Jamie Dimon, main enforcement serviceman of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interrogation astatine the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Capital Markets league successful Paris, France, connected Thursday, May 15, 2025.
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JPMorgan Chase connected Monday said it is launching a decade-long program to assistance concern and instrumentality nonstop stakes successful companies it considers important to U.S. interests.
The slope said successful a connection it would put up to $10 cardinal into companies successful 4 areas: defence and aerospace, "frontier" technologies including AI and quantum computing, vigor exertion including batteries, and proviso concatenation and precocious manufacturing.
The wealth is portion of a broader effort, dubbed the Security and Resiliency Initiative, successful which JPMorgan said it volition concern oregon facilitate $1.5 trillion successful backing for companies it identifies arsenic crucial. It said the full magnitude is 50% much than a erstwhile plan.
"It has go painfully wide that the United States has allowed itself to go excessively reliant connected unreliable sources of captious minerals, products and manufacturing – each of which are indispensable for our nationalist security," JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said successful the release.
As the biggest American slope by assets and a Wall Street juggernaut, JPMorgan was already raising funds and lending wealth to companies successful those industries. But the determination helps signifier the company's activities astir nationalist interests astatine a clip of heightened tensions betwixt the U.S. and China.
On Friday, markets tumbled arsenic President Donald Trump announced new tariffs connected Chinese imports aft the large U.S. trading spouse tightened export controls connected uncommon earths.
In the release, Dimon said that the U.S. needs to "remove obstacles" including excessive regulations, "bureaucratic delay" and "partisan gridlock."
"Our information is predicated connected the spot and resiliency of America's economy," Dimon said. "This caller inaugural includes efforts similar ensuring reliable entree to life-saving medicines and captious minerals, defending our nation, gathering vigor systems to conscionable AI-driven request and advancing technologies similar semiconductors and information centers."
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