As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 24, 2018 March 6, 2019

Registration Nos.Reg.No. 333-            and 333- 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DCWashington, D.C. 20549

 

FORMS-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.

(Exact name of registrant, as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 13-2624428

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification Number)No.)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

(212) 270-6000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Molly Carpenter

Corporate Secretary

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4 New York Plaza

New York, New York 10004

(212) 270-6000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of All Communications to:

Stephen B. Grant, Esq.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

270 Park4 New York Plaza

New York, New York 10004

(212)270-6000

Lee Meyerson, Esq.

Maripat Alpuche, Esq.

Hui Lin, Esq.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

(212) 270-6000455-2000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

JPMORGAN CHASE FINANCIAL COMPANY LLC

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware 

47-5462128William V. Fogg, Esq.

(State or other jurisdiction ofMichael E. Mariani, Esq.

incorporation or organization)Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

(IRS Employer825 Eighth Avenue
Identification Number)

JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC
383 Madison Avenue, Floor 21

New York, New York 1017910019
(212) 270-6000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Molly Carpenter
Corporate Secretary
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(212) 270-6000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:(212)474-1000

Maripat Alpuche, Esq. 

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 

425 Lexington Avenue 

New York, New York 10017 

(212) 455-2000 

Stephen B. Grant, Esq.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(212) 270-6000
John G. Crowley, Esq.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
450 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(212) 450-4000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement becomes effective.

registration statement as determined by market conditions and other factors.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  ☒

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer”filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “smaller reporting“emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large Accelerated filerAccelerated filer    ☐
Non-accelerated filerSmaller reporting company    ☐
Emerging growth company    ☐

(Check one):If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Title of each class of
securities to be registered
  

Amount to be  

registered(1)(2)  

   Proposed maximum  
offering price per
unit(1)
   

Proposed maximum  
aggregate

offering price(1)(3)

   Amount of
registration
fee(2)(3)
 

Debt securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

                    

Preferred stock of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

                    

Depositary shares representing preferred stock of JPMorgan Chase & Co.(4)

                    

Common stock of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

                    

Warrants of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

                    

Units of JPMorgan Chase & Co.(5)

                    

Debt securities, preferred stock, warrants, units and purchase contracts of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and depositary shares representing preferred stock of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

                    

Total

          $130,143,501,444   $15,773,392 

 

Large accelerated filer  (1)Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer     (Do

The amount to be registered and the proposed maximum aggregate offering price per unit are not check if a smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company  

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title ofspecified as to each class of securities being registered pursuant to be registered (1)Amount to be registered / Proposed maximum offering price per unit (1)(2)ProposedGeneral Instruction II.D of Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The maximum aggregate offering price (1)(2)Amount of
registration fee (3)
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Debt all securities warrants (4)(5), units (6) and purchase contracts
Guarantees of debt securities and warrants of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC
JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC
Debt securities and warrants (5)
Total$25,000,000,000$3,112,500 (7)

(1)Thisissued by the Registrant pursuant to this Registration Statement also includesshall not have a maximum aggregate offering price that exceeds $130,143,501,444 in U.S. dollars or the equivalent thereof in any other currency.

(2)

Includes an unspecified amount of identified classes of securities asthat may be issued from time to time upon exercise, conversionreoffered or exchange of warrants or debt securities, as applicable, being registered hereunder. This Registration Statement also relates to offers and sales ofresold on an unspecified amount of debt securities, warrants, units and purchase contracts, together with any accompanying guarantees, in connection with market-making transactionsongoing basis after their initial sale by and through the affiliates of the Registrants, including J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.Registrant in market-making transactions. These securities consist of an unspecifiedindeterminate amount of such securities that are initially being registered, and will initially be offered and sold, under this Registration Statement and an unspecifiedindeterminate amount of such securities that were initially registered, and were initially offered and sold, under registration statements previously filed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. with the following file numbers: 333-199966, 333-177923, 333-155535 and 333-130051 and by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC with the following file numbers: 333-209682 and 333-209682-01.Registrant. All such market-making reoffers and resales of these securities that are made pursuant to a registration statement after the effectiveness of this Registration Statement are being made solely pursuant to this Registration Statement.

(3)(2)

The amount to be registered, the proposed maximum aggregate offering price per unit and the proposed maximum aggregate offering price are not specified aswill be determined from time to the securities of each identified class to be registered pursuant to General Instruction II.D of Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The aggregate maximum offering price of all securities issuedtime by the Registrants pursuant to this Registration Statement shall not exceed $25,000,000,000Registrant in U.S. dollars or the equivalentconnection with, and at the time of, offering in any other currency.issuance by the Registrant of the securities registered hereunder. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price isreflected in the table has been estimated solely for the purposepurposes of computingcalculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

(3)PursuantAct. Of this fee, $10,773,392 has previously been paid with respect to Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule 415(a)(6)”), this Registration Statement will include an amount of unsold securities that were previouslyof JPMorgan Chase & Co. registered on the registration statement on Form S-3 (Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01)under Registration No. 333-209681 filed on February 24, 2016, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on April 4, 2016, and Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 filed on April 15, 2016 (the “Prior Registration Statement”), for which the Registrants paid a registration fee. At such time as the Registrants request effectiveness of this Registration Statement, the Registrants will identify in a pre-effective amendment to this Registration Statement any unsold securities from the Prior Registration Statement to beis being included in this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6). Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act the registration fee relating to those unsold securities will continue to be applied to those unsold securities registered pursuant to this Registration Statement,of 1933, as amended; and no additional registration fee$5,000,000 is being paid herewith.

(4)

No separate consideration will be paid. Pursuant to

Rule 415(a)(6), the offering of unsold securities under the Prior Registration Statement will be deemed terminated as of the date of effectiveness of this Registration Statement.

(4)Warrantsreceived for the depositary shares representing shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. may be issued together in units with any purchase contracts, debt securitiespreferred stock issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co., debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with JPMorgan Chase & Co. or other property.

(5)Warrants may entitle the holder (A) to purchase debt securities registered hereby, (B) to receive cash determined by reference to an index or indices, (C) to receive cash determined by reference to currencies or (D) to purchase or sell securities issued by the Registrants or another entity, a basket of such securities, or any combination of the above.

(6)Units may consist of one or more warrants, purchase contracts, debt securities issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co., debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with JPMorgan Chase & Co., other property or any combination thereof.

(7)Pursuant to Rule 457(n) under the Securities Act, no No separate registration fee will be paid in respect of any guaranteessuch depositary shares.

(5)

Each unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will be issued under a unit agreement and will represent one or more debt securities, shares of preferred stock, depositary shares, shares of common stock and warrants of JPMorgan Chase & Co., as well as debt or equity securities of third parties, in any other securities registered hereby. In addition, pursuant to Rule 457(q) under the Securities Act, no separate registration fee is required for the registration of an indeterminate amount of securities tocombination, which may or may not be offered solely for market-making purposes by affiliates of the Registrants.separable from one another.

THE REGISTRANTS HEREBY AMEND THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANTS SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONThe Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on the date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTIONof the Securities Act or until this registration statement shall become effective on the date that the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), MAY DETERMINE.may determine.

 


Explanatory Note

This Registration Statement contains:

a prospectus to be used by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with offerings of up to $130,143,501,444, or the equivalent thereof in any other currency, of its debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares representing its preferred stock, common stock, warrants and units at unspecified aggregate initial public offering prices and by affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with market-making transactions from time to time in the securities described therein after they are initially offered and sold; and

 

a prospectus addendum to be used by affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with market-making transactions from time to time in securities of one or more of the same classes that were initially registered under registration statements previously filed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. or its affiliates and that were initially offered and sold prior to the date of the abovementioned prospectus addendum.


The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities, and it iswe are not soliciting an offeroffers to buy these securities, in any jurisdictionstate where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED JANUARY 24, 2018MARCH 6, 2019

Prospectus

 

ProspectusLOGO

$130,143,501,444

Debt Securities

Preferred Stock

Depositary Shares

Common Stock

Warrants

Units

 

$25,000,000,000

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Debt Securities 

Warrants

Units

Purchase Contracts

Guarantees

JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC

Debt Securities

Warrants

We, JPMorgan Chase & Co., may from time to time offer and sell any of our securities listed above, in each case, in one or more series. Our subsidiary, JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, which we refer to as “JPMorgan Financial,” also may from time to time offer and sell its securities listed above, in each case, in one or more series. We fully and unconditionally guarantee all payments of principal, interest and other amounts payable on any debt securities or warrants JPMorgan Financial issues. Up to $25,000,000,000,$130,143,501,444, or the equivalent thereof in any other currency, of these securities may be offered from time to time, in amounts, on terms and at prices that will be determined at the time they are offered for sale. These terms and prices will be described in more detail in one or more supplements to this prospectus.prospectus, which will be distributed at the time the securities are offered. Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “JPM.” The other securities that we may offer from time to time under this prospectus may be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or another national securities exchange, as specified in the applicable prospectus supplement.

You should read this prospectus and the applicableany supplement or supplements to this prospectus carefully before you invest. Investing in these securities involves a number of risks. See the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, andany risk factors described in thean applicable prospectus supplement, or supplements to this prospectus, for a discussion of risks you should consider in connection with an investment in any of the securities offered under this prospectus.

 

These securities will

This prospectus may not be listed onused to sell any of the securities exchange unless otherwise specified in one or more supplements to this prospectus.it is accompanied by a prospectus supplement.

 

The principal executive officessecurities may be sold to or through underwriters, through dealers or agents, directly to purchasers or through a combination of JPMorgan Chase & Co. are located at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017these methods. If an offering of securities involves any underwriters, dealers or agents, then the applicable prospectus supplement will name the underwriters, dealers or agents and our telephone number is (212) 270-6000. The principal executive offices of JPMorgan Financial are located at 383 Madison Avenue, Floor 21, New York, New York 10179 and its telephone number is (212) 270-6000.will provide information regarding any fee, commission or discount arrangements made with those underwriters, dealers or agents.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus or any supplement. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

These securities are not deposits or other obligations of a bank deposits,and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency and are not obligations of, or guaranteed by, a bank.agency.

 

These securities have not been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state securities commission, nor have these organizations determined that this prospectus is accurate or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

This prospectus is dated                     , 20182019


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Summary

2

Where You Can Find More Information About JPMorgan Chase

6

Important Factors that may Affect Future Results

7

Use of Proceeds

9

Description of Debt Securities

10

Description of Preferred Stock

20

Description of Depositary Shares

33 

Description of Common Stock

34

Description of Securities Warrants

35

Description of Currency Warrants

35

Description of Units

37

Book-Entry Issuance

38

Plan of Distribution

42

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

43

Legal Opinions

43

SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information from this document and may not contain all of the information that is important to you. To understand the terms of our securities, you should carefully read:

 

this prospectus, which explains the general terms of the securities we may offer;

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

the attached prospectus supplement, which gives the specific terms of the particular securities we are offering and may change or update information in this prospectus; and

the documents we have referred you to in “Where You Can Find More Information About JPMorgan Chase” on page 6 for information about our company and our financial statements.

