Finance

Goldman Sachs Co-Head of Banking and Markets Plans to Exit After 29 Years

  • He helped run the bank’s core trading and dealmaking business
  • Esposito known for quirky client notes, wrestling passion
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One of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s most senior executives, Jim Esposito, is leaving after almost three decades with the firm.

Esposito helped run the bank’s core trading and dealmaking business after he had pushed to combine the two operations. More recently, Esposito, 56, had emerged as one of the key internal critics of the bank’s ill-fated foray into consumer banking that the Wall Street giant has largely abandoned.