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Goldman Sachs had a knockout year in Africa. The firm has invested heavily in the region, with a clear focus on a few core markets, notably South Africa, where it has moved to a larger office in Johannesburg and added foreign-exchange and fixed-income products that target corporate and institutional investors. In 2019, it joined forces with Investec to provide domestic equity trading services. A year later, it secured a licence to trade futures from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Since the recent diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East, Goldman Sachs has worked to drum up business for Israeli businesses.

"Bloomberg" said the firm plans to add five people to the investment banking division and expand its asset management and private wealth teams in Israel.

(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is coming off its best year ever in Israel. But the hiring spree it’s planning is both a rebuilding effort and a growth push. After emerging as the top adviser on Israeli initial public offerings in the U.S.