Certain capitalized terms used in this summary are defined elsewhere in this prospectus.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., which we refer to as “JPMorgan Chase,” “we” or “us,” is a financial holding company incorporated under Delaware law in 1968. We are a leading global financial services firm and one of the largest banking institutions in the United States, with operations worldwide. JPMorgan Chase had $2.6 trillion in assets and $256.5 billion in total stockholders’ equity as of December 31, 2018. To find out how to obtain more information about us, see “Where You Can Find More Information About JPMorgan Chase.”

Our principal executive offices are located at 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 and our telephone number is (212) 270-6000.

The Securities We May Offer

This prospectus is part of a Registration Statementregistration statement (the “registration statement”) that we and JPMorgan Financial filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission which we refer to as the SEC,(“SEC”) utilizing a “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf registration process, we may offer from time to time sellup to $130,143,501,444, or the equivalent thereof in any combinationother currency, of any of the relevant securities described in the prospectus in one or more offerings; and our subsidiary, JPMorgan Financial, may, from time to time, offer any combination of the relevant securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings.following securities:

 

debt;

preferred stock;

depositary shares;

common stock;

warrants; and

units.

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we or JPMorgan Financial may offer. Each time we or JPMorgan Financial selloffer securities, we or JPMorgan Financial will provide one or morea prospectus supplements, together with one or more pricing supplements, underlying supplements, product supplements and/or other types of offering documents or supplements (together referred to herein as a “prospectus supplement”)supplement that will containdescribe the specific information about theamounts, prices and terms of the offering.securities being offered. The prospectus supplement may also add to, update or change information contained in this prospectus. References to this prospectus or the prospectus supplement also means the information contained in other documents we have filed with the SEC and have referred you to in this prospectus. If this prospectus is inconsistent with the prospectus supplement, you should rely on the prospectus supplement. You should read both this prospectus, and the accompanyingapplicable prospectus supplement together withand the additional information describedthat we refer you to, as discussed under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information”Information About JPMorgan Chase.”

Debt Securities

We may use this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to offer our unsecured general debt obligations, which may be senior or subordinated. The senior debt securities will have the same rank as all of our other unsecured, unsubordinated debt. The subordinated debt securities will be entitled to payment only after payment on our “Senior Indebtedness,” which includes the senior debt securities. For the definition of Senior Indebtedness, see “Description of Debt Securities—Subordinated Debt Securities—Subordination” beginning on page 115 below.

The senior debt securities will be issued under the indenture, dated as of October 21, 2010, as amended by the first supplemental indenture, dated as of January 13, 2017, between us and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee. We refer to that indenture, as so amended, as the “senior indenture.” The subordinated debt securities will be issued under the subordinated indenture, dated as of March 14, 2014, as amended by the first supplemental indenture, dated as of January 13, 2017, between us and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as trustee. We refer to that indenture, as so amended, as the “subordinated indenture” and, together with the senior indenture, the “indentures” and each an “indenture.” We have summarized below certain general features of the debt securities from the indentures. We encourage you to read the indentures, which are exhibits to the registration statement.

General Indenture Provisions that Apply to the Senior Debt Securities and the Subordinated Debt Securities

Each indenture allows us to issue different types of debt securities, including indexed securities.

Neither of the indentures limits the amount of debt securities that we may issue or provides you with any protection should there be a highly leveraged transaction, recapitalization or restructuring involving JPMorgan Chase.

The indentures allow us to consolidate or merge with another entity, or to convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of our assets to another entity. If one of these events occurs and we are not the successor in the transaction, the successor will be required to assume our responsibilities relating to the debt securities and the indentures.

The indentures provide that holders of a majority of the total principal amount of outstanding debt securities of any series may vote to change certain of our obligations or certain of your rights concerning the debt securities of that series. However, to change the amount or timing of principal, interest or other payments under the debt securities of a series, every holder in the series affected by the change must consent.

If an event of default (as described below) occurs with respect to any series of debt securities, the trustee or holders of 25% of the outstanding principal amount of that series may declare the principal amount of the series immediately payable. However, holders of a majority of the principal amount may rescind this action.

General Indenture Provisions that Apply Only to Senior Debt Securities

We have agreed in the senior indenture that we and our subsidiaries will not sell, assign, transfer, grant a security interest in or otherwise dispose of the voting stock of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., which we refer to as the “Bank”, and that the Bank will not issue its voting stock, unless the sale or issuance is for fair market value and we and our subsidiaries would own at least 80% of the voting stock of the Bank following the sale or issuance. This covenant would not prevent us from completing a merger, consolidation or sale of substantially all of our assets. In addition, this covenant would not prevent the merger or consolidation of the Bank into another domestic bank if JPMorgan Chase and its subsidiaries would own at least 80% of the voting stock of the successor entity after the merger or consolidation.

If we satisfy certain conditions in the senior indenture, we may discharge that indenture at any time by depositing with the trustee sufficient funds or government obligations to pay the senior debt securities when due.

Events of Default. The senior indenture provides that the following are events of default with respect to any series of senior debt securities:

default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on) any senior debt securities of that series and continuance of that default for 30 days;

default in the payment of interest on any senior debt securities of that series and continuance of that default for 30 days;

specified events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of JPMorgan Chase; and

any other event of default specified with respect to senior debt securities of that series.

General Indenture Provisions that Apply Only to Subordinated Debt Securities

The subordinated debt securities will be subordinated to all “Senior Indebtedness,” which includes all of our indebtedness for money borrowed, except indebtedness that is stated not to be senior to, or that is stated to have the same rank as, the subordinated debt securities or other securities having the same rank as or that are subordinated to the subordinated debt securities.

Events of Default. The subordinated indenture provides that the following are events of default with respect to any series of subordinated debt securities:

specified events of bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency of JPMorgan Chase; and

any other event specified with respect to subordinated debt securities of that series.

Preferred Stock and Depositary Shares

We may use this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to offer our preferred stock, par value $1 per share, in one or more series. We will determine the dividend, voting, conversion and other rights of the series being offered, and the terms and conditions relating to the offering and sale of the series, at the time of the offer and sale. We may also issue preferred stock that will be represented by depositary shares.

Common Stock

We may use this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to offer our common stock, par value $1 per share. Subject to the rights of holders of our preferred stock, holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends when declared by our board of directors (which may also refer to a board committee). Each holder of common stock is entitled to one vote per share. The holders of common stock have no preemptive rights or cumulative voting rights.

Warrants

We may use this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to offer warrants for the purchase of debt securities, preferred stock or common stock, which we refer to as “securities warrants.” We may also offer warrants for the cash value in U.S. dollars of the right to purchase or sell foreign or composite currencies, which we refer to as “currency warrants.” We may issue warrants independently or together with other securities.

Units

We may use this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to offer any combination of debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares, common stock and warrants issued by us, debt obligations or other

securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or other property together as units. In the applicable prospectus supplement, we will describe the particular combination of debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares, common stock and warrants issued by us, or debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or other property constituting any units, and any other specific terms of the units.

JPMorgan Chase is a Holding Company

We are a holding company that holds the stock of the Bank and an intermediate holding company, JPMorgan Chase Holdings LLC, which we refer to as the “IHC”. We conduct substantially all of our operations through subsidiaries, including the Bank and the IHC. As a result, claims of the holders of our securities will generally have a junior position to claims of creditors of our subsidiaries. Claims of our subsidiaries’ creditors other than JPMorgan Chase include substantial amounts of deposit liabilities, long-term debt and other liabilities. In addition, we are obligated to contribute to the IHC substantially all the net proceeds that we receive from the issuance of securities (including any securities offered by use of this prospectus.prospectus), and the ability of the Bank and the IHC to make payments to us is limited. As a result of these arrangements, our ability to make various payments is dependent on our receiving dividends from the Bank and dividends and extensions of credit from the IHC. These limitations could affect our ability to pay interest on our debt securities, pay dividends on our preferred stock and common stock, redeem or repurchase outstanding securities, and fulfill our other payment obligations.

Conflicts of Interest

FollowingWe own directly or indirectly all the initial distributionoutstanding equity securities of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. The underwriting arrangements for any offering pursuant to this prospectus will comply with the requirements of Rule 5121 of the regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) regarding a FINRA member firm’s underwriting of securities of an offering of securities,affiliate. In accordance with Rule 5121, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and other affiliates of ours and, if applicable, other third-party broker dealers may offer and sell those securities in the course of their businesses as broker dealers. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and other affiliates of ours and, if applicable, other third-party broker dealers may act as principal or agent in these transactions. This prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement will also be used in connection with those transactions. Sales in any of those transactions will be made at varying prices relatednot make sales pursuant to prevailing market prices and other circumstances at the time of sale.

We and JPMorgan Financial have not authorized anyone to provide any information other than that contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement. We and JPMorgan Financial take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement do not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities other than the securities described in the accompanying prospectus supplement or an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy such securities in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. Neither the delivery of this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement, nor any sale made hereunder and thereunder shall, under any circumstances, create any implication that there has been no change in the affairs of JPMorgan Chase & Co. or JPMorgan Financial since the date hereof or that the information contained or incorporated by reference herein or therein is correct as of any time subsequent to the date of such information.

In this prospectus, “JPMorgan Chase,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and not to any discretionary account without the prior approval of its subsidiaries, except where the context otherwise requires or as otherwise indicated. We use “JPMorgan Financial” to refer to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, our wholly owned subsidiary.customer.

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Table of ContentsWHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

Page

Where You Can Find More Information1
JPMorgan Chase & Co.2
JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC2
Consolidated Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges3
Use of Proceeds3
Important Factors That May Affect Future Results4
Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co.6
Description of Warrants of JPMorgan Chase & Co.14
Description of Units of JPMorgan Chase & Co.17
Description of Purchase Contracts of JPMorgan Chase & Co.19
Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC21
Description of Warrants of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC29
Forms of Securities35
Plan of Distribution (Conflicts of Interest)39
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm42
Legal Matters42
Benefit Plan Investor Considerations42
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Where You Can Find More Information

ABOUT JPMORGAN CHASE

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy these documents atOur SEC filings are available to the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of this material can also be obtained fromon the Public Reference Room ofwebsite maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549 at prescribed rates. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information about the Public Reference Room. The SEC also maintains an Internet website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other materials that are filed through the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) System or any successor thereto. This website can currently be accessed at http://www.sec.gov. You can find information we have filed with the SEC by reference to file number 001-05805. Such documents, reports and information are also available on our website: http:https://www.jpmorgan.com.jpmorganchaseco.gcs-web.com/financial-information/sec-filings. Information on our website does not constitute part of and is not incorporated by reference in, this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement.

