29.07.2010
Swearing is out at Goldman Sachs, with the US investment bank having banned cursing in emails.
Despite the often choice terms used across Wall Street, the traders, investment bankers and other employees at Goldman have been told they will no longer get away with profanity in emails, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The bank will enforce the new communications policy through the use of screening software in emails. Not even curse words featuring asterisks will make the grade apparently, with these words also being blocked out.
The paper says the new rule on cursing in emails was conveyed to Goldman employees verbally.
Goldman is not the first big Wall Street firm to tackle cursing in emails. According to the WSJ, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup already have policies against using swear words in company email.
Meanwhile a spokesman for NYSE Euronext told the US financial daily that the company “unofficially discourages” swearing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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