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Chase Bank

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company, JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000.[2] Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Manhattan Company in 1955.[3] The bank merged with Chemical Bank New York in 1996 and later merged with Bank One Corporation in 2004[4] and in 2008 acquired the deposits and most assets of Washington Mutual. In May 2023, it acquired the assets of First Republic Bank.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
The current logo, in use since 2005
Chase Bank
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryBanking
PredecessorThe Manhattan Company
Founded1799; 225 years ago (1799)
FounderJohn Thompson
Headquarters,
Number of locations
4,700 branches
17,000 ATMs nationwide
100 countries (2022)
Area served
United States
Key people
Jamie Dimon
(Chairman and CEO)
ProductsFinancial services
ServicesRetail Financial Services
Card Services
Commercial Banking
RevenueUS$124.54 billion (2022)
US$42.12 billion (2022)
Total assetsUS$4 trillion (2022)
Number of employees
250,355 (2022)
ParentJPMorgan Chase
Websitewww.chase.com
Footnotes / references
[1]
Chase branches in the contiguous U.S. in 2020. The company also operates in Hawaii (not shown on the map).

Chase offers more than 5,100 branches and 17,000 ATMs nationwide and has 18.5 million checking accounts and 25 million debit card users as of 2023.[5] JPMorgan Chase & Co. has 250,355 employees (as of 2016) and operates in more than 100 countries. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had assets of $3.31 trillion in 2022 which makes it the largest bank in the United States[6] as well as the bank with the most branches in the United States[7] and the only bank with a presence in all of the contiguous United States.[8] JPMorgan Chase, through its Chase subsidiary, is one of the Big Four banks of the United States.[9][10]

History edit

 
Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States and founder of The Manhattan Company.

The Bank of The Manhattan Company (New York) was founded on September 1, 1799, and continued under that name until 1955, when it merged with the Chase National Bank, which was founded in 1877; the merged bank was called The Chase Manhattan Bank.[11][12]

 
Chase's southwest regional headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Manhattan Company edit

Chase traces its history back to the founding of The Manhattan Company by Aaron Burr on September 1, 1799, in a house at 40 Wall Street:[2]

After an epidemic of yellow fever in 1798, during which coffins had been sold by itinerant vendors on street corners, Aaron Burr established the Manhattan Company, with the ostensible aim of bringing clean water to the city from the Bronx River but in fact, designed as a front for the creation of New York's second bank, rivaling Alexander Hamilton's Bank of New York.

In 2006, the modern-day Chase bought the retail banking division of the Bank of New York, which then only months later merged with Pittsburgh-based Mellon Financial to form the present-day BNY Mellon.[14][15]: 23–26 

Chase National Bank edit

Chase National Bank was formed in 1877 by John Thompson.[2] It was named after former United States Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,[3] although Chase (having died four years earlier) did not have a connection with the bank.[2]

The Chase National Bank acquired a number of smaller banks in the 1920s through its Chase Securities Corporation. In 1926, for instance, it acquired Mechanics and Metals National Bank.

 
Specimen Stock Certificate

However, its most significant acquisition was that of the Equitable Trust Company of New York in 1930, the largest stockholder of which was John D. Rockefeller Jr.[16] This made Chase the largest bank in the US and the world.

Chase was primarily a wholesale bank dealing with other prominent financial institutions and major corporate clients such as General Electric,[17]: 450  which had, through its RCA subsidiary, leased prominent space and become a crucial first tenant of Rockefeller Center. They rescued that major project in 1930. The bank is also closely associated with and has financed the oil industry, having longstanding connections with its board of directors to the successor companies of Standard Oil, especially ExxonMobil, which are also part of Rockefeller holdings.[citation needed]

Merger as Chase Manhattan Bank edit

 
Manhattan Company (1799–1955) letterhead c. 1922
 
Chase National Bank (1877–1955) letterhead c. 1921
 
The 1955–1961 logo
 
The 1961–1976 logo

In 1955, Chase National Bank and The Manhattan Company merged to create the Chase Manhattan Bank.[2] As Chase was a much larger bank, it was first intended that Chase acquire the "Bank of Manhattan", as it was nicknamed, but it transpired that Burr's original charter for the Manhattan Company had not only included the clause allowing it to start a bank with surplus funds, but another requiring unanimous consent of shareholders for the bank to be taken over. The deal was therefore structured as an acquisition by the Bank of the Manhattan Company of Chase National, with John J. McCloy becoming chairman of the merged entity. This avoided the need for unanimous consent by shareholders.

For Chase Manhattan Bank's new logo, Chermayeff & Geismar designed a stylized octagon in 1961, which remains part of the bank's logo today.[18] It has been reported that the Chase logo was a stylized representation of the primitive water pipes laid by the Manhattan Company,[19] but this story was refuted in 2007 by Ivan Chermayeff himself. According to Chermayeff, the Chase logo was merely intended to be distinctive and geometric, and was not intended at all to resemble a cross-section of a wooden water pipe.[20] According to Chase, the sides of the octagon represent forward motion, while the blank space in the middle suggests progress originates from the center; and is a single unit made up of separate parts, like the bank.[21] The bank included an asset management business called the Chase Investors Management Corporation. Under McCloy's successor, George Champion, the bank relinquished its antiquated 1799 state charter for a modern one. In 1969, under the leadership of David Rockefeller, the bank reorganized as a bank holding company, the Chase Manhattan Corporation.[3]

The mergers and acquisitions during this period allowed Chase Manhattan to expand its influence over many non-financial corporations. A 1979 study titled "The Significance of Bank Control over Large Corporations"[22] found that: "The Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank tops the list, controlling 16 companies." In 1985, Chase Manhattan expanded into Arizona by acquiring Continental Bank.[23] In 1991, Chase Manhattan expanded into Connecticut by acquiring two insolvent banks.[24]

Mergers with Chemical, J.P. Morgan edit

 
The 1976–2005 logo

In August 1995, Chemical Bank of New York and Chase Manhattan Bank announced plans to merge.[25] The merger was completed in August 1996.[26] Chemical's previous acquisitions included Manufacturers Hanover Corporation, in 1991, and Texas Commerce Bank, in 1987. Although Chemical was the nominal survivor, the merged company retained the Chase name since not only was it better known (particularly outside the United States), but also the original charter of Chase required that the name be retained in any future business ventures. Hence, even today, it is known as JPMorgan Chase.

