Investment banking: Will JPMorgan Europe melt after Winters?

Co-head was glue that held businesses together; Risk management hole needs to be filled

Bill Winters: Employees say he was the glue that held the various businesses together

Bill Winters: Employees say he was the glue that held the various businesses together

Only when his feet hit the pavement outside JPMorgan’s London headquarters on London Wall did the applause from the sixth floor begin to die down. For the many hundreds who had gathered to give him a rousing send-off, Bill Winters was their man. More crucially however, he was not chief executive Jamie Dimon’s man. In announcing his first official succession plan since becoming chief executive, Dimon removed Winters, his most senior executive outside the US, from the position of co-head of JPMorgan’s investment bank, its most profitable unit.

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