{"id":42035,"date":"2021-05-06T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2025-08-30T21:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:26:48","slug":"jamie-dimon-acknowledges-jpmorgan-clients-interest-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/jamie-dimon-acknowledges-jpmorgan-clients-interest-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Dimon acknowledges JPMorgan clients&#8217; interest in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan, confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-sees-demand-for-bitcoin-from-institutional-investors\">the bank&#8217;s clients are interested<\/a> in Bitcoin, although he himself remains skeptical about the digital asset. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/watch-jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-at-the-wsj-ceo-council\/5A7E4E3D-353D-4D9B-B546-88E8A5E0A44E.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b<\/a> at the WSJ CEO Council summit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abI am not a proponent of Bitcoin. It does not excite me and does not interest me\u00bb, said Dimon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he acknowledged that he diverges in opinion from clients:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abOn the other hand, they are interested, and I\u2019m not telling them what to do,\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, JPMorgan&#8217;s CEO had repeatedly criticised the cryptocurrency, vowed to fire employees trading digital assets, and called Bitcoin investors fools.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, under his leadership the bank has become increasingly involved in the crypto industry. In 2021 it emerged that JPMorgan <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-to-launch-a-crypto-linked-equities-basket\">to launch an investment product<\/a> based on a basket of stocks tied to digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Media also reported the bank&#8217;s plan to give clients access to the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-jpmorgan-to-launch-bitcoin-fund\">through a Bitcoin fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan is actively pursuing projects in distributed ledger technology. In 2020 the bank revived <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-conducted-test-intraday-repo-using-jpm-coin-on-upcoming-blockchain-app\">the JPM Coin stablecoin project<\/a> on blockchain and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-revives-jpm-coin-stablecoin-project\">created the Onyx division<\/a>, which focuses on technology and digital currency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abBlockchain is real, we use it,\u00bb Dimon noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, JPMorgan, together with DBS Bank and Temasek of Singapore, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-dbs-and-temasek-to-build-blockchain-platform-for-interbank-payments\">announced<\/a> the development of an industry platform based on DLT technology for interbank payments, trading and settlements in foreign currency.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Dimon confirmed that the bank&#8217;s clients are interested in the first cryptocurrency, though he himself remains skeptical of the digital asset. He said this at the WSJ CEO Council summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1283,229],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-jamie-dimon","tag-jpmorgan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42037,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions\/42037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}