JPMorgan Chase

The many ways banks are using blockchain

05/21/18

From international payments to trade finance deals, banks are increasingly exploring uses of distributed ledger technology in a number of ways.

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Where JPMorgan Chase is with its board and its blockchain

05/18/18

Even as Jamie Dimon touts the female leadership at his company, it lags in one key area. But JPMorgan women are making strides in particular with blockchain initiatives, and Amber Baldet finally shares what she is working on. Plus: heels or flats?

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Zelle founder Paul Finch to step down

05/17/18

"It was a difficult decision, but we’re at a good spot to do this,” Finch, 55, said in an interview.

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With help from fintech, JPMorgan opens asset management to masses

05/17/18

The bank, in conjunction with iCapital Network, is slashing requirements to participate in certain alternative investments that it once offered mainly to institutions or the ultrarich.

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BlackRock's savings app gambit: Build it, or millennials won't come

05/16/18

There's no reason that today's millennial-friendly microinvesting apps can't switch focus from spare change to real assets, industry executives warn.

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Tension escalates at annual meetings as banks wade into social issues

05/15/18

During JPMorgan Chase's shareholder meeting Tuesday, Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon faced criticism from the left and right about its investments in companies with ties to genocide and a donation it made to a well-known civil rights group. It's a spot other CEOs have found themselves in lately.

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On the shoulders of giants at JPM; lessons to learn at Morgan Stanley

05/14/18

JPMorgan Chase’s Thasunda Duckett is living her ancestors’ wildest dreams; Morgan Stanley could take a lesson from Citi on reining in rainmakers; and Jelena McWilliams faces tough choices at the FDIC. Plus, babysitting gets approved as a new type of campaign expense.

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Will capital plan cost big banks $400M or $121B? Yes

05/14/18

The Fed and FDIC are at odds over how proposed changes to the supplemental leverage ratio would change megabanks’ capital levels. Here's why both estimates are right but misleading.

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Apple, Goldman plan credit card; Wells will be late

05/11/18

This would be the bank’s first foray into credit cards; Wells Fargo says it won’t be able to comply with Fed requirements before next year.

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JPMorgan recruits top academic for AI efforts

05/09/18

Manuela Veloso, head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, will join the bank in July.

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