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Too Hot for Citi Banker: Too Chatty for Chase?
Maureen O'Connor · 06/07/10 12:08PMCollege Protesters No Match for Rich Guy
Hamilton Nolan · 05/17/10 09:16AMYoung, Supple Syracuse Students to Protest Jamie Dimon's Commencement Speech By Stripping
Adrian Chen · 05/13/10 06:00PMSupport for Obama Wavering in the Democratic Stronghold of Wall Street
John Cook · 02/08/10 04:09PMJamie Dimon Will Have to Make Do
cityfile · 02/05/10 09:20AM"JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, who led the second-biggest U.S. bank to a profit each quarter of the financial crisis, got a bonus package valued at $17 million for 2009 that didn't include any cash. The 53-year-old banker, who got a $27.8 million bonus for 2007 and only a $1 million salary for 2008, received restricted stock units and options and no cash bonus for last year, spokesman Joseph Evangelisti said. The valuation of his 2009 bonus was based on a JPMorgan regulatory filing today. "It's consistent with past pay practices and returns," said Alan Johnson, founder of New York-based Johnson Associates Inc. "You could argue that for him, personally, pay could have been higher, but this isn't the year for them to have done that." There's always next year! [BN]
A Bank of Emotion
Gabriel Snyder · 01/14/10 10:34AMThe Many Emotions on Capitol Hill Today
cityfile · 01/13/10 03:25PMLloyd Blankfein Finally Explains the Financial Collapse in Layman's Terms: We Forgot About the Money
John Cook · 01/13/10 02:38PMWashout in Washington
cityfile · 12/14/09 12:22PMLloyd Blankfein Is No Brad Pitt
cityfile · 11/23/09 02:51PMDimon to Washington?
cityfile · 11/23/09 08:37AMIs Jamie Dimon in line to replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner? That's that the Post suggests today, pointing to increased chatter in political circles that the JPMorgan Chase chief would make a "good fit," and Dimon's own efforts to build a higher profile in Washington in recent weeks. One thing that's for sure: 50 Cent is going to be crushed to hear this news today. [NYP]
Lloyd Blankfein Has Some Catching Up to Do
cityfile · 11/11/09 01:13PMThe Good Times Roll for JPMorgan
cityfile · 11/10/09 09:38AMLooking for a job on Wall Street? Great news! Two weeks after JPMorgan revealed plans to hire an additional 1,000 brokers (a move that was quickly followed by the announcement that JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon's dad was joining his son's firm) comes word that the bank is going on another hiring binge.
Yearbook Page Reveals Jamie Dimon's Lifelong Tight-Jeans Obsession
John Cook · 10/28/09 03:08PMJamie Dimon: The Early Years
cityfile · 10/28/09 01:33PMGawker scored a copy of Jamie Dimon's high school yearbook from 1974, which means you can now see what the CEO of JPMorgan Chase (and America's most powerful banker) looked like during his Johnny Cash days. NB: If you graduated from Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971, we'd love to hear from you. [Gawker]
Extreme Makeover: Wall Street Edition!
cityfile · 10/21/09 12:46PMWall Street CEOs make a fortune, as you're undoubtedly aware. Even the chief executives of banks that have been bailed-out by Washington or have gone bust usually end up doing nicely. But despite the riches and perks these men have accumulated and massive egos they've developed along the way, few of them would do all that well in a beauty contest. Because it's high time that Wall Street take advantage of the miracle of modern science—and because we care, dammit—we took the liberty of contacting Dr. Anthony Youn, a board-certified plastic surgeon who has made appearances on Dr. 90210 and the Rachael Ray Show, to ask him what procedures he'd suggest these titans of finance consider if they want to look their very best. Dr. Youn's answers and cost estimates—and our commentary—is below.
NYMag's 'Power Dozen'
cityfile · 10/19/09 12:43PMThis week's issue of New York has come up with a list of the 12 most powerful people in town. (Well, the 11 most powerful behind Michael Bloomberg, that is.) They are (in no particular order): Al Sharpton, Howard Rubenstein, Sheldon Silver, Stephen Ross, Jamie Dimon, Herb Pardes, Anna Wintour, Andrew Cuomo, Mike Fishman, Chuck Schumer, and Rupert Murdoch. [NYM]
JPMorgan Is Still No Match For Goldman Sachs
cityfile · 10/14/09 09:20AMJPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon shared some delightful news this morning. As expected, the bank posted super-solid earnings for the third quarter, generating $3.6 billion in profit based on $26.6 billion in revenue, results that were considerably higher than what Wall Street analysts were expecting. The House of Dimon also revealed that it's set aside $8.79 billion for compensation and benefits for the first nine months of 2009, just about enough to pay out $353,834 to each JPMorgan Chase employee. But don't think that's a good thing. It isn't! Because Goldman Sachs set aside $386,429 per employee for the first half of the year, and will likely put JPMorgan to shame when it reports earnings tomorrow. If you were thinking this world was unjust because millions of Americans don't have decent health insurance and a billion children around the world live below the poverty line, do yourself a favor and head over to JPMorgan HQ on Park Avenue later this afternoon and observe the people streaming out of the building. That, friends, is the true face of misery. [WSJ, Bloomberg]
Jamie Dimon Gets His Justice
cityfile · 10/08/09 10:58AMWe've said it before and we'll say it again: Mess with Jamie Dimon and you do so at your own risk. Last fall, during the bleakest moments of the financial crisis, the JPMorgan CEO began receiving threatening letters from a man who was angry about losing money a chunk of money following JPMorgan's acquisition of Washington Mutual. The anonymous letter-writer didn't just threaten to kill Dimon and promise to "McVeigh" the bank's New York office building. He also included a bit of white powder in one of the envelopes, which set off an anthrax scare at JPMorgan HQ. Duff McDonald recounts the episode in his new book on Dimon, Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase: