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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.3

                     



                            SECURITIES DATA COMPANY



We hereby consent to the use of the information we provided for use in the
Registration Statement relating to the offering of Medium-Term Notes by The
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and to the references to our name in the Registration
Statement, including under the caption "Experts".




Securities Data Company,
A division of Thomson Information Services 



/s/ Kenneth J. Seng
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Kenneth J. Seng
Director, Account Management
& Client Training

March 26, 1999