) (26) (368)
Available-for-sale securities 46 417 463
Total $ (1,484) $ 50 $ (1,434)
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 20.
Regulation and Capital Adequacy
The FRB is the primary regulator of Group Inc., a bank holding company under the U.S. Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and a financial holding company under amendments to this Act. The firm is subject to consolidated regulatory capital requirements which are calculated in accordance with the regulations of the FRB (Capital Framework).
The capital requirements are expressed as risk-based capital and leverage ratios that compare measures of regulatory capital to risk-weighted assets (RWAs), average assets and off-balance sheet exposures. Failure to comply with these capital requirements would result in restrictions being imposed by the firm’s regulators and could limit the firm’s ability to repurchase shares, pay dividends and make certain discretionary compensation payments. The firm’s capital levels are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components of capital, risk weightings and other factors. Furthermore, certain of the firm’s subsidiaries are subject to separate regulations and capital requirements.
Capital Framework
The regulations under the Capital Framework are largely based on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (Basel Committee) capital framework for strengthening international capital standards (Basel III) and also implement certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. Under the Capital Framework, the firm is an “Advanced approaches” banking organization and has been designated as a global systemically important bank (G-SIB).
The Capital Framework includes the minimum risk-based capital and the capital conservation buffer requirements. The buffer must consist entirely of capital that qualifies as Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital.
The firm calculates its CET1 capital, Tier 1 capital and Total capital ratios in accordance with both the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules. Each of the ratios calculated under the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules must meet its respective capital requirements.
Under the Capital Framework, the firm is also subject to leverage requirements which consist of a minimum Tier 1 leverage ratio and a minimum supplementary leverage ratio (SLR), as well as the SLR buffer.
Consolidated Regulatory Capital Requirements
Risk-Based Capital Ratios. The table below presents the risk-based capital requirements.
Standardized Advanced
As of December 2022
CET1 capital ratio 13.3 % 9.5 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 14.8 % 11.0 %
Total capital ratio 16.8 % 13.0 %
As of December 2021
CET1 capital ratio
13.4 % 9.5 %
Tier 1 capital ratio
14.9 % 11.0 %
Total capital ratio 16.9 % 13.0 %
In the table above:
•As of both December 2022 and December 2021, under both the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules, the CET1 capital ratio requirement includes a minimum of 4.5%, the Tier 1 capital ratio requirement includes a minimum of 6.0% and the Total capital ratio requirement includes a minimum of 8.0%. These requirements also include the capital conservation buffer requirements, consisting of the G-SIB surcharge of 2.5% (Method 2) and the countercyclical capital buffer, which the FRB has set to zero percent. In addition, the capital conservation buffer requirements include the stress capital buffer of 6.3% as of December 2022 and 6.4% as of December 2021 under the Standardized Capital Rules and a buffer of 2.5% under the Advanced Capital Rules.
•The G-SIB surcharge is updated annually based on financial data from the prior year and is generally applicable for the following year. The G-SIB surcharge is calculated using two methodologies, the higher of which is reflected in the firm’s risk-based capital requirements. The first calculation (Method 1) is based on the Basel Committee’s methodology which, among other factors, relies upon measures of the size, activity and complexity of each G-SIB. The second calculation (Method 2) uses similar inputs but includes a measure of reliance on short-term wholesale funding.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 195
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents information about risk-based capital ratios.
$ in millions Standardized Advanced
As of December 2022
CET1 capital $ 98,050 $ 98,050
Tier 1 capital $ 108,552 $ 108,552
Tier 2 capital $ 15,958 $ 12,115
Total capital $ 124,510 $ 120,667
RWAs $ 653,419 $ 679,450
CET1 capital ratio 15.0 % 14.4 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 16.6 % 16.0 %
Total capital ratio 19.1 % 17.8 %
As of December 2021
CET1 capital $ 96,254 $ 96,254
Tier 1 capital $ 106,766 $ 106,766
Tier 2 capital $ 14,636 $ 12,051
Total capital $ 121,402 $ 118,817
RWAs $ 676,863 $ 647,921
CET1 capital ratio 14.2 % 14.9 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 15.8 % 16.5 %
Total capital ratio 17.9 % 18.3 %
In the table above, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022, the firm updated the probability of default models used in the calculation of Advanced RWAs. The impact of this change was a decrease in the firm's Advanced CET1 capital ratio of approximately 0.7 percentage points.
In the second half of 2022, based on regulatory feedback, the firm revised certain interpretations of the Capital Rules underlying the calculation of Standardized and Advanced RWAs. As of December 2021, this change would have increased the firm's Standardized RWAs of $677 billion by approximately $12 billion, which would have reduced the firm's Standardized CET1 capital ratio of 14.2% by 0.2 percentage points, Standardized Tier 1 capital ratio of 15.8% by 0.3 percentage points and Standardized Total capital ratio of 17.9% by 0.3 percentage points. As of December 2021, this change would have increased the firm's Advanced RWAs of $648 billion by approximately $6 billion, which would have reduced the firm's Advanced CET1 capital ratio of 14.9% by 0.2 percentage points, Advanced Tier 1 capital ratio of 16.5% by 0.2 percentage points and Advanced Total capital ratio of 18.3% by 0.1 percentage points.
Leverage Ratios. The table below presents the leverage requirements.
Requirements
Tier 1 leverage ratio 4.0 %
SLR 5.0 %
In the table above, the SLR requirement of 5% includes a minimum of 3% and a 2% buffer applicable to G-SIBs.
The table below presents information about leverage ratios.
For the Three Months
Ended or as of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Tier 1 capital $ 108,552 $ 106,766
Average total assets $ 1,500,225 $ 1,466,770
Deductions from Tier 1 capital (8,259) (4,583)
Average adjusted total assets 1,491,966 1,462,187
Off-balance sheet and other exposures 375,392 448,334
Total leverage exposure $ 1,867,358 $ 1,910,521
Tier 1 leverage ratio 7.3 % 7.3%
SLR 5.8 % 5.6%
In the table above:
•Average total assets represents the average daily assets for the quarter adjusted for the impact of Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) transition.
•Off-balance sheet and other exposures primarily includes the monthly average of off-balance sheet exposures, consisting of derivatives, securities financing transactions, commitments and guarantees.
•Tier 1 leverage ratio is calculated as Tier 1 capital divided by average adjusted total assets.
•SLR is calculated as Tier 1 capital divided by total leverage exposure.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Risk-Based Capital. The table below presents information about risk-based capital.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Common shareholders’ equity $ 106,486 $ 99,223
Impact of CECL transition 829 1,105
Deduction for goodwill (5,674) (3,610)
Deduction for identifiable intangible assets (1,770) (401)
Other adjustments (1,821) (63)
CET1 capital 98,050 96,254
Preferred stock 10,703 10,703
Deduction for investments in covered funds
(199) (189)
Other adjustments (2) (2)
Tier 1 capital $ 108,552 $ 106,766
Standardized Tier 2 and Total capital
Tier 1 capital $ 108,552 $ 106,766
Qualifying subordinated debt 10,637 11,554
Junior subordinated debt - 94
Allowance for credit losses 5,331 3,034
Other adjustments (10) (46)
Standardized Tier 2 capital 15,958 14,636
Standardized Total capital $ 124,510 $ 121,402
Advanced Tier 2 and Total capital
Tier 1 capital $ 108,552 $ 106,766
Standardized Tier 2 capital 15,958 14,636
Allowance for credit losses (5,331) (3,034)
Other adjustments 1,488 449
Advanced Tier 2 capital 12,115 12,051
Advanced Total capital $ 120,667 $ 118,817
In the table above:
•Beginning in January 2022, the firm started to phase in the estimated reduction to regulatory capital as a result of adopting the CECL model. Impact of CECL transition in the table above reflects the total amount of reduction of $1.11 billion as of December 2021 to be phased in through January 2025 (at 25% per year), of which $276 million was phased in on January 1, 2022. The total amount to be phased in includes the impact of adopting CECL as of January 1, 2020, as well as 25% of the increase in the allowance for credit losses from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.
•Deduction for goodwill was net of deferred tax liabilities of $700 million as of December 2022 and $675 million as of December 2021.
•Deduction for identifiable intangible assets was net of deferred tax liabilities of $239 million as of December 2022 and $17 million as of December 2021.
•Deduction for investments in covered funds represents the firm’s aggregate investments in applicable covered funds. As of December 2021, this deduction excluded investments that were subject to an extended conformance period. See Note 8 for further information about the Volcker Rule.
•Other adjustments within CET1 capital and Tier 1 capital primarily include credit valuation adjustments on derivative liabilities, the overfunded portion of the firm’s defined benefit pension plan obligation net of associated deferred tax liabilities, disallowed deferred tax assets, debt valuation adjustments and other required credit risk-based deductions. Other adjustments within Advanced Tier 2 capital include eligible credit reserves.
•Qualifying subordinated debt is subordinated debt issued by Group Inc. with an original maturity of five years or greater. The outstanding amount of subordinated debt qualifying for Tier 2 capital is reduced upon reaching a remaining maturity of five years. See Note 14 for further information about the firm’s subordinated debt.
•Junior subordinated debt is debt issued to a Trust and was fully phased out of regulatory capital on January 1, 2022. As of December 2021, 10% of this debt was included in Tier 2 capital and 90% was phased out of regulatory capital. Junior subordinated debt is reduced by the amount of Trust Preferred securities purchased by the firm. See Note 14 for further information about the firm’s junior subordinated debt and Trust Preferred securities.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 197
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents changes in CET1 capital, Tier 1 capital and Tier 2 capital.
$ in millions Standardized Advanced
Year Ended December 2022
CET1 capital
Beginning balance $ 96,254 $ 96,254
Change in:
Common shareholders’ equity 7,263 7,263
Impact of CECL transition (276) (276)
Deduction for goodwill (2,064) (2,064)
Deduction for identifiable intangible assets (1,369) (1,369)
Other adjustments (1,758) (1,758)
Ending balance $ 98,050 $ 98,050
Tier 1 capital
Beginning balance $ 106,766 $ 106,766
Change in:
CET1 capital 1,796 1,796
Deduction for investments in covered funds
(10) (10)
Ending balance 108,552 108,552
Tier 2 capital
Beginning balance 14,636 12,051
Change in:
Qualifying subordinated debt (917) (917)
Junior subordinated debt (94) (94)
Allowance for credit losses 2,297 -
Other adjustments 36 1,075
Ending balance 15,958 12,115
Total capital $ 124,510 $ 120,667
RWAs. RWAs are calculated in accordance with both the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules.
Credit Risk
Credit RWAs are calculated based on measures of exposure, which are then risk weighted under the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules:
•The Standardized Capital Rules apply prescribed risk-weights, which depend largely on the type of counterparty. The exposure measures for derivatives and securities financing transactions are based on specific formulas which take certain factors into consideration.
•Under the Advanced Capital Rules, the firm computes risk-weights for wholesale and retail credit exposures in accordance with the Advanced Internal Ratings-Based approach. The exposure measures for derivatives and securities financing transactions are computed utilizing internal models.
•For both Standardized and Advanced credit RWAs, the risk-weights for securitizations and equities are based on specific required formulaic approaches.
Market Risk
RWAs for market risk in accordance with the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules are generally consistent. Market RWAs are calculated based on measures of exposure which include the following:
•Value-at-Risk (VaR) is the potential loss in value of trading assets and liabilities, as well as certain investments, loans, and other financial assets and liabilities accounted for at fair value, due to adverse market movements over a defined time horizon with a specified confidence level.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
For both risk management purposes and regulatory capital calculations, the firm uses a single VaR model which captures risks, including those related to interest rates, equity prices, currency rates and commodity prices. However, VaR used for risk management purposes differs from VaR used for regulatory capital requirements (regulatory VaR) due to differences in time horizons, confidence levels and the scope of positions on which VaR is calculated. For risk management purposes, a 95% one-day VaR is used, whereas for regulatory capital requirements, a 99% 10-day VaR is used to determine Market RWAs and a 99% one-day VaR is used to determine regulatory VaR exceptions. In addition, the daily net revenues used to determine risk management VaR exceptions (i.e., comparing the daily net revenues to the VaR measure calculated as of the end of the prior business day) include intraday activity, whereas the Capital Framework requires that intraday activity be excluded from daily net revenues when calculating regulatory VaR exceptions. Intraday activity includes bid/offer net revenues, which are more likely than not to be positive by their nature. As a result, there may be differences in the number of VaR exceptions and the amount of daily net revenues calculated for regulatory VaR compared to the amounts calculated for risk management VaR.
The firm’s positional losses observed on a single day exceeded its 99% one-day regulatory VaR on one occasion during each of the years ended 2022 and 2021. There was no change in the firm’s VaR multiplier used to calculate Market RWAs;
•Stressed VaR is the potential loss in value of trading assets and liabilities, as well as certain investments, loans, and other financial assets and liabilities accounted for at fair value, during a period of significant market stress;
•Incremental risk is the potential loss in value of non-securitized positions due to the default or credit migration of issuers of financial instruments over a one-year time horizon;
•Comprehensive risk is the potential loss in value, due to price risk and defaults, within the firm’s credit correlation positions; and
•Specific risk is the risk of loss on a position that could result from factors other than broad market movements, including event risk, default risk and idiosyncratic risk. The standardized measurement method is used to determine specific risk RWAs, by applying supervisory defined risk-weighting factors after applicable netting is performed.
Operational Risk
Operational RWAs are only required to be included under the Advanced Capital Rules. The firm utilizes an internal risk-based model to quantify Operational RWAs.
The table below presents information about RWAs.
$ in millions Standardized Advanced
As of December 2022
Credit RWAs
Derivatives $ 142,696 $ 111,344
Commitments, guarantees and loans 247,026 198,508
Securities financing transactions 73,189 21,659
Equity investments 30,899 33,451
Other 76,335 96,351
Total Credit RWAs 570,145 461,313
Market RWAs
Regulatory VaR 18,981 18,981
Stressed VaR 37,833 37,833
Incremental risk 6,470 6,470
Comprehensive risk 3,641 3,641
Specific risk 16,349 16,349
Total Market RWAs 83,274 83,274
Total Operational RWAs - 134,863
Total RWAs $ 653,419 $ 679,450
As of December 2021
Credit RWAs
Derivatives $ 175,628 $ 109,532
Commitments, guarantees and loans 233,639 182,210
Securities financing transactions 76,346 14,407
Equity investments 43,256 45,582
Other 71,485 86,768
Total Credit RWAs 600,354 438,499
Market RWAs
Regulatory VaR 13,510 13,510
Stressed VaR 38,922 38,922
Incremental risk 6,867 6,867
Comprehensive risk 2,521 2,521
Specific risk 14,689 14,689
Total Market RWAs 76,509 76,509
Total Operational RWAs - 132,913
Total RWAs $ 676,863 $ 647,921
In the table above:
•Securities financing transactions represents resale and repurchase agreements and securities borrowed and loaned transactions.
•Other includes receivables, certain debt securities, cash and cash equivalents, and other assets.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 199
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents changes in RWAs.
$ in millions Standardized Advanced
Year Ended December 2022
RWAs
Beginning balance $ 676,863 $ 647,921
Credit RWAs
Change in:
Derivatives (32,932) 1,812
Commitments, guarantees and loans 13,387 16,298
Securities financing transactions (3,157) 7,252
Equity investments (12,357) (12,131)
Other 4,850 9,583
Change in Credit RWAs (30,209) 22,814
Market RWAs
Change in:
Regulatory VaR 5,471 5,471
Stressed VaR (1,089) (1,089)
Incremental risk (397) (397)
Comprehensive risk 1,120 1,120
Specific risk 1,660 1,660
Change in Market RWAs 6,765 6,765
Change in Operational RWAs - 1,950
Ending balance $ 653,419 $ 679,450
RWAs Rollforward Commentary
Year Ended December 2022. Standardized Credit RWAs as of December 2022 decreased by $30.21 billion compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting a decrease in derivatives (principally due to reduced exposures) and a decrease in equity investments (principally due to reduced exposures as a result of sales and unrealized losses). These decreases were partially offset by an increase in commitments, guarantees and loans (principally due to increased lending activity). Standardized Market RWAs as of December 2022 increased by $6.77 billion compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting an increase in regulatory VaR (principally due to higher levels of market volatility).
