G7 finance ministers and central bank governors approved tabletop exercises simulating AI-driven cyberattacks, Japan's Satsuki Katayama said in Bangkok. No start date or participant list has been published, so any test of banks is still undated.
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Apollo told prospective 2028 associate candidates Thursday it will skip on-cycle recruiting this calendar year, as it did for the 2027 class. Its memo hopes more firms join the delay, after General Atlantic and others paused last year.
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A bank tax and higher rates on skyscrapers could both hit JPMorgan's Canary Wharf tower
Jamie Dimon has said he could reconsider JPMorgan's Canary Wharf tower if the UK turns hostile to banks, an investment projected to add up to £10bn. The £10bn is a six-year estimate of local impact; the tower itself is put at £3bn.
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John Healey is poised to raise bank taxes in his 28 October budget, the Guardian understands, with one option worth upwards of £2bn a year. The proceeds would help cover higher borrowing costs from the Middle East war, and the banks have already warned in writing that they could move staff and business abroad.
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Schwab's third-quarter net new assets rose 38% to 43% from a year earlier, with qz.com and The Daily Upside reporting different totals. Neither total isolates the sweep cash that AI agents are expected to move, so the quarter dents the near-term case and leaves the forward one untested.
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JPMorgan and Goldman raise yields on Volta's $5 billion AI loan to as much as 11.75%
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs raised yields on Volta's $5 billion unrated AI loan to about 11.21%-11.75% after weak demand, Crypto Briefing reported. The banks only have to try to sell the $3.712 billion GPU tranche, so its fate will show whether that price clears.
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Schwab blocks AI agents that log in on clients' behalf, while touting its own Charley assistant as the future way to connect to AI
Schwab will block AI agents that log in with client credentials or browser automation, CEO Rick Wurster said on its earnings call. American Banker reports a view that billions in cash-sweep interest revenue is the real fear.
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- Evidence50
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buildConfirmed2 publishers OCC review of the nine largest national banks found policies that cut off some customers on subjective grounds instead of financial risk. The regulator announced no penalties and said only that it may consider policy changes, mezha.net reported from Reuters.
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JPMorgan CFO Jeremy Barnum said customers who give AI agents their banking credentials may be responsible for misuse or unauthorized transactions. He called the deposit threat from agents familiar, in a quarter when net interest income excluding markets reached $24.7 billion.
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Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said 1,000 contractors hired in the second quarter to patch AI-exposed software flaws remain, on top of 3,000 staff. The headcount can anchor a budget; the dollar figure released with it cannot.
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OCC found debanking-linked policies at all nine of its largest national banks between 2020 and September 2025. No fines came with the report, but the CFPB announced its own investigation and the OCC is weighing further changes for the largest banks.
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Fixed-income trading and 12% cost growth pull JPMorgan into its first double miss in nearly three years
JPMorgan missed on both profit and revenue for the first time in nearly three years, booking $50.17 billion against $51.22 billion expected. Goldman beat by $1.97 billion, and three of the six big banks in Fortune's tally missed on revenue.
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Goldman's David Solomon said no one knows how AI capital demand will evolve, as Morgan Stanley's Ted Pick called its AI financing existential. A Hennessy Funds manager says banks often arrange the debt and distribute the risk, so the demand question lands with buyers.
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JPMorgan reported third-quarter EPS of $5.57 and said it would have been $5.75 without a $658 million securities loss. Quartz cites a Bloomberg consensus of $5.75 and Yahoo Finance $5.90, so the loss explains the miss in full or only in part.
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Goldman Sachs leads a $22bn equity trading quarter at the six biggest US banks
Wall Street's six largest banks booked a combined $22bn in third-quarter equity trading revenue, City AM reported. Goldman Sachs led with a 72% rise to $6.4bn on volatility and hedge-fund borrowing, and its chief executive says the peak is hard to call.
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JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report third-quarter results Tuesday, with Morgan Stanley and Bank of America following Wednesday. Oppenheimer has cut its investment banking revenue estimate by 9.5%, and a bank ETF is down 7.7% in a month, according to The Daily Upside.
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US attendance rose 1% to 3% against a 12% rise in required office time
Flex Index data show US employers raised required office time 12% from early 2024 to late 2025, while attendance rose 1% to 3%. JPMorgan ended hybrid work and the Big Four kept it, so each employer is choosing a mandate whose return in attendance is small so far.
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Revolut, with more than 80 million customers, says its US offering will be at par with Amex and JPMorgan once it holds a full bank charter. Account features ship first, then cards and loans, with launch targeted for the first half of 2027.
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Bitcoin climbed 3.1% off an $80,948 low by midday as the chip index fell for a fifth session
Bitcoin traded near $83,445 at midday Tuesday, up 3.1% from an $80,948 low after a liquidation wave. Wednesday's inflation report is the next test of whether JPMorgan's miss and the chip selloff drove the swing or leveraged positioning did.
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JPMorgan's wealth arm added about $850 million of revenue in a quarter its fixed-income earnings fell 4%
JPMorgan's asset and wealth division grew revenue 14% to $6.9 billion in the third quarter as fixed-income trading fell for the first time in two years. Wealth revenue grew 12% to 15% at three other banks, yet record equities trading and a higher interest-income outlook also offset the bond weakness.
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