J.P.Morgan CEO warns firm could cut up to 4,000 UK jobs on Brexit vote

Jamie Dimon speaks against leaving EU

Anna Fedorova
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J.P. Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon has warned the US banking giant may have to cut as many as 4,000 jobs in the UK if Britain votes to leave the European Union in this month's referendum.

Dimon (pictured), president and chief executive of the US bank, said leaving the EU would be a "terrible deal" for the UK economy, the BBC reports. He spoke alongside Chancellor George Osborne at J.P. Morgan's Bournemouth office, which houses around 4,000 staff. Think tanks warn of bonus and job cuts in City of London The BBC quotes him saying: "After a Brexit we cannot do it all here and we will have to start planning for that. I don't know if it means 1,000 jobs, 2,000 jobs - it could be as many as 4,000, and they will be jobs all around the UK. "If the EU says anybody who doe...

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