Saturday, June 08, 2019

JPMorgan Chase has improved

At least in the eyes of the Federal Reserve. In 2013 the Fed required the bank to provide written progress reports to the New York Fed in 2013 until further notice. This was due to JP's secretly gambling with depositors’ money in exotic derivatives in London and losing at least $6.2 billion of those funds. Although the bank has pleaded guilty to three criminal felony counts since then, the Fed has removed the restriction.

In the interim JP has been charged by a number of agencies:

Last December the Hong Kong Monetary Authority charged it with anti-money laundering violations.
Also in December the Securities and Exchange Commission fined it 135 million for improperly providing American Depository Receipts (ADRs) “to brokers in thousands of pre-release transactions when neither the broker nor its customers had the foreign shares needed to support those new ADRs.”

In October the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) charged and fined JPMorgan Chase “for 87 apparent violations of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations; the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations; and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations.”
And it hasn't stopped. Yesterday the Swiss Competition Authority announced that it was fining JPMorgan Chase and other banks for anti-competitive behavior in the foreign exchange spot market.

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