JPMorgan’s Dimon Gets French Legion d’Honneur After Paris Growth

JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon was awarded France’s Legion d’Honneur after the US bank’s decision to boost its French operations helped Paris expand its role as a European financial hub after Brexit.

French President Emmanuel Macron presented Dimon with the award on Tuesday in Paris, the lender said in a statement Wednesday.

Jamie Dimon and Emmanuel Macron during the inauguration of JPMorgan Chase’s new headquarters Paris in 2021.

Photographer: Michel Euler/AFP/Getty Images

The US lender made Paris a key part of its post-Brexit footprint in continental Europe after the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017. Dimon said the city was the bank’s new European trading hub when he inaugurated new headquarters the French capital last ...