This prospectus is part of a registration statement we and JPMorgan Financial filed with the SEC. This prospectus omits some information contained in the registration statement in accordance with SEC rules and regulations. You should review the information and exhibits in the registration statement for further information on us and our consolidated subsidiaries and the securities we and JPMorgan Financial are offering. Statements in this prospectus concerning any document we and JPMorgan Financial filed as an exhibit to the registration statement or that we otherwise filed with the SEC are not intended to be comprehensive and are qualified by reference to these filings. You should review the complete document to evaluate these statements.

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” into this prospectus the information in documents we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus, and later information that we file with the SEC will update and supersede this information.

We incorporate by reference (i) the documents listed below and (ii) any future filings we make with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the period after the date of filing the initial registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part and prior to the effectiveness of thesuch registration statement and after the date of this prospectus until theour offering of securities covered by this prospectus is completed, other than, in each case, those documents or the portions of those documents thatwhich are furnished and not filed:

(a)our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016;

(b)our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2017, June 30, 2017 and September 30, 2017; and

(c)our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 4, 2017, January 5, 2017, January 13, 2017 (the report furnished under Item 2.02 but only with respect to the exhibits included in that report), January 13, 2017 (the report filed under Item 8.01), January 18, 2017, January 19, 2017, February 1, 2017 (three reports), February 22, 2017, March 9, 2017, April 4, 2017, April 13, 2017 (the report furnished under Item 2.02 but only with respect to the exhibits included in that report), April 18, 2017, April 25, 2017, May 19, 2017 (as amended on June 21, 2017), June 1, 2017, June 8, 2017, June 28, 2017, July 3, 2017, July 14, 2017 (the report furnished under Item 2.02 but only with respect to the exhibits included in that report), July 24, 2017, October 5, 2017 (two reports), October 12, 2017 (the report furnished under Item 2.02 but only with respect to the exhibits included in that report), October 20, 2017, October 31, 2017, November 13, 2017, November 16, 2017, December 12, 2017, January 4, 2018, January 12, 2018 (the report furnished under Item 2.02 but only with respect to the exhibits included in that report) and January 18, 2018.

(a) Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018;

We will provide each person, including(b) Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 15, 2019, January 17, 2019, January 24, 2019, January 29, 2019 and January 30, 2019; and

(c) The descriptions of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement filed under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any beneficial owner,amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating that description, and any other Registration Statement on Form 8-A relating to whom a prospectus is delivered,any securities offered by this prospectus.

You may request a copy of anythese filings, at no cost, by writing to or alltelephoning us at the following address:

Office of the Secretary

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

4 New York Plaza

New York, New York 10004

212-270-6000

You should rely only on the information that has beenprovided or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with any other information. We are not making an offer of securities in any state where the offer is not permitted. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus but not delivered withor any prospectus supplement or any document incorporated by reference is accurate as of any date other than the prospectus. You may request, at no cost to you, a copy of these documents by writing or telephoning us at: Officedate on the front of the Secretary, JPMorgan Chase & Co., 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (Telephone: (212) 270-6000).applicable document.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase is a leading global financial services firm with operations worldwide. JPMorgan Chase is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. Under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands, JPMorgan Chase serves millions of customers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.

JPMorgan Chase is a financial holding company and was incorporated under Delaware law on October 28, 1968. JPMorgan Chase’s principal bank subsidiaries are JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, a national bank with branches in 23 states, and Chase Bank USA, National Association, a national bank that is JPMorgan Chase’s credit card-issuing bank. JPMorgan Chase’s principal nonbank subsidiary is J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, our U.S. investment banking firm. One of JPMorgan Chase’s principal operating subsidiaries in the United Kingdom is J.P. Morgan Securities plc, a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

The principal executive office of JPMorgan Chase is located at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, U.S.A., and its telephone number is (212) 270-6000.

JPMorgan Chase Financial company llc

JPMorgan Financial is a Delaware limited liability company and an indirect, wholly owned finance subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, created for the purpose of providing JPMorgan Chase and/or its affiliates with financing for their operations by issuing securities designed to meet investor demand for products that reflect certain risk-return profiles and specific market exposure. Any securities issued by JPMorgan Financial will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Financial expects to lend the net proceeds from these offerings to JPMorgan Chase and/or its affiliates.

The principal executive office of JPMorgan Financial is located at 383 Madison Avenue, Floor 21, New York, New York 10179 and its telephone number is (212) 270-6000.

Consolidated Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges

Our ratio of earnings to fixed charges, including interest on deposits, for each of the periods indicated are as follows:

Nine Months Ended September 30,

Year Ended December 31,

201720162015201420132012
3.644.374.894.633.603.52

For purposes of computing the above ratios, earnings represent net income from continuing operations plus total taxes based on income and fixed charges. Fixed charges include interest on deposits, all interest expense, one-third (the proportion deemed representative of the interest factor) of rents, net of income from subleases, and capitalized interest.

Use of Proceeds

We will contribute the net proceeds that we receive from the sale of our securities offered by this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement to our “intermediate holding company” subsidiary, JPMorgan Chase Holdings LLC, which will use those net proceeds for general corporate purposes, in connection with hedging our obligations under the securities or for any other purpose described in the applicable prospectus supplement. General corporate purposes may include investments in our subsidiaries, payments of dividends to us, extensions of credit to us or our subsidiaries or the financing of possible acquisitions or business expansion.

Net proceeds may be temporarily invested pending application for their stated purpose. Interest on our debt securities and dividends on our equity securities, as well as redemptions or repurchases of our outstanding securities, will be made using amounts we receive as dividends or extensions of credit from JPMorgan Chase Holdings LLC or as dividends from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

JPMorgan Financial intends to lend the net proceeds from the sale of its securities offered by this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement to us and/or our affiliates. We expect that we and/or our affiliates will use the proceeds from these loans to provide additional funds for our and/or their operations and for other general corporate purposes.

Important Factors That May Affect Future Results

IMPORTANT FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT FUTURE RESULTS

From time to time, we and JPMorgan Financial have made and will make forward-looking statements. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements often use words such as “anticipate,” “target,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “goal,” “believe,” or other words of similar meaning. Forward-looking statements provide our current expectations or forecasts of future events, circumstances, results or aspirations. Our and JPMorgan Financial’s disclosures in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and any documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We also may make forward-looking statements in our other documents filed or furnished with the SEC. In addition, our senior management may make forward-looking statements orally to investors, analysts, representatives of the media and others.

All forward-looking statements are, by their nature, subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. OurJPMorgan Chase’s actual future results may differ materially from those set forth in our forward-looking statements. While there is no assurance that any list of risks and uncertainties or risk factors is complete, below are certain factors thatwhich could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements:

 

·local, regional and global business, economic and political conditions and geopolitical events;

local, regional and global business, economic and political conditions and geopolitical events;

·changes in laws and regulatory requirements, including capital and liquidity requirements affecting our businesses, and our ability to address those requirements;

·heightened regulatory and governmental oversight and scrutiny of our business practices, including dealings with retail customers;

·changes in trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws;

·changes in income tax laws and regulations;

·securities and capital markets behavior, including changes in market liquidity and volatility;

·changes in investor sentiment or consumer spending or savings behavior;

·our ability to manage effectively our capital and liquidity, including approval of our capital plans by banking regulators;

·changes in credit ratings assigned to us or our subsidiaries;

·damage to our reputation;

·our ability to deal effectively with an economic slowdown or other economic or market disruption;

·technology changes instituted by us, our counterparties or competitors;

·the success of our business simplification initiatives and the effectiveness of our control agenda;

·our ability to develop new products and services, and the extent to which products or services previously sold by us (including but not limited to mortgages and asset-backed securities) require us to incur liabilities or absorb losses not contemplated at their initiation or origination;

·acceptance of our new and existing products and services by the marketplace and our ability to innovate and to increase market share;

·our ability to attract and retain qualified employees;

·our ability to control expense;

 

changes in laws and regulatory requirements, including capital and liquidity requirements affecting our businesses, and our ability to address those requirements;

 

heightened regulatory and governmental oversight and scrutiny of our business practices, including dealings with retail customers;

·competitive pressures;

 

·changes in the credit quality of our customers and counterparties;

changes in trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws;

 

·adequacy of our risk management framework, disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting;

changes in income tax laws and regulations;

 

·adverse judicial or regulatory proceedings;

securities and capital markets behavior, including changes in market liquidity and volatility;

 

·changes in applicable accounting policies, including the introduction of new accounting standards;

changes in investor sentiment or consumer spending or savings behavior;

 

·our ability to determine accurate values of certain assets and liabilities;

our ability to manage effectively our capital and liquidity, including approval of our capital plans by banking regulators;

 

·occurrence of natural or man-made disasters or calamities or conflicts and our ability to deal effectively with disruptions caused by the foregoing;

changes in credit ratings assigned to us or our subsidiaries;

 

·our ability to maintain the security of our financial, accounting, technology, data processing and other operating systems and facilities; and

damage to our reputation;

 

·our ability to effectively defend ourselves against cyberattacks and other attempts by unauthorized parties to access our information or disrupt our systems.

our ability to appropriately address social and environmental concerns that may arise from our business activities;

 

our ability to deal effectively with an economic slowdown or other economic or market disruption;

technology changes instituted by us, our counterparties or competitors;

the effectiveness of our control agenda;

our ability to develop or discontinue products and services, and the extent to which products or services previously sold by us (including but not limited to mortgages and asset-backed securities) require us to incur liabilities or absorb losses not contemplated at their initiation or origination;

acceptance of our new and existing products and services by the marketplace and our ability to innovate and to increase market share;

our ability to attract and retain qualified employees;

our ability to control expenses;

competitive pressures;

changes in the credit quality of our customers and counterparties;

adequacy of our risk management framework, disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting;

adverse judicial or regulatory proceedings;

changes in applicable accounting policies, including the introduction of new accounting standards;

our ability to determine accurate values of certain assets and liabilities;

occurrence of natural or man-made disasters or calamities or conflicts and our ability to deal effectively with disruptions caused by the foregoing;

our ability to maintain the security of our financial, accounting, technology, data processing and other operational systems and facilities;

our ability to withstand disruptions that may be caused by any failure of our operational systems or those of third parties; and

our ability to effectively defend ourselves against cyberattacks and other attempts by unauthorized parties to access our or our customers’ information or to disrupt our systems.

Additional factors that may cause future results to differ materially from forward-looking statements can be found in portions of our periodic and current reports filed with the SEC and incorporated by reference in this prospectus. These factors include, for example, those discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our most recent annual and quarterly reports, to which reference is hereby made.

Any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of us and JPMorgan Financial in this prospectus, any applicable prospectus supplement or in a document incorporated by reference ininto this prospectus speak only as of the date of this prospectus, the applicable prospectus supplement or the document incorporated by reference, as the case may be. We and JPMorgan Financial do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.statements. You should, however, consult any further disclosures of a forward-looking nature we may make in any subsequent Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K.