In December 2000, the combined Chase Manhattan completed the acquisition of J.P. Morgan & Co. in one of the largest banking mergers to date. The combined company was renamed JPMorgan Chase. In 2004, the bank acquired Bank One, making Chase the largest credit card issuer in the United States. JPMorgan Chase added Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual to its acquisitions in 2008 and 2009 respectively. After closing nearly 400 overlapping branches of the combined company, less than 10% of its total, Chase will have approximately 5,410 branches in 23 states as of the closing date of the acquisition.[27][28] According to data from SNL Financial (data as of June 30, 2008), this places Chase third behind Wells Fargo and Bank of America in terms of total U.S. retail bank branches.

In October 2010, Chase was named in two lawsuits alleging manipulation of the silver market.[29] The suits allege that by managing giant positions in silver futures and options, the banks influenced the prices of silver on the New York Stock Exchange's Comex Exchange since early 2008.

 
Chase branch located in Athens, Ohio
 
A Chase bank in Wilmington, Delaware

The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors to 1995 (this is not a comprehensive list):

Chase Manhattan Bank
(merged 1995)
Chemical Bank
(merged 1991)
Chemical Bank
(merged 1986)

The Chemical Bank
of New York

(est. 1823)

Texas Commerce Bank
(Formerly Texas National Bank of Commerce)
(merged 1864)

Manufacturers Hanover
(merged 1961)

Manufacturers
Trust Company

(est. 1905)

Hanover Bank
(est. 1873)

Chase Manhattan Bank
(merged 1955)

Bank of the
Manhattan Company

(est. 1799)

Chase National Bank
of the City of New York

(est. 1877)

Bank One Corporation edit

In 2004, JPMorgan Chase merged with Chicago-based Bank One Corp., bringing on board its current chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon as president and COO and designating him as CEO William B. Harrison Jr.'s successor. Dimon's pay was pegged at 90% of Harrison's. Dimon quickly made his influence felt by embarking on a cost-cutting strategy and replaced former JPMorgan Chase executives in key positions with Bank One executives—many of whom were with Dimon at Citigroup. Dimon became CEO in January 2006 and chairman in December 2006 after Harrison's resignation.[30]

Bank One Corporation was formed upon the 1998 merger between Banc One of Columbus, Ohio and First Chicago NBD. These two large banking companies were themselves created through the merger of many banks. JPMorgan Chase completed the acquisition of Bank One in Q3 2004. The merger between Bank One and JPMorgan Chase meant that corporate headquarters were now in New York City while the retail bank operations of Chase were consolidated in Chicago.[31][32]

The following is an illustration of Bank One's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):

Bank One
(merged 1998)
Banc One Corp
(merged 1968)

City National Bank
& Trust Company (Columbus, Ohio)

Farmers Saving
& Trust Company

First Chicago NBD
(merged 1995)

First Chicago Corp
(est. 1863)

NBD Bancorp
(Formerly National Bank of Detroit)
(est. 1933)

 

Louisiana's First
Commerce Corp.

Washington Mutual edit

On September 25, 2008, JPMorgan Chase bought most banking operations of Washington Mutual from the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).[33]: 115  That night, the Office of Thrift Supervision, in what was by far the largest bank failure in American history, seized Washington Mutual Bank and placed it into receivership. The FDIC sold the bank's assets, secured debt obligations and deposits to JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA for $1.888 billion, which re-opened the bank the following day. As a result of the takeover, Washington Mutual shareholders lost all their equity.[34] Through the acquisition, JPMorgan became owner of the former accounts of Providian Financial, a credit card issuer WaMu acquired in 2005. The company completed the rebranding of Washington Mutual branches to Chase in late 2009.

Other recent acquisitions and expansions edit

 
Chase bank in Chinatown, Manhattan

In the first quarter of 2006, Chase purchased Collegiate Funding Services, a portfolio company of private equity firm Lightyear Capital, for $663 million. CFS was used as the foundation for the Chase Student Loans, previously known as Chase Education Finance.[35] In April of that same year, Chase acquired the Bank of New York Co.'s retail and small business banking network. This gave Chase access to 338 additional branches and 700,000 new customers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Indiana.[36]

In 2019, Chase began opening retail branches in Pittsburgh and other areas within Western Pennsylvania; this coincided with Bank of America starting a similar expansion within the area the previous year.[37] Even though Chase entered the market organically as opposed to a merger & acquisition, they still had to receive approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open branches due to Chase's size as a whole.[38] Before Chase and Bank of America expanded its retail presence into the market, Pittsburgh had been one of the largest U.S. cities without a retail presence from any of the "Big Four", with locally based PNC Financial Services (no. 6 nationally) having a commanding market share in the area. Chase had previously considered buying National City branches from PNC that were required for divesture following that bank's acquisition of National City in 2009, but were instead sold to First Niagara Bank (since absorbed into KeyBank); it had been speculated that PNC intentionally sold the branches to a much smaller competitor due to not wanting to compete with a "Big Four" bank in its home market.[39]

In August 2021, Chase announced that it was the first bank to have a retail presence in all 48 of the contiguous United States. The last state in the US to have a Chase branch was Montana, with the branch in Billings the first branch in the state.[40][41]

Expansion outside the US edit

In September 2021, JPMorgan Chase entered the United Kingdom retail banking market by launching an app-based current account and Deposit account under the Chase brand. This is the company's first retail banking operation outside of the United States.[42][43][44]

Controversies edit

WWII Related Controversies edit

Purchase of Nazi Germany's Reichsmarks edit

A press release from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in 2004 announced that many of the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files had become declassified. This declassification enabled the discovery that before and during the early years of World War II, the German government sold a special kind of Reichsmark, known as Rückwanderer [returnee] Marks, to American citizens of German descent. Chase National Bank, along with other businesses, were involved in these transactions. Through Chase, this allowed Nazi sympathizers to purchase Marks with dollars at a discounted rate. Specifically, "The financial houses understood that the German government paid the commissions (to its agents, including Chase) through the sale of discounted, blocked Marks that came mainly from Jews who had fled Germany." In other words, Nazi Germany was able to offer these Marks below face-value because they had been stolen from émigrés fleeing the Nazi regime. Between 1936 and 1941, the Nazis amassed over $20 million, and the businesses enabling these transactions earned $1.2 million in commissions. Of these commissions, over $500,000 went to Chase National Bank and its subagents.

