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institution2000–present

JPMorgan Chase

Disciplines:
banking
investment banking
finance/financial services
finance/global finance

Summary

American multinational investment bank and financial services company — the largest bank in the United States and one of the largest in the world — formed by the 2000 merger of J.P. Morgan and Chase Manhattan.

Core Contribution

Represents the dominant American retail and investment banking institution — whose decisions about what to bank and whom to serve function as de facto financial policy — making it a recurring reference point in discussions of corporate accountability and financial power.

Historical Influences

J.P. Morgan David Rockefeller Jamie Dimon

Intellectual Lineage

J.P. Morgan Financial EmpireAmerican Banking Tradition Wall Street Finance

Contemporaries & Peers

Goldman Sachs Bank of America Citigroup

Minds Influenced

Global banking standardsFinancial regulation

Intellectual Posterity

'Too big to fail' bankFinancial stability as systemic function

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