Advanced Credit RWAs as of December 2022 increased by $22.81 billion compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting an increase in commitments, guarantees and loans, other credit RWAs and securities financing transactions (principally due to updates to the probability of default models in the fourth quarter of 2022). These increases were partially offset by a decrease in equity investments (principally due to reduced exposures as a result of sales and unrealized losses). Advanced Market RWAs as of December 2022 increased by $6.77 billion compared with December 2021, primarily reflecting an increase in regulatory VaR (principally due to higher levels of market volatility). Advanced Operational RWAs as of December 2022 increased by $1.95 billion compared with December 2021, primarily associated with litigation and regulatory proceedings.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Bank Subsidiaries
GS Bank USA. GS Bank USA is the firm’s primary U.S. bank subsidiary. GS Bank USA is a New York State-chartered bank and a member of the Federal Reserve System, is supervised and regulated by the FRB, the FDIC, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is subject to regulatory capital requirements that are calculated under the Capital Framework. GS Bank USA is an Advanced approaches banking organization under the Capital Framework. The deposits of GS Bank USA are insured by the FDIC to the extent provided by law.
The Capital Framework includes the minimum risk-based capital and the capital conservation buffer requirements (consisting of a 2.5% buffer and the countercyclical capital buffer). The buffer must consist entirely of capital that qualifies as CET1 capital. In addition, the Capital Framework includes the leverage ratio requirement.
GS Bank USA is required to calculate the CET1 capital, Tier 1 capital and Total capital ratios in accordance with both the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules. The lower of each risk-based capital ratio under the Standardized and Advanced Capital Rules is the ratio against which GS Bank USA’s compliance with its risk-based capital requirements is assessed. In addition, under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action applicable to GS Bank USA, in order to meet the quantitative requirements for a “well-capitalized” depository institution, GS Bank USA must also meet the “well-capitalized” requirements in the table below. GS Bank USA’s capital levels and prompt corrective action classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components of capital, risk weightings and other factors. Failure to comply with the capital requirements, including a breach of the buffers described below, would result in restrictions being imposed by the regulators.
The table below presents GS Bank USA’s risk-based capital, leverage and “well-capitalized” requirements.
Requirements “Well-capitalized”
Requirements
Risk-based capital requirements
CET1 capital ratio 7.0 % 6.5 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 8.5 % 8.0 %
Total capital ratio 10.5 % 10.0 %
Leverage requirements
Tier 1 leverage ratio 4.0 % 5.0 %
SLR 3.0 % 6.0 %
In the table above:
•The CET1 capital ratio requirement includes a minimum of 4.5%, the Tier 1 capital ratio requirement includes a minimum of 6.0% and the Total capital ratio requirement includes a minimum of 8.0%. These requirements also include the capital conservation buffer requirements consisting of a 2.5% buffer and the countercyclical capital buffer, which the FRB has set to zero percent.
•The “well-capitalized” requirements are the binding requirements for leverage ratios.
The table below presents information about GS Bank USA’s risk-based capital ratios.
$ in millions Standardized Advanced
As of December 2022
CET1 capital $ 46,845 $ 46,845
Tier 1 capital $ 46,845 $ 46,845
Tier 2 capital $ 8,042 $ 5,382
Total capital $ 54,887 $ 52,227
RWAs $ 357,112 $ 275,451
CET1 capital ratio 13.1 % 17.0 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 13.1 % 17.0 %
Total capital ratio 15.4 % 19.0 %
As of December 2021
CET1 capital $ 42,535 $ 42,535
Tier 1 capital $ 42,535 $ 42,535
Tier 2 capital $ 6,430 $ 4,646
Total capital $ 48,965 $ 47,181
RWAs $ 312,601 $ 222,607
CET1 capital ratio 13.6 % 19.1 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 13.6 % 19.1 %
Total capital ratio 15.7 % 21.2 %
In the table above:
•The lower of the Standardized or Advanced ratio is the ratio against which GS Bank USA’s compliance with the capital requirements is assessed under the risk-based Capital Rules, and therefore, the Standardized ratios applied to GS Bank USA as of both December 2022 and December 2021.
•Beginning in January 2022, GS Bank USA started to phase in the estimated reduction to regulatory capital as a result of adopting the CECL model. The total amount to be phased in includes the impact of adopting CECL as of January 1, 2020, as well as 25% of the increase in the allowance for credit losses from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.
•Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2022, the firm updated the probability of default models used in the calculation of Advanced RWAs. The impact of this change was a decrease in GS Bank USA's Advanced CET1 capital ratio of approximately 1 percentage point.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 201
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
•The Standardized and Advanced risk-based capital ratios decreased from December 2021 to December 2022, reflecting an increase in both Credit and Market RWAs, partially offset by an increase in capital, principally due to net earnings and capital contributions.
The table below presents information about GS Bank USA’s leverage ratios.
For the Three Months
Ended or as of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Tier 1 capital $ 46,845 $ 42,535
Average adjusted total assets $ 499,108 $ 409,739
Total leverage exposure $ 671,215 $ 627,799
Tier 1 leverage ratio 9.4 % 10.4%
SLR 7.0 % 6.8 %
In the table above:
•Average adjusted total assets represents the average daily assets for the quarter adjusted for deductions from Tier 1 capital and the impact of CECL transition.
•Tier 1 leverage ratio is calculated as Tier 1 capital divided by average adjusted total assets.
•SLR is calculated as Tier 1 capital divided by total leverage exposure.
The FRB requires that GS Bank USA maintain cash reserves with the Federal Reserve. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, the reserve requirement ratio was zero percent. See Note 26 for further information about cash deposits held by the firm at the Federal Reserve.
GS Bank USA is a registered swap dealer with the CFTC and a registered security-based swap dealer with the SEC. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GS Bank USA was subject to and in compliance with applicable capital requirements for swap dealers and security-based swap dealers.
GSIB. GSIB is the firm’s U.K. bank subsidiary regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). GSIB is subject to the U.K. capital framework, which is largely based on Basel III. The eligible retail deposits of GSIB are covered by the U.K. Financial Services Compensation Scheme to the extent provided by law.
The table below presents GSIB’s risk-based capital requirements.
As of December
2022 2021
Risk-based capital requirements
CET1 capital ratio 9.7 % 8.5 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 11.9 % 10.5 %
Total capital ratio 14.9 % 13.2 %
The table below presents information about GSIB’s risk-based capital ratios.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Risk-based capital and risk-weighted assets
CET1 capital $ 3,395 $ 3,408
Tier 1 capital $ 3,395 $ 3,408
Tier 2 capital $ 828 $ 826
Total capital $ 4,223 $ 4,234
RWAs $ 15,766 $ 17,196
Risk-based capital ratios
CET1 capital ratio 21.5 % 19.8 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 21.5 % 19.8 %
Total capital ratio 26.8 % 24.6 %
In the table above, the risk-based capital ratios as of December 2022 reflected profits after foreseeable charges that are still subject to audit by GSIB’s external auditors and approval by GSIB’s Board of Directors for inclusion in risk-based capital. These profits contributed approximately 161 basis points to the CET1 capital ratio as of December 2022.
GSIB is also subject to the minimum leverage ratio requirement of 3.25% established by the PRA, which became effective January 1, 2023. GSIB had a leverage ratio of 6.9% as of December 2022. The leverage ratio as of December 2022 reflected profits after foreseeable charges that are still subject to audit by GSIB’s external auditors and approval by GSIB’s Board of Directors for inclusion in risk-based capital. These profits contributed approximately 56 basis points to the leverage ratio as of December 2022.
GSIB is subject to minimum reserve requirements at central banks in certain of the jurisdictions in which it operates. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GSIB was in compliance with these requirements.
GSBE. GSBE is the firm’s German bank subsidiary supervised by the European Central Bank, BaFin and Deutsche Bundesbank. GSBE is a non-U.S. banking subsidiary of GS Bank USA and is also subject to standalone regulatory capital requirements noted below. GSBE is subject to the capital requirements prescribed in the amended E.U. Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) and E.U. Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), which are largely based on Basel III. The deposits of GSBE are covered by the German statutory deposit protection program to the extent provided by law. In addition, GSBE has elected to participate in the German voluntary deposit protection program which provides insurance for certain eligible deposits not covered by the German statutory deposit program.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents GSBE’s risk-based capital requirements.
As of December
2022 2021
Risk-based capital requirements
CET1 capital ratio 9.2 % 8.7 %
Tier 1 capital ratio 11.3 % 10.8 %
Total capital ratio 14.0 % 13.5 %
The table below presents information about GSBE’s risk-based capital ratios.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Risk-based capital and risk-weighted assets
CET1 capital $ 9,536 $ 6,527
Tier 1 capital $ 9,536 $ 6,527
Tier 2 capital $ 21 $ 23
Total capital $ 9,557 $ 6,550
RWAs $ 30,154 $ 28,924
Risk-based capital ratios
CET1 capital ratio 31.6 % 22.6%
Tier 1 capital ratio 31.6 % 22.6%
Total capital ratio 31.7 % 22.6%
In the table above, the risk-based capital ratios as of December 2022 reflected profits after foreseeable charges that are still subject to audit by GSBE’s external auditors and approval by GSBE’s shareholder (GS Bank USA) for inclusion in risk-based capital. These profits contributed approximately 76 basis points to the CET1 capital ratio as of December 2022.
The table below presents GSBE’s leverage ratio requirement and leverage ratios.
As of December
2022 2021
Leverage ratio requirement 3.0 % 3.0 %
Leverage ratio 10.6 % 7.6 %
In the table above, the leverage ratio as of December 2022 reflected profits after foreseeable charges that are still subject to audit by GSBE’s external auditors and approval by GSBE’s shareholder (GS Bank USA) for inclusion in risk-based capital. These profits contributed approximately 57 basis points to the leverage ratio as of December 2022.
GSBE is subject to minimum reserve requirements at central banks in certain of the jurisdictions in which it operates. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GSBE was in compliance with these requirements.
GSBE is a registered swap dealer with the CFTC and a registered security-based swap dealer with the SEC. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, GSBE was subject to and in compliance with applicable capital requirements for swap dealers and security-based swap dealers.
Restrictions on Payments
Group Inc. may be limited in its ability to access capital held at certain subsidiaries as a result of regulatory, tax or other constraints. These limitations include provisions of applicable law and regulations and other regulatory restrictions that limit the ability of those subsidiaries to declare and pay dividends without prior regulatory approval. For example, the amount of dividends that may be paid by GS Bank USA are limited to the lesser of the amounts calculated under a recent earnings test and an undivided profits test. As a result of dividends paid in connection with the acquisition of GSBE in July 2021, GS Bank USA cannot currently declare any additional dividends without prior regulatory approval.
In addition, subsidiaries not subject to separate regulatory capital requirements may hold capital to satisfy local tax and legal guidelines, rating agency requirements (for entities with assigned credit ratings) or internal policies, including policies concerning the minimum amount of capital a subsidiary should hold based on its underlying level of risk.
Group Inc.’s equity investment in subsidiaries was $134.59 billion as of December 2022 and $118.90 billion as of December 2021, of which Group Inc. was required to maintain $82.52 billion as of December 2022 and $77.22 billion as of December 2021, of minimum equity capital in its regulated subsidiaries in order to satisfy the regulatory requirements of such subsidiaries.
Group Inc.’s capital invested in certain non-U.S. dollar functional currency subsidiaries is exposed to foreign exchange risk, substantially all of which is managed through a combination of non-U.S. dollar-denominated debt and derivatives. See Note 7 for information about the firm’s net investment hedges used to hedge this risk.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 203
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 21.
Earnings Per Common Share
Basic earnings per common share (EPS) is calculated by dividing net earnings to common by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding and restricted stock units (RSUs) for which the delivery of the underlying common stock is not subject to satisfaction of future service, performance or market conditions (collectively, basic shares). Diluted EPS includes the determinants of basic EPS and, in addition, reflects the dilutive effect of the common stock deliverable for RSUs for which the delivery of the underlying common stock is subject to satisfaction of future service, performance or market conditions.
The table below presents information about basic and diluted EPS.
Year Ended December
in millions, except per share amounts 2022 2021 2020
Net earnings to common $ 10,764 $ 21,151 $ 8,915
Weighted average basic shares 352.1 350.5 356.4
Effect of dilutive RSUs 6.0 5.3 3.9
Weighted average diluted shares 358.1 355.8 360.3
Basic EPS $ 30.42 $ 60.25 $ 24.94
Diluted EPS $ 30.06 $ 59.45 $ 24.74
In the table above:
•Net earnings to common represents net earnings applicable to common shareholders, which is calculated as net earnings less preferred stock dividends.
•Unvested share-based awards that have non-forfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents are treated as a separate class of securities under the two-class method. Distributed earnings allocated to these securities reduce net earnings to common to calculate EPS under this method. The impact of applying this methodology was a reduction in basic EPS of $0.15 for 2022, $0.10 for 2021 and $0.07 for 2020.
•Diluted EPS does not include antidilutive RSUs, including those that are subject to market conditions, of 0.5 million for 2022, 0.3 million for 2021 and 0.1 million for 2020.
Note 22.
Transactions with Affiliated Funds
The firm has formed nonconsolidated investment funds with third-party investors. As the firm generally acts as the investment manager for these funds, it is entitled to receive management fees and, in certain cases, advisory fees or incentive fees from these funds. Additionally, the firm invests alongside the third-party investors in certain funds.
The tables below present information about affiliated funds.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Fees earned from funds $ 4,553 $ 3,707 $ 3,393
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Fees receivable from funds $ 1,175 $ 873
Aggregate carrying value of interests in funds $ 3,801 $ 4,321
The firm has waived, and may waive in the future, certain management fees on selected money market funds to enhance the yield for investors in such funds. Management fees waived were $123 million for 2022, $595 million for 2021 and $109 million for 2020.
In accordance with the Volcker Rule, the firm does not provide financial support to covered funds. However, in the ordinary course of business, the firm may choose to provide voluntary financial support to funds that are not subject to the Volcker Rule, although any such support is not expected to be material to the results of operations of the firm. Except for the fee waivers noted above, the firm did not provide any additional financial support to its affiliated funds during either 2022 or 2021.
In addition, in the ordinary course of business, the firm may also engage in other activities with its affiliated funds, including, among others, securities lending, trade execution, market-making, custody, and acquisition and bridge financing. See Note 18 for information about the firm’s investment commitments related to these funds.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 23.
Interest Income and Interest Expense
Interest is recorded over the life of the instrument on an accrual basis based on contractual interest rates.
The table below presents sources of interest income and interest expense.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Deposits with banks $ 3,233 $ (24) $ 245
Collateralized agreements 4,468 (980) 282
Trading assets 5,087 4,716 5,210
Investments 2,199 1,589 1,627
Loans 9,059 5,319 4,883
Other interest 4,978 1,500 1,442
Total interest income 29,024 12,120 13,689
Deposits 5,823 1,303 2,386
Collateralized financings 2,808 - 599
Trading liabilities 1,923 1,662 1,238
Short-term borrowings 541 527 542
Long-term borrowings 5,716 3,231 4,153
Other interest 4,535 (1,073) 20
Total interest expense 21,346 5,650 8,938
Net interest income $ 7,678 $ 6,470 $ 4,751
In the table above:
•Collateralized agreements includes rebates paid and interest income on securities borrowed.
•Loans excludes interest on loans held for sale that are accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value. Such interest is included within other interest.
•Other interest income includes interest income on customer debit balances, other interest-earning assets and loans held for sale that are accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value.
•Collateralized financings consists of repurchase agreements and securities loaned.
•Short- and long-term borrowings include both secured and unsecured borrowings.
•Other interest expense includes rebates received on other interest-bearing liabilities and interest expense on customer credit balances.
Note 24.
Income Taxes
Provision for Income Taxes
Income taxes are provided for using the asset and liability method under which deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities. The firm reports interest expense related to income tax matters in provision for taxes and income tax penalties in other expenses.
The table below presents information about the provision for taxes.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Current taxes
U.S. federal $ 2,356 $ 2,904 $1,759
State and local 623 574 555
Non-U.S. 1,658 1,926 1,539
Total current tax expense 4,637 5,404 3,853
Deferred taxes
U.S. federal (2,079) 192 (798)
State and local (436) 72 (42)
Non-U.S. 103 (259) 7
Total deferred tax (benefit)/expense
(2,412) 5 (833)
Provision for taxes $ 2,225 $ 5,409 $ 3,020
The table below presents a reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate to the effective income tax rate.
Year Ended December
2022 2021 2020
U.S. federal statutory income tax rate 21.0 % 21.0 % 21.0 %
State and local taxes, net of U.S. federal benefit 1.3 1.9 3.1
Settlement of employee share-based awards (2.4) (0.7) (1.0)
Non-U.S. operations (1.6) (1.5) (2.4)
Tax credits (0.9) (0.6) (1.2)
Tax-exempt income, including dividends (2.2) (0.5) (0.6)
Non-deductible legal expenses 0.8 - 5.6
Other 0.5 0.4 (0.3)
Effective income tax rate 16.5 % 20.0 % 24.2 %
In the table above, Non-U.S. operations include the impact of the Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax and Global Intangible Low Taxed Income.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 205
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Deferred Income Taxes
Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities. These temporary differences result in taxable or deductible amounts in future years and are measured using the tax rates and laws that will be in effect when such differences are expected to reverse. Valuation allowances are established to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount that more likely than not will be realized and primarily relate to the ability to utilize losses in various tax jurisdictions. Tax assets are included in other assets and tax liabilities are included in other liabilities.
The table below presents information about deferred tax assets and liabilities, excluding the impact of netting within tax jurisdictions.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Deferred tax assets
Compensation and benefits $ 1,889 $ 1,978
ASC 740 asset related to unrecognized tax benefits 315 287
Non-U.S. operations 1,224 606
Unrealized losses
887 -
Net operating losses 787 681
Occupancy-related 123 151
Other comprehensive income/(loss)-related 1,225 593
Tax credits carryforward 87 43
Operating lease liabilities 587 624
Allowance for credit losses 1,580 1,081
Other, net 221 271
Subtotal 8,925 6,315
Valuation allowance (1,569) (895)
Total deferred tax assets $ 7,356 $ 5,420
Deferred tax liabilities
Depreciation and amortization $ 1,240 $ 1,225
Unrealized gains - 1,114
Operating lease right-of-use assets 556 585
Total deferred tax liabilities $ 1,796 $ 2,924
The firm has recorded deferred tax assets of $787 million as of December 2022 and $681 million as of December 2021, in connection with U.S. federal, state and local and foreign net operating loss carryforwards. The firm also recorded a valuation allowance of $301 million as of December 2022 and $285 million as of December 2021, related to these net operating loss carryforwards.
As of December 2022, the U.S. federal net operating loss carryforward was $1.51 billion, the state and local net operating loss carryforward was $2.10 billion, and the foreign net operating loss carryforward was $1.38 billion. If not utilized, the U.S. federal, the state and local, and foreign net operating loss carryforwards will begin to expire in 2023. If these carryforwards expire, they will not have a material impact on the firm’s results of operations. As of December 2022, the firm has recorded deferred tax assets of $37 million in connection with foreign tax credit carryforwards and a related valuation allowance of $20 million. As of December 2022, the firm has recorded deferred tax assets of $41 million in connection with general business credit carryforwards and $9 million in connection with state and local tax credit carryforwards. If not utilized, the foreign tax credit carryforward will begin to expire in 2033, the general business credit carryforward will begin to expire in 2023 and the state and local tax credit carryforward will begin to expire in 2024.
As of both December 2022 and December 2021, the firm had no U.S. capital loss carryforwards and no related net deferred income tax assets. As of December 2022, the firm had deferred tax assets of $277 million in connection with foreign capital loss carryforwards and a valuation allowance of $277 million related to these capital loss carryforwards.
The valuation allowance increased by $674 million during 2022 and increased by $344 million during 2021. The increases in both 2022 and 2021 were primarily due to an increase in deferred tax assets from which the firm does not expect to realize any benefit.
The firm permanently reinvested eligible earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries. As of both December 2022 and December 2021, all U.S. taxes were accrued on these subsidiaries’ distributable earnings.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
The firm recognizes tax positions in the consolidated financial statements only when it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained on examination by the relevant taxing authority based on the technical merits of the position. A position that meets this standard is measured at the largest amount of benefit that will more likely than not be realized on settlement. A liability is established for differences between positions taken in a tax return and amounts recognized in the consolidated financial statements.
The accrued liability for interest expense related to income tax matters and income tax penalties was $205 million as of December 2022 and $131 million as of December 2021. The firm recognized interest expense and income tax penalties of $59 million for 2022, $13 million for 2021 and $41 million for 2020. It is reasonably possible that unrecognized tax benefits could change significantly during the twelve months subsequent to December 2022 due to potential audit settlements. However, at this time it is not possible to estimate any potential change.
The table below presents the changes in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits, which is included in other liabilities.
Year Ended or as of December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Beginning balance
$ 1,446 $ 1,251 $ 1,445
Increases based on current year tax positions
190 297 164
Increases based on prior years' tax positions 10 95 209
Decreases based on prior years' tax positions (32) (111) (205)
Decreases related to settlements
(76) (80) (367)
Exchange rate fluctuations
(5) (6) 5
Ending balance
$ 1,533 $ 1,446 $ 1,251
Related deferred income tax asset
315 287 200
Net unrecognized tax benefit
$ 1,218 $ 1,159 $ 1,051
Regulatory Tax Examinations
The firm is subject to examination by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other taxing authorities in jurisdictions where the firm has significant business operations, such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong and various states, such as New York. The tax years under examination vary by jurisdiction. The firm does not expect completion of these audits to have a material impact on the firm’s financial condition, but it may be material to operating results for a particular period, depending, in part, on the operating results for that period.
The table below presents the earliest tax years that remain subject to examination by major jurisdiction.
As of
Jurisdiction December 2022
U.S. Federal 2011
New York State and City 2015
United Kingdom 2017
Japan 2016
Hong Kong 2016
The firm has been accepted into the Compliance Assurance Process program by the IRS for each of the tax years from 2013 through 2023. This program allows the firm to work with the IRS to identify and resolve potential U.S. federal tax issues before the filing of tax returns. All issues for the 2011 and 2012 tax years have been resolved and completion is pending final review by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). During 2022, the firm reached an agreement with IRS Appeals on the remaining issues for tax years 2012 through 2019. Subject to final review by JCT, this agreement will not have a material impact on the effective tax rate. During 2022, the fieldwork for the 2020 tax year was completed and the final resolution is not expected to have a material impact on the effective tax rate. The 2021 tax year remains subject to post-filing review. New York State and City examinations of 2015 through 2018 commenced during 2021.
All years, including and subsequent to the years in the table above, remain open to examination by the taxing authorities. The firm believes that the liability for unrecognized tax benefits it has established is adequate in relation to the potential for additional assessments.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 207
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 25.
Business Segments
The firm manages and reports its activities in three business segments: Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management and Platform Solutions. See Note 1 for information about the firm’s business segments, including the changes made during 2022.
Compensation and benefits expenses in the firm’s segments reflect, among other factors, the overall performance of the firm, as well as the performance of individual businesses. Consequently, pre-tax margins in one segment of the firm’s business may be significantly affected by the performance of the firm’s other business segments.
The firm allocates assets (including allocations of global core liquid assets and cash, secured client financing and other assets), revenues and expenses among the three business segments. Due to the integrated nature of these segments, estimates and judgments are made in allocating certain assets, revenues and expenses. The allocation process is based on the manner in which management currently views the performance of the segments.
The allocation of common shareholders’ equity and preferred stock dividends to each segment is based on the estimated amount of equity required to support the activities of the segment under relevant regulatory capital requirements.
Net earnings for each segment is calculated by applying the firmwide tax rate to each segment’s pre-tax earnings.
Management believes that this allocation provides a reasonable representation of each segment’s contribution to consolidated net earnings to common, return on average common equity and total assets. Transactions between segments are based on specific criteria or approximate third-party rates.
Segment Results
The table below presents a summary of the firm’s segment results.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Global Banking & Markets
Non-interest revenues $ 30,042 $ 34,079 $ 28,285
Net interest income 2,445 2,655 2,184
Total net revenues 32,487 36,734 30,469
Provision for credit losses 468 (171) 1,216
Operating expenses 17,851 19,542 18,884
Pre-tax earnings $ 14,168 $ 17,363 $ 10,369
Net earnings $ 11,830 $ 13,890 $ 7,860
Net earnings to common $ 11,458 $ 13,535 $ 7,428
Average common equity $ 69,951 $ 60,064 $ 54,749
Return on average common equity 16.4 % 22.5 % 13.6 %
Asset & Wealth Management
Non-interest revenues $ 9,843 $ 18,922 $ 11,541
Net interest income 3,533 3,043 2,216
Total net revenues 13,376 21,965 13,757
Provision for credit losses 519 (169) 1,395
Operating expenses 11,550 11,406 9,469
Pre-tax earnings
$ 1,307 $ 10,728 $ 2,893
Net earnings
$ 1,092 $ 8,582 $ 2,193
Net earnings to common
$ 979 $ 8,459 $ 2,083
Average common equity $ 31,762 $ 29,988 $ 24,963
Return on average common equity 3.1 % 28.2 % 8.3 %
Platform Solutions
Non-interest revenues $ (198) $ (132) $ (17)
Net interest income 1,700 772 351
Total net revenues 1,502 640 334
Provision for credit losses 1,728 697 487
Operating expenses 1,763 990 630
Pre-tax earnings/(loss)
$ (1,989) $ (1,047) $ (783)
Net earnings/(loss)
$ (1,661) $ (837) $ (594)
Net earnings/(loss) to common
$ (1,673) $ (843) $ (596)
Average common equity $ 3,574 $ 1,777 $ 864
Return on average common equity (46.8) % (47.4) % (69.0) %
Total
Non-interest revenues $ 39,687 $ 52,869 $ 39,809
Net interest income 7,678 6,470 4,751
Total net revenues 47,365 59,339 44,560
Provision for credit losses 2,715 357 3,098
Operating expenses 31,164 31,938 28,983
Pre-tax earnings $ 13,486 $ 27,044 $ 12,479
Net earnings $ 11,261 $ 21,635 $ 9,459
Net earnings to common $ 10,764 $ 21,151 $ 8,915
Average common equity $ 105,287 $ 91,829 $ 80,576
Return on average common equity 10.2 % 23.0 % 11.1 %
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
In the table above:
•Revenues and expenses directly associated with each segment are included in determining pre-tax earnings.
•Net revenues in the firm’s segments include allocations of interest income and expense to specific positions in relation to the cash generated by, or funding requirements of, such positions. Net interest is included in segment net revenues as it is consistent with how management assesses segment performance.
•Total operating expenses included net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings of $576 million for 2022, $534 million for 2021 and $3.42 billion for 2020, primarily reflected in Global Banking & Markets.
•Expenses not directly associated with specific segments are allocated based on an estimate of support provided to each segment.
The table below presents depreciation and amortization expense by segment.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Global Banking & Markets
$ 1,033 $ 934 $ 760
Asset & Wealth Management
1,212 1,003 1,087
Platform Solutions
210 78 55
Total $ 2,455 $ 2,015 $ 1,902
Segment Assets
The table below presents assets by segment.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Global Banking & Markets $ 1,169,539 $ 1,201,996
Asset & Wealth Management
214,970 221,150
Platform Solutions
57,290 40,842
Total $ 1,441,799 $ 1,463,988
Geographic Information
Due to the highly integrated nature of international financial markets, the firm manages its businesses based on the profitability of the enterprise as a whole. The methodology for allocating profitability to geographic regions is dependent on estimates and management judgment because a significant portion of the firm’s activities require cross-border coordination in order to facilitate the needs of the firm’s clients. Geographic results are generally allocated as follows:
•Global Banking & Markets: Investment banking fees and Other: location of the client and investment banking team; FICC intermediation and Equities intermediation: location of the market-making desk; FICC financing and Equities financing: location of the desk.
•Asset & Wealth Management (excluding direct-to-consumer business, Equity investments and Debt investments): location of the sales team and/or investments; Direct-to-consumer business: location of the client; Equity investments and Debt investments: location of the investment or investment professional.
•Platform Solutions: location of the client.
The table below presents total net revenues, pre-tax earnings and net earnings by geographic region.
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Year Ended December
Americas $ 28,669 61 % $ 37,217 63 % $ 27,293 61 %
EMEA 12,860 27 % 14,474 24 % 10,946 25 %
Asia 5,836 12 % 7,648 13 % 6,321 14 %
Total net revenues $ 47,365 100 % $ 59,339 100 % $ 44,560 100 %
Americas $ 7,016 52 % $ 17,314 64 % $ 8,804 71 %
EMEA 5,260 39 % 7,164 27 % 3,119 25 %
Asia 1,210 9 % 2,566 9 % 556 4 %
Total pre-tax earnings $ 13,486 100 % $ 27,044 100 % $ 12,479 100 %
Americas $ 6,067 54 % $ 13,796 64 % $ 7,300 77 %
EMEA 4,164 37 % 5,778 27 % 2,150 23 %
Asia 1,030 9 % 2,061 9 % 9 -
Total net earnings $ 11,261 100 % $ 21,635 100 % $ 9,459 100 %
In the table above:
•During the fourth quarter of 2022, in connection with the firm’s segment reorganization, the firm changed its methodology for allocating certain funding-related revenues not directly allocable to specific regions. As a result, reclassifications were made to the geographic allocation of net revenues. Prior period amounts have been conformed to the current presentation.
•Asia pre-tax earnings and net earnings for 2020 were impacted by net provisions for litigation and regulatory proceedings.
•Substantially all of the amounts in Americas were attributable to the U.S.
•Asia includes Australia and New Zealand.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 209
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 26.
Credit Concentrations
The firm’s concentrations of credit risk arise from its market-making, client facilitation, investing, underwriting, lending and collateralized transactions, and cash management activities, and may be impacted by changes in economic, industry or political factors. These activities expose the firm to many different industries and counterparties, and may also subject the firm to a concentration of credit risk to a particular central bank, counterparty, borrower or issuer, including sovereign issuers, or to a particular clearinghouse or exchange. The firm seeks to mitigate credit risk by actively monitoring exposures and obtaining collateral from counterparties as deemed appropriate.
The firm measures and monitors its credit exposure based on amounts owed to the firm after taking into account risk mitigants that the firm considers when determining credit risk. Such risk mitigants include netting and collateral arrangements and economic hedges, such as credit derivatives, futures and forward contracts. Netting and collateral agreements permit the firm to offset receivables and payables with such counterparties and/or enable the firm to obtain collateral on an upfront or contingent basis.
The table below presents the credit concentrations included in trading cash instruments and investments.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
U.S. government and agency obligations $ 205,935 $ 141,191
Percentage of total assets 14.3 % 9.6 %
Non-U.S. government and agency obligations $ 40,334 $ 51,426
Percentage of total assets 2.8 % 3.5 %
In addition, the firm had $208.53 billion as of December 2022 and $222.20 billion as of December 2021 of cash deposits held at central banks (included in cash and cash equivalents), of which $165.77 billion as of December 2022 and $122.01 billion as of December 2021 was held at the Federal Reserve.
As of both December 2022 and December 2021, the firm did not have credit exposure to any other counterparty that exceeded 2% of total assets.
Collateral obtained by the firm related to derivative assets is principally cash and is held by the firm or a third-party custodian. Collateral obtained by the firm related to resale agreements and securities borrowed transactions is primarily U.S. government and agency obligations and non-U.S. government and agency obligations. See Note 11 for further information about collateralized agreements and financings.
The table below presents U.S. government and agency obligations and non-U.S. government and agency obligations that collateralize resale agreements and securities borrowed transactions.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
U.S. government and agency obligations $ 164,897 $ 86,274
Non-U.S. government and agency obligations $ 76,456 $ 141,588
In the table above:
•Non-U.S. government and agency obligations primarily consists of securities issued by the governments of the U.K., Japan, Germany and France.
•Given that the firm’s primary credit exposure on such transactions is to the counterparty to the transaction, the firm would be exposed to the collateral issuer only in the event of counterparty default.
Note 27.
Legal Proceedings
The firm is involved in a number of judicial, regulatory and arbitration proceedings (including those described below) concerning matters arising in connection with the conduct of the firm’s businesses. Many of these proceedings are in early stages, and many of these cases seek an indeterminate amount of damages.
