JPMorgan Chase has kicked
off the US reporting season with a full year net profit of $17.4bn,
up 48% from $11.7bn the prior year.

CEO Jamie Dimon said that
JPMorgan Chase had “come through the worst economic storm in recent
history stronger than we have ever been.”

The bank’s Retail
Financial Services (RFS) unit posted a net profit of $2.53bn
compared with $97m the prior year.

Chase’s Card Services unit
returned to the black, posting net income of $2.07bn, compared with
a net loss of $2.22bn the previous year.

Provisions for credit
losses more than halved across the group, from $38.5bn in fiscal
2009 to $16.6bn.

Retail banking sector
highlights in fiscal 2010 included:

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  • Chase added more than 150
    branches to its network; it now has 5,268 units;
  • More than 1.5m net new
    current accounts were opened during 2010, bringing total checking
    account numbers to 27.3m, an
  • Chase’s card unit opened
    11.3m new accounts while sales volume was up 9% during
    2010.

Consumer lending increased
by 8% during fiscal 2010 to $465.3bn while average total deposits
at Chase’s RFS unit were $338.7bn, up 3% from the prior
year.