Which company merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000 to form JPMorgan Chase?

Chase Manhattan Bank merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000 to form JPMorgan Chase.

The merger was announced in September 2000 and completed later that year. It joined Chase Manhattan’s commercial-banking business with J.P. Morgan’s investment-banking and corporate-finance operations, creating a major financial-services group.

The combined company later expanded through additional acquisitions. In 2004, JPMorgan Chase merged with Bank One, bringing Jamie Dimon into the organization as president and chief operating officer. During the 2008 financial crisis, it acquired Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, further increasing its scale.

Chase Manhattan Bank should not be confused with J.P. Morgan & Co., which had a separate corporate history before the merger. The modern JPMorgan Chase name reflects the union of those two institutions and their later development.