DescriptionUSE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise described in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will contribute the net proceeds that we receive from the sale of Debt Securitiesthe securities offered by use of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

General

In this “Descriptionprospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement to the IHC, which will use those net proceeds for general corporate purposes. General corporate purposes may include investments in our subsidiaries, payments of Debt Securitiesdividends to us, extensions of JPMorgan Chase & Co.” section, all referencescredit to “debt securities” refer only tous or our subsidiaries or the financing of possible acquisitions or business expansion. Net proceeds may be temporarily invested pending application for their stated purpose. Interest on our debt securities issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and not to any debt securities issued by JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC.

The following description of the terms of(including interest on the debt securities contains certainoffered by use of this prospectus) and dividends on our equity securities (including dividends on the preferred stock or common stock offered by use of this prospectus), as well as redemptions or repurchases of our outstanding securities, will be made using amounts we receive as dividends or extensions of credit from the IHC or as dividends from the Bank.

DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

General

We have described below some general terms that may apply to the debt securities. The specificsecurities we may offer by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement. We will describe the particular terms of any debt securities will be describedwe offer to you in one or morethe prospectus supplementssupplement relating to those debt securities.

The debt securities will be issued under an Indenture dated May 25, 2001, between us and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (as has been and as may be further supplemented from time to time, for purposes of this section entitled “Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co.,” the “Indenture”).

We have summarized below the material provisions of the Indenture and theeither senior debt securities or subordinated debt securities. The senior debt securities will be issued under the Indenture or indicated which material provisionssenior indenture, and the subordinated debt securities will be described inissued under the related prospectus supplement. These descriptionssubordinated indenture. The debt securities and the indentures are only summaries, and each investorgoverned by the laws of the State of New York.

The following summary is not complete. You should refer to the Indenture,indentures, copies of which describes completelyare exhibits to the terms and definitions summarized below and contains additional information regardingregistration statement.

The indentures do not limit the amount of debt securities issued under it. Where appropriate,that we use parentheses to refer youmay issue. Each of the indentures provides that we may issue debt securities up to the particular sections of the Indenture. Any referenceprincipal amount we authorize from time to particular sections or defined terms of the Indenture in any statement under this heading qualifies the entire statement and incorporates by reference the applicable section or definition into that statement.

time. The senior debt securities will be our direct, unsecured general obligations and will have the same rank in liquidation as all of our other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.

The Indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount ofsubordinated debt securities that maywill be issuedunsecured and will be subordinated and junior to all Senior Indebtedness as defined below under it. The Indenture provides that debt securities may be issued up to the principal amount authorized by us from time to time. (Section 2.03) We have previously established the Series E medium-term notes under the Indenture. As of December 31, 2017, we had approximately $5.8 billion aggregate principal amount of Series E medium-term notes outstanding under the Indenture. We have authorized the issuance of securities under the registration statement to which this prospectus relates, including Series E medium-term notes, with an aggregate initial public offering price not to exceed $35 billion, to be issued on or after January 24, 2018.

The Indenture allows us to reopen a previous issue of a series of debt securities and issue additional debt securities of that issue. We have no obligation to take your interests into account when deciding whether to issue additional debt securities. In addition, we are under no obligation to reopen any series of debt securities or to issue any additional debt securities.

“— Subordinated Debt Securities — Subordination.”

We are a holding company that holds the stock of the Bank and the IHC. We conduct substantially all of our operations through subsidiaries.subsidiaries, including the Bank and the IHC. As a result, claims of the holders of the debtour securities will generally have a junior position to claims of creditors of our subsidiaries, except to the extent that JPMorgan Chase & Co. may be recognized, and receives payment, as a creditor of those subsidiaries. Claims of our subsidiaries’ creditors other than JPMorgan Chase & Co. include substantial amounts of deposit liabilities, long-term debt deposit liabilities, federal funds purchased, securities loaned or sold under repurchase agreements, commercial paper and other borrowed funds.

liabilities. In addition, we are obligated to contribute to the IHC substantially all the net proceeds that we receive from the issuance of securities (including any securities offered by use of this prospectus), and the ability of the Bank and the IHC to make payments to us is limited. As a result of these arrangements, our ability to make various payments is dependent on our receiving dividends from the Bank and dividends and extensions of credit from the IHC. These limitations could affect our ability to pay interest on our debt securities, pay dividends on our preferred stock and common stock, redeem or repurchase outstanding securities, and fulfill our other payment obligations.

We may issue the debt securities from time to time in one or more series. (Section 2.03) Theseparate series of senior debt securities and/or subordinated debt securities. We will specify in the prospectus supplement relating to the particular series of debt securities being offered the particular amounts, prices and terms of those debt securities. These terms may include:

the title and type of the debt securities;

any limit on the aggregate principal amount or aggregate initial offering price of the debt securities;

the purchase price of the debt securities;

the dates on which the principal of the debt securities will be payable and the amount payable upon acceleration;

the interest rates of the debt securities, including the interest rates, if any, applicable to overdue payments, or the method for determining those rates, and the interest payment dates for the debt securities;

the places where payments may be made on the debt securities;

any mandatory or optional redemption provisions applicable to the debt securities;

any sinking fund or similar provisions applicable to the debt securities;

the authorized denominations of the debt securities, if other than $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000;

if denominated and payable in a currency other than U.S. dollars, the currency or foreign currencies. (Section 2.03) currencies, including composite currencies, in which payments on the debt securities will be payable (which currencies may be different for principal, premium and interest payments);

any conversion or exchange provisions applicable to the debt securities;

any addition to, deletion from or change in the events of default applicable to the debt securities;

any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants applicable to the debt securities; and

any other specific terms of the debt securities.

We may also issue some of the debt securities from time to time, with the principal amount, interest or other amounts payable on any relevant payment date to be determined by reference to one or more currency exchange rates, interest rates, swap rates, securities or baskets of securities, commodity prices, indices, basket of indices, or any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance. The debt securities may also be issued as original issue discount debt securities. Original issue discount debt securities which will bear no interest or will bear interest at below market ratesa below-market rate and will be sold at a discount tobelow their stated principal amount. The prospectus supplement will contain any special tax, accounting or other information relating to original issue discount debt securities. If we offer other kinds of debt securities, including debt securities linked to an index or payable in currencies other than U.S. dollars, the prospectus supplement relating to those debt securities will also contain any special tax, accounting or other information relating to those debt securities.

We will issue the debt securities only in registered form without coupons. The indentures permit us to issue debt securities of a series in certificated form or in permanent global form. You will not be required to pay a service charge for any transfer or exchange of debt securities, but we may require payment of any taxes or other governmental charges.

We will pay principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the debt securities at the corporate trust office in New York City of our paying agent, The Bank of New York Mellon, or any successor paying agent that we may designate. You may also make transfers or exchanges of debt securities at that location. We also have the right to pay interest on any debt securities by check mailed to the registered holders of the debt securities at their registered addresses. In connection with any payment on a debt security, we may require the holder to certify information to us. In the absence of that certification, we may rely on any legal presumption to enable us to determine our responsibilities, if any, to deduct or withhold taxes, assessments or governmental charges from the payment.

The indentures do not limit our ability to enter into a highly leveraged transaction or provide you with any special protection in the event of such a transaction. In addition, weneither of the indentures provides special protection in the event of a sudden or dramatic decline in our credit quality resulting from a takeover, recapitalization or similar restructuring of JPMorgan Chase.

We may issue debt securities as partupon the exercise of unitssecurities warrants or upon exchange or conversion of exchangeable or convertible debt securities. The prospectus supplement will describe the specific terms of any of those securities warrants or exchangeable or convertible securities. It will also describe the specific terms of the debt securities or other securities issuable upon the exercise, exchange or conversion of those securities. See “Description of Securities Warrants” below.

Each of the indentures contains a provision that, if made applicable to any series of senior or subordinated debt securities, respectively, permits us to elect:

 

defeasance, which would discharge us from all of our obligations (subject to limited exceptions) with respect to any debt securities of that series then outstanding, and/or

 

covenant defeasance, which would release us from our obligations under specified covenants, including, with respect to any series of senior securities, the covenant described under “Senior Debt Securities—Limitation on Disposition of Stock of the Bank”.

issued

To make either of the above elections, we must deposit in trust with the respective trustee money and/or U.S. government obligations (as defined below) which, through the payment of principal and interest in accordance with their terms, will provide sufficient money, without reinvestment, to repay in full those senior or subordinated debt securities, as the case may be. As used in the indentures, “U.S. government obligations” are: (1) direct obligations of the United States or of an agency or instrumentality of the United States, in either case that are, or are guaranteed as, full faith and credit obligations of the United States and that are not redeemable by the issuer; and (2) certain depositary receipts with respect to an obligation referred to in clause (1).

As a condition to defeasance or covenant defeasance, we must deliver to the trustee an opinion of counsel that the holders of the senior or subordinated debt securities, as the case may be, will not recognize income, gain, or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of the defeasance or covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if defeasance or covenant defeasance had not occurred. That opinion, in the case of defeasance but not covenant defeasance, must refer to and be based upon a ruling received by us from the Internal Revenue Service or published as describeda revenue ruling or be based upon a change in “— Descriptionapplicable federal income tax law.

If we exercise our covenant defeasance option with respect to a particular series of Units” below. All referencesdebt securities, then even if there were a default under the defeased covenant, payment of those debt securities could not be accelerated. We may exercise our defeasance option with respect to a particular series of debt securities even if we previously had exercised our covenant defeasance option. If we exercise our defeasance option, payment of those debt securities may not be accelerated because of any event of default. If we exercise our covenant defeasance option and an acceleration were to occur, the realizable value at the acceleration date of the money and U.S. government obligations in the defeasance trust could be less than the principal and interest then due on those debt securities. This is because the required deposit of money and/or U.S. government obligations in the defeasance trust is based upon scheduled cash flows rather than market value, which will vary depending upon interest rates and other factors.

We and the trustees may modify either indenture with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of each series of outstanding debt securities affected by the modification. However, without the consent of each affected holder, no such modification may:

change the stated maturity of any debt security;

reduce the principal amount of, or premium, if any, on, any debt security;

change the rate or method of computation of the interest on any debt security;

reduce the amount of the principal of an original issue discount debt security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof;

reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

change the currency or currencies in which any debt security is payable;

impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on a debt security on or after the stated maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the redemption date);

reduce the percentage of holders of outstanding debt securities of any series required to consent to any modification, amendment or any waiver under the applicable indenture; or

change the provisions in the applicable indenture that relate to its modification or amendment.

In addition, we and the trustees may amend either indenture without the consent of the holders of debt securities of any series for any of the following purposes:

to evidence the succession of another company to us;

to add to our covenants or to surrender any right or power conferred upon us;

to add any additional events of default;

to permit or facilitate the issuance of debt securities in bearer form, certificated form or global form;

to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of the applicable indenture in respect of all or any series of debt securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination will neither (i) apply to any debt security issued prior to the execution of such amendment and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the holders of any such debt securities with respect to such provision;

to conform the text of the applicable indenture or any debt securities to any provision of the “Description of Debt Securities” in this prospectus or a similarly captioned section in any applicable prospectus supplement relating to other amounts will include premium, ifthe offering of debt securities;

to provide security for or a guarantee of any series of debt securities;

to establish the form or terms of any series of debt securities;

to provide for successor trustees or the appointment of more than one trustee; or

to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision of the applicable indenture which may be inconsistent with any other cash amounts payable underprovision thereof, or to make any other provisions as we may deem necessary or desirable, provided such amendment does not adversely affect the Indenture, ifinterests of the holders of any andseries of debt securities in any material respect.