These facts were discovered when the FBI began its investigation in October 1940. The purpose of the investigation was to follow German-Americans who had bought the Marks. However, Chase National Bank's executives were never federally prosecuted because Chase's lead attorney threatened to reveal FBI, Army, and Navy "sources and methods" in court.[citation needed] Publicly naming the sources and methods could have posed security risks and threatened future intelligence gathering. To avoid such revelations, the executives' violations of the Johnson Act, the Espionage Act, and the Foreign Agents Registration Act were never prosecuted.[45][46][47]

Release of funds for Nazi Germany edit

Besides the controversial Rückwanderer Mark Scheme, NARA records also revealed another controversy during the occupation of France by the Nazis. From the late 1930s until June 14, 1941, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) issued an Executive Order freezing German assets, Chase National Bank worked with the Nazi government. The order blocking any access to French accounts in the U.S. by anyone, but especially by the Nazis was issued by Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., with the approval of FDR. Within hours of the order, Chase unblocked the accounts and the funds were transferred through South America to Nazi Germany.[47]

Refusal to release funds belonging to Jews in occupied France edit

U.S. Treasury officials wanted an investigation of French subsidiaries of American banks, including: Chase Bank, J.P. Morgan & Co, National City Corporation, Guaranty Bank, Bankers Trust, and American Express. Of these banks, only Chase and Morgan remained open in France during the Nazi occupation. The Chase branch chief in Paris, France, Carlos Niedermann, told his supervisor in New York that there had been an "expansion of deposits". Also, Niedermann was, "very vigorous in enforcing restrictions against Jewish property, even going so far as to refuse to release funds belonging to Jews in anticipation that a decree with retroactive provisions prohibiting such release might be published in the near future by the occupying Nazi authorities"[citation needed] .

In 1998, Chase general counsel William McDavid said that Chase did not have control over Niedermann. Whether that claim was true or not, Chase Manhattan Bank acknowledged seizing about 100 accounts during the Vichy regime. Kenneth McCallion, a partner in the New York firm Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow,[48] led a lawsuit against Barclays Bank for the illegal seizure of assets during World War Two and has since turned his attention toward Chase. The World Jewish Congress (WJC), entered into discussions with Chase and a spokesperson for the WJC said, "Nobody at Chase today is guilty. They were not involved in whatever happened, but they do accept that they have an institutional responsibility." A Chase spokesman said, "This is a moral issue that we take very seriously." Chase general counsel McDavid added, "that Chase intends to compensate Jewish account holders whose assets were illegally plundered". In 1999, the French government formed a commission to report findings to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Claire Andrieu, a commission member and history professor at the Sorbonne, said that under the Vichy regime, French banks received visits from Nazi officials but U.S. banks did not. At that time, they did not have to report Jewish accounts, but they did just as the French banks did. She goes on to say that an American ambassador protected the U.S. subsidiaries.[49][50][51]

Related legal action edit

In May 1999, Chase Manhattan reached a settlement with 20 plaintiffs who filed an asset reparations lawsuit, such as the Claims Conference, a Jewish restitution organization, and the WJC.[52] The settlement subjected Chase to an independent probe of its conduct of activity which occurred from the company's offices in Paris and Châteauneuf-sur-Cher, in southern France, during the World War II-era.[52] The settlement also made possible the company having to eventually a pay modest but symbolically important, payouts to former Chase customers after the probe was completed.[52] It was determined that Chase only owned a sum that was well under $1 million in asset reparations by this point in time.[52] The settlement made Chase Manhattan the first bank to reach a settlement over Holocaust-related claims.[52]

Public acknowledgement from Chase Manhattan edit

In February 2000, more than fifty years after information regarding the ties between Chase and Nazi Germany was revealed during Congressional hearings, Chase Manhattan publicly acknowledged the deal its predecessor Chase National Bank made with Nazi Germany which helped the German government exchange marks and which also likely originated from the forced sale of assets by Jewish refugees.[53]

Recent controversies edit

JPMorgan Chase has paid $16 billion in fines, settlements, and other litigation expenses from 2011 to 2013. Of the $16 billion JPMorgan Chase has paid, about $8.5 billion were for fines and settlements resulting from illegal actions taken by bank executives, according to Richard Eskow at the Campaign for America's Future, who cited a new report from Joshua Rosner of Graham Fisher & Co.

The $16 billion total does not include a recent settlement that calls for JPMorgan Chase to pay $100 million to waive $417 million in claims it had made against clients of the firm MF Global.

