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Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
Banker
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New York City
New York
James Dimon
James Jamie Dimon
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We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.
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You've seen certain credit type products that are going to be in nonbanks, like sophisticated CLO [collateralized loan obligation] tranches and stuff where the capital charge is so high that a bank simply will not own it. Someone will buy it, hedge it, trade it. But it won't typically be a bank.
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Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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