{"id":731,"date":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:39:40","slug":"jp-morgan-could-scrap-3bn-london-hq-if-starmer-is-replaced-by-pm-hostile-to-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"JP Morgan could scrap \u00a33bn London HQ if Starmer is replaced by PM \u2018hostile to banks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Dimon says US banking giant could rethink Canary Wharf tower if a future Labour leader targets lenders<\/p>\n<p>The boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, has warned he could scrap plans to build a new \u00a33bn UK headquarters in London if Keir Starmer is replaced by a new Labour prime minister who is hostile to banks.<\/p>\n<p>JP Morgan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/nov\/27\/us-banks-announce-uk-expansion-projects-hours-after-budget\">revealed plans last November<\/a> to build the tower in Canary Wharf, hours after lenders were spared tax hikes in Rachel Reeves\u2019s autumn budget following strong lobbying by the banking sector.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/12\/jamie-dimon-jp-morgan-could-scrap-new-3bn-hq-if-starmer-is-replaced-by-pm-hostile-to-banks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Dimon says US banking giant could rethink Canary Wharf tower if a future Labour leader targets lenders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}