Each indenture allows us, without the deliveryconsent of securities or baskets of securities under the termsholders of the debt securities.securities of any series issued under that indenture, to consolidate or merge with any other entity, to convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of our assets to another entity, or to permit another entity to merge into JPMorgan Chase, provided that:

(1) the successor is a corporation, association, company or business trust organized under U.S. laws;

(2) the successor, if not us, assumes our obligations on the debt securities and under the indentures;

(3) after giving effect to the transaction, no event of default (or, in the case of the senior debt securities, a covenant breach under the senior indenture), and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an event of default (or, in the case of the senior debt securities, a covenant breach under the senior indenture), shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(4) other specified conditions are met.

In addition, each indenture allows us, without the consent of the holders of the debt securities of any series issued under that indenture, to convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of our assets to one or more of our subsidiaries.

Senior Debt Securities

The senior debt securities may bear interest atwill be direct, unsecured general obligations of JPMorgan Chase and will constitute Senior Indebtedness of JPMorgan Chase. For a fixed rate, which may be zero, or a floating rate.definition of “Senior Indebtedness,” see “— Subordinated Debt Securities — Subordination” below.

TheLimitation on Disposition of Stock of the Bank. Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement relating to a particular series of debt securities, being offered will specify the particular termssenior indenture contains a covenant by us that, so long as any of and other information relating to, those debt securities.

Holders may presentthe senior debt securities for exchangeare outstanding, neither we nor any Intermediate Subsidiary (as defined below) will sell, assign, grant a security interest in or transfer, inotherwise dispose of any shares of voting stock of the manner, atBank, or any securities convertible into, or options, warrants or rights to purchase shares of voting stock of the places andBank, except to JPMorgan Chase or an Intermediate Subsidiary. In addition, the covenant provides that neither we nor any Intermediate Subsidiary will permit the Bank to issue any shares of its voting stock, or securities convertible into, or options, warrants or rights to purchase shares of its voting stock, nor will we permit any Intermediate Subsidiary that owns any shares of voting stock of the Bank, or securities convertible into, or options, warrants or rights to purchase shares of the Bank’s voting stock, to cease to be an Intermediate Subsidiary.

The above covenant is subject to our rights in connection with a consolidation or merger of JPMorgan Chase with another entity or a conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of our assets to another entity. The covenant also will not apply if both:

(1) the restrictions stateddisposition in question is made for fair market value, as determined by the debtboard of directors of JPMorgan Chase or the Intermediate Subsidiary; and

(2) after giving effect to the disposition, we and any one or more of our Intermediate Subsidiaries will collectively own at least 80% of the issued and outstanding voting stock of the Bank or any successor to the Bank, free and clear of any security interest.

The above covenant also does not restrict the Bank from being consolidated with or merged into another domestic banking institution if, after the merger or consolidation, (A) JPMorgan Chase, or its successor, and any one or more Intermediate Subsidiaries own at least 80% of the voting stock of the resulting bank and (B) treating for purposes of the senior indenture the resulting bank as the Bank, no covenant breach, event of default or event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become a covenant breach or event of default, shall have happened and be continuing.

The senior indenture defines an “Intermediate Subsidiary” as a subsidiary (1) that is organized under the laws of any domestic jurisdiction and (2) of which all the shares of capital stock, and all securities convertible into, and describedoptions, warrants and rights to purchase shares of capital stock, are owned directly by JPMorgan Chase, free and clear of any security interest. As used above, “voting stock” means a class of stock having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees irrespective of the happening of a contingency.

Defaults andWaivers. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement. We will provide these services without charge except forsupplement, under the senior indenture, any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with these services and subject to any limitations provided in the Indenture. (Section 2.08)

If anyone of the securities are held in global form, the procedures for transferfollowing events will be an event of interests in those securities will depend upon the procedures of the depositary for those global securities. See “Forms of Securities.”

We will generally have no obligation to repurchase, redeem, or change the terms of the debt securities upon any event (including a change in control) that might have an adverse effect on our credit quality.

Events of Default and Waivers

An “Event of Default”default with respect to a series ofthe senior debt securities issued under the Indenture is definedof any series:

(1) default in the Indenture as:payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on) any senior debt securities of that series and continuance of that default for 30 days;

(2) default in the payment of interest on any senior debt securities of that series and continuance of that default for 30 days;

·default in the payment of interest on any debt securities of that series and continuance of such default for 30 days;

(3) specified events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of JPMorgan Chase; and

·default in the payment of principal or other amounts payable on any debt securities of that series when due, at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise, and continuance of such default for 30 days;

·specified events of our bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up or liquidation, whether voluntary or involuntary; or

·any other event of default provided in the applicable supplemental indentures to the Indenture or form of security. (Section 5.01)

(4) any other event of default specified with respect to senior debt securities of that series.

Senior debt securities issued by us prior to December 31, 2016 (the “Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities”Debt”) are subject tocontain events of default that are different from those set forth above. In particular:

 

·

The events of default applicable to the Pre-2017 Senior Debt do not provide for a 30-day cure period with respect to any failure by us to pay the principal of those senior debt securities;

Most series of Pre-2017 Senior Debt contain an additional event of default that is applicable if we fail to perform any of the covenants contained in the terms and conditions of, or the governing instrument for, those senior debt securities and that failure continues for 90 days; and

The events of default applicable to the Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities do not provide for a 30-day cure period with respect to any failure by us to pay the principal of those Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities;

·most series of Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities contain an additional event of default that is applicable if we fail to perform any of the covenants contained in the terms and conditions of, or the governing instrument for, those Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities and that failure continues for 90 days; and

·the events of default applicable to certain series of Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities provide that specified events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. would constitute an event of default with respect to those Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities.

In addition, certain series of Pre-2017 Senior Debt provide that specified events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. would constitute an event of default with respect to those senior debt securities that we assumed in connection with our merger with The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. include additional events of default.

securities.

Accordingly, if we fail to pay the principal of any series of Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities when due, the holders of those Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securitiessuch senior debt securities would be entitled to declare their Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securitiessecurities due and payable immediately, whereas holders of the senior debt securities of any series would not be entitled to accelerate thethose senior debt securities

until 30 days after our failure to pay the principal of thethose senior debt securities. In addition, holders of the senior debt securities will not have the benefit of the additional events of default described above that are applicable to the Pre-2017 Senior Debt Securities.Debt.

If aUnder the senior indenture, if any event of default in the payment of principal, interest or other amounts payable on the debt securities, or any other Event of Default provided in the applicable supplemental indentures to the Indenture or form of security, with respect to one or more (but in the case of a default in a manner provided in a supplemental indenture or form of security, less than all) series ofsenior debt securities of any series occurs and is continuing, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding senior debt securities of suchthat series then outstanding, treated as one class, by written notice, may declare the principal of all outstandingamount (or, if the senior debt securities of suchthat series and any interest accrued thereon,are original issue discount senior debt securities, a specified portion of the principal amount) of all senior debt securities of that series to be due and payable immediately. For this purpose,No such declaration is required upon certain specified events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization. Subject to the notesconditions set forth in the senior indenture, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding senior debt securities of that series may annul the declaration and waive past defaults, except uncured payment defaults and other specified defaults.

We will describe in the prospectus supplement any particular provisions relating to the acceleration of the maturity of a portion of the principal amount of original issue discount senior debt securities upon an event of default.

Subordinated Debt Securities

The subordinated debt securities will be deemeddirect, unsecured general obligations of JPMorgan Chase. The subordinated debt securities will be subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness.

Unless otherwise provided in the prospectus supplement relating to a particular series of subordinated debt securities, holders of the subordinated debt securities may not accelerate the maturity of the subordinated debt securities, except in the event of our bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency, and may not accelerate the subordinated debt securities if we fail to pay principal or interest or fail to perform any other agreement in the subordinated debt securities or the subordinated indenture. See “— Defaults and Waivers” below.

Subordination. The subordinated debt securities will be subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness whether outstanding on the date the subordinated indenture became effective or created, assumed or incurred after that date.

The subordinated indenture defines “Senior Indebtedness” to mean the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on all of our indebtedness for money borrowed, including all indebtedness for money borrowed by another person that we guarantee; similar obligations arising from off-balance sheet guarantees and direct credit substitutes; all obligations for claims in respect of derivative products such as interest rate and foreign exchange contracts, commodity contracts and similar arrangements; and any deferrals, renewals or extensions of any of the foregoing. However, Senior Indebtedness does not include indebtedness that is stated not to be insenior to or to have the same seriesrank as the subordinated debt securities or other securities having the same rank as or that are subordinated to the subordinated debt securities. In particular, Senior Indebtedness does not include (A) the subordinated debt securities issued under the Indenture priorsubordinated indenture, (B) the subordinated indebtedness issued under the amended and restated indenture, dated as of December 15, 1992, as amended, between us and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as trustee, (C) the subordinated indebtedness issued under the indenture, dated as of October 21, 2010, between us and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as trustee, and (D) other debt of JPMorgan Chase that is expressly stated to January 13, 2017. Ifhave the same rank as or not to rank senior to the subordinated debt securities or other securities having the same rank as or that are subordinated to the subordinated debt securities.

Under the subordinated indenture, we may not make any payment on the subordinated debt securities in the event:

we have failed to make full payment of all amounts of principal, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, due on all Senior Indebtedness; or

there shall exist any event of default on any Senior Indebtedness permitting the holders thereof to accelerate the maturity thereof or any event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would become such an event of default.

In addition, upon our dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership proceedings or otherwise) we must pay to the holders of Senior Indebtedness the full amounts of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Senior Indebtedness before any payment or distribution is made on the subordinated debt securities.

No series of our subordinated debt securities (other than our outstanding junior subordinated indebtedness) is subordinated to any other series of subordinated debt securities or to any other subordinated indebtedness of JPMorgan Chase referred to above. However, due to the subordination provisions of the various series of subordinated indebtedness issued by us and our predecessor institutions, in the event of our dissolution, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or insolvency, holders of the subordinated debt securities that may be offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement may recover less, ratably, than holders of some of our other series of outstanding subordinated indebtedness and more, ratably, than holders of other series of our outstanding subordinated indebtedness. In addition, holders of the subordinated debt securities may be fully subordinated to interests held by the U.S. government in the event that we enter into a defaultreceivership, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceeding.

No Limitation on Disposition of Voting Stock of the Bank. The subordinated indenture does not contain a covenant prohibiting us from selling or otherwise disposing of any shares of voting stock of the Bank, or securities convertible into, or options, warrants or rights to purchase shares of voting stock of the Bank. The subordinated indenture also does not prohibit the Bank from issuing any shares of its voting stock or securities convertible into, or options, warrants or rights to purchase shares of its voting stock.

