In 2022, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called cryptocurrency “decentralized Ponzi schemes” at a U.S. Home Monetary Companies Committee hearing. “I am a significant 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 purchasers to purchase Bitcoin, per CNBC.
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“We’re going to permit you to purchase it,” Dimon stated. “We’re not going to custody it. We’ll put it in statements for purchasers.”
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivers a speech through the World Markets Convention, forward of the Select France summit, in Paris, on Might 15, 2025. MICHEL EULER/POOL/AFP | Getty
Rival Morgan Stanley has allowed purchasers to buy bitcoin ETFs since August 2024.
Dimon has lengthy cited the dangers of bitcoin, together with cash laundering. At Davos final yr, he called it a “pet rock” that “does nothing.”
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However that does not imply he’s going to carry different individuals again from making their very own monetary decisions.
“I do not suppose you need to smoke, however I defend your proper to smoke,” Dimon stated. “I defend your proper to purchase bitcoin.”
