Goldman Forms New Equities Team to Improve Hedge Fund Services

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has created a new team to encourage collaboration between its businesses that service hedge funds, and trade swaps and other derivatives.

Puneet Malhi and Cyril Goddeeris will be co-heads of the group, known internally as the global funding and inventory management team, Goldman Sachs said in a staff memo obtained Tuesday by Bloomberg. The departure of William Conley as global head of securities lending, and Kevin Kelly’s appointmentBloomberg Terminal as his replacement, helped prompt the change, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.