Defaults and Waivers. Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement relating to a manner provided in a supplementalparticular series of subordinated debt securities, the subordinated indenture or formdefines an event of securitydefault with respect to allany series of subordinated debt securities or due to as follows:

specified events of our bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency winding up or liquidation,of JPMorgan Chase; and

any other event specified with respect to subordinated debt securities of that series.

If any event of default with respect to subordinated debt securities of any series occurs and is continuing, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of allthe outstanding subordinated debt securities then outstanding, treated as one class, by written notice,of that series may declare the principal amount (or, if the subordinated debt securities of that series are original issue discount subordinated debt securities, a specified portion of the principal amount) of all outstandingsubordinated debt securities and any interest accrued thereon,of that series to be due and payable immediately. No such declaration is required upon certain specified events of bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency. Subject to certainthe conditions such declarations may be annulled and past defaults may be waived byset forth in the subordinated indenture, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding subordinated debt securities of that series may annul the series affected. (Sections 5.01declaration and 5.10)waive past defaults, except uncured payment defaults.

An EventWe will describe in the prospectus supplement any particular provisions relating to the acceleration of Default with respect to one seriesthe maturity of a portion of the principal amount of original issue discount subordinated debt securities does not necessarily constituteupon an Eventevent of Default with respectdefault. In the event of the bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization or insolvency of JPMorgan Chase, any right to any other series of debt securities. The Indenture requires the trustee to provide notice of default with respectenforce that payment in cash would be subject to the debt securities within 90 days, unless the default is cured, but provides that the trustee may withhold noticebroad equity powers of a federal bankruptcy court and to the holdersits determination of the debt securities of any default if the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or responsible officersnature and status of the trustee determines in good faith that it is in the interestpayment claims of the holders of the subordinated debt securities.

Unless otherwise provided in the prospectus supplement relating to a particular series of subordinated debt securities, there will be no right of acceleration of the payment of principal of the subordinated debt securities of the applicablethat series to do so. The trustee may not withhold notice ofupon a default in the payment of principal or interest or a default in the performance of interest onany covenant or any other amounts due under, suchagreement in the subordinated debt securities. (Section 5.11)

The Indenture provides thatsecurities or the holderssubordinated indenture. In the event of a majoritydefault in aggregatethe

payment of principal amountor interest or a default in the performance of outstandingany covenant or agreement in the subordinated debt securities of each series affected, with all such series voting as a single class, may director the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available tosubordinated indenture, the trustee may, subject to specified limitations and conditions, seek to enforce that payment or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee. The trustee may decline to act if the direction is contrary to law and in certain other circumstances set forth in the Indenture. (Section 5.09) The trustee is not obligated to exercise any of its rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of the holders of debt securities unless the holders offer the trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities incurred therein or thereby. (Section 6.02(d))

No holder of any debt security of any affected series has the right to institute any action for remedy unless such holder has previously given to the trustee written notice of default, the trustee has failed to take action for 60 days after the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of each affected series make written request upon the trustee to institute such action and have offered reasonable indemnity in connection with the same and the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of each affected series (voting as a single class) have not given direction to the trustee that is inconsistent with the written request referred to above. (Section 5.06)

However, the right of any holder of a debt security or coupon to receive payment of the principal of and interest on that debt security or coupon on or after its due date, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, may not be impaired or affected without the consentperformance of that holder. (Section 5.07)covenant or agreement.

The Indenture requires us to file annually with the trustee a written statement as to whether or not we have knowledge of a default. (Section 3.05)

Covenant Breach

Under the Indenture,each indenture, a “Covenant Breach”“covenant breach” would occur with respect to athe debt securities of any series of debt securitiesissued under that indenture if we fail to perform or breach any of the covenants contained in that indenture (in the Indenture (othercase of the senior indenture, other than a failure to pay principal of or interest on the senior debt securities) and that failure or breach continues for 90 days after the trustee under that indenture or the holders of at leastnot less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series give written notice of that failure or breach. NeitherUnder each indenture, neither the trustee nor the holders of the debt securities will be entitled to accelerate the maturity of the debt securities as a result of any Covenant Breach.

covenant breach.

If a Covenant Breachcovenant breach or Eventevent of Defaultdefault with respect to the debt securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the relevant trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the holders of thethose debt securities by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the trustee deems most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in the Indenture orrelevant indenture, in aid of the exercise of any power granted in the Indenture,that indenture, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

Limitation of Suits

Discharge, Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

DischargeUnder each indenture, a holder of Indenture. The Indenture will cease to be of further effect with respect tothe debt securities of any series except asissued under that indenture will not have the right to rights of registration of transfer and exchange, substitution of mutilated, defaced, lost or stolen debt securities, rights of holders to receive principal, interest or other amounts payable under the debt securities on the due date thereof (but not upon acceleration), rights and immunities of the trustee and rights of holdersinstitute any proceeding with respect to property deposited pursuant to the following provisions, and our obligation to maintain an office for payments, if at any time:that indenture or those debt securities unless:

 

·we have paid

the holder has given the principal, interest and any other amounts payable under the debt securities of such series as and when due;

·we have delivered to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for cancellation all debt securities of such series; or

·the debt securities of such series not delivered to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for cancellation have become due and payable, or will become due and payable within one year, or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for the giving of notice of redemption, and we have irrevocably deposited with the trustee or the applicable paying agent as trust funds the entire amount in cash or, in the case of securities payable in dollars, U.S. government obligations sufficient to pay all amounts due with respect to such debt securities on or after the date of such deposit, including at maturity or upon redemption of all such debt securities, including principal, interest and other amounts, and any mandatory sinking fund payments, on the dates on which such payments are due and payable. (Section 10.01)

The trustee on our demand accompanied by an officers’ certificate and an opinionwritten notice of counsel and at our cost and expense, will execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfactiona continuing covenant breach or event of and discharging the Indenturedefault with respect to such series.

Defeasance of a Series of Securities at Any Time. We may also discharge all of our obligations, other than those obligations that survive as referred to under “— Discharge of Indenture” above, under any series of debt securities at any time, which we refer to as “defeasance.”securities;

We may be released with respect to any outstanding series of debt securities from the obligations imposed by Article 9 of the Indenture, which contains the covenant described below limiting consolidations, mergers and asset sales, and elect not to comply with that provision without creating an Event of Default or Covenant Breach. Discharge under these procedures is called “covenant defeasance.”

Defeasance or covenant defeasance may be effected only if, among other things:

·we irrevocably deposit with the trustee or the applicable paying agent cash or, in the case of debt securities payable only in U.S. dollars, U.S. government obligations, as trust funds in an amount

 

·certified to be sufficient to pay on each date that they become due and payable, the principal of, interest on, other amounts due under, and any mandatory sinking fund payments for, all outstanding debt securities of the series being defeased; and

·we deliver to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that:

·the holders of the series of debt securities being defeased will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of the defeasance or covenant defeasance; and

·the holders will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same time as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance or covenant defeasance, as the case may be, had not occurred (in the case of a defeasance, the opinion of counsel must be based on a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service or a change in United States federal income tax law); and

·in the case of a covenant defeasance, no Event of Default or Covenant Breach or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default or a Covenant Breach has occurred and is continuing on the date of our deposit with the trustee of cash or U.S. government obligations, as applicable, or, with respect to certain Events of Default, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit; and

·in the case of a covenant defeasance, the covenant defeasance will not cause the trustee to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any of our debt securities; and

·in the case of a covenant defeasance, the covenant defeasance will not cause any debt securities then listed on a national securities exchange to be delisted; and

·the defeasance or covenant defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, the Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which we are a party or by which we are bound. (Section 10.01)

Modification of the Indenture

The Indenture contains provisions permitting us and the trustee to modify the Indenture or the rights of the holders of debt securities with the consent of the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of those debt securities at the time outstanding have made a written request to the trustee to institute proceedings in respect of the covenant breach or event of default, and offered the trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it; and

the trustee has not received from the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of each outstanding series ofthose debt securities affectedat the time outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and has failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.

The foregoing limitations will not apply to any suit instituted by holders of the modification. Each holderdebt securities for the enforcement of an affected debt security must consent to a modification that would:

·extend the final maturity date of the principal of, or of any interest on, or other amounts payable under any debt security;

·reduce the principal amount of, rate of interest on, or any other amounts due under any debt security;

·change the currency or currency unit of payment of any debt security or certain provisions of the Indenture applicable to debt securities in foreign currencies;

·change the method in which amounts of payments of principal, interest or other amounts are determined on any debt security;

·reduce any amount payable upon redemption of any debt security;

·adversely affect the terms on which debt securities are convertible into or exchangeable or payable in other securities, instruments, contracts, currencies, commodities or other forms of property;

·impair the right of a holder to institute suit for the payment of a debt security or, if the debt securities provide, any right of repurchase at the option of the holder of a debt security; or

·reduce the percentage of debt securities of any series, the consent of the holders of which is required for any modification. (Section 8.02)

any payment of principal or interest on or after the date when due.

Other Provisions of the Indentures

Each of the indentures requires the relevant trustee, within 90 days after the occurrence of a default known to it with respect to the debt securities of any series issued under that indenture, to give the holders of those debt securities notice of the default if uncured or not waived. The Indenture also permits us andtrustee may withhold the notice if it determines in good faith that the withholding of the notice is in the interest of those holders. However, the trustee may not withhold the notice in the case of a default in the payment of principal or interest. The trustee may not give the above notice until at least 60 days after the occurrence of a default in the performance of a covenant in the indenture, other than, in the case of the senior indenture, a covenant to amendpay principal of or interest on the Indenture in certain circumstances withoutsenior debt securities. The term “default” for the consentpurpose of this provision means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, a covenant breach or event of default with respect to the debt securities.

Other than the duty to act with the required standard of care during a default, the trustee under each of the indentures is not obligated to exercise any of its rights or powers under that indenture at the request or direction

of any of the holders of the debt securities issued under that indenture, unless the holders have offered to evidence our mergerthe trustee reasonable security or the replacementindemnity. Each of the trustee, to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision,to make any change toindentures provides that the Indenture or our debt securities that we deem necessary or desirable and that does not materially and adversely affect the interestsholders of holdersa majority in principal amount of the debt securities issued under that indenture may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for certainany remedy available to the trustee, or exercising any trust or other purposes. (Section 8.01)power conferred on the trustee. However, the trustee may decline to act if the direction is contrary to law or the indenture, and the trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

Each of the indentures includes a covenant requiring us to file annually with the relevant trustee a certificate stating that there exists no covenant breach, event of default or event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, a covenant breach or event of default under the relevant indenture, or if any such default exists, specifying such default.

Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets

Information Concerning The Trustees

We and our subsidiaries may not mergemaintain deposits or consolidateconduct other banking transactions with any other entity or sell, convey or transfer all or substantially all of our assets to any other entity (other than the sale, conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of our assets to one or more of our direct or indirect subsidiaries), unless:

·either we are the continuing corporation or the successor entity or the entity to whom those assets are sold, conveyed or transferred is a United States corporation or limited liability company that expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any interest on, or any other amounts due under the debt securities issued under the Indenture and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the Indenture binding upon us, and

·we or the successor entity will not, immediately after the merger or consolidation, sale, conveyance or transfer, be in default in the performance of any covenant or condition of the Indenture binding on us. (Section 9.01)

There are no covenants or other provisionstrustees under the senior indenture and the subordinated indenture in the Indenture that would afford holdersordinary course of debt securities additional protection in the event of a recapitalization transaction, a change of control of JPMorgan Chase & Co. or a highly leveraged transaction. The merger covenant described above would apply only if the recapitalization transaction, change of control or highly leveraged transaction were structured to include a merger or consolidation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. or a sale or conveyance of all or substantially all of our assets. However, we may provide specific protections, such as a put right or increased interest, for particular debt securities, which we would describe in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Concerning the Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar and Transfer Agent

Our subsidiaries and we have a wide range of banking relationships with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, The Bank of New York Mellon and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch. The Bank of New York Mellon and, for notes settled through Euroclear Bank SA/NV or Clearstream Banking, S.A., Luxembourg, The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, will be the paying agents, registrars, authenticating agents and transfer agents for debt securities issued under the Indenture.

business. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas is initially serving as thea trustee for other securities issued by us or JPMorgan Financial, including the debt securities issued under certain of our Indenture, the debt securities issued under JPMorgan Financial’s indenture for debt securities,existing indentures pursuant to which we arehave issued and outstanding series of senior debt securities. U.S. Bank Trust National Association is a guarantor, and the warrants issuedtrustee under JPMorgan Financial’s warrant indenture,certain of our existing indentures pursuant to which we are a guarantor. Consequently, if an actual or potential eventhave issued and outstanding series of default occurs with respect to any of these securities, the trustee may be considered to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended. In that case, the trustee may be required to resign under the Indenture,subordinated debt securities.

Insolvency and we would be required to appoint a successor trustee. For this purpose, a “potential” event of default means an event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or for the default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.

Debt Securities in Foreign Currencies

Whenever the Indenture provides for an action by, or the determination of, any of the rights of, or any distribution to, holders of debt securities, in the absence of any provision to the contrary, any amount in respect of any debt security denominated in a currency or currency unit other than U.S. dollars may be

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treated for purposes of taking any such action or distribution as the amount of U.S. dollars that could reasonably be exchanged for such non-U.S. dollar amount. This amount will be calculated as of a date that we specify to the paying agent or, if we fail to specify a date, on a date that the paying agent may determine. (Section 11.11)

Replacement of Debt Securities

At the expense of the holder, we may, in our discretion, replace any debt security that has been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen or that is apparently destroyed, lost or stolen. The mutilated debt security must be delivered to the paying agent and the registrar or satisfactory evidence of the destruction, loss or theft of the debt security must be delivered to us, the paying agent, the registrar and the trustee. At the expense of the holder, an indemnity that is satisfactory to us, the paying agent, the registrar and the trustee may be required before a replacement debt security will be issued. (Section 2.09)

Governing Law and Judgments

Resolution Considerations

The debt securities and the Indenture will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. (Section 11.08) A judgment for money in an action based on debt securities payable in foreign currencies in a federal or state court in the United States ordinarily would be enforced in the United States only in U.S. dollars. The date used to determine the rate of conversion of the foreign currency in which a particular debt security is payable into U.S. dollars will depend upon various factors, including which court renders the judgment. However, if a judgment for money in an action based on the debt securities and the Indenture were entered by a New York court applying New York law, the court would render a judgment in that foreign currency, and the judgment would be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment.

Insolvency and Resolution Considerations

Certain of the debt securities may constitute “loss-absorbing capacity” within the meaning of the final rules (the “TLAC rules”) issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) on December 15, 2016 regarding, among other things, the minimum levels of unsecured external long-term debt and other loss-absorbing capacity that certain U.S. bank holding companies, including JPMorgan Chase, & Co., will beare required to maintain, commencing January 1, 2019.maintain. Such debt must satisfy certain eligibility criteria under the TLAC rules. If JPMorgan Chase & Co. were to enter into resolution either in a proceeding under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or intoin a receivership administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), holders of the debt securities offered by use of this prospectus and other debt and equity securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will absorb the losses of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its affiliates.

Under Title I of the Dodd-Frank Act and applicable rules of the Federal Reserve and the FDIC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is required to submit periodically to the Federal Reserve and the FDIC a detailed plan (the “resolution plan”) for the rapid and orderly resolution of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its material subsidiaries under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and other applicable insolvency laws in the event of material financial distress or failure. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s preferred resolution strategy under its resolution plan contemplates that only JPMorgan Chase & Co. would enter bankruptcy proceedings under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code pursuant to a “single point of entry” recapitalization strategy. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s subsidiaries would be recapitalized, as needed, so that they could continue normal operations or subsequently be wound down in an orderly manner. As a result, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s losses and any losses incurred by its subsidiaries would be imposed first on holders of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s equity securities and thereafter on unsecured creditors, including holders of the debt securities offered by use of this prospectus and other debt securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co.Chase. Claims of holders of the debt securities and those other debt securities would have a junior position to the claims of creditors of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s subsidiaries and to the claims of priority (as determined by statute) and secured creditors of JPMorgan Chase & Co.Chase. Accordingly, in a resolution of JPMorgan Chase & Co. under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, holders of the debt securities offered by use of this prospectus and other debt securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co. would realize value only to the extent available to JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a shareholder of JPMorgan

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Chasethe Bank N.A. and its other subsidiaries, and only after any claims of priority and secured creditors of JPMorgan Chase & Co. have been fully repaid. If JPMorgan Chase & Co. were to enter into a resolution, none of JPMorgan Chase, & Co., the Federal Reserve or the FDIC is obligated to follow JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s preferred resolution strategy under its resolution plan.

The FDIC has similarly indicated that a single point of entry recapitalization model could be a desirable strategy to resolve a systemically important financial institution, such as JPMorgan Chase, & Co., under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act.Act (“Title II”). Pursuant to that strategy, the FDIC would use its power to create a “bridge entity” for JPMorgan Chase & Co.;Chase; transfer the systemically important and viable parts of its business, principally the stock of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sChase’s main operating subsidiaries and any intercompany claims against such subsidiaries, to the bridge entity; recapitalize those subsidiaries using assets of JPMorgan Chase & Co. that have been transferred to the bridge entity; and exchange external debt claims against JPMorgan Chase & Co. for equity in the bridge entity. Under this Title II resolution strategy, the value of the stock of the bridge entity that would be redistributed to holders of the debt securities offered by use of this prospectus and other debt securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co. may not be sufficient to repay all or part of the principal amount and interest on the debt securities and those other securities. To date, the FDIC has not formally adopted a single point of entry resolution strategy and it is not obligated to follow such a strategy in a Title II resolution of JPMorgan Chase & Co.Chase.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED STOCK

General

Under our certificate of incorporation, our board of directors is authorized, without further stockholder action, to issue up to 200,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $1 par value per share, in one or more series, and to determine the voting powers and the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions of each series. We may amend our certificate of incorporation to increase or decrease the number of authorized shares of preferred stock in a manner permitted by our certificate of incorporation and the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). As of the date of this prospectus, we have the following issued and outstanding series of preferred stock, the terms of each of which we summarize below:

 

13 Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series I;

 

5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P;

Description

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Q;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series R;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series S;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series U;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series V;

6.30% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series W;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series X;

6.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Y;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Z;

6.10% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series AA;

6.15% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series BB;

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series CC;

5.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series DD; and

6.00% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series EE.

We will describe the particular terms of Warrantsany series of jpmorgan chase & co.preferred stock being offered in the prospectus supplement relating to that series of preferred stock. Those terms may include:

 

Offered Warrantsthe number of shares being offered;

the title and liquidation preference per share;

the purchase price;

the dividend rate or method for determining that rate;

the dates on which dividends will be paid;

whether dividends will be cumulative or noncumulative and, if cumulative, the dates from which dividends will begin to accumulate;

any applicable redemption or sinking fund provisions;

any applicable conversion provisions;

whether we have elected to offer depositary shares representing that series of preferred stock; and

any additional dividend, liquidation, redemption, sinking fund and other rights and restrictions applicable to that series of preferred stock.

If the terms of any series of preferred stock being offered differ from the terms set forth below, we will also disclose those different terms in the prospectus supplement relating to that series of preferred stock. The following summary is not complete. You should also refer to our certificate of incorporation and to the certificate of designations relating to the series of the preferred stock being offered for the complete terms of that series of preferred stock. A form of certificate of designations is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. We will file the certificate of designations with respect to the particular series of preferred stock being offered with the SEC promptly after the offering of that series of preferred stock.

The preferred stock will, when issued against full payment of the purchase price relating to a series of preferred stock, be fully paid and nonassessable. Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, in the event we liquidate, dissolve or wind-up our business, each series of preferred stock being offered will have the same rank as to dividends and distributions as our currently outstanding preferred stock and each other series of preferred stock we may offer in the future by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement. The preferred stock will have no preemptive rights.

Dividend Rights

Holders of the preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by our board of directors or any duly authorized committee of our board, cash dividends at the rates and on the dates set forth in the prospectus supplement. Dividend rates may be fixed or variable or both. Different series of preferred stock may be entitled to dividends at different dividend rates or based upon different methods of determination. We will pay each dividend to the holders of record as they appear on our stock register (or, if applicable, the records of the depositary referred to under “Description of Depositary Shares”) on record dates determined by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board. Dividends on any series of preferred stock may be cumulative or noncumulative, as specified in the prospectus supplement. If a dividend is not declared on any series of preferred stock for which dividends are noncumulative, then the right of holders of that preferred stock to receive that dividend will be lost, and we will have no obligation to pay the dividend for that dividend period, whether or not dividends are declared for any future dividend period.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, each series of preferred stock that we offer by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will provide that we may not declare or pay or set aside for payment full dividends on any series of preferred stock ranking, as to dividends, equally with or junior to the series of preferred stock we are offering unless we have previously declared and paid or set aside for payment, or we contemporaneously declare and pay or set aside for payment, full dividends (including cumulative dividends still owing, if any) on the series of preferred stock we are offering for, in the case of a series of noncumulative preferred stock, the most recently completed dividend period, or, in the case of a series of cumulative preferred stock, all past dividend periods. If we fail to pay dividends in full as stated above, we may only declare dividends on equally ranking series of preferred stock pro rata so that the amount of dividends declared per share on the series of preferred stock we are offering and the equally ranking series bear to each other the same ratio that accumulated and unpaid dividends per share on the series being offered and the other series bear to each other. We will not pay interest or any sum of money instead of interest in respect of any dividend that is not declared, or if declared is not paid, on any series of preferred stock we are offering.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the preferred stock we offer by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will also provide that, unless we have paid or declared and set asidea sum sufficient for the payment thereof, in the case of a series of noncumulative preferred stock, full dividends on all outstanding shares of that preferred stock in respect of the most recently completed dividend period, or, in the case of a series of cumulative preferred stock, full dividends, including cumulative dividends, if any, owing on that preferred stock for all past dividend periods:

