Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., will be among the first witnesses to testify before a commission investigating last year’s financial collapse.  

President Obama may be calling bankers "fat cats" recently, but there's at least one person on Wall Street who he has a big soft spot for. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's favored status in Washington is no secret. ...  

The WaMu bankruptcy just got a little more interesting. Washington Mutual, the bankruptcy holding company, is asking a court to compel the FDIC, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and several ratings agencies to turn over emails and other documents relating to JPMorgan's acquisition of the bank. Reuters (via The New York Times) has a report here. Zach Lowe of The Am Law Daily has a report, including a breakdown of the legal teams, here. Reuters: The...  

MSM has been running a story over the last few days that Obama's Favorite Banker, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, had said that we should “get rid of the concept of ‘too big to fail,’” and that he suggested that a new resolution authority — giving government more power to shut down or take over big banks — would make this possible. I basically ignored the story figuring there had to be more to it, since Jamie Dimon isn't going to be regulated by...  

JD and his wife, Judy, back in the Harvard years. Back in 2004, Harvard purchased a ginormous amount of interest-rate swaps to fund an expansion. But in 2008 when the market tanked, the swaps turned toxic, and banks that had sold them to the university issued margin calls, putting Harvard in a tight position and forcing them to borrow $2.5 billion from the state of Massachusetts to get out of the swaps, a transaction that carried hefty...  

Ben Smith at POLITICO accurately describes this photo -- which came out of yesterday's pow-wow at The White House -- as Taibbi bait . Maybe they're talking about his transition to Treasury Secretary  

The Baseline Scenario submits: By Simon JohnsonIn May, Jamie Dimon, the head of JP Morgan Chase (JPM), told his shareholders that the bank just had probably “our finest year ever.” Despite being close to the epicenter of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Dimon’s bank was able to make a great deal of money, obtain government support when needed, and reduce that support level quickly when the overall situation stabilized...  

Several U.S. policy makers consider JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the New York Post said, citing sources.  

JP Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon touted as successor to US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner from the UK Telegraph reports that the head of JPMorgan Chase - referred to as "Obama's Banker" is being promoted to replace the controversial...  

JP Morgan confirms that head Jamie Dimon has hired his 78-year-old father, Theodore "Ted" Dimon, to join Bear Stearns Private Client Services, now owned by Morgan. The elder Dimon quit Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit yesterday to make the move. [Bloomberg] Read more posts by Lindsay Robertson Filed Under: bank of america, bear stearns, jamie dimon, jp morgan, merrill lynch, ted dimon  

J.P. Morgan Chase is the second-largest U.S. bank, but its CEO spoke out on Nov. 13 to condemn the policy of bailing out banks which are "too big to fail." Jamie Dimon wrote in the Washington Post that even his bank should accept the risk of failure. "[I]f some unforeseen circumstance should put this firm at risk of collapse, I believe we should be allowed to fail," Dimon said. He argued that rather than limiting the size of banks and...  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co sees additional losses on credit cards and home loans next year although there are some signs the rate of losses is settling and it may not need to build credit reserves much further, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Tuesday.  

The speculation over the fate of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed chief Ben Bernanke has been growing as Congress has become more troubled by rising federal deficits and unemployment. The $787 billion stimulus package has done too little to create jobs. GDP growth is anemic. Someone or someones have to take the fall between now [...]  

The Baseline Scenario submits: By James KwakIn the Washington Post, Jamie Dimon asserts that we shouldn’t “try to impose artificial limits on the size of U.S. financial institutions.” Why not?Complete Story »  

Oh, kidding. The JPMorgan CEO and noted nature lover announced this morning that the bank would donate $1 million to Central Park—which the native New Yorker called his "backyard growing up," in the press conference with Mayor Bloomberg—in order to replant trees that fell during that crazy storm this past August. “New York City is the heart of our operations, and Central Park is the heart of New York,” Dimon said. "We knew we needed to...