The price of bitcoin has shot up by hundreds of dollars in recent days, following the surprise announcement from JP Morgan that it is launching its own JPM Coin cryptocurrency. Other leading cryptocurrencies, including ethereum and EOS, experienced significant gains, building on a major market surge earlier this month. The investment bank’s decision to launch its […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said on Tuesday it fined JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM.N) securities division $1.25 million for failing to conduct adequate background checks on 8,600 employees, including four people whose criminal convictions automatically disqualified them from working there. Of the four individuals that FINRA found who were subject […]