Jamie Dimon has steered the world’s most valuable bank for over 17 years, through the maelstrom of the global financial crisis and a once-in-a-century pandemic. In the process he’s scooped up competitor after competitor—names like Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and most recently First Republic—and cemented JPMorgan’s dominance at the top of the industry’s league tables.
Whatever one may think about JPMorgan Chase, a bank now so large that the First Republic deal needs a legal waiver just to proceed, Dimon himself is considered a constant. In December, Bloomberg even elevated him to the status of “greatest banker of his time.”
