This is expected to be the most diverse group of executives elevated to Goldman's top rank.
The firm's money-losing consumer unit will be broken up.
Investment bankers have been idled by skittish markets, keeping companies from doing business with them.
The company's investment-banking group posted $1.28 billion in revenue in the third quarter, down 55% from a year earlier.
The move builds on the existing credit-card partnership between the two companies.
The men involved are two of the firm's most prominent figures.
Officials have been looking into the Wall Street firm's online-banking platform aimed at retail customers.
Analysts expect the bank to post a more than 40% drop in earnings this year.
The messy exit of two employees who pulled in seven-figure paydays is a jarring turn in Wall Street's war for talent.
He is among nine people charged in a case that includes a former Republican member of Congress, Stephen Buyer.