In 2022, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon referred to as cryptocurrency “decentralized Ponzi schemes” at a U.S. Home Monetary Providers Committee listening to. “I am a serious skeptic on crypto tokens, which you name forex, like Bitcoin,” he stated on the time.
However on Monday at JPMorgan’s annual investor day, Dimon stated that JPMorgan Chase, the U.S.’s largest financial institution, will permit its shoppers to purchase Bitcoin, per CNBC.
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“We’re going to mean you can purchase it,” Dimon stated. “We’re not going to custody it. We will put it in statements for shoppers.”
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivers a speech throughout the World Markets Convention, forward of the Select France summit, in Paris, on Could 15, 2025. MICHEL EULER/POOL/AFP | Getty
Rival Morgan Stanley has allowed shoppers to purchase bitcoin ETFs since August 2024.
Dimon has lengthy cited the dangers of bitcoin, together with cash laundering. At Davos final yr, he referred to as it a “pet rock” that “does nothing.”
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However that does not imply he’s going to carry different folks again from making their very own monetary selections.
“I do not suppose you must smoke, however I defend your proper to smoke,” Dimon stated. “I defend your proper to purchase bitcoin.”