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control found that JPMorgan had illegally aided dictatorships in Cuba, Sudan, Liberia and Iran, including transferring 32,000 ounces of gold bullion (valued at approximately $20,560,000) to the benefit of a bank in Iran. JPMorgan did not voluntarily self-disclose the Iranian matter to OFAC.[54]

Among its other transgressions, JPMorgan has been found to have:[55][56][57][58][59][60]

Targeted account closures edit

During 2013 and 2014, Chase and other banks received media attention for the practice of cancelling the personal and business accounts of hundreds of legal sex workers, citing in some instances the "morality clause" of their account agreement.[61] Later it was discovered that this practice included mortgage accounts and business loans.[62] Chase canceled the mortgage refinancing process for one individual, that the bank had initiated, whose production company made soft core films like those broadcast on Cinemax.[63] This resulted in a lawsuit[64] which cited evasive dealings and misleading statements by several Chase executives including Securities Vice President Adam Gelcich, Legal Fair Lending Department Vice President Deb Vincent, and an unnamed executive director and assistant general counsel.[65]

In addition to closing accounts for sex workers, the bank has also been using its "morality clause" to disassociate from other types of businesses.[66] Some of these other businesses include medical marijuana dispensaries and any that are "gun related".[66] Another was a woman-owned condom manufacturing company called Lovability Condoms. Company founder Tiffany Gaines was rejected by Chase Paymentech services "as processing sales for adult-oriented products is a prohibited vertical" and was told that it was a "reputational risk" to process payment for condoms.[66] Gaines then started a petition to ask Chase to review and change its policy of classifying condoms as an "adult oriented product". The bank later reversed its decision and invited Gaines to submit an application citing that was already doing business with a "wide variety of merchants, including grocers and drug stores, that sell similar products".[67]

In 2019, the bank faced growing criticism for its alleged practice of arbitrarily targeting the personal accounts of outspoken online personalities such as Martina Markota and Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio. Although the specific motives behind the closures were not officially disclosed the assumption among many on the right was that they were political in nature.[68]

Dakota Access Pipeline edit

Financial documents[69] from Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline builder for the Dakota Access Pipeline, lists a number of large banking institutions that have provided credit for the project, including JP Morgan Chase. Because of these financial ties, Chase and other banks were a target[70] of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests during 2016 and 2017.

Parental leave policy edit

JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $5 million to compensate their male employees who did not receive the same paid parental leave as women from 2011 to 2017.[71] In December 2017, the bank "clarified its policy to ensure equal access to men and women looking to be their new child's main caregiver".[72] According to the involved attorneys, this is the biggest recorded settlement in a U.S. parental leave discrimination case. JPMorgan agreed to train and monitor to ensure equal parental leave benefits and stated that "its policy was always intended to be gender-neutral".[73]

Fossil fuel investment edit

Chase has faced criticism and protests over its high rate of investment in various fossil fuel industries such as coal, oil, and gas.[74] A study released in October 2019 indicated that Chase invests more ($75 billion) in fossil fuels than any other bank.[75]

Unequal lending practices edit

An analysis of home purchases in Chicago from 2012 to 2018 by City Bureau and WBEZ Chicago showed that JP Morgan Chase, "loaned 41 times more in Chicago’s white neighborhoods than it did in the city’s black neighborhoods."[76] The report prompted protests at Chicago Chase branches in June 2020.[77] At a reopening of a remodeled Chase branch in Chicago's South Shore, Dimon said via video, "we have targets now to do $600 million (over the next five years) in new mortgages for Blacks and new homeowners in Chicago neighborhoods."[78]

Facilitation of sex trafficking edit

The U.S. government sued JP Morgan Chase Bank in 2022, alleging that JP Morgan "facilitated, sustained, and concealed the human trafficking network operated by Jeffrey Epstein."[79]

