On 18 February 2014, a 33-year-old employee of JPMorgan Chase jumped to his death from the rooftop of the company’s 30-storey office building in Hong Kong. This is already the third suicide in three weeks for the financial institution.

In January, a 39-year-old Vice President of Corporate and Investment Banking Technology plunged to his death at the bank’s 33-storey London office. He joined the company since 2004.

Earlier this month, the body of a 37-year-old Executive Director of the Global Equities Group in the New York office was found in his suburban home. The Harvard graduate had been working in the company for the last 14 years.


The sad story of the victim

For the latest suicide, the victim studied in Canada and had been working in Hong Kong for a few years. In August 2011, he joined JPMorgan Chase and became an Associate in Asia Investment Banking Billing Liaison (Read more...)