Under ASC 450, an event is “reasonably possible” if “the chance of the future event or events occurring is more than remote but less than likely” and an event is “remote” if “the chance of the future event or events occurring is slight.” Thus, references to the upper end of the range of reasonably possible loss for cases in which the firm is able to estimate a range of reasonably possible loss mean the upper end of the range of loss for cases for which the firm believes the risk of loss is more than slight.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
With respect to matters described below for which management has been able to estimate a range of reasonably possible loss where (i) actual or potential plaintiffs have claimed an amount of money damages, (ii) the firm is being, or threatened to be, sued by purchasers in a securities offering and is not being indemnified by a party that the firm believes will pay the full amount of any judgment, or (iii) the purchasers are demanding that the firm repurchase securities, management has estimated the upper end of the range of reasonably possible loss based on (a) in the case of (i), the amount of money damages claimed, (b) in the case of (ii), the difference between the initial sales price of the securities that the firm sold in such offering and the estimated lowest subsequent price of such securities prior to the action being commenced and (c) in the case of (iii), the price that purchasers paid for the securities less the estimated value, if any, as of December 2022 of the relevant securities, in each of cases (i), (ii) and (iii), taking into account any other factors believed to be relevant to the particular matter or matters of that type. As of the date hereof, the firm has estimated the upper end of the range of reasonably possible aggregate loss for such matters and for any other matters described below where management has been able to estimate a range of reasonably possible aggregate loss to be approximately $2.3 billion in excess of the aggregate reserves for such matters.
Management is generally unable to estimate a range of reasonably possible loss for matters other than those included in the estimate above, including where (i) actual or potential plaintiffs have not claimed an amount of money damages, except in those instances where management can otherwise determine an appropriate amount, (ii) matters are in early stages, (iii) matters relate to regulatory investigations or reviews, except in those instances where management can otherwise determine an appropriate amount, (iv) there is uncertainty as to the likelihood of a class being certified or the ultimate size of the class, (v) there is uncertainty as to the outcome of pending appeals or motions, (vi) there are significant factual issues to be resolved, and/or (vii) there are novel legal issues presented. For example, the firm’s potential liabilities with respect to the investigations and reviews described below in “Regulatory Investigations and Reviews and Related Litigation” generally are not included in management’s estimate of reasonably possible loss. However, management does not believe, based on currently available information, that the outcomes of such other matters will have a material adverse effect on the firm’s financial condition, though the outcomes could be material to the firm’s operating results for any particular period, depending, in part, upon the operating results for such period.
1MDB-Related Matters
Between 2012 and 2013, subsidiaries of the firm acted as arrangers or purchasers of approximately $6.5 billion of debt securities of 1MDB.
On November 1, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a criminal information and guilty plea by Tim Leissner, a former participating managing director of the firm, and an indictment against Ng Chong Hwa, a former managing director of the firm. On August 28, 2018, Leissner was adjudicated guilty by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York of conspiring to launder money and to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s (FCPA) anti-bribery and internal accounting controls provisions. Ng was charged with conspiring to launder money and to violate the FCPA’s anti-bribery and internal accounting controls provisions. On April 8, 2022, Ng was found guilty on all counts following a trial.
On August 18, 2020, the firm announced that it entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of Malaysia to resolve the criminal and regulatory proceedings in Malaysia involving the firm, which includes a guarantee that the Government of Malaysia receives at least $1.4 billion in assets and proceeds from assets seized by governmental authorities around the world related to 1MDB. See Note 18 for further information about this guarantee.
On October 22, 2020, the firm announced that it reached settlements of governmental and regulatory investigations relating to 1MDB with the DOJ, the SEC, the FRB, the NYDFS, the FCA, the PRA, the Singapore Attorney General’s Chambers, the Singapore Commercial Affairs Department, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. Group Inc. entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ, in which a charge against the firm, one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA, was filed and will later be dismissed if the firm abides by the terms of the agreement. In addition, GS Malaysia pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA, and was sentenced on June 9, 2021. In May 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor granted the firm a five-year exemption to maintain its status as a qualified professional asset manager (QPAM).
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 211
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The firm has received multiple demands, beginning in November 2018, from alleged shareholders under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law for books and records relating to, among other things, the firm’s involvement with 1MDB and the firm’s compliance procedures.
On February 19, 2019, a purported shareholder derivative action relating to 1MDB was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Group Inc. and the directors at the time and a former chairman and chief executive officer of the firm. The second amended complaint filed on November 13, 2020, alleges breaches of fiduciary duties, including in connection with alleged insider trading by certain current and former directors, unjust enrichment and violations of the anti-fraud provisions of the Exchange Act, including in connection with Group Inc.’s common stock repurchases and solicitation of proxies, and seeks unspecified damages, disgorgement and injunctive relief. On January 13, 2023, the court approved a settlement among the parties pursuant to which the firm agreed to a payment of $79.5 million to be made to the firm by its insurers, which the firm has agreed to use for compliance purposes after payment of any attorneys’ fees and reimbursement of expenses awarded to plaintiffs.
On December 20, 2018, a putative securities class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Group Inc. and certain former officers of the firm alleging violations of the anti-fraud provisions of the Exchange Act with respect to Group Inc.’s disclosures and public statements concerning 1MDB and seeking unspecified damages. The plaintiff filed the second amended complaint on October 28, 2019. On June 28, 2021, the court dismissed the claims against one of the individual defendants but denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss with respect to the firm and the remaining individual defendants. On November 12, 2021, the plaintiff moved for class certification. On January 13, 2023, the plaintiff moved for leave to file a third amended complaint.
Mortgage-Related Matters
Beginning in April 2010, a number of purported securities law class actions were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the adequacy of Group Inc.’s public disclosure of, among other things, the firm’s activities in the collateralized debt obligation market, and the firm’s conflict of interest management.
The consolidated amended complaint filed on July 25, 2011, which named as defendants Group Inc. and certain current and former officers and employees of Group Inc. and its affiliates, generally alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act and seeks monetary damages. The defendants have moved for summary judgment. On April 7, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s August 14, 2018 grant of class certification. On June 21, 2021, the United States Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the Second Circuit and remanded the case for further proceedings, and on August 26, 2021, the Second Circuit vacated the district court’s grant of class certification and remanded the case for further proceedings. On December 8, 2021, the district court granted the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. On March 9, 2022, the Second Circuit granted defendants’ petition seeking interlocutory review of the district court’s grant of class certification.
Complaints were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 25, 2019 and May 29, 2020 against Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company and GS Mortgage Securities Corp. by U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee for two residential mortgage-backed securitization trusts that issued $1.7 billion of securities. The complaints generally allege that mortgage loans in the trusts failed to conform to applicable representations and warranties and seek specific performance or, alternatively, compensatory damages and other relief. On November 23, 2020, the court granted in part and denied in part defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint in the first action and denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint in the second action. On January 14, 2021, amended complaints were filed in both actions.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Currencies-Related Litigation
GS&Co. and Group Inc. are among the defendants named in an action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on November 7, 2018, and GSI, GSIB, Goldman Sachs Group UK Limited and GS Bank USA are among the defendants in an action filed in the High Court of England and Wales on November 11, 2020 and subsequently transferred to the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal, in each case by certain direct purchasers of foreign exchange instruments that opted out of a class settlement reached with, among others, GS&Co. and Group Inc. The third amended complaint in the U.S. district court action, filed on August 3, 2020, generally alleges that the defendants violated federal antitrust law and state common law in connection with an alleged conspiracy to manipulate the foreign currency exchange markets and seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified amounts of compensatory, punitive, treble and other damages. The claim in the English action is for breaches of English and E.U. competition rules from 2003 to 2013 and alleges manipulation of foreign exchange rates and bid/offer spreads, the exchange of commercially sensitive information among defendants and collusive trading. On December 13, 2022, the parties reached settlements in principle, subject to final documentation, to resolve these actions.
GS&Co. is among the defendants named in a putative class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on August 4, 2021. The amended complaint, filed on January 6, 2022, generally asserts claims under federal antitrust law and state common law in connection with an alleged conspiracy among the defendants to manipulate auctions for foreign exchange transactions on an electronic trading platform, as well as claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified amounts of treble and other damages. On March 18, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint.
Banco Espirito Santo S.A. and Oak Finance
Beginning in February 2015, GSI commenced actions against Novo Banco S.A. (Novo Banco) in the English Commercial Court and the Bank of Portugal (BoP) in Portuguese Administrative Court in response to BoP’s decisions in December 2014, September 2015 and December 2015 to reverse an earlier transfer to Novo Banco of an $835 million facility agreement (the Facility), structured by GSI, between Oak Finance Luxembourg S.A. (Oak Finance), a special purpose vehicle formed in connection with the Facility, and Banco Espirito Santo S.A. (BES) prior to the failure of BES. In July 2018, the English Supreme Court found that the English courts will not have jurisdiction over GSI’s action unless and until the Portuguese Administrative Court finds against BoP in GSI’s parallel action. In July 2018, the Liquidation Committee for BES issued a decision seeking to claw back from GSI $54 million paid to GSI and $50 million allegedly paid to Oak Finance in connection with the Facility, alleging that GSI acted in bad faith in extending the Facility, including because GSI allegedly knew that BES was at risk of imminent failure. In October 2018, GSI commenced an action in Lisbon Commercial Court challenging the Liquidation Committee’s decision and has since also issued a claim against the Portuguese State seeking compensation for losses of approximately $222 million related to the failure of BES, together with a contingent claim for the $104 million sought by the Liquidation Committee.
Financial Advisory Services
Group Inc. and certain of its affiliates are from time to time parties to various civil litigation and arbitration proceedings and other disputes with clients and third parties relating to the firm’s financial advisory activities. These claims generally seek, among other things, compensatory damages and, in some cases, punitive damages, and in certain cases allege that the firm did not appropriately disclose or deal with conflicts of interest.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Archegos-Related Matters
GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on August 13, 2021 in New York Supreme Court, County of New York, relating to ViacomCBS Inc.’s (ViacomCBS) March 2021 public offerings of $1.7 billion of common stock and $1.0 billion of preferred stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include ViacomCBS and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 646,154 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $55 million and 323,077 shares of preferred stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $32 million. The complaint asserts claims under the federal securities laws and alleges that the offering documents contained material misstatements and omissions, including, among other things, that the offering documents failed to disclose that Archegos Capital Management (Archegos) had substantial exposure to ViacomCBS, including through total return swaps to which certain of the underwriters, including GS&Co., were allegedly counterparties, and that such underwriters failed to disclose their exposure to Archegos. The complaint seeks rescission and compensatory damages in unspecified amounts. On November 5, 2021, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint. On January 4, 2022, the plaintiffs moved for class certification. On February 6, 2023, the court dismissed the claims against ViacomCBS and the individual defendants, but denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss with respect to GS&Co. and the other underwriter defendants.
Group Inc. is also a defendant in putative securities class actions filed beginning in October 2021 and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaints allege that Group Inc., along with another financial institution, sold shares in Baidu Inc. (Baidu), Discovery Inc. (Discovery), GSX Techedu Inc. (Gaotu), iQIYI Inc. (iQIYI), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (Tencent), ViacomCBS, and Vipshop Holdings Ltd. (Vipshop) based on material nonpublic information regarding the liquidation of Archegos’ position in Baidu, Discovery, Gaotu, iQIYI, Tencent, ViacomCBS and Vipshop, respectively. The complaints generally assert violations of Sections 10(b), 20A and 20(a) of the Exchange Act and seek unspecified damages. On June 13, 2022, the plaintiffs in the class actions filed amended complaints. On August 12, 2022, the defendants filed motions to dismiss the amended complaints.
On January 24, 2022, the firm received a demand from an alleged shareholder under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law for books and records relating to, among other things, the firm’s involvement with Archegos and the firm’s controls with respect to insider trading.
Underwriting Litigation
Firm affiliates are among the defendants in a number of proceedings in connection with securities offerings. In these proceedings, including those described below, the plaintiffs assert class action or individual claims under federal and state securities laws and in some cases other applicable laws, allege that the offering documents for the securities that they purchased contained material misstatements and omissions, and generally seek compensatory and rescissory damages in unspecified amounts, as well as rescission. Certain of these proceedings involve additional allegations.
Uber Technologies, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in several putative securities class actions filed beginning in September 2019 in California Superior Court, County of San Francisco and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, relating to Uber Technologies, Inc.’s (Uber) $8.1 billion May 2019 initial public offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Uber and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 35,864,408 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $1.6 billion. On November 16, 2020, the court in the state court action granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the consolidated amended complaint filed on February 11, 2020, and on December 16, 2020, plaintiffs appealed. On August 7, 2020, defendants’ motion to dismiss the district court action was denied. On September 25, 2020, the plaintiffs in the district court action moved for class certification. On December 5, 2020, the plaintiffs in the state court action filed a complaint in the district court, which was consolidated with the existing district court action on January 25, 2021. On May 14, 2021, the plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint in the district court, purporting to add the plaintiffs from the state court action as additional class representatives. On October 1, 2021, defendants’ motion to dismiss the additional class representatives from the second amended complaint was denied, and on July 26, 2022, the district court granted the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. On August 9, 2022, defendants filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit seeking interlocutory review of the district court’s grant of class certification.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
GoHealth, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in putative securities class actions filed beginning on September 21, 2020 and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois relating to GoHealth, Inc.’s (GoHealth) $914 million July 2020 initial public offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include GoHealth, certain of its officers and directors and certain of its shareholders. GS&Co. underwrote 11,540,550 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $242 million. On February 25, 2021, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint. On April 5, 2022, the defendants’ motion to dismiss the consolidated complaint was denied. On September 23, 2022, the plaintiffs moved for class certification.
Array Technologies, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on May 14, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Array Technologies, Inc.’s (Array) $1.2 billion October 2020 initial public offering of common stock, $1.3 billion December 2020 offering of common stock and $993 million March 2021 offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Array and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote an aggregate of 31,912,213 shares of common stock in the three offerings representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $877 million. On December 7, 2021, the plaintiffs filed an amended consolidated complaint. On October 17, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended consolidated complaint.
ContextLogic Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in putative securities class actions filed beginning on May 17, 2021 and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, relating to ContextLogic Inc.’s (ContextLogic) $1.1 billion December 2020 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include ContextLogic and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 16,169,000 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $388 million. On July 15, 2022, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated amended complaint. On September 16, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the consolidated amended complaint.
DiDi Global Inc. Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. (GS Asia) is among the underwriters named as defendants in putative securities class actions filed beginning on July 6, 2021 in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Central District of California and New York Supreme Court, County of New York, relating to DiDi Global Inc.’s (DiDi) $4.4 billion June 2021 initial public offering of American Depositary Shares (ADS). In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include DiDi and certain of its officers and directors. GS Asia underwrote 104,554,000 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $1.5 billion. On September 22, 2021, plaintiffs in the California action voluntarily dismissed their claims without prejudice. On May 5, 2022, plaintiffs in the consolidated federal action filed a second consolidated amended complaint, which includes allegations of violations of Sections 10(b) and 20A of the Exchange Act against the underwriter defendants. On June 3, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the second consolidated amended complaint.
Vroom Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in an amended complaint for a putative securities class action filed on October 4, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Vroom Inc.’s (Vroom) approximately $589 million September 2020 public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Vroom and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 3,886,819 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $212 million. On December 20, 2021, the defendants served a motion to dismiss the consolidated complaint.
Zymergen Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on August 4, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California relating to Zymergen Inc.’s (Zymergen) $575 million April 2021 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Zymergen and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 5,750,345 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $178 million. On February 24, 2022, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, and on November 29, 2022, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendants' motion to dismiss the amended complaint, denying dismissal of the claims for violations of Section 11 of the Securities Act.
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Waterdrop Inc. GS Asia is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on September 14, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Waterdrop Inc.’s (Waterdrop) $360 million May 2021 initial public offering of ADS. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Waterdrop and certain of its officers and directors. GS Asia underwrote 15,300,000 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $184 million. On February 21, 2022, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, and on February 3, 2023, the court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss the amended complaint.
