In October, Toby Watson, head of Goldman’s PFI desk in Asia, made partner. It was a good year also for Blankfein, Goldman’s CEO, who was paid $21 million, still well off his precrisis record of $68 million, in 2007, but a major payday nonetheless. Blankfein had developed other lines of business for Goldman, delivering a $7.5 billion profit that year. But the developments in Malaysia signified a big strategic win for the chief executive.
