Serving retail borrowers

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Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (GS) opened its doors up to Main Street last year, launching an online consumer lending arm called “Marcus: By Goldman Sachs.”Named after one of the bank’s original business partners Marcus Goldman—who started the firm 147 years ago with Samuel Sachs—the new retail platform allows credit-worthy borrowers to apply for fixed-rate, no-fee loans of up to $30,000 for periods of two to six years.

“It’s a big problem,” Talwar said. ” [Today] in America, there was a Fed study that [found] if a household has $400 of unexpected expenditure, then almost half the country needs to borrow, and this is across all spectrum of households …  And this is not because they are living beyond means or they are going to Las Vegas or buying jewelry. It is because life happens. Somebody has a roof leak, they need to borrow. The washing machine breaks down, your daughter’s car’s transmission breaks, and when people need to borrow most often, they borrow on credit cards.”

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