JPMorgan Chase

Barclays pays women investment bankers half what it pays men

02/22/18

At the U.K. investment bank, women earn 26% less than men and receive bonuses that are 60% lower, according to the lender’s annual report. Overall, it pays women just under half as much as male colleagues.

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Treasury unveils ‘Chapter 14’; JPM plans new home

02/22/18

Process would protect taxpayers from bailing out failed banks; bank plans to raze its midtown Manhattan headquarters and build a 2.5 million sq. ft. edifice on the site.

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JPMorgan plans new Manhattan headquarters for 15,000 workers

02/21/18

The nation's largest bank plans to consolidate employees from multiple office buildings into the 2.5 million-square-foot building. Construction is expected to be completed in 2024.

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Call for bank crackdown on gun sales is deeply misguided

02/20/18

The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin wants banks and credit card companies to effectively ban assault gun sales if Congress won't. It's a dangerous idea. Here's why.

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JPMorgan whistle-blowing case said to spur $30M award

02/16/18

The CFTC will pay the award for tips received from one person in the case, in which the bank didn’t properly disclose that it was steering asset management customers into investments that would be profitable for the bank.

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Banks' underground data vault is evolving — will it use blockchain next?

02/16/18

Banks scrapped a plan to create a shared data bunker for customer data in favor of a backup buddy system. Some argue a move to blockchain should be next.

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Banks pour more money into mortgage fintech Roostify

02/15/18

Banco Santander joined existing investors JPMorgan and USAA as well as others in raising $25 million in secondary-round financing for Roostify, which seeks to build a paperless mortgage process.

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JPMorgan: Cryptocurrencies 'could potentially have a role' in investor portfolios

02/13/18

In what could be seen as a mea culpa for CEO Jamie Dimon's disparagement of bitcoin five months ago, the Wall Street megabank has released a big and relatively bullish report on cryptocurrencies.

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Bank stocks rebound after Monday's wild ride

02/06/18

Bank stocks recovered some of their lost value on Tuesday on extremely high levels of trading volume. The lone exception: Wells Fargo.

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JPMorgan, Bank of America ban crypto purchases with credit cards

02/02/18

The nation’s two largest banks don't want the credit risk associated with the transactions.

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