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This article is about the American bank For its parent company see JPMorgan Chase For the British bank see J P Morgan in the United Kingdom Chase UK For the buildings see Chase Tower Chicago and Bank of the Manhattan Company Building JPMorgan Chase Bank N A doing business as Chase is an American national bank headquartered in New York City that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U S multinational banking and financial services holding company JPMorgan Chase The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J P Morgan amp Co in 2000 2 Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Manhattan Company in 1955 3 The bank merged with Chemical Bank New York in 1996 and later merged with Bank One Corporation in 2004 4 and in 2008 acquired the deposits and most assets of Washington Mutual In May 2023 it acquired the assets of First Republic Bank JPMorgan Chase Bank N A The current logo in use since 2005Trade nameChase BankCompany typeSubsidiaryIndustryBankingPredecessorThe Manhattan CompanyFounded1799 225 years ago 1799 FounderJohn ThompsonHeadquartersNew York City New York USANumber of locations4 700 branches17 000 ATMs nationwide100 countries 2022 Area servedUnited StatesKey peopleJamie Dimon Chairman and CEO ProductsFinancial servicesServicesRetail Financial ServicesCard ServicesCommercial BankingRevenueUS 124 54 billion 2022 Net incomeUS 42 12 billion 2022 Total assetsUS 4 trillion 2022 Number of employees250 355 2022 ParentJPMorgan ChaseWebsitewww wbr chase wbr comFootnotes references 1 Chase branches in the contiguous U S in 2020 The company also operates in Hawaii not shown on the map Chase offers more than 5 100 branches and 17 000 ATMs nationwide and has 18 5 million checking accounts and 25 million debit card users as of 2023 5 JPMorgan Chase amp Co has 250 355 employees as of 2016 and operates in more than 100 countries JPMorgan Chase amp Co had assets of 3 31 trillion in 2022 which makes it the largest bank in the United States 6 as well as the bank with the most branches in the United States 7 and the only bank with a presence in all of the contiguous United States 8 JPMorgan Chase through its Chase subsidiary is one of the Big Four banks of the United States 9 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 The Manhattan Company 1 2 Chase National Bank 1 3 Merger as Chase Manhattan Bank 1 4 Mergers with Chemical J P Morgan 1 5 Bank One Corporation 1 6 Washington Mutual 1 7 Other recent acquisitions and expansions 1 8 Expansion outside the US 2 Controversies 2 1 WWII Related Controversies 2 1 1 Purchase of Nazi Germany s Reichsmarks 2 1 2 Release of funds for Nazi Germany 2 1 3 Refusal to release funds belonging to Jews in occupied France 2 1 4 Related legal action 2 1 5 Public acknowledgement from Chase Manhattan 2 2 Recent controversies 2 2 1 Targeted account closures 2 2 2 Dakota Access Pipeline 2 2 3 Parental leave policy 2 2 4 Fossil fuel investment 2 2 5 Unequal lending practices 2 2 6 Facilitation of sex trafficking 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksHistory edit nbsp Aaron Burr 3rd Vice President of the United States and founder of The Manhattan Company The Bank of The Manhattan Company New York was founded on September 1 1799 and continued under that name until 1955 when it merged with the Chase National Bank which was founded in 1877 the merged bank was called The Chase Manhattan Bank 11 12 nbsp Chase s southwest regional headquarters in Phoenix Arizona The Manhattan Company edit Main article Bank of the Manhattan Company Chase traces its history back to the founding of The Manhattan Company by Aaron Burr on September 1 1799 in a house at 40 Wall Street 2 After an epidemic of yellow fever in 1798 during which coffins had been sold by itinerant vendors on street corners Aaron Burr established the Manhattan Company with the ostensible aim of bringing clean water to the city from the Bronx River but in fact designed as a front for the creation of New York s second bank rivaling Alexander Hamilton s Bank of New York The Economist 13 In 2006 the modern day Chase bought the retail banking division of the Bank of New York which then only months later merged with Pittsburgh based Mellon Financial to form the present day BNY Mellon 14 15 23 26 Chase National Bank edit Chase National Bank was formed in 1877 by John Thompson 2 It was named after former United States Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice Salmon P Chase 3 although Chase having died four years earlier did not have a connection with the bank 2 The Chase National Bank acquired a number of smaller banks in the 1920s through its Chase Securities Corporation In 1926 for instance it acquired Mechanics and Metals National Bank nbsp Specimen Stock Certificate However its most significant acquisition was that of the Equitable Trust Company of New York in 1930 the largest stockholder of which was John D Rockefeller Jr 16 This made Chase the largest bank in the US and the world Chase was primarily a wholesale bank dealing with other prominent financial institutions and major corporate clients such as General Electric 17 450 which had through its RCA subsidiary leased prominent space and become a crucial first tenant of Rockefeller Center They rescued that major project in 1930 The bank is also closely associated with and has financed the oil industry having longstanding connections with its board of directors to the successor companies of Standard Oil especially ExxonMobil which are also part of Rockefeller holdings citation needed Merger as Chase Manhattan Bank edit nbsp Manhattan Company 1799 1955 letterhead c 1922 nbsp Chase National Bank 1877 1955 letterhead c 1921 nbsp The 1955 1961 logo nbsp The 1961 1976 logo In 1955 Chase National Bank and The Manhattan Company merged to create the Chase Manhattan Bank 2 As Chase was a much larger bank it was first intended that Chase acquire the Bank of Manhattan as it was nicknamed but it transpired that Burr s original charter for the Manhattan Company had not only included the clause allowing it to start a bank with surplus funds but another requiring unanimous consent of shareholders for the bank to be taken over The deal was therefore structured as an acquisition by the Bank of the Manhattan Company of Chase National with John J McCloy becoming chairman of the merged entity This avoided the need for unanimous consent by shareholders For Chase Manhattan Bank s new logo Chermayeff amp Geismar designed a stylized octagon in 1961 which remains part of the bank s logo today 18 It has been reported that the Chase logo was a stylized representation of the primitive water pipes laid by the Manhattan Company 19 but this story was refuted in 2007 by Ivan Chermayeff himself According to Chermayeff the Chase logo was merely intended to be distinctive and geometric and was not intended at all to resemble a cross section of a wooden water pipe 20 According to Chase the sides of the octagon represent forward motion while the blank space in the middle suggests progress originates from the center and is a single unit made up of separate parts like the bank 21 The bank included an asset management business called the Chase Investors Management Corporation Under McCloy s successor George Champion the bank relinquished its antiquated 1799 state charter for a modern one In 1969 under the leadership of David Rockefeller the bank reorganized as a bank holding company the Chase Manhattan Corporation 3 The mergers and acquisitions during this period allowed Chase Manhattan to expand its influence over many non financial corporations A 1979 study titled The Significance of Bank Control over Large Corporations 22 found that The Rockefeller controlled Chase Manhattan Bank tops the