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Company: JPMorganChase Revenue: US $ 182.4bn Founded: 2000

No balance sheet on earth is bigger to manage than this one. Jeremy Barnum has been Chief Financial Officer of JPMorganChase since 2021, the numbers chief of the most profitable bank in American history under the long reign of Jamie Dimon. His running problem in 2026 is one most finance leaders would kill for: too much money. Jeremy has spent the year wrestling with what he calls the bank’ s excess capital, the cushion regulators demand and shareholders resent, waving through a US $ 50bn buyback and a double-digit dividend rise to hand some of it back. He’ s the rare finance chief whose challenge is restraint rather than rescue, weighing how much of a fortress balance sheet to keep in reserve and how much to give away. With the succession question hanging over Dimon, his steady hand on capital has made him one of the most-watched CFOs.

36 July 2026