lloyd blankfein told french newspaper le figaro that employees currently in london will be able to choose between the two cities after the u.k. leaves the e.u. the bank will also hire new staff to help fill out the offices goldman currently has six thousand employees in london the new hubs will ensure the bank's access to the e.u. single market post breaks it all financial correspondent against quarter filed this nonsense. it was that see all lloyd blankfein is claiming that some of his employees they actually might rather work in paris then and frankfurt so that might be one reason but then again it also might be that goldman sachs is looking for some leverage meaning if you have two competing offers here might negotiate and tax incentives for example goldman has done something similar when they picked the headquarter here in new york city so that might also be a reason and then looking ahead france actually might play a bigger role when it comes to financial regulation in a europe and so therefore goldman might also be looking to be closer geographically to the french government so thos