Sea Limited. GS Asia is among the underwriters named as defendants in putative securities class actions filed on February 11, 2022 and June 17, 2022, respectively, in New York Supreme Court, County of New York, relating to Sea Limited’s approximately $4.0 billion September 2021 public offering of ADS and approximately $2.9 billion September 2021 public offering of convertible senior notes, respectively. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Sea Limited, certain of its officers and directors and certain of its shareholders. GS Asia underwrote 8,222,500 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $2.6 billion and convertible senior notes representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $1.9 billion. On August 3, 2022, the actions were consolidated, and on August 9, 2022, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated amended complaint. The defendants had previously moved to dismiss the action on July 15, 2022, with the parties stipulating that the motion would apply to the consolidated amended complaint.
Rivian Automotive Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on March 7, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California relating to Rivian Automotive Inc.’s (Rivian) approximately $13.7 billion November 2021 initial public offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Rivian and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 44,733,050 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $3.5 billion. On July 22, 2022, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint, and on August 29, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the consolidated complaint.
Natera Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in putative securities class actions in New York Supreme Court, County of New York and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas filed on March 10, 2022 and October 7, 2022, respectively, relating to Natera Inc.’s (Natera) approximately $585 million July 2021 public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Natera and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 1,449,000 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $164 million. On July 15, 2022, the parties in the state court action filed a stipulation and proposed order approving the discontinuance of the action without prejudice. On December 16, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint in the federal action.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on December 17, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California relating to Robinhood Markets, Inc.’s (Robinhood) approximately $2.2 billion July 2021 initial public offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Robinhood and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 18,039,706 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $686 million. On June 20, 2022, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint. On August 18, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint.
ON24, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on November 3, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California relating to ON24, Inc.’s (ON24) approximately $492 million February 2021 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include ON24 and certain of its officers and directors, including a director who was a Managing Director of GS&Co. at the time of the initial public offering. GS&Co. underwrote 3,616,785 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $181 million. On March 18, 2022, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint. On May 2, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the consolidated complaint.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Riskified Ltd. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on May 2, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Riskified Ltd.’s (Riskified) approximately $423 million July 2021 initial public offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Riskified and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 6,981,128 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $147 million. On November 28, 2022, the plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint, and on January 20, 2023, the defendants moved to dismiss the second amended complaint.
Oscar Health, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on May 12, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Oscar Health, Inc.’s (Oscar Health) approximately $1.4 billion March 2021 initial public offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Oscar Health and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 12,760,633 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $498 million. On December 5, 2022, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint.
Oak Street Health, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in an amended complaint for a putative securities class action filed on May 25, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois relating to Oak Street Health, Inc.’s (Oak Street) $377 million August 2020 initial public offering, $298 million December 2020 secondary equity offering, $691 million February 2021 secondary equity offering and $747 million May 2021 secondary equity offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Oak Street, certain of its officers and directors and certain of its shareholders. GS&Co. underwrote 4,157,103 shares of common stock in the August 2020 initial public offering representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $87 million, 1,503,944 shares of common stock in the December 2020 secondary equity offering representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $69 million, 3,083,098 shares of common stock in the February 2021 secondary equity offering representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $173 million and 3,013,065 shares of common stock in the May 2021 secondary equity offering representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $187 million. On February 10, 2023, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss, dismissing the claim alleging a violation of Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act and, with respect to the May 2021 secondary equity offering only, the claim alleging a violation of Section 11 of the Securities Act, but declining to dismiss the remaining claims.
Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a consolidated amended complaint for a putative securities class action filed on June 21, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas relating to Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (Reata) approximately $282 million December 2020 public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Reata and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 1,000,000 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $141 million. On September 7, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the consolidated amended complaint.
Bright Health Group, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in an amended complaint for a putative securities class action filed on June 24, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York relating to Bright Health Group, Inc.’s (Bright Health) approximately $924 million June 2021 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Bright Health and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 11,297,000 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $203 million. On October 12, 2022, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint.
17 Education & Technology Group Inc. GS Asia is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on July 19, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in November 2022 relating to 17 Education & Technology Group Inc.’s (17EdTech) approximately $331 million December 2020 initial public offering of ADS. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include 17EdTech and certain of its officers and directors. GS Asia underwrote 12,604,000 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $132 million. On January 31, 2023, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
LifeStance Health Group, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on August 10, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to LifeStance Health Group, Inc.’s (LifeStance) approximately $828 million June 2021 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include LifeStance and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 10,580,000 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $190 million. On December 19, 2022, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, and on January 18, 2023, the defendants moved to dismiss the amended complaint.
MINISO Group Holding Limited. GS Asia is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on August 17, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on November 18, 2022 relating to MINISO Group Holding Limited’s (MINISO) approximately $656 million October 2020 initial public offering of ADS. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include MINISO and certain of its officers and directors. GS Asia underwrote 16,408,093 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $328 million.
Coupang, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on August 26, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Coupang, Inc.’s (Coupang) approximately $4.6 billion March 2021 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Coupang and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 42,900,000 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $1.5 billion.
Yatsen Holding Limited. GS Asia is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on September 23, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Yatsen Holding Limited’s (Yatsen) approximately $617 million November 2020 initial public offering of ADS. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Yatsen, certain of its officers and directors and one of its shareholders. GS Asia underwrote 22,912,500 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $241 million.
Rent the Runway, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on November 14, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York relating to Rent the Runway, Inc.’s (Rent the Runway) $357 million October 2021 initial public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Rent the Runway and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 5,254,304 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $110 million.
Opendoor Technologies Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on November 22, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona relating to, among other things, Opendoor Technologies Inc.’s (Opendoor) approximately $886 million February 2021 public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Opendoor and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 10,173,401 shares of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $275 million.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
FIGS, Inc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on December 8, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California relating to FIGS, Inc.’s (FIGS) approximately $668 million May 2021 initial public offering and approximately $413 million September 2021 secondary equity offering. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include FIGS, certain of its officers and directors and certain of its shareholders. GS&Co. underwrote 9,545,073 shares of common stock in the May 2021 initial public offering representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $210 million and 3,179,047 shares of common stock in the September 2021 secondary equity offering representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $128 million.
Silvergate Capital Corporation. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in a putative securities class action filed on January 19, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California relating to Silvergate Capital Corporation’s (Silvergate) approximately $288 million January 2021 public offering of common stock and approximately $552 million December 2021 public offering of common stock. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Silvergate and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 1,711,313 shares of common stock in the January 2021 public offering of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $108 million and 1,375,397 shares of common stock in the December 2021 public offering of common stock representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $199 million.
Centessa Pharmaceuticals plc. GS&Co. is among the underwriters named as defendants in an amended complaint for a putative securities class action filed on February 10, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to Centessa Pharmaceuticals plc’s (Centessa) approximately $380 million May 2021 initial public offering of ADS. In addition to the underwriters, the defendants include Centessa and certain of its officers and directors. GS&Co. underwrote 6,072,000 ADS representing an aggregate offering price of approximately $121 million.
Investment Management Services
Group Inc. and certain of its affiliates are parties to various civil litigation and arbitration proceedings and other disputes with clients relating to losses allegedly sustained as a result of the firm’s investment management services. These claims generally seek, among other things, restitution or other compensatory damages and, in some cases, punitive damages.
Securities Lending Antitrust Litigation
Group Inc. and GS&Co. were among the defendants named in a putative antitrust class action and three individual actions relating to securities lending practices filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York beginning in August 2017. The complaints generally assert claims under federal and state antitrust law and state common law in connection with an alleged conspiracy among the defendants to preclude the development of electronic platforms for securities lending transactions. The individual complaints also assert claims for tortious interference with business relations and under state trade practices law and, in the second and third individual actions, unjust enrichment under state common law. The complaints seek declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified amounts of compensatory, treble, punitive and other damages. Group Inc. was voluntarily dismissed from the putative class action on January 26, 2018. Defendants’ motion to dismiss the class action complaint was denied on September 27, 2018. Defendants’ motion to dismiss the first individual action was granted on August 7, 2019. On September 30, 2021, the defendants’ motion to dismiss the second and third individual actions, which were consolidated in June 2019, was granted. On October 25, 2021, the plaintiff in the second individual action appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On June 30, 2022, the Magistrate Judge recommended that the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in the putative class action be granted in part and denied in part. On August 15, 2022, the plaintiffs and defendants filed objections to the Magistrate Judge’s report and recommendation with the district court.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Variable Rate Demand Obligations Antitrust Litigation
Group Inc. and GS&Co. were among the defendants named in a putative class action relating to variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs), filed beginning in February 2019 under separate complaints and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The consolidated amended complaint, filed on May 31, 2019, generally asserts claims under federal antitrust law and state common law in connection with an alleged conspiracy among the defendants to manipulate the market for VRDOs. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified amounts of compensatory, treble and other damages. Group Inc. was voluntarily dismissed from the putative class action on June 3, 2019. On November 2, 2020, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss, dismissing the state common law claims against GS&Co., but denying dismissal of the federal antitrust law claims.
GS&Co. is also among the defendants named in a related putative class action filed on June 2, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges the same conspiracy in the market for VRDOs as that alleged in the consolidated amended complaint filed on May 31, 2019, and asserts federal antitrust law, state law and state common law claims against the defendants. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified amounts of compensatory, treble and other damages. On August 6, 2021, plaintiffs in the May 31, 2019 action filed an amended complaint consolidating the June 2, 2021 action with the May 31, 2019 action. On September 14, 2021, defendants filed a joint partial motion to dismiss the August 6, 2021 amended consolidated complaint. On June 28, 2022, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss, dismissing the state breach of fiduciary duty claim against GS&Co., but declining to dismiss any portion of the federal antitrust law claims. On October 27, 2022, the plaintiffs moved for class certification.
Interest Rate Swap Antitrust Litigation
Group Inc., GS&Co., GSI, GS Bank USA and Goldman Sachs Financial Markets, L.P. are among the defendants named in a putative antitrust class action relating to the trading of interest rate swaps, filed in November 2015 and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The same Goldman Sachs entities are also among the defendants named in two antitrust actions relating to the trading of interest rate swaps, commenced in April 2016 and June 2018, respectively, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by three operators of swap execution facilities and certain of their affiliates. These actions have been consolidated for pretrial proceedings. The complaints generally assert claims under federal antitrust law and state common law in connection with an alleged conspiracy among the defendants to preclude exchange trading of interest rate swaps. The complaints in the individual actions also assert claims under state antitrust law. The complaints seek declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as treble damages in an unspecified amount. Defendants moved to dismiss the class and the first individual action and the district court dismissed the state common law claims asserted by the plaintiffs in the first individual action and otherwise limited the state common law claim in the putative class action and the antitrust claims in both actions to the period from 2013 to 2016. On November 20, 2018, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss the second individual action, dismissing the state common law claims for unjust enrichment and tortious interference, but denying dismissal of the federal and state antitrust claims. On March 13, 2019, the court denied the plaintiffs’ motion in the putative class action to amend their complaint to add allegations related to conduct from 2008 to 2012, but granted the motion to add limited allegations from 2013 to 2016, which the plaintiffs added in a fourth consolidated amended complaint filed on March 22, 2019. The plaintiffs in the putative class action moved for class certification on March 7, 2019.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Commodities-Related Litigation
GSI is among the defendants named in putative class actions relating to trading in platinum and palladium, filed beginning on November 25, 2014 and most recently amended on May 15, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The amended complaint generally alleges that the defendants violated federal antitrust laws and the Commodity Exchange Act in connection with an alleged conspiracy to manipulate a benchmark for physical platinum and palladium prices and seek declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as treble damages in an unspecified amount. On March 29, 2020, the court granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss and for reconsideration, resulting in the dismissal of all claims. On April 27, 2020, plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
GS&Co., GSI, J. Aron & Company and Metro International Trade Services (Metro), a previously consolidated subsidiary of Group Inc. that was sold in the fourth quarter of 2014, are among the defendants in a number of putative class and individual actions filed beginning on August 1, 2013 and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaints generally allege violations of federal antitrust laws and state laws in connection with the storage of aluminum and aluminum trading. The complaints seek declaratory, injunctive and other equitable relief, as well as unspecified monetary damages, including treble damages. In December 2016, the district court granted defendants’ motions to dismiss and on August 27, 2019, the Second Circuit vacated the district court’s dismissals and remanded the case to district court for further proceedings. On July 23, 2020, the district court denied the class plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, and on December 16, 2020 the Second Circuit denied leave to appeal the denial. On February 17, 2021, the district court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment with respect to the claims of most of the individual plaintiffs. On April 14, 2021, the plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On May 31, 2022, the two remaining individual plaintiffs entered into a settlement with the defendants. The firm has paid the full amount of its contribution to the settlement.
In connection with the sale of Metro, the firm agreed to provide indemnities to the buyer, including for any potential liabilities for legal or regulatory proceedings arising out of the conduct of Metro’s business while the firm owned it.
U.S. Treasury Securities Litigation
GS&Co. is among the primary dealers named as defendants in several putative class actions relating to the market for U.S. Treasury securities, filed beginning in July 2015 and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. GS&Co. is also among the primary dealers named as defendants in a similar individual action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on August 25, 2017. The consolidated class action complaint, filed on December 29, 2017, generally alleges that the defendants violated antitrust laws in connection with an alleged conspiracy to manipulate the when-issued market and auctions for U.S. Treasury securities and that certain defendants, including GS&Co., colluded to preclude trading of U.S. Treasury securities on electronic trading platforms in order to impede competition in the bidding process. The individual action alleges a similar conspiracy regarding manipulation of the when-issued market and auctions, as well as related futures and options in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act. The complaints seek declaratory and injunctive relief, treble damages in an unspecified amount and restitution. Defendants’ motion to dismiss was granted on March 31, 2021. On May 14, 2021, plaintiffs filed an amended complaint. Defendants’ motion to dismiss the amended complaint was granted on March 31, 2022. On April 28, 2022, plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Corporate Bonds Antitrust Litigation
Group Inc. and GS&Co. are among the dealers named as defendants in a putative class action relating to the secondary market for odd-lot corporate bonds, filed on April 21, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The amended consolidated complaint, filed on October 29, 2020, asserts claims under federal antitrust law in connection with alleged anti-competitive conduct by the defendants in the secondary market for odd-lots of corporate bonds, and seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified monetary damages, including treble and punitive damages and restitution. On October 25, 2021, the court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss with prejudice. On November 23, 2021, plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On November 10, 2022, the district court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for an indicative ruling that the judgment should be vacated because the wife of the district judge owned stock in one of the defendants and the district judge did not recuse himself.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 221
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Credit Default Swap Antitrust Litigation
Group Inc., GS&Co. and GSI were among the defendants named in a putative antitrust class action relating to the settlement of credit default swaps, filed on June 30, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The complaint generally asserts claims under federal antitrust law and the Commodity Exchange Act in connection with an alleged conspiracy among the defendants to manipulate the benchmark price used to value credit default swaps for settlement. The complaint also asserts a claim for unjust enrichment under state common law. The complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as unspecified amounts of treble and other damages. On November 15, 2021, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. On February 4, 2022, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and voluntarily dismissed Group Inc. from the action. On April 5, 2022, the defendants filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint.
Employment-Related Matters
On September 15, 2010, a putative class action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by three female former employees. The complaint, as subsequently amended, alleges that Group Inc. and GS&Co. have systematically discriminated against female employees in respect of compensation, promotion and performance evaluations. The complaint alleges a class consisting of all female employees employed at specified levels in specified areas by Group Inc. and GS&Co. since July 2002, and asserts claims under federal and New York City discrimination laws. The complaint seeks class action status, injunctive relief and unspecified amounts of compensatory, punitive and other damages.
On March 30, 2018, the district court certified a damages class as to the plaintiffs’ disparate impact and treatment claims. On September 4, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied defendants’ petition for interlocutory review of the district court’s class certification decision and subsequently denied defendants’ petition for rehearing. On September 27, 2018, plaintiffs advised the district court that they would not seek to certify a class for injunctive and declaratory relief. On March 26, 2020, the Magistrate Judge in the district court granted in part a motion to compel arbitration as to class members who are parties to certain agreements with Group Inc. and/or GS&Co. in which they agreed to arbitrate employment-related disputes. On April 16, 2020, plaintiffs submitted objections to the Magistrate Judge’s order and defendants submitted conditional objections in the event that the district judge overturned any portion of the Magistrate Judge’s order. On July 22, 2021, defendants filed a motion to decertify the class. On September 15, 2021, the district court affirmed the decision of the Magistrate Judge to compel arbitration. On March 17, 2022, the district court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment as to a portion of the disparate impact claim, granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion for summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ disparate impact and treatment claims, denied the defendants’ motion to decertify the class, and granted in part and denied in part the parties’ respective motions to preclude certain expert testimony. On August 22, 2022, the district court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion for reconsideration of the portion of its March 17, 2022 decision that denied the defendants’ motion to decertify the class, denying the defendants’ motion to decertify the class but narrowing the class definition. Trial is scheduled to commence on June 7, 2023.
