The firm known as JPMorgan Chase is not just the owner of a swanky, large new corporate office located in New York City, handily on the same site as its former HQ.
It’s also a behemoth in many people’s minds, and a growing influence in the finance world in America and beyond.
Its merger into the giant it is today in 2000 marked an optimistic turn of events at the start of a new millennium, amid some hints it wasn’t going well.
It had been criticised at the time as not being “wealthy enough” by some elites, who thought it would begin to die off in the 2010s, and cease to exist in the following decades.
While such a prophecy is not yet known to be false, it’s begun to look as though it might be, with one insider hinting, “We have funds that are growing”, as well as other positive signs on its internal balance sheets.
Its staff are said to be feeling more competitive, which was predicted at the time of its big spinoff as being a positive marker to reach in its evolution.






