J PMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in America, has been angry for years about being forced to hand over customer data to fintech companies for free. Now its billionaire CEO Jamie Dimon seems to be capitalizing on a moment of deregulation to slap fintechs with new fees, and the coming negotiations will determine how much damage the behemoth inflicts on their businesses. The bank’s aggressive move is a big escalation in the ongoing battle between financial services incumbents and challenger fintechs.
Since the start of the fintech industry, upstarts have needed access to consumers’ bank data to perform basic functions like transferring money and…
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