Consumer Investigation and Review
The firm is cooperating with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other governmental bodies relating to investigations and/or inquiries concerning GS Bank USA’s credit card account management practices and is providing information regarding the application of refunds, crediting of nonconforming payments, billing error resolution, advertisements, reporting to credit bureaus, and any other consumer-related information requested by them.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Regulatory Investigations and Reviews and Related Litigation
Group Inc. and certain of its affiliates are subject to a number of other investigations and reviews by, and in some cases have received subpoenas and requests for documents and information from, various governmental and regulatory bodies and self-regulatory organizations and litigation and shareholder requests relating to various matters relating to the firm’s businesses and operations, including:
•The securities offering process and underwriting practices;
•The firm’s investment management and financial advisory services;
•Conflicts of interest;
•Research practices, including research independence and interactions between research analysts and other firm personnel, including investment banking personnel, as well as third parties;
•Transactions involving government-related financings and other matters, municipal securities, including wall-cross procedures and conflict of interest disclosure with respect to state and municipal clients, the trading and structuring of municipal derivative instruments in connection with municipal offerings, political contribution rules, municipal advisory services and the possible impact of credit default swap transactions on municipal issuers;
•Consumer lending, as well as residential mortgage lending, servicing and securitization, and compliance with related consumer laws;
•The offering, auction, sales, trading and clearance of corporate and government securities, currencies, commodities and other financial products and related sales and other communications and activities, as well as the firm’s supervision and controls relating to such activities, including compliance with applicable short sale rules, algorithmic, high-frequency and quantitative trading, the firm’s U.S. alternative trading system (dark pool), futures trading, options trading, when-issued trading, transaction reporting, technology systems and controls, communications recordkeeping and recording, securities lending practices, prime brokerage activities, trading and clearance of credit derivative instruments and interest rate swaps, commodities activities and metals storage, private placement practices, allocations of and trading in securities, and trading activities and communications in connection with the establishment of benchmark rates, such as currency rates;
• Compliance with the FCPA;
•The firm’s hiring and compensation practices;
•The firm’s system of risk management and controls; and
•Insider trading, the potential misuse and dissemination of material nonpublic information regarding corporate and governmental developments and the effectiveness of the firm’s insider trading controls and information barriers.
The firm is cooperating with all such governmental and regulatory investigations and reviews.
Note 28.
Employee Benefit Plans
The firm sponsors various pension plans and certain other postretirement benefit plans, primarily healthcare and life insurance. The firm also provides certain benefits to former or inactive employees prior to retirement.
Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Postretirement Plans
Employees of certain non-U.S. subsidiaries participate in various defined benefit pension plans. These plans generally provide benefits based on years of credited service and a percentage of eligible compensation. The firm maintains a defined benefit pension plan for certain U.K. employees. As of April 2008, the U.K. defined benefit plan was closed to new participants and frozen for existing participants as of March 31, 2016. The non-U.S. plans do not have a material impact on the firm’s consolidated results of operations.
The firm also maintains a defined benefit pension plan for substantially all U.S. employees hired prior to November 1, 2003. As of November 2004, this plan was closed to new participants and frozen for existing participants. In addition, the firm maintains unfunded postretirement benefit plans that provide medical and life insurance for eligible retirees and their dependents covered under these programs. These plans do not have a material impact on the firm’s consolidated results of operations.
The firm recognizes the funded status of its defined benefit pension and postretirement plans, measured as the difference between the fair value of the plan assets and the benefit obligation, in the consolidated balance sheets. As of December 2022, other assets included $111 million (related to overfunded pension plans) and other liabilities included $337 million related to these plans. As of December 2021, other assets included $411 million (related to overfunded pension plans) and other liabilities included $426 million related to these plans.
Defined Contribution Plans
The firm contributes to employer-sponsored U.S. and non-U.S. defined contribution plans. The firm's contribution to these plans was $378 million for 2022, $274 million for 2021 and $261 million for 2020.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 223
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 29.
Employee Incentive Plans
The cost of employee services received in exchange for a share-based award is generally measured based on the grant-date fair value of the award. Share-based awards that do not require future service (i.e., vested awards, including awards granted to retirement-eligible employees) are expensed immediately. Share-based awards that require future service are amortized over the relevant service period. Forfeitures are recorded when they occur.
Cash dividend equivalents paid on RSUs are generally charged to retained earnings. If RSUs that require future service are forfeited, the related dividend equivalents originally charged to retained earnings are reclassified to compensation expense in the period in which forfeiture occurs.
The firm generally issues new shares of common stock upon delivery of share-based awards. In limited cases, as outlined in the applicable award agreements, the firm may cash settle share-based compensation awards accounted for as equity instruments. For these awards, additional paid-in capital is adjusted to the extent of the difference between the value of the award at the time of cash settlement and the grant-date value of the award. The tax effect related to the settlement of share-based awards and payments of dividend equivalents is recorded in income tax benefit or expense.
Stock Incentive Plan
The firm sponsors a stock incentive plan, The Goldman Sachs Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (2021) (2021 SIP), which provides for grants of RSUs, restricted stock, dividend equivalent rights, incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, and other share-based awards, each of which may be subject to terms and conditions, including performance or market conditions. On April 29, 2021, shareholders approved the 2021 SIP. The 2021 SIP is a successor to several predecessor stock incentive plans, the first of which was adopted on April 30, 1999, and each of which was approved by the firm’s shareholders.
As of December 2022, 60.8 million shares were available to be delivered pursuant to awards granted under the 2021 SIP. If any shares of common stock underlying awards granted under the 2021 SIP or awards granted under predecessor stock incentive plans are not delivered because such awards are forfeited, terminated or canceled, or if shares of common stock underlying such awards are surrendered or withheld to satisfy any obligation of the grantee (including taxes), those shares will become available to be delivered pursuant to awards granted under the 2021 SIP. Shares available to be delivered under the 2021 SIP also are subject to adjustment for certain events or changes in corporate structure as provided under the 2021 SIP. The 2021 SIP is scheduled to terminate on the date of the annual meeting of shareholders that occurs in 2025.
Restricted Stock Units
The firm grants RSUs (including RSUs subject to performance or market conditions) to employees, which are generally valued based on the closing price of the underlying shares on the date of grant, after taking into account a liquidity discount for any applicable post-vesting and delivery transfer restrictions. The value of equity awards also considers the impact of material non-public information, if any, that the firm expects to make available shortly following grant. RSUs generally vest and underlying shares of common stock deliver (net of required withholding tax) as outlined in the applicable award agreements. Award agreements generally provide that vesting is accelerated in certain circumstances, such as on retirement, death, disability and, in certain cases, conflicted employment. Delivery of the underlying shares of common stock is conditioned on the grantees satisfying certain vesting and other requirements outlined in the award agreements. RSUs not subject to performance or market conditions generally vest and deliver over a three-year period.
RSUs that are subject to performance or market conditions generally deliver after the end of a three- to five-year period. For awards that are subject to performance or market conditions, generally the final award is adjusted from zero up to 150% of the original grant based on the extent to which those conditions are satisfied. Dividend equivalents that accrue on these awards are paid when the awards settle.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The table below presents the 2022 activity related to stock settled RSUs.
Weighted Average
Grant-Date Fair Value of
Restricted Stock
Restricted Stock
Units Outstanding
Units Outstanding
Future No Future Future No Future
Service Service Service Service
Required
Required
Required
Required
Beginning balance
4,043,074 15,933,696 $ 255.08 $ 228.14
Granted
5,478,475 8,660,927 $ 315.33 $ 318.03
Forfeited
(606,404) (260,799) $ 292.38 $ 261.99
Delivered
- (10,633,955) $ - $ 229.81
Vested
(3,626,923) 3,626,923 $ 277.07 $ 277.07
Ending balance
5,288,222 17,326,792 $ 298.14 $ 281.78
In the table above:
•The weighted average grant-date fair value of RSUs granted was $316.98 during 2022, $264.57 during 2021 and $220.45 during 2020. The grant-date fair value of these RSUs included an average liquidity discount of 6.0% during 2022, 10.2% during 2021 and 10.1% during 2020, to reflect post-vesting and delivery transfer restrictions, generally of 1 year for 2022, and up to 4 years for both 2021 and 2020.
•The aggregate fair value of awards that vested was $3.91 billion during 2022, $2.64 billion during 2021 and $2.01 billion during 2020.
•The ending balance included restricted stock subject to future service requirements of 357,367 shares as of December 2022 and 47,719 shares as of December 2021.
•The ending balance included RSUs subject to future service requirements and performance or market conditions of 618,248 RSUs as of December 2022 and 322,935 RSUs as of December 2021, and the maximum amount of such RSUs that may be earned was 914,441 RSUs as of December 2022 and 387,508 RSUs as of December 2021.
•The ending balance also included RSUs not subject to future service requirements but subject to performance conditions of 1,457,702 RSUs as of December 2022 and 590,453 RSUs as of December 2021, and the maximum amount of such RSUs that may be earned was 2,186,553 RSUs as of December 2022 and 885,680 RSUs as of December 2021.
In relation to 2022 year-end, during the first quarter of 2023, the firm granted to its employees 6.2 million RSUs (of which 2.4 million RSUs require future service as a condition for delivery of the related shares of common stock). These RSUs are subject to additional conditions as outlined in the award agreements. Shares underlying these RSUs, net of required withholding tax, generally deliver over a three-year period. These awards are generally subject to a one-year post-vesting and delivery transfer restriction. These awards are not included in the table above.
As of December 2022, there was $860 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested share-based compensation arrangements. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.86 years. In addition, there is unrecognized compensation cost related to share-based compensation arrangements subject to performance conditions. The maximum payout related to these awards is $124 million. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.92 years.
The table below presents the share-based compensation and the related excess tax benefit.
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Share-based compensation
$ 4,107 $ 2,553 $ 1,985
Excess net tax benefit for share-based awards
$ 324 $ 196 $ 120
In the table above, excess net tax benefit for share-based awards includes the net tax benefit on dividend equivalents paid on RSUs and the delivery of common stock underlying share-based awards.
Overrides
The firm shares a portion of its overrides related to investment management services with approximately 800 employees. The fair value of these overrides is recognized as compensation expense over the vesting period. Such expense was $493 million for 2022, $547 million for 2021 and $141 million for 2020.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 225
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 30.
Parent Company
Group Inc. - Condensed Statements of Earnings
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Revenues
Dividends from subsidiaries and other affiliates:
Bank $ 101 $ 16,990 $ 40
Nonbank 6,243 15,562 11,860
Other revenues (3,590) 529 774
Total non-interest revenues 2,754 33,081 12,674
Interest income 8,367 3,695 4,020
Interest expense 9,428 4,570 5,861
Net interest loss (1,061) (875) (1,841)
Total net revenues 1,693 32,206 10,833
Operating expenses
Compensation and benefits 328 750 367
Other expenses 685 1,005 3,339
Total operating expenses 1,013 1,755 3,706
Pre-tax earnings 680 30,451 7,127
Benefit for taxes (1,398) (551) (696)
Undistributed earnings/(loss) of subsidiaries
and other affiliates 9,183 (9,367) 1,636
Net earnings 11,261 21,635 9,459
Preferred stock dividends 497 484 544
Net earnings applicable to common shareholders
$ 10,764 $ 21,151 $ 8,915
Supplemental Disclosures:
In the condensed statements of earnings above, revenues and expenses included the following with subsidiaries and other affiliates:
•Dividends from bank subsidiaries included cash dividends of $97 million for 2022, $16.99 billion for 2021 and $38 million for 2020.
•Dividends from nonbank subsidiaries and other affiliates included cash dividends of $6.14 billion for 2022, $15.14 billion for 2021 and $11.32 billion for 2020.
•Other revenues included $(3.34) billion for 2022, $(1.01) billion for 2021 and $2.62 billion for 2020.
•Interest income included $7.47 billion for 2022, $3.39 billion for 2021 and $3.68 billion for 2020.
•Interest expense included $3.80 billion for 2022, $1.24 billion for 2021 and $1.73 billion for 2020.
•Other expenses included $116 million for 2022, $113 million for 2021 and $100 million for 2020.
Group Inc.’s other comprehensive income/(loss) was $(942) million for 2022, $(634) million for 2021 and $50 million for 2020.
Group Inc. - Condensed Balance Sheets
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents:
With third-party banks $ 35 $ 47
With subsidiary bank 46 2
Loans to and receivables from subsidiaries:
Bank 3,545 1,024
Nonbank ($4,825 and $7,638 at fair value)
259,402 273,416
Investments in subsidiaries and other affiliates:
Bank 49,533 43,021
Nonbank 85,058 75,883
Trading assets (at fair value) 5,431 4,663
Investments ($23,894 and $22,525 at fair value)
69,483 26,078
Other assets 6,576 6,098
Total assets $ 479,109 $ 430,232
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity
Repurchase agreements with subsidiaries (at fair value) $ 66,839 $ -
Secured borrowings with subsidiaries 16,749 50,805
Payables to subsidiaries 510 1,357
Trading liabilities (at fair value) 2,544 1,116
Unsecured short-term borrowings:
With third parties ($5,002 and $1,215 at fair value)
23,823 11,127
With subsidiaries 4,328 3,687
Unsecured long-term borrowings:
With third parties ($22,422 and $17,690 at fair value)
185,972 208,796
With subsidiaries 57,565 40,405
Other liabilities 3,590 3,013
Total liabilities 361,920 320,306
Commitments, contingencies and guarantees
Shareholders' equity
Preferred stock 10,703 10,703
Common stock 9 9
Share-based awards 5,696 4,211
Additional paid-in capital 59,050 56,396
Retained earnings 139,372 131,811
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (3,010) (2,068)
Stock held in treasury, at cost (94,631) (91,136)
Total shareholders’ equity 117,189 109,926
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity $ 479,109 $ 430,232
Supplemental Disclosures:
Goldman Sachs Funding LLC (Funding IHC), a wholly-owned, direct subsidiary of Group Inc., has provided Group Inc. with a committed line of credit that allows Group Inc. to draw sufficient funds to meet its cash needs in the ordinary course of business.
Trading assets included derivative contracts with subsidiaries of $2.17 billion as of December 2022 and $1.38 billion as of December 2021.
Trading liabilities included derivative contracts with subsidiaries of $2.54 billion as of December 2022 and $1.12 billion as of December 2021.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
As of December 2022, unsecured long-term borrowings with subsidiaries by maturity date are $56.10 billion in 2024, $534 million in 2025, $62 million in 2026, $103 million in 2027 and $770 million in 2028-thereafter.
