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With new acquisition, Wall Street’s ‘vampire squid’ aims to be cuddly

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Goldman Sachs ditches opaque past to embrace Clarity

Goldman Sachs, which paid a $550 million penalty for designing an uber-complicated synthetic collateralized debt obligation and then misleading institutional investors about how the contraption worked, has bought a personal finance app called Clarity Money.

The acquisition, for a reported eight-fig

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