Article: Once-mighty JP Morgan on the rack after disastrous fees-for-loans foray BUSINESS ANALYSIS JP Morgan's dream of emulating Citigroup turned to nightmare when the bubble burst

IN THE mid-1990s, Bill Harrison, chief executive of Chase Manhattan, started to dream of taking his hugely successful commercial bank and using it to bulldoze his way into investment banking, not stopping before he broke into the bulge bracket that contained Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

By September 2000, Mr Harrison believed he had made that dream a reality. Having eyed up his smaller rival, JP Morgan, for years, Mr Harrison managed to woo it away from other suitors Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, eventually paying $30bn (pounds 20bn) for the prize.

Even at the time, the price looked generous. But Mr Harrison and his team had seen what a success Citigroup had made of ...

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