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Jamie Dimon: Silicon Valley startups are coming to eat Wall Street's lunch

Jamie Dimon: Silicon Valley startups are coming to eat Wall Street's lunch

JP Morgan Chase and Company CEO Jamie Dimon

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JPM boss Jamie Dimon sacked Bill Winters in 2009.

"Silicon Valley is coming," $4.

Dimon says startups are coming for Wall Street, innovating and creating efficiency in areas that are important to companies like JPMorgan, particularly in the lending and payments space.

Lending Club, for example, had $4. Payments startup Stripe has a multi-billion-dollar valuation and a partnership with Apple Pay. Bitcoin companies and exchanges like 21 and Coinbase are attracting tens of millions of dollars from venture capitalists. And financial planning startup $4.

"There are hundreds of startups with a lot of brains and money working on various alternatives to traditional banking," Dimon wrote. "The ones you read about most are in the lending business, whereby the firms can lend to individuals and small businesses very quickly and - these entities believe - effectively by using Big Data to enhance credit underwriting. They are very good at reducing the 'pain points' in that they can make loans in minutes, which might take banks weeks. We are going to work hard to make our services as seamless and competitive as theirs. And we also are completely comfortable with partnering where it makes sense."

Dimon also spent a section of his note discussing payment competitors, and he notes that payments are "critical" for JPMorgan.

"Rest assured, we analyze all of our competitors in excruciating detail - so we can learn what they are doing and develop our own strategies accordingly," Dimon says.

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