list controlling 16 companies In 1985 Chase Manhattan expanded into Arizona by acquiring Continental Bank 23 In 1991 Chase Manhattan expanded into Connecticut by acquiring two insolvent banks 24 Mergers with Chemical J P Morgan edit nbsp The 1976 2005 logo In August 1995 Chemical Bank of New York and Chase Manhattan Bank announced plans to merge 25 The merger was completed in August 1996 26 Chemical s previous acquisitions included Manufacturers Hanover Corporation in 1991 and Texas Commerce Bank in 1987 Although Chemical was the nominal survivor the merged company retained the Chase name since not only was it better known particularly outside the United States but also the original charter of Chase required that the name be retained in any future business ventures Hence even today it is known as JPMorgan Chase In December 2000 the combined Chase Manhattan completed the acquisition of J P Morgan amp Co in one of the largest banking mergers to date The combined company was renamed JPMorgan Chase In 2004 the bank acquired Bank One making Chase the largest credit card issuer in the United States JPMorgan Chase added Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual to its acquisitions in 2008 and 2009 respectively After closing nearly 400 overlapping branches of the combined company less than 10 of its total Chase will have approximately 5 410 branches in 23 states as of the closing date of the acquisition 27 28 According to data from SNL Financial data as of June 30 2008 this places Chase third behind Wells Fargo and Bank of America in terms of total U S retail bank branches In October 2010 Chase was named in two lawsuits alleging manipulation of the silver market 29 The suits allege that by managing giant positions in silver futures and options the banks influenced the prices of silver on the New York Stock Exchange s Comex Exchange since early 2008 nbsp Chase branch located in Athens Ohio nbsp A Chase bank in Wilmington Delaware The following is an illustration of the company s major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors to 1995 this is not a comprehensive list Chase Manhattan Bank merged 1995 Chemical Bank merged 1991 Chemical Bank merged 1986 The Chemical Bank of New York est 1823 Texas Commerce Bank Formerly Texas National Bank of Commerce merged 1864 Manufacturers Hanover merged 1961 ManufacturersTrust Company est 1905 Hanover Bank est 1873 Chase Manhattan Bank merged 1955 Bank of the Manhattan Company est 1799 Chase National Bankof the City of New York est 1877 Bank One Corporation edit Main article Bank One Corporation In 2004 JPMorgan Chase merged with Chicago based Bank One Corp bringing on board its current chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon as president and COO and designating him as CEO William B Harrison Jr s successor Dimon s pay was pegged at 90 of Harrison s Dimon quickly made his influence felt by embarking on a cost cutting strategy and replaced former JPMorgan Chase executives in key positions with Bank One executives many of whom were with Dimon at Citigroup Dimon became CEO in January 2006 and chairman in December 2006 after Harrison s resignation 30 Bank One Corporation was formed upon the 1998 merger between Banc One of Columbus Ohio and First Chicago NBD These two large banking companies were themselves created through the merger of many banks JPMorgan Chase completed the acquisition of Bank One in Q3 2004 The merger between Bank One and JPMorgan Chase meant that corporate headquarters were now in New York City while the retail bank operations of Chase were consolidated in Chicago 31 32 The following is an illustration of Bank One s major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors this is not a comprehensive list Bank One merged 1998 Banc One Corp merged 1968 City National Bank amp Trust Company Columbus Ohio Farmers Saving amp Trust Company First Chicago NBD merged 1995 First Chicago Corp est 1863 NBD Bancorp Formerly National Bank of Detroit est 1933 Louisiana s FirstCommerce Corp Washington Mutual edit Main article Washington Mutual On September 25 2008 JPMorgan Chase bought most banking operations of Washington Mutual from the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC 33 115 That night the Office of Thrift Supervision in what was by far the largest bank failure in American history seized Washington Mutual Bank and placed it into receivership The FDIC sold the bank s assets secured debt obligations and deposits to JPMorgan Chase Bank NA for 1 888 billion which re opened the bank the following day As a result of the takeover Washington Mutual shareholders lost all their equity 34 Through the acquisition JPMorgan became owner of the former accounts of Providian Financial a credit card issuer WaMu acquired in 2005 The company completed the rebranding of Washington Mutual branches to Chase in late 2009 Other recent acquisitions and expansions edit nbsp Chase bank in Chinatown Manhattan In the first quarter of 2006 Chase purchased Collegiate Funding Services a portfolio company of private equity firm Lightyear Capital for 663 million CFS was used as the foundation for the Chase Student Loans previously known as Chase Education Finance 35 In April of that same year Chase acquired the Bank of New York Co s retail and small business banking network This gave Chase access to 338 additional branches and 700 000 new customers in New York New Jersey Connecticut and Indiana 36 In 2019 Chase began opening retail branches in Pittsburgh and other areas within Western Pennsylvania this coincided with Bank of America starting a similar expansion within the area the previous year 37 Even though Chase entered the market organically as opposed to a merger amp acquisition they still had to receive approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open branches due to Chase s size as a whole 38 Before Chase and Bank of America expanded its retail presence into the market Pittsburgh had been one of the largest U S cities without a retail presence from any of the Big Four with locally based PNC Financial Services no 6 nationally having a commanding market share in the area Chase had previously considered buying National City branches from PNC that were required for divesture following that bank s acquisition of National City in 2009 but were instead sold to First Niagara Bank since absorbed into KeyBank it had been speculated that PNC intentionally sold the branches to a much smaller competitor due to not wanting to compete with a Big Four bank in its home market 39 In August 2021 Chase announced that it was the first bank to have a retail presence in all 48 of the contiguous United States The last state in the US to have a Chase branch was Montana with the branch in Billings the first branch in the state 40 41 Expansion outside the US edit In September 2021 JPMorgan Chase entered the United Kingdom retail banking market by launching an app based current account and Deposit account under the Chase brand This is the company s first retail banking operation outside of the United States 42 43 44 Controversies editWWII Related Controversies edit Purchase of Nazi Germany s Reichsmarks edit A press release from the National Archives and Records Administration NARA in 2004 announced that many of the new Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI files had become declassified This declassification enabled the discovery that before and during the early years of World War II the German government sold a special kind of Reichsmark known as Ruckwanderer returnee Marks to American citizens of German descent Chase National Bank along with other businesses were involved in these transactions Through Chase this allowed Nazi sympathizers to purchase Marks with dollars at a discounted rate Specifically The