Jamie Dimon says private credit defaults are not threat to major banks

Recent losses on loans in relatively unregulated sector are not a systemic risk to financial sector, says JP Morgan boss The boss of JP Morgan, Wall Street’s biggest bank, said a downturn across the $3tn private credit market would not put financial stability at risk, adding that losses would have to be “very large” before the pain rippled out to major banks. Dimon played down the potential impact that a series of private credit loan defaults would have on the wider financial system, arguing ...

By Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent