{"id":309484,"date":"2026-02-21T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309484\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:15:16","slug":"jpmorgan-hit-with-european-central-banks-biggest-fine-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309484\/","title":{"rendered":"JPMorgan hit with European Central Bank&#8217;s biggest fine ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Thursday it had fined JPMorgan a total of 12.2 million euros ($14.4 million) for misreporting risk, the largest fine so far levied by the Frankfurt institution.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. investment bank has been found that it had misclassified some transactions and excluded others from its calculations between 2019 and 2024, the ECB said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This occurred because, for 15 consecutive quarters, the bank misclassified corporate exposures and applied a lower risk-weight for credit risk to them than what banking rules prescribe,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It said JPMorgan had reported that its capital buffers were bigger than they actually were.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bank committed both breaches with serious negligence, driven by evident deficiencies in its internal processes,&#8221; the ECB said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bank&#8217;s internal controls did not detect the breaches in a timely manner,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Banks are required to keep a certain amount of cash or highly liquid assets on their books in proportion to the amount of risky holdings they have.<\/p>\n<p>Artificially lowering the proportion of risky assets on its books would have freed up cash for JPMorgan to invest in other areas.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB last week fined French bank Credit Agricole 7.55 million euros for being too slow to evaluate its climate change-related risk in response to a request from the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JN9LXf.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    The Daily Sabah Newsletter\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    Keep up to date with what\u2019s happening in Turkey,<br \/>\n                    it\u2019s region and the world.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    SIGN ME UP\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<br \/>\n                    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Thursday it had fined JPMorgan a total of 12.2 million euros&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2605,108810,72,1813,14725,50913,61,60,13234],"class_list":["post-309484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-banking","tag-banking-sector","tag-business","tag-europe","tag-european-central-bank","tag-fine","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jpmorgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}