financial houses understood that the German government paid the commissions to its agents including Chase through the sale of discounted blocked Marks that came mainly from Jews who had fled Germany In other words Nazi Germany was able to offer these Marks below face value because they had been stolen from emigres fleeing the Nazi regime Between 1936 and 1941 the Nazis amassed over 20 million and the businesses enabling these transactions earned 1 2 million in commissions Of these commissions over 500 000 went to Chase National Bank and its subagents These facts were discovered when the FBI began its investigation in October 1940 The purpose of the investigation was to follow German Americans who had bought the Marks However Chase National Bank s executives were never federally prosecuted because Chase s lead attorney threatened to reveal FBI Army and Navy sources and methods in court citation needed Publicly naming the sources and methods could have posed security risks and threatened future intelligence gathering To avoid such revelations the executives violations of the Johnson Act the Espionage Act and the Foreign Agents Registration Act were never prosecuted 45 46 47 Release of funds for Nazi Germany edit Besides the controversial Ruckwanderer Mark Scheme NARA records also revealed another controversy during the occupation of France by the Nazis From the late 1930s until June 14 1941 when President Franklin D Roosevelt FDR issued an Executive Order freezing German assets Chase National Bank worked with the Nazi government The order blocking any access to French accounts in the U S by anyone but especially by the Nazis was issued by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr with the approval of FDR Within hours of the order Chase unblocked the accounts and the funds were transferred through South America to Nazi Germany 47 Refusal to release funds belonging to Jews in occupied France edit U S Treasury officials wanted an investigation of French subsidiaries of American banks including Chase Bank J P Morgan amp Co National City Corporation Guaranty Bank Bankers Trust and American Express Of these banks only Chase and Morgan remained open in France during the Nazi occupation The Chase branch chief in Paris France Carlos Niedermann told his supervisor in New York that there had been an expansion of deposits Also Niedermann was very vigorous in enforcing restrictions against Jewish property even going so far as to refuse to release funds belonging to Jews in anticipation that a decree with retroactive provisions prohibiting such release might be published in the near future by the occupying Nazi authorities citation needed In 1998 Chase general counsel William McDavid said that Chase did not have control over Niedermann Whether that claim was true or not Chase Manhattan Bank acknowledged seizing about 100 accounts during the Vichy regime Kenneth McCallion a partner in the New York firm Goodkind Labaton Rudoff amp Sucharow 48 led a lawsuit against Barclays Bank for the illegal seizure of assets during World War Two and has since turned his attention toward Chase The World Jewish Congress WJC entered into discussions with Chase and a spokesperson for the WJC said Nobody at Chase today is guilty They were not involved in whatever happened but they do accept that they have an institutional responsibility A Chase spokesman said This is a moral issue that we take very seriously Chase general counsel McDavid added that Chase intends to compensate Jewish account holders whose assets were illegally plundered In 1999 the French government formed a commission to report findings to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin Claire Andrieu a commission member and history professor at the Sorbonne said that under the Vichy regime French banks received visits from Nazi officials but U S banks did not At that time they did not have to report Jewish accounts but they did just as the French banks did She goes on to say that an American ambassador protected the U S subsidiaries 49 50 51 Related legal action edit In May 1999 Chase Manhattan reached a settlement with 20 plaintiffs who filed an asset reparations lawsuit such as the Claims Conference a Jewish restitution organization and the WJC 52 The settlement subjected Chase to an independent probe of its conduct of activity which occurred from the company s offices in Paris and Chateauneuf sur Cher in southern France during the World War II era 52 The settlement also made possible the company having to eventually a pay modest but symbolically important payouts to former Chase customers after the probe was completed 52 It was determined that Chase only owned a sum that was well under 1 million in asset reparations by this point in time 52 The settlement made Chase Manhattan the first bank to reach a settlement over Holocaust related claims 52 Public acknowledgement from Chase Manhattan edit In February 2000 more than fifty years after information regarding the ties between Chase and Nazi Germany was revealed during Congressional hearings Chase Manhattan publicly acknowledged the deal its predecessor Chase National Bank made with Nazi Germany which helped the German government exchange marks and which also likely originated from the forced sale of assets by Jewish refugees 53 Recent controversies edit JPMorgan Chase has paid 16 billion in fines settlements and other litigation expenses from 2011 to 2013 Of the 16 billion JPMorgan Chase has paid about 8 5 billion were for fines and settlements resulting from illegal actions taken by bank executives according to Richard Eskow at the Campaign for America s Future who cited a new report from Joshua Rosner of Graham Fisher amp Co The 16 billion total does not include a recent settlement that calls for JPMorgan Chase to pay 100 million to waive 417 million in claims it had made against clients of the firm MF Global The U S Treasury s Office of Foreign Assets Control found that JPMorgan had illegally aided dictatorships in Cuba Sudan Liberia and Iran including transferring 32 000 ounces of gold bullion valued at approximately 20 560 000 to the benefit of a bank in Iran JPMorgan did not voluntarily self disclose the Iranian matter to OFAC 54 Among its other transgressions JPMorgan has been found to have 55 56 57 58 59 60 Misled investors Engaged in fictitious trades Collected illegal flood insurance commissions Wrongfully foreclosed on soldiers charged veterans hidden fees for refinancing Violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by making false statements to people seeking automobile loans Illegally increased their collection of overdraft fees by processing large transactions before smaller ones Helped drive Jefferson County Alabama into bankruptcy by switching its fixed rate debt to variable Violated antitrust provision of the Sherman Act relating to bid rigging Stole and auctioned items from deposit boxes of private individuals Targeted account closures edit During 2013 and 2014 Chase and other banks received media attention for the practice of cancelling the personal and business accounts of hundreds of legal sex workers citing in some instances the morality clause of their account agreement 61 Later it was discovered that this practice included mortgage accounts and business loans 62 Chase canceled the mortgage refinancing process for one individual that the bank had initiated whose production company made soft core films like those broadcast on Cinemax 63 This resulted in a lawsuit 64 which cited evasive dealings and misleading statements by several Chase executives including Securities Vice President Adam Gelcich Legal Fair Lending Department Vice President Deb Vincent and an unnamed executive director and assistant general counsel 65 In addition to closing