Citing one person with knowledge of the matter, a Fox Business report said, “All the signs coming out of Washington are that JPMorgan and BofA will win the deal.”

Even so, the process of selecting the underwriters isn’t over, and it’s not a surety the two companies will end up getting the account.

Some sources say whoever does end up getting the job should be announced sometime next week.

What seems to be most important about this report isn’t who may be getting it, but who isn’t, which in this case is Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS).

Goldman CEO and chairman Lloyd Blankfein was out traveling, which was given as the reason behind his not showing up to be interviewed by Treasury and GM officials. That’s significant because almost all major banks has either their chairman or CEO at the procedure, implying Blankfein may have been considered a liability or distraction to the  process for Goldman.

A person familiar with the matter said the Treasury and GM are looking for a head underwriter which would focus on the smaller investors, and another one that would target the larger institutional clients; the reason two companies were evidently named.

It’s doubtful that Goldman or competitor Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will simply accept this, and will undoubtedly strongly pursue landing the underwriting job.

This article (Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) Leading Candidates for Underwriting General Motors’ IPO) was originally developed by and is property of American Banking News. Checkout American Banking News for up-to-date banking news and peer to peer lending news.