Goldman Sachs 2015 Annual Report Download - page 35

THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
The European Commission has published a proposal for a
common system of financial transactions tax which would
be implemented in certain EU member states willing to
engage in enhanced cooperation in this area. The proposed
financial transactions tax is broad in scope and would
apply to transactions in a wide variety of financial
instruments and derivatives. The European Commission
has also published a draft proposal for structural reform of
EU banks, which would prohibit certain banks from
proprietary trading and would require separating certain
trading activities from deposit-taking entities.
As described above, many of our subsidiaries are subject to
regulatory capital requirements in jurisdictions throughout
the world. Subsidiaries not subject to separate regulation
may hold capital to satisfy local tax guidelines, rating
agency requirements or internal policies, including policies
concerning the minimum amount of capital a subsidiary
should hold based upon its underlying risk.
Certain of our businesses are subject to laws and
regulations enacted by U.S. federal and state governments,
the EU or other jurisdictions and/or enacted by various
regulatory organizations or exchanges relating to the
privacy of the information of clients, employees or others,
including the GLB Act, the EU Data Protection Directive,
the Japanese Personal Information Protection Act, the
Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, the
Australian Privacy Act and the Brazilian Bank Secrecy Law.
Available Information
Our internet address is www.gs.com and the investor
relations section of our web site is located at
www.gs.com/shareholders. We make available free of
charge through the investor relations section of our web
site, annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on
Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K and
amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (Exchange Act), as well as proxy statements, as soon
as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such
material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.
Also posted on our web site, and available in print upon
request of any shareholder to our Investor Relations
Department, are our certificate of incorporation and by-
laws, charters for our Audit Committee, Risk Committee,
Compensation Committee, Corporate Governance and
Nominating Committee, and Public Responsibilities
Committee, our Policy Regarding Director Independence
Determinations, our Policy on Reporting of Concerns
Regarding Accounting and Other Matters, our Corporate
Governance Guidelines and our Code of Business Conduct
and Ethics governing our directors, officers and employees.
Within the time period required by the SEC, we will post on
our web site any amendment to the Code of Business
Conduct and Ethics and any waiver applicable to any
executive officer, director or senior financial officer.
In addition, our web site includes information concerning:
‰Purchases and sales of our equity securities by our
executive officers and directors;
‰Disclosure relating to certain non-GAAP financial
measures (as defined in the SEC’s Regulation G) that we
may make public orally, telephonically, by webcast, by
broadcast or by similar means from time to time;
‰Dodd-Frank Act stress test results; and
‰The firm’s risk management practices and regulatory
capital ratios, as required under the disclosure-related
provisions of the Revised Capital Framework, which are
based on the third pillar of Basel III.
Our Investor Relations Department can be contacted at
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 200 West Street,
29th Floor, New York, New York 10282, Attn:
Investor Relations, telephone: [phone], e-mail:
[email protected].
From time to time, we use our website, our Twitter account
(twitter.com/GoldmanSachs) and other social media
channels as additional means of disclosing public
information to investors, the media and others interested in
Goldman Sachs. It is possible that certain information we
post on our website and on social media could be deemed to
be material information, and we encourage investors, the
media and others interested in Goldman Sachs to review the
business and financial information we post on our website
and on the social media channels identified above. The
information on our website and the firm’s social media
channels is not incorporated by reference into the 2015
Form 10-K.
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