Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan Chase could spend $20 billion on acquisition: 'We are on the lookout’

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, speaks at the American Business Forum at the Kaseya Center in Miami on Nov. 6, 2025. Chandan Khanna | AFP | JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that his bank could spend up to $20 billion on an acquisition in the coming years. A deal that size would be the largest of Dimon's 20-year tenure atop JPMorgan and test regulators' appetite for consolidation among the biggest U.S. banks. "I do think there might be opportunities, and so we are on the lookout," Dimon told analysts at a New York financial conference . "There might be, in the next couple years, a chance to put $10 [billion] or $20 billion to work buying something," Dimon said. The comments came with caveats. Dimon framed acquisitions almost as a tool of last resort, not a growth strategy, and warned that bankers who lean too hard on dealmaking are often compensating for poor organic growth. "You sit around a lot of management meetings, the first thing they do when they're not doing well in organic growth is they start to bullsh-t about M&A," Dimon said. "I don't want to hear about M&A... What are you doing to grow your business — sales, branches, tech, profits, products, services?" Any takeover target, he said, would need to integrate cleanly into JPMorgan's existing operations, fit the bank's culture, and enhance core businesses rather than sit as a separate standalone unit. "It can't be just a pie-in-the-sky type of thing," Dimon said. …