accounts for sex workers the bank has also been using its morality clause to disassociate from other types of businesses 66 Some of these other businesses include medical marijuana dispensaries and any that are gun related 66 Another was a woman owned condom manufacturing company called Lovability Condoms Company founder Tiffany Gaines was rejected by Chase Paymentech services as processing sales for adult oriented products is a prohibited vertical and was told that it was a reputational risk to process payment for condoms 66 Gaines then started a petition to ask Chase to review and change its policy of classifying condoms as an adult oriented product The bank later reversed its decision and invited Gaines to submit an application citing that was already doing business with a wide variety of merchants including grocers and drug stores that sell similar products 67 In 2019 the bank faced growing criticism for its alleged practice of arbitrarily targeting the personal accounts of outspoken online personalities such as Martina Markota and Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio Although the specific motives behind the closures were not officially disclosed the assumption among many on the right was that they were political in nature 68 Dakota Access Pipeline edit Financial documents 69 from Energy Transfer Partners the pipeline builder for the Dakota Access Pipeline lists a number of large banking institutions that have provided credit for the project including JP Morgan Chase Because of these financial ties Chase and other banks were a target 70 of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests during 2016 and 2017 Parental leave policy edit JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay 5 million to compensate their male employees who did not receive the same paid parental leave as women from 2011 to 2017 71 In December 2017 the bank clarified its policy to ensure equal access to men and women looking to be their new child s main caregiver 72 According to the involved attorneys this is the biggest recorded settlement in a U S parental leave discrimination case JPMorgan agreed to train and monitor to ensure equal parental leave benefits and stated that its policy was always intended to be gender neutral 73 Fossil fuel investment edit Chase has faced criticism and protests over its high rate of investment in various fossil fuel industries such as coal oil and gas 74 A study released in October 2019 indicated that Chase invests more 75 billion in fossil fuels than any other bank 75 Unequal lending practices edit An analysis of home purchases in Chicago from 2012 to 2018 by City Bureau and WBEZ Chicago showed that JP Morgan Chase loaned 41 times more in Chicago s white neighborhoods than it did in the city s black neighborhoods 76 The report prompted protests at Chicago Chase branches in June 2020 77 At a reopening of a remodeled Chase branch in Chicago s South Shore Dimon said via video we have targets now to do 600 million over the next five years in new mortgages for Blacks and new homeowners in Chicago neighborhoods 78 Facilitation of sex trafficking edit The U S government sued JP Morgan Chase Bank in 2022 alleging that JP Morgan facilitated sustained and concealed the human trafficking network operated by Jeffrey Epstein 79 References edit Financial Highlights PDF Jpmorganchase com Retrieved March 1 2022 a b c d e The History of JPMorgan Chase amp Co PDF JPMorgan Chase amp Co 2008 Archived from the original PDF on September 27 2011 Retrieved October 14 2011 a b c J P Morgan Chase amp Co International Directory of Company Histories St James Press 2001 Retrieved November 4 2007 History of Our Firm JPMorgan Chase amp Co Retrieved October 14 2011 permanent dead link About Chase Bank Chase com Retrieved December 15 2020 Goldberg Matthew These Are The 15 Largest Banks In The U S Bankrate Retrieved July 9 2022 Goldberg Matthew The Most Popular Bank In Each State For 2022 Bankrate Retrieved July 9 2022 NOTEBOOK Chase s first Iowa branch part of bank s new 48 state retail footprint Business Record Retrieved July 9 2022 Tully Shawn February 27 2009 Will the banks survive Fortune Magazine CNN Money Retrieved December 17 2009 Citigroup posts 4th straight loss Merrill loss widens USA Today Associated Press October 16 2008 Retrieved December 17 2009 7 5 Bil Chase Manhattan Bank Merger Set American Banker January 14 1955 Archived from the original on November 10 2013 Retrieved November 10 2013 Anon Chase Manhattan Banks Wed With State s Blessing The New York Times April 1 1955 Koeppel Gerard T March 16 2000 Soaking the poor The Economist Retrieved October 14 2011 Dash E Bank of 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Porn Stars Are Getting The Shaft From Chase Bank AGAIN Accounts Closed For 100s In The Biz Perezhilton com Archived from the original on April 26 2014 Retrieved April 26 2014 del Castillo Michael Hundreds of porn stars reportedly blacklisted from Chase Bank Business Journals Retrieved April 26 2014 Banks to porn stars your money s not welcome NBC News Archived from the original on October 29 2013 Retrieved April 26 2014 Dotinga William Look Who s Talking Porn Mogul Tells Bank Courthouse News Service Retrieved April 26 2014 Hymes Tom May 15 2013 Chase Sued for Denying Porn King Loan on Moral Grounds Adult Video News Retrieved April 26 2014 a b c Kernes Mark JPMorgan Chase Closes Porn Star Accounts Citing Ethics The most ethical thing adult industry members can do is to close any Chase accounts they may have Adult Video News Retrieved April 26 2014 Kingkade Tyler March 31 2014 Chase Will Process Payments For Lovability Condoms After All The Huffington Post Retrieved April 26 2014 John Aiden Byrne May 25 2019 JPMorgan Chase accused of purging accounts of conservative activists New York Post Retrieved May 28 2019 EnergyTransfer com Investor Relations SEC Filings governance energytransfer com Archived from the original on January 31 2017 Retrieved February 2 2017 Tabuchi Hiroko November 7 2016 Environmentalists Target Bankers Behind Pipeline The New York Times Lapin T May 30 2019 Dad reaches historic paid leave settlement with JPMorgan Chase New York Post Retrieved May 31 2019 Gibson K Dad sued employer JPMorgan Chase over parental leave pay and won CBS News May 30 2019 Eidelson J JPMorgan Agrees to Record Settlement in Anti Dad Bias Case Bloomberg News May 30 2019 Lippman T W Crude Oil Crude Money Aristotle Onassis Saudi Arabia and the CIA Santa Barbara CA ABC CLIO 2019 p 26 Greenfield Patrick October 13 2019 Top investment banks provide billions to expand fossil fuel industry The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved January 6 2020 Lutton Linda Fan Andrew Loury Alden June 3 2020 Home Loans in Chicago One Dollar To White Neighborhoods 12 Cents To Black WBEZ Chicago Archived from the original on June 3 2020 Retrieved March 3 2021 Lutton Linda June 17 2020 Several Chase Bank Branches Close Amid Protests Over Unequal Lending WBEZ Chicago Archived from the original on June 18 2020 Retrieved March 3 2021 Hutson Wendell February 4 2021 Chase unveils its first community branch in Chicago Crain s Chicago Business Archived from the original on February 5 2021 Retrieved March 3 2021 Government of the United States Virgin Islands v JPMorgan Chase Bank N A 1 22 cv 10904 S D N Y Dec 27 2022 ECF No 1Further reading editBird Kai 1992 The Chairman John J McCloy the Making of the American Establishment New York Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 0 671 45415 9 OCLC 25026508 Koeppel Gerard T 2000 Water for Gotham A History Princeton NJ Princeton Univ Press ISBN 978 0 691 01139 4 OCLC 247735191 Rockefeller David 2002 Memoirs New York Random House ISBN 978 0 679 40588 7 OCLC 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