JPMorgan Chase CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Jamie Dimon talks all through the Global Markets Conference, upfront of the Choose France high, in Paris, on May 15, 2025.
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JPMorgan Chase is lastly enabling clients to get bitcoin But CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Jamie Dimon remains to be a doubter.
“We are going to allow you to buy it,” Dimon claimed on the monetary establishment’s yearly financier day onMonday “We’re not going to custody it. We’re going to put it in statements for clients.”
The selection notes a noteworthy motion for the most important united state monetary establishment, particularly due to Dimon’s background of slamming the digital cash and the crypto market usually, and is the hottest indicator of bitcoin’s entrance proper into mainstream investing. Since August, Morgan Stanley has really permitted its financial consultants to pitch some place bitcoin exchange-traded funds to certifying clients.
Dimon made it clear that his particular person sight of bitcoin stays unmodified, highlighting issues like money laundering and the absence of high quality bordering possession, along with “the sex trafficking, the terrorism.”
“I don’t think you should smoke, but I defend your right to smoke,” Dimon claimed. “I defend your right to buy bitcoin.”
A JPMorgan consultant decreased to make clear on the monetary establishment’s explicit put together for bitcoin achieve entry to. Until at the moment, the agency has really restricted its crypto direct publicity principally to futures-based gadgets, not straight possession of bitcoin.
When crypto value determinations have been skyrocketing in 2021, Dimon disregarded bitcoin as “worthless.” He knowledgeable legislators all through a Senate listening to in late 2023 that he’s “always been deeply opposed to crypto, bitcoin, etc.,” which, “The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers … money laundering, tax avoidance.” He claimed on the listening to that, “If I was the government, I’d close it down.”
At the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Dimon claimed, “Bitcoin does nothing. I call it the pet rock.” He included that, “This is the last time I’m talking about the with CNBC, so help me God.”
Morgan Stanley CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Ted Pick knowledgeable CNBC at this yr’s event in Davos that the monetary funding monetary establishment is discovering strategies to strengthen its participation in cryptocurrency markets, shopping the governing panorama beneath the pro-crypto administration of President Donald Trump.
Since President Trump took office in January, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have really retracted their anti-crypto help. While monetary establishments can at the moment safekeeping crypto, many due to the abolition of an accountancy guideline referred to as SAB 121, they nonetheless encounter constraints on functioning straight with crypto corporations with out particular authorization from the Federal Reserve.
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