JPMorgan's Dimon faces calls to hand over chairmanship
Financial Post Tuesday 15th May, 2012
Jamie Dimon faces growing calls to give up the chairmanship of JPMorgan Chase & Co when shareholders of the bank convene on Tuesday, days after it revealed losses of billions of dollars in trades that were supposed to protect it from risk. The meeting, at the bank’s back-office complex in Tampa, Florida, will give investors their first crack at Dimon, also JPMorgan’s chief executive, since he revealed a soured hedging strategy ha...
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