JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon quipped that his bank is likely to outlast China’s Communist Party, while reiterating his company’s commitment to doing business in the country.
“The Communist Party is celebrating its 100th year — so is JPMorgan,” Dimon said Tuesday at a panel discussion at the Boston College Chief Executives Club. “I’d make a bet we last longer.”
JPMorgan has been
The business community should have taken issues related to China more seriously a decade ago, Dimon said, citing trade tensions and the crackdown in Hong Kong. Still, JPMorgan can’t go in and out of countries every time it doesn’t like its policies, he said, noting that the biggest U.S. bank also has a presence in Russia, Pakistan and Egypt.
Earlier this year, JPMorgan won approval from Chinese regulators to
Dimon has called China one of the biggest opportunities in the world for JPMorgan. He visited Hong Kong last week after being granted an
In the interview, Dimon also said:
While it’s “too late now” for him to get into politics, he might have considered that route 10 years ago had he known what the political situation was going to be like.
Blockchain technology is “real” and useful for some banking tasks, but it takes too long and is too expensive for others. Tokens, on the other hand, have no intrinsic value, he said. “Buyer beware,” Dimon said, echoing his longstanding skepticism about cryptocurrencies.
U.S. policy is critical for the rest of the world to solve its problems, including climate change. But “if America is discombobulated,” the result will be global chaos.
