Goldman Is Fighting a New Abacus Battle With an Angry Hedge Fund

  • Battle over synthetic CDO’s ‘obscure’ provision heads to court
  • Hedge fund says bank reaped $200 million from misconduct

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. headquarters stands in New York.

Photographer: Christopher Lee/Bloomberg
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Goldman Sachs might have a problem called Abacus. Again.

Financial types will recall that in the wake of the 2008 crisis, a synthetic CDO Bloomberg Terminalby the name of Abacus became a poster-child of irresponsible Wall Street behavior. Regulators ended up slapping Goldman Sachs with a then-unprecedented fine of $550 million.