Group Inc. - Condensed Statements of Cash Flows
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Cash flows from operating activities
Net earnings $ 11,261 $ 21,635 $ 9,459
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net
cash provided by operating activities:
Undistributed (earnings)/loss of
subsidiaries and other affiliates (9,183) 9,367 (1,636)
Depreciation and amortization 9 9 6
Deferred income taxes (1,523) (241) (160)
Share-based compensation 378 335 127
Gain on extinguishment of
unsecured borrowings - - (1)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Collateralized transactions (excluding
secured borrowings, net) 66,839 - 332
Trading assets (23,451) (10,273) 3,484
Trading liabilities 1,428 796 (97)
Other, net 5,933 (5,213) (1,492)
Net cash provided by operating activities 51,691 16,415 10,022
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of property, leasehold
improvements and equipment (64) (13) (26)
Repayments/(issuances) of short-term loans
to subsidiaries, net 2,210 (9,951) 7,021
Issuance of term loans to subsidiaries (1,859) (37,260) (32,472)
Repayments of term loans by subsidiaries 2,311 10,059 29,568
Purchase of investments (47,247) (16,964) (3,767)
Sales/paydowns of investments 3,162 10,896 4,135
Capital contributions to subsidiaries, net (5,665) (23,978) (5,617)
Net cash used for investing activities (47,152) (67,211) (1,158)
Cash flows from financing activities
Secured borrowings with subsidiary, net (36,389) 12,346 (6,360)
Unsecured short-term borrowings, net:
With third parties 13 (683) (1,372)
With subsidiaries 27,803 7,007 12,603
Issuance of unsecured long-term borrowings 78,803 73,164 24,789
Repayment of unsecured long-term borrowings (65,960) (31,588) (33,432)
Purchase of Trust Preferred securities - - (11)
Preferred stock redemption - (2,675) (350)
Common stock repurchased (3,500) (5,200) (1,928)
Settlement of share-based awards in
satisfaction of withholding tax requirements (1,595) (985) (830)
Dividends and dividend equivalents paid on
stock and share-based awards (3,682) (2,725) (2,336)
Issuance of preferred stock, net of costs - 2,172 349
Other financing, net - (14) -
Net cash provided by/(used for) financing
activities (4,507) 50,819 (8,878)
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash
equivalents 32 23 (14)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning balance 49 26 40
Cash and cash equivalents, ending balance $ 81 $ 49 $ 26
Supplemental Disclosures:
Cash payments for interest, net of capitalized interest, were $8.54 billion for 2022, $4.72 billion for 2021 and $5.92 billion for 2020, and included $3.55 billion for 2022, $1.33 billion for 2021 and $1.90 billion for 2020 of payments to subsidiaries.
Cash payments/(refunds) for income taxes, net, were $2.59 billion for 2022, $3.74 billion for 2021 and $1.37 billion for 2020.
Non-cash activities during the year ended December 2022:
•Group Inc. issued $1.75 billion of equity in connection with the acquisition of GreenSky. Upon closing of the transaction, GreenSky became a wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Bank USA.
Non-cash activities during the year ended December 2021:
•Group Inc. exchanged $948 million of loans for additional equity investment in its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
Non-cash activities during the year ended December 2020:
•Group Inc. exchanged $11.2 million of Trust Preferred securities and common beneficial interests for $12.5 million of certain of Group Inc.’s junior subordinated debt.
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K 227
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Supplemental Financial Information
Common Stock Performance
The graph and table below compare the performance of an investment in the firm’s common stock from December 31, 2017 (the last trading day before the firm’s 2018 fiscal year) through December 31, 2022, with the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) and the S&P 500 Financials Index (S&P 500 Financials).
As of December
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Group Inc. $ 100.00 $ 66.48 $ 93.38 $ 109.70 $ 161.91 $ 149.18
S&P 500 $ 100.00 $ 95.61 $ 125.70 $ 148.81 $ 191.49 $ 156.78
S&P 500 Financials $ 100.00 $ 86.96 $ 114.87 $ 112.84 $ 152.19 $ 136.11
The graph and table above assume $100 was invested on December 31, 2017 in each of the firm’s common stock, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Financials, and the dividends were reinvested without payment of any commissions. The performance shown represents past performance and should not be considered an indication of future performance.
Statistical Disclosures
Distribution of Assets, Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity
The tables below present information about average balances, interest and average interest rates.
Average Balance for the
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Assets
U.S. $ 151,152 $ 103,182 $ 55,662
Non-U.S. 107,843 95,735 71,312
Deposits with banks 258,995 198,917 126,974
U.S. 241,968 202,841 138,447
Non-U.S. 169,621 148,604 114,974
Collateralized agreements 411,589 351,445 253,421
U.S. 165,331 173,498 204,118
Non-U.S. 123,332 136,075 118,642
Trading assets 288,663 309,573 322,760
U.S. 97,221 69,893 56,167
Non-U.S. 14,696 18,573 17,156
Investments 111,917 88,466 73,323
U.S. 144,781 108,032 94,115
Non-U.S. 22,067 21,455 18,867
Loans 166,848 129,487 112,982
U.S. 95,513 98,086 57,149
Non-U.S. 64,301 55,530 45,672
Other interest-earning assets 159,814 153,616 102,821
Interest-earning assets 1,397,826 1,231,504 992,281
Cash and due from banks 7,715 10,804 10,303
Other non-interest-earning assets 137,418 128,521 116,750
Assets $ 1,542,959 $ 1,370,829 $ 1,119,334
Liabilities
U.S. $ 302,678 $ 231,967 $ 188,767
Non-U.S. 74,662 72,899 51,997
Interest-bearing deposits 377,340 304,866 240,764
U.S. 107,008 110,099 77,727
Non-U.S. 83,783 72,691 35,284
Collateralized financings 190,791 182,790 113,011
U.S. 80,950 67,734 42,213
Non-U.S. 83,657 75,763 55,119
Trading liabilities 164,607 143,497 97,332
U.S. 34,322 31,866 34,449
Non-U.S. 28,675 34,326 22,113
Short-term borrowings 62,997 66,192 56,562
U.S. 221,598 216,864 199,196
Non-U.S. 37,656 29,764 30,941
Long-term borrowings 259,254 246,628 230,137
U.S. 166,200 139,278 127,489
Non-U.S. 98,130 85,913 66,403
Other interest-bearing liabilities 264,330 225,191 193,892
Interest-bearing liabilities 1,319,319 1,169,164 931,698
Non-interest-bearing deposits 4,811 5,920 6,672
Other non-interest-bearing liabilities 102,839 94,040 89,185
Liabilities 1,426,969 1,269,124 1,027,555
Shareholders’ equity
Preferred stock 10,703 9,876 11,203
Common stock 105,287 91,829 80,576
Shareholders’ equity 115,990 101,705 91,779
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity $ 1,542,959 $ 1,370,829 $ 1,119,334
Percentage attributable to non-U.S. operations
Interest-earning assets 35.90 % 38.65 % 38.96 %
Interest-bearing liabilities 30.82 % 31.76 % 28.11 %
Goldman Sachs 2022 Form 10-K
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Supplemental Financial Information
Interest for the
Year Ended December
$ in millions 2022 2021 2020
Assets
U.S. $ 2,793 $ 143 $ 219
Non-U.S. 440 (167) 26
Deposits with banks 3,233 (24) 245
U.S. 3,463 (383) 371
Non-U.S. 1,005 (597) (89)
Collateralized agreements 4,468 (980) 282
U.S. 3,362 2,943 3,649
Non-U.S. 1,725 1,773 1,561
Trading assets 5,087 4,716 5,210
U.S. 1,656 991 1,081
Non-U.S. 543 598 546
Investments 2,199 1,589 1,627
U.S. 7,967 4,423 4,061
Non-U.S. 1,092 896 822
Loans 9,059 5,319 4,883
U.S. 3,236 1,201 1,099
Non-U.S. 1,742 299 343
Other interest-earning assets 4,978 1,500 1,442
Interest-earning assets $ 29,024 $ 12,120 $ 13,689
Liabilities
U.S. $ 4,959 $ 1,098 $ 1,967
Non-U.S. 864 205 419
Interest-bearing deposits 5,823 1,303 2,386
U.S. 2,027 146 554
Non-U.S. 781 (146) 45
Collateralized financings 2,808 - 599
U.S. 872 661 477
Non-U.S. 1,051 1,001 761
Trading liabilities 1,923 1,662 1,238
U.S. 408 476 492
Non-U.S. 133 51 50
Short-term borrowings 541 527 542
U.S. 5,570 3,139 4,034
Non-U.S. 146 92 119
Long-term borrowings 5,716 3,231 4,153
U.S. 2,356 (897) (148)
Non-U.S. 2,179 (176) 168
Other interest-bearing liabilities 4,535 (1,073) 20
Interest-bearing liabilities $ 21,346 $ 5,650 $ 8,938
Net interest income
U.S. $ 6,285 $ 4,695 $ 3,104
Non-U.S. 1,393 1,775 1,647
Net interest income $ 7,678 $ 6,470 $ 4,751
Average Rate for the
Year Ended December
2022 2021 2020
Assets
U.S. 1.85 % 0.14 % 0.39 %
Non-U.S. 0.41 % (0.17) % 0.04 %
Deposits with banks 1.25 % (0.01) % 0.19 %
U.S. 1.43 % (0.19) % 0.27 %
Non-U.S. 0.59 % (0.40) % (0.08) %
Collateralized agreements 1.09 % (0.28) % 0.11 %
U.S. 2.03 % 1.70 % 1.79 %
Non-U.S. 1.40 % 1.30 % 1.32 %
Trading assets 1.76 % 1.52 % 1.61 %
U.S. 1.70 % 1.42 % 1.92 %
Non-U.S. 3.69 % 3.22 % 3.18 %
Investments 1.96 % 1.80 % 2.22 %
U.S. 5.50 % 4.09 % 4.31 %
Non-U.S. 4.95 % 4.18 % 4.36 %
Loans 5.43 % 4.11 % 4.32 %
U.S. 3.39 % 1.22 % 1.92 %
Non-U.S. 2.71 % 0.54 % 0.75 %
Other interest-earning assets 3.11 % 0.98 % 1.40 %
Interest-earning assets 2.08 % 0.98 % 1.38 %
Liabilities
U.S. 1.64 % 0.47 % 1.04 %
Non-U.S. 1.16 % 0.28 % 0.81 %
Interest-bearing deposits
1.54 % 0.43 % 0.99 %
U.S. 1.89 % 0.13 % 0.71 %
Non-U.S. 0.93 % (0.20) % 0.13 %
Collateralized financings 1.47 % 0.00 % 0.53 %
U.S. 1.08 % 0.98 % 1.13 %
Non-U.S. 1.26 % 1.32 % 1.38 %
Trading liabilities 1.17 % 1.16 % 1.27 %
U.S. 1.19 % 1.49 % 1.43 %
Non-U.S. 0.46 % 0.15 % 0.23 %
Short-term borrowings 0.86 % 0.80 % 0.96 %
U.S. 2.51 % 1.45 % 2.03 %
Non-U.S. 0.39 % 0.31 % 0.38 %
Long-term borrowings 2.20 % 1.31 % 1.80 %
U.S. 1.42 % (0.64) % (0.12) %
Non-U.S. 2.22 % (0.20) % 0.25 %
Other interest-bearing liabilities 1.72 % (0.48) % 0.01 %
Interest-bearing liabilities 1.62 % 0.48 % 0.96 %
Interest rate spread 0.46 % 0.50 % 0.42 %
U.S. 0.70 % 0.62 % 0.51 %
Non-U.S. 0.28 % 0.37 % 0.43 %
Net yield on interest-earning assets 0.55 % 0.53 % 0.48 %
In the tables above:
•Assets, liabilities and interest are classified as U.S. and non-U.S. based on the location of the legal entity in which the assets and liabilities are held.
•Derivative instruments and commodities are included in other non-interest-earning assets and other non-interest-bearing liabilities.
•Average collateralized agreements included $216.73 billion of resale agreements and $194.86 billion of securities borrowed for 2022, $167.95 billion of resale agreements and $183.50 billion of securities borrowed for 2021 and $119.16 billion of resale agreements and $134.26 billion of securities borrowed for 2020.
•Other interest-earning assets primarily consists of certain receivables from customers and counterparties.
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Supplemental Financial Information
•Collateralized financings included $150.23 billion of repurchase agreements and $40.56 billion of securities loaned for 2022, $145.68 billion of repurchase agreements and $37.11 billion of securities loaned for 2021, and $96.60 billion of repurchase agreements and $16.41 billion of securities loaned for 2020.
•Substantially all of the other interest-bearing liabilities consists of certain payables to customers and counterparties.
•Interest rates for borrowings include the effects of interest rate swaps accounted for as hedges.
•Loans exclude loans held for sale that are accounted for at the lower of cost or fair value. Such loans are included within other interest-earning assets.
•Short- and long-term borrowings include both secured and unsecured borrowings.
Changes in Net Interest Income, Volume and Rate
Analysis
The tables below present the effect on net interest income of volume and rate changes. In this analysis, changes due to volume/rate variance have been allocated to volume.
Year Ended December 2022
versus December 2021
Increase (decrease)
due to change in:
$ in millions
Volume
Rate
Net Change
Interest-earning assets
U.S.
$ 886 $ 1,764 $ 2,650
Non-U.S.
49 558 607
Deposits with banks
935 2,322 3,257
U.S.
560 3,286 3,846
Non-U.S.
125 1,477 1,602
Collateralized agreements
685 4,763 5,448
U.S.
(166) 585 419
Non-U.S.
(178) 130 (48)
Trading assets
(344) 715 371
U.S.
465 200 665
Non-U.S.
(143) 88 (55)
Investments
322 288 610
U.S.
2,022 1,522 3,544
Non-U.S.
30 166 196
Loans
2,052 1,688 3,740
U.S.
(87) 2,122 2,035
Non-U.S.
238 1,205 1,443
Other interest-earning assets
151 3,327 3,478
Change in interest income
3,801 13,103 16,904
Interest-bearing liabilities
U.S.
1,159 2,702 3,861
Non-U.S.
20 639 659
Interest-bearing deposits
1,179 3,341 4,520
U.S.
(59) 1,940 1,881
Non-U.S.
103 824 927
Collateralized financings
44 2,764 2,808
U.S.
142 69 211
Non-U.S.
99 (49) 50
Trading liabilities
241 20 261
U.S.
29 (97) (68)
Non-U.S.
(26) 108 82
Short-term borrowings
3 11 14
U.S.
119 2,312 2,431
Non-U.S.
31 23 54
Long-term borrowings
150 2,335 2,485
U.S.
382 2,871 3,253
Non-U.S.
271 2,084 2,355
Other interest-bearing liabilities
653 4,955 5,608
Change in interest expense
2,270 13,426 15,696
Change in net interest income
$ 1,531 $ (323) $ 1,208
Year Ended December 2021
versus December 2020
Increase (decrease)
due to change in:
$ in millions
Volume Rate Net Change
Interest-earning assets
U.S.
$ 66 $ (142) $ (76)
Non-U.S.
(43) (150) (193)
Deposits with banks
23 (292) (269)
U.S.
(122) (632) (754)
Non-U.S.
(135) (373) (508)
Collateralized agreements
(257) (1,005) (1,262)
U.S.
(519) (187) (706)
Non-U.S.
227 (15) 212
Trading assets
(292) (202) (494)
U.S.
195 (285) (90)
Non-U.S.
46 6 52
Investments
241 (279) (38)
U.S.
570 (208) 362
Non-U.S.
108 (34) 74
Loans
678 (242) 436
U.S.
501 (399) 102
Non-U.S.
53 (97) (44)
Other interest-earning assets
554 (496) 58
Change in interest income
947 (2,516) (1,569)
Interest-bearing liabilities
U.S.
204 (1,073) (869)
Non-U.S.
59 (273) (214)
Interest-bearing deposits
263 (1,346) (1,083)
U.S.
43 (451) (408)
Non-U.S.
(75) (116) (191)
Collateralized financings
(32) (567) (599)
U.S.
249 (65) 184
Non-U.S.
273 (33) 240
Trading liabilities
522 (98) 424
U.S.
(39) 23 (16)
Non-U.S.
18 (17) 1
Short-term borrowings
(21) 6 (15)
U.S.
256 (1,151) (895)
Non-U.S.
(4) (23) (27)
Long-term borrowings
252 (1,174) (922)
U.S.
(76) (673) (749)
Non-U.S.
(40) (304) (344)
Other interest-bearing liabilities
(116) (977) (1,093)
Change in interest expense
868 (4,156) (3,288)
Change in net interest income
$ 79 $ 1,640 $ 1,719
Deposits
The table below presents information about interest-bearing deposits.
Year Ended December
$ in millions
2022 2021
Average balances
U.S.
Savings and demand
$ 231,693 $ 174,745
Time
70,985 57,222
Total U.S.
302,678 231,967
Non-U.S.
Demand
45,066 43,709
Time
29,596 29,190
Total non-U.S.
74,662 72,899
Total
$ 377,340 $ 304,866
Average interest rates
U.S.
Savings and demand
1.69 % 0.34 %
Time
1.48 % 0.89 %
Total U.S.
1.64 % 0.47 %
Non-U.S.
Demand
1.20 % 0.33 %
Time
1.09 % 0.21 %
Total non-U.S.
1.16 % 0.28 %
Total
1.54 % 0.43 %
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Supplemental Financial Information
In the table above, deposits are classified as U.S. and non-U.S. based on the location of the entity in which such deposits are held.
The amount of deposits in U.S. offices held by non-U.S. depositors was $6.39 billion as of December 2022 and $7.56 billion as of December 2021.
The amount of uninsured deposits in U.S. offices was $128.72 billion as of December 2022 and $127.05 billion as of December 2021. The amount of uninsured deposits in non-U.S. offices was $41.33 billion as of December 2022 and $49.08 billion as of December 2021.
The table below presents uninsured time deposits by maturity.
As of December 2022
$ in millions U.S. Non-U.S.
3 months or less $ 5,064 $ 11,093
3 to 6 months 2,376 5,158
6 to 12 months 3,122 1,191
Greater than 12 months 584 1,335
Total $ 11,146 $ 18,777
In the table above:
•All U.S. time deposits were in accounts eligible for FDIC insurance and non-U.S. time deposits include deposits in accounts eligible for insurance in their local jurisdictions, as well as deposits in uninsured accounts.
•The insurance limit is allocated between time and other deposits on a pro-rata basis for account holders who have both time and other deposits that, in aggregate, exceed the insurance limit.
Loan Portfolio
The table below presents information about loans.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate $ 40,135 22 % $ 37,643 23 %
Commercial real estate 28,879 16 % 29,000 18 %
Residential real estate 23,035 12 % 24,674 15 %
Securities-based
16,671 9 % 16,652 10 %
Other collateralized
51,702 28 % 38,263 24 %
Consumer:
Installment 6,326 3 % 3,672 2 %
Credit cards 15,820 9 % 8,212 5 %
Other 2,261 1 % 4,019 3 %
Total $ 184,829 100 % $ 162,135 100 %
Maturities and Interest Rates. The table below presents gross loans by tenor.
As of December 2022
More than More than
1 year 1 year to 5 years to More than
$ in millions or less 5 years 15 years 15 years Total
Corporate $ 3,078 $ 30,605 $ 6,451 $ 1 $ 40,135
Commercial real estate 4,736 22,578 1,561 4 28,879
Residential real estate 3,934 8,588 80 10,433 23,035
Securities-based
16,666 5 - - 16,671
Other collateralized
20,522 29,692 1,251 237 51,702
Consumer:
Installment 129 4,269 1,793 135 6,326
Credit cards 15,820 - - - 15,820
Other 1,038 780 355 88 2,261
Total $ 65,923 $ 96,517 $ 11,491 $ 10,898 $ 184,829
The table below presents the gross loans by tenor and for loans with tenors greater than one year, the distributions of such loans between fixed and floating interest rates.
As of December 2022
1 year More than one year
$ in millions or less Fixed-rate Floating-rate Total
Corporate $ 3,078 $ 533 $ 36,524 $ 40,135
Commercial real estate 4,736 607 23,536 28,879
Residential real estate 3,934 11,290 7,811 23,035
Securities-based
16,666 - 5 16,671
Other collateralized
20,522 880 30,300 51,702
Consumer:
Installment 129 6,197 - 6,326
Credit cards 15,820 - - 15,820
Other 1,038 455 768 2,261
Total $ 65,923 $ 19,962 $ 98,944 $ 184,829
Allowance for Loan Losses
The table below presents information about the allowance for loan losses.
As of December
$ in millions 2022 2021
Corporate $ 1,535 $ 1,288
Commercial real estate 572 482
Residential real estate 122 141
Securities-based
- -
Other collateralized
264 153
Other 69 71
Wholesale 2,562 2,135
Installment 831 490
Credit cards 2,150 948
Consumer 2,981 1,438
Total $ 5,543 $ 3,573
The table below presents information about the net charge-off ratio for loans accounted for at amortized cost.
Net Average Net charge-
$ in millions Charge-offs balance off ratio
Year Ended December 2022
Wholesale $ 253 $ 144,129 0.2 %
Installment 46 4,711 1.0 %
Credit cards 427 11,984 3.6 %
Consumer 473 16,695 2.8 %
Total $ 726 $ 160,824 0.5 %
Year Ended December 2021
Wholesale $ 130 $ 111,088 0.1 %
Installment 68 3,497 1.9 %
Credit cards 135 5,495 2.5 %
Consumer 203 8,992 2.3 %
Total $ 333 $ 120,080 0.3 %
In the table above, the net charge-off ratio is calculated by dividing the net charge-offs by average gross loans accounted for at amortized cost. Net charge-offs for wholesale loans were primarily related to corporate loans for both 2022 and 2021.
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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
There were no changes in or disagreements with accountants on accounting and financial disclosure during the last two years.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this report, an evaluation was carried out by our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report. In addition, no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) occurred during the fourth quarter of our year ended December 31, 2022 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm are set forth in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

Item 9B. Other Information
Item 9B. Other Information
Not applicable.
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
Not applicable.
PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Information about our executive officers is included on page __ of this Form 10-K. Information about our directors, including our audit committee and audit committee financial experts and the procedures by which shareholders can recommend director nominees, and our executive officers will be in our definitive Proxy Statement for our 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be filed within 120 days of the end of 2022 (2023 Proxy Statement) and is incorporated in this Form 10-K by reference. Information about our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, which applies to our senior financial officers, is included in “Business - Available Information” in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-K.

Item 11. Executive Compensation
Item 11. Executive Compensation
Information relating to our executive officer and director compensation and the compensation committee of the Board will be in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Form 10-K by reference.
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Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Information relating to security ownership of certain beneficial owners of our common stock and information relating to the security ownership of our management will be in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Form 10-K by reference.
The table below presents information as of December 31, 2022 regarding securities to be issued pursuant to outstanding restricted stock units (RSUs) and securities remaining available for issuance under our equity compensation plans that were in effect during 2022.
Plan Category
Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options and Rights (a)
Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options (b)
Securities Available For Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (c)
Equity compensation plans:
Approved by security holders
23,282,691 N/A 60,775,322
Not approved by security holders
- - -
Total 23,282,691 60,775,322
In the table above:
•Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options and Rights includes 20,288,851 shares that may be issued pursuant to outstanding RSUs. These awards are subject to vesting and other conditions to the extent set forth in the respective award agreements, and the underlying shares will be delivered net of any required tax withholding. As of December 31, 2022, there were no outstanding options.
•Shares underlying RSUs are deliverable without the payment of any consideration, and therefore these awards have not been taken into account in calculating the weighted average exercise price.
•Securities Available For Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans represents shares remaining to be issued under our current stock incentive plan (SIP), excluding shares reflected in column (a). If any shares of common stock underlying awards granted under our current SIP, our SIP adopted in 2018, our SIP adopted in 2015 or our SIP adopted in 2013 are not delivered due to forfeiture, termination or cancellation or are surrendered or withheld, those shares will again become available to be delivered under our current SIP. Shares available for grant are also subject to adjustment for certain changes in corporate structure as permitted under our current SIP.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Information regarding certain relationships and related transactions and director independence will be in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Form 10-K by reference.

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Information regarding principal accountant fees and services will be in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Form 10-K by reference.
PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
Item 15. Exhibit and Financial Statement Schedules
(a) Documents filed as part of this Report:
1. Consolidated Financial Statements
The consolidated financial statements required to be filed in this Form 10-K are included in Part II, Item 8 hereof.
2. Exhibits
2.1 Plan of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-74449)).
3.1 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., amended as of November 10, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 10, 2021).
3.2 Amended and Restated By-Laws of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., amended as of October 28, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2021).
4.1 Description of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.’s Securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
4.2 Indenture, dated as of May 19, 1999, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 6 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on June 29, 1999).
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4.3 Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of February 20, 2004, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 28, 2003).
4.4 Warrant Indenture, dated as of February 14, 2006, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.34 to the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to Form S-3, filed on March 1, 2006).
4.5 Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 4, 2007, among GS Finance Corp., as issuer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., as guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.69 to the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 10 to Form S-3, filed on December 4, 2007).
4.6 Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of July 16, 2008, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.82 to the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 11 to Form S-3 (No. 333-130074), filed on July 17, 2008).
4.7 Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 31, 2016, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of July 16, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on January 6, 2017).
4.8 Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 10, 2008, among GS Finance Corp., as issuer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.70 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-154173), filed on October 10, 2008).
4.9 First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 20, 2015, among GS Finance Corp., as issuer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 10, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.7 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014).
4.10 Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 21, 2018, among GS Finance Corp., as issuer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 10, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2018).
4.11 Ninth Supplemental Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of May 20, 2015, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of February 20, 2004 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 22, 2015).
4.12 Tenth Supplemental Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of July 7, 2017, between The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Subordinated Debt Indenture, dated as of February 20, 2004 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.89 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-219206), filed on July 10, 2017).
4.13 Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2020, among GS Finance Corp., as issuer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 10, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.69 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-239610), filed on July 1, 2020).
4.14 Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 14, 2020, among GS Finance Corp., as issuer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, with respect to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of October 10, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on October 14, 2020).
Certain instruments defining the rights of holders of long-term debt securities of the Registrant and its subsidiaries are omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(4)(iii) of Regulation S-K. The Registrant hereby undertakes to furnish to the SEC, upon request, copies of any such instruments.
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10.1 The Goldman Sachs Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (2021) (incorporated by reference to Annex C to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed on March 19, 2021). †
10.2 The Goldman Sachs Partner Compensation Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-74449)). †
10.3 The Goldman Sachs Amended and Restated Restricted Partner Compensation Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended February 24, 2006). †
10.4 Form of Employment Agreement for Participating Managing Directors (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.19 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-75213)). †
10.5 Form of Agreement Relating to Noncompetition and Other Covenants (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-75213)). †
10.6 Amended and Restated Shareholders’ Agreement, effective as of December 31, 2019, among The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and various parties (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019).
10.7 Instrument of Indemnification (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-75213)).
10.8 Form of Indemnification Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.28 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 26, 1999).
10.9 Form of Indemnification Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.44 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 26, 1999).
10.10 Form of Indemnification Agreement, dated as of July 5, 2000 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended August 25, 2000).
10.11 Form of Amendment, dated November 27, 2004, to Agreement Relating to Noncompetition and Other Covenants, dated May 7, 1999 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.32 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 26, 2004). †
10.12 Form of Non-Employee Director RSU Award Agreement (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.13 Ground Lease, dated August 23, 2005, between Battery Park City Authority d/b/a/ Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, as Landlord, and Goldman Sachs Headquarters LLC, as Tenant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on August 26, 2005).
10.14 General Guarantee Agreement, dated January 30, 2006, made by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. relating to certain obligations of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.45 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 25, 2005).
10.15 Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Executive Life Insurance Policy and Certificate with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for Participating Managing Directors (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended August 25, 2006). †
10.16 Form of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Executive Life Insurance Policy with Pacific Life & Annuity Company for Participating Managing Directors, including policy specifications and form of restriction on Policy Owner’s Rights (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended August 25, 2006). †
10.17 Form of Second Amendment, dated November 25, 2006, to Agreement Relating to Noncompetition and Other Covenants, dated May 7, 1999, as amended effective November 27, 2004 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.51 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 24, 2006). †
10.18 Description of PMD Retiree Medical Program (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021). †
10.19 Letter, dated June 28, 2008, from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. to Mr. Lakshmi N. Mittal (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 30, 2008). †
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10.20 General Guarantee Agreement, dated December 1, 2008, made by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. relating to certain obligations of Goldman Sachs Bank USA (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.80 to the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3, filed on March 19, 2009).
10.21 Form of One-Time RSU Award Agreement (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.32 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.22 Amendments to Certain Non-Employee Director Equity Award Agreements (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.69 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 28, 2008). †
10.23 Form of Year-End RSU Award Agreement (not fully vested) (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.36 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.24 Form of Year-End RSU Award Agreement (fully vested) (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.37 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.25 Form of Year-End RSU Award Agreement (Base and/or Supplemental) (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.38 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.26 Form of Year-End Restricted Stock Award Agreement (fully vested) (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.41 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013). †
10.27 Form of Year-End Restricted Stock Award Agreement (Base and/or Supplemental) (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.41 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.28 Form of Fixed Allowance RSU Award Agreement (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.43 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014). †
10.29 Form of Deed of Gift (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2010). †
10.30 The Goldman Sachs Long-Term Performance Incentive Plan, dated December 17, 2010 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 23, 2010). †
10.31 Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 23, 2010). †
10.32 Form of Performance-Based Option Award Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 23, 2010). †
10.33 Form of Performance-Based Cash Compensation Award Agreement (pre-2015) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 23, 2010). †
10.34 Amended and Restated General Guarantee Agreement, dated November 21, 2011, made by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. relating to certain obligations of Goldman Sachs Bank USA (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 21, 2011).
10.35 Form of Aircraft Time Sharing Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.61 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011). †
10.36 The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Clawback Policy, effective as of January 1, 2015 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.53 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014).
10.37 Form of Non-Employee Director RSU Award Agreement. †
10.38 Form of One-Time/Year-End RSU Award Agreement. †
10.39 Form of Year-End RSU Award Agreement (not fully vested). †
10.40 Form of Year-End RSU Award Agreement (fully vested). †
10.41 Form of Year-End RSU Award Agreement (Base (not fully vested) and/or Supplemental). †
10.42 Form of Year-End Short-Term RSU Award Agreement. †
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10.43 Form of Year-End Restricted Stock Award Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.46 to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020). †
10.44 Form of Year-End Restricted Stock Award Agreement (fully vested) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.53 to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017). †
10.45 Form of Year-End Short-Term Restricted Stock Award Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.57 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015). †
10.46 Form of Fixed Allowance RSU Award Agreement. †
10.47 Form of Fixed Allowance Restricted Stock Award Agreement. †
10.48 Form of Fixed Allowance Deferred Cash Award Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.59 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015). †
10.49 Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (fully vested). †
10.50 Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (not fully vested). †
10.51 Form of Performance-Based Cash Compensation Award Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.61 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015). †
10.52 Form of Signature Card for Equity Awards. †
10.53 Amended and Restated General Guarantee Agreement, dated September 28, 2018, made by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. relating to certain obligations of Goldman Sachs Bank USA (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 28, 2018).
10.54 Amended and Restated General Guarantee Agreement, dated September 28, 2018, made by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. relating to certain obligations of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 28, 2018).
10.55 Lease, dated August 17, 2018, between Farringdon Street Partners Limited and Farringdon Street (Nominee) Limited, as Landlord, and Goldman Sachs International, as Tenant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2018).
21.1 List of significant subsidiaries of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
22.1 Issuers of guaranteed securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 22.1 to the Registrant's Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3, filed on February 18, 2021).
23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
31.1 Rule 13a-14(a) Certifications.
32.1 Section 1350 Certifications (This information is furnished and not filed for purposes of Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).
101 Pursuant to Rules 405 and 406 of Regulation S-T, the following information is formatted in iXBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) the Consolidated Statements of Earnings for the years ended December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the years ended December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, (iii) the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, (v) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, (vi) the notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements and (vii) the cover page.
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted in iXBRL in Exhibit 101).
† This exhibit is a management contract or a compensatory plan or arrangement.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC.
By: /s/ Denis P. Coleman III
Name: Denis P. Coleman III
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Date: February 23, 2023
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
By: /s/ David Solomon
Name: David Solomon
Title: Director, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ M. Michele Burns
Name: M. Michele Burns
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Drew G. Faust
Name: Drew G. Faust
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Mark A. Flaherty
Name: Mark A. Flaherty
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Kimberley D. Harris
Name: Kimberley D. Harris
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Kevin R. Johnson
Name: Kevin R. Johnson
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Ellen J. Kullman
Name: Ellen J. Kullman
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Lakshmi N. Mittal
Name: Lakshmi N. Mittal
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Adebayo O. Ogunlesi
Name: Adebayo O. Ogunlesi
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Peter Oppenheimer
Name: Peter Oppenheimer
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Jan E. Tighe
Name: Jan E. Tighe
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Jessica R. Uhl
Name: Jessica R. Uhl
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ David A. Viniar
Name: David A. Viniar
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Mark O. Winkelman
Name: Mark O. Winkelman
Title: Director
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Denis P. Coleman III
Name: Denis P. Coleman III
Title: Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
Date: February 23, 2023
By: /s/ Sheara J. Fredman
Name: Sheara J. Fredman
Title: Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
Date: February 23, 2023
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