 

no dividend (other than a dividend in common stock or in any junior or equally ranking stock as to dividends and upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up) will be declared or paid or a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for such payment or other distribution declared or made upon our

common stock or upon any junior or equally ranking stock as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, and

no common stock or other capital stock ranking junior or equally as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up will be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of any shares of any such capital stock) by us, except

(1)

by conversion into or exchange for capital stock ranking junior to the preferred stock being offered;

(2)

as a result of reclassification into capital stock ranking junior to the preferred stock being offered;

(3)

through the use of the proceeds of a substantially contemporaneous sale of shares of capital stock ranking junior to the preferred stock being offered or, in the case of capital stock ranking on a parity with the preferred stock being offered, through the use of the proceeds of a substantially contemporaneous sale of other shares of capital stock ranking on a parity with the preferred stock being offered;

(4)

in the case of capital stock ranking on a parity with the preferred stock being offered, pursuant to pro rata offers to purchase all or a pro rata portion of the shares of preferred stock being offered and such capital stock ranking on a parity with the preferred stock being offered;

(5)

in connection with the satisfaction of our obligations pursuant to any contract entered into in the ordinary course prior to the beginning of the most recently completed dividend period; or

(6)

any purchase, redemption or other acquisition of capital stock ranking junior to the preferred stock being offered pursuant to any of our or our subsidiaries’ employee, consultant or director incentive or benefit plans or arrangements (including any employment, severance or consulting arrangements) adopted before or after the issuance of the preferred stock being offered).

However, the foregoing will not restrict our ability or the ability of any of our affiliates to engage in underwriting, stabilization, market-making or similar transactions in our capital stock in the ordinary course of business. Subject to the conditions described above, and not otherwise, dividends (payable in cash, capital stock, or otherwise), as may be determined by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, may be declared and paid on our common stock and any other capital stock ranking junior to or on a parity with the preferred stock being offered from time to time out of any assets legally available for such payment, and the holders of the preferred stock being offered will not be entitled to participate in those dividends.

As used in this prospectus, “junior to the preferred stock being offered” and like terms refer to our common stock and any other class or series of our capital stock over which the preferred stock being offered has preference or priority, either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, or both, as the context may require; “parity preferred stock” and “on a parity with the preferred stock being offered” and like terms refer to any class or series of our capital stock that ranks on a parity with the shares of the preferred stock being offered, either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, or both, as the context may require; and “senior to the preferred stock being offered” and like terms refer to any class or series of our capital stock that ranks senior to the preferred stock being offered, either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, or both, as the context may require.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will compute the amount of dividends payable by annualizing the applicable dividend rate and dividing by the number of dividend periods in a year, except that the amount of dividends payable for any period greater or less than a full dividend period, other than the initial dividend period, will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve30-day months and, for any period less than a full month, the actual number of days elapsed in the period. Dollar amounts resulting from that calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent being rounded upward.

Rights Upon Liquidation

In the event of our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, holders of each series of preferred stock that we offer by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will be entitled to receive and to be paid out of our assets legally available for distribution to our stockholders the amount set forth in the prospectus supplement plus, in the case of a series of noncumulative preferred stock, an amount equal to any declared and unpaid dividends, without accumulation of undeclared dividends, if any, from the day following the immediately preceding dividend payment date, to, but not including, the date of the liquidating distribution, but without accumulation of any unpaid dividends for prior dividend periods, or, in the case of a series of cumulative preferred stock, an amount equal to any accumulated and unpaid dividends, whether or not declared, before we make any payment or distribution on our common stock or on any other capital stock ranking junior to the preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement, and any stock having the same rank as that series of preferred stock upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding-up. After the payment to such holders of the full preferential amounts to which they are entitled, such holders will have no right or claim to any of our remaining assets.

If, upon our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, we fail to pay in full the amounts payable with respect to preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement, and any stock having the same rank as that series of preferred stock, the holders of the preferred stock and of that other stock will share ratably in any such distribution of our assets in proportion to the full respective distributions to which they are entitled. For any series of preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement, neither the sale of all or substantially all of our property or business, nor our merger or consolidation into or with any other entity will be considered a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up.

Redemption

The applicable prospectus supplement will indicate whether the series of preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement is subject to redemption, in whole or in part, whether at our option or mandatorily and whether or not pursuant to a sinking fund. The redemption provisions that may apply to a series of preferred stock offered, including the redemption dates, the redemption prices for that series and whether those redemption prices will be paid in cash, stock or a combination of cash and stock, will be set forth in the prospectus supplement. If the redemption price is to be paid only from the proceeds of the sale of our capital stock, the terms of the series of preferred stock may also provide that, if our capital stock is not sold or if the amount of cash received is insufficient to pay in full the redemption price then due, the series of preferred stock will automatically be converted into shares of the applicable capital stock pursuant to conversion provisions specified in the prospectus supplement.

If we are redeeming fewer than all the outstanding shares of preferred stock of any series, whether by mandatory or optional redemption, our board of directors or any duly authorized committee of our board will determine the method for selecting the shares to be redeemed, which (unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement) may be by lot or pro rata or in such other manner as the board of directors or any duly authorized committee of our board determines to be equitable. From and after the redemption date, dividends will cease to accumulate on the shares of preferred stock called for redemption up to the redemption date and all rights of the holders of those shares, except the right to receive the redemption price, will cease.

In the event that we fail to pay full dividends, including accumulated but unpaid dividends, if any, on any series of preferred stock offered, we may not redeem that series in part and we may not purchase or acquire any shares of that series of preferred stock, except by a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to all holders of that series of preferred stock.

Conversion Rights

The prospectus supplement will state the terms, if any, on which shares of the series of preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement are convertible into shares of our common stock or other securities. As described under “— Redemption” above, under certain circumstances, preferred stock may be mandatorily convertible into our common stock or another series of our preferred stock.

Voting Rights

Except as indicated below or in the applicable prospectus supplement, or except as expressly required by applicable law, the holders of the preferred stock offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will not be entitled to vote. Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement, each share of preferred stock of each series will be entitled to one vote on matters on which holders of that series of preferred stock are entitled to vote. However, as more fully described under “Description of WarrantsDepositary Shares,” if we use this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement to offer depositary shares representing a fractional interest in a share of a series of preferred stock, each depositary share, in effect, will be entitled to that fraction of a vote, rather than a full vote. If (unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement) each full share of any series of preferred stock offered is entitled to one vote, the voting power of that series will depend on the number of shares in that series, and not on the aggregate liquidation preference or initial offering price of the shares of that series of preferred stock.

Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement, if, at any time or times, the equivalent of an aggregate of six quarterly dividends, whether or not consecutive, for any series of preferred stock being offered has not been paid, the number of directors constituting our board of directors will be automatically increased by two and the holders of each outstanding series of preferred stock with such voting rights, together with holders of such other shares of any other class or series of parity preferred stock outstanding at the time upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable, which we refer to as “voting parity stock,” voting together as a class, will be entitled to elect those additional two directors, which we refer to as “preferred directors,” at that annual meeting and at each subsequent annual meeting of stockholders until full dividends have been paid for at least four quarterly consecutive dividend periods. At that time such right will terminate, except as expressly provided in the applicable certificate of designations or by law, subject to revesting. Upon any termination of the right of the holders of shares of preferred stock being offered and voting parity stock as a class to vote for directors as provided above, the preferred directors will cease to be qualified as directors, the term of office of all preferred directors then in office will terminate immediately and the authorized number of directors will be reduced by the number of preferred directors elected. Any preferred director may be removed and replaced at any time, with cause as provided by law or without cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of shares of preferred stock voting together as a class with the holders of shares of voting parity stock, to the extent the voting rights of such holders described above are then exercisable. Any vacancy created by removal with or without cause may be filled only as described in the preceding sentence. If the office of any preferred director becomes vacant for any reason other than removal, the remaining preferred director may choose a successor who will hold office for the unexpired term in respect of which such vacancy occurred.

So long as any shares of the preferred stock being offered remain outstanding, we will not, without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of the preferred stock being offered and any voting parity stock, voting together as a class, authorize, create or issue any capital stock ranking senior to the preferred stock being offered as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, or reclassify any authorized capital stock into any such shares of such capital stock or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares of capital stock. So long as any shares of the preferred stock being offered remain outstanding, we will not, without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of the preferred stock being offered, amend, alter or repeal any provision of the applicable certificate of designations or our certificate of incorporation, including by merger, consolidation or otherwise, so as to adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of the preferred stock being offered.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the following will be deemed to adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of the preferred stock being offered:

any increase in the amount of authorized common stock or authorized preferred stock, or any increase or decrease in the number of shares of any series of preferred stock, or the authorization, creation and issuance of other classes or series of capital stock, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the preferred stock being offered as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up;

a merger or consolidation of JPMorgan Chase & Co.with or into another entity in which the shares of the preferred stock being offered remain outstanding; and

a merger or consolidation of JPMorgan Chase with or into another entity in which the shares of the preferred stock being offered are converted into or exchanged for preference securities of the surviving entity or any entity, directly or indirectly, controlling such surviving entity and such new preference securities have powers, preferences and special rights that are not materially less favorable than the preferred stock being offered;

provided that if the amendment would adversely affect such series but not any other series of outstanding preferred stock, then the amendment will only need to be approved by holders of at least two-thirds of the shares of the series of preferred stock adversely affected.

Under regulations adopted by the Federal Reserve Board, if the holders of any series of our preferred stock become entitled to vote for the election of directors because dividends on that series are in arrears, that series may then be deemed a “class of voting securities.section,In such a case, a holder of 25% or more of the series, or a holder of 5% or more if that holder would also be considered to exercise a “controlling influence” over JPMorgan Chase, may then be subject to regulation as a bank holding company in accordance with the Bank Holding Company Act. In addition, (1) any other bank holding company may be required to obtain the prior approval of the Federal Reserve Board to acquire or retain 5% or more of that series, and (2) any person other than a bank holding company may be required to provide notice to the Federal Reserve Board prior to acquiring or retaining 10% or more of that series.

Outstanding Series of Preferred Stock

Ranking. Each of our Series I Preferred Stock, Series P Preferred Stock, Series Q Preferred Stock, Series R Preferred Stock, Series S Preferred Stock, Series U Preferred Stock, Series V Preferred Stock, Series W Preferred Stock, Series X Preferred Stock, Series Y Preferred Stock, Series Z Preferred Stock, Series AA Preferred Stock, Series BB Preferred Stock, Series CC Preferred Stock, Series DD Preferred Stock and Series EE Preferred Stock (each as defined below, and collectively, the “Outstanding Preferred Stock”) ranks senior to our common stock as well as any of our other stock that states it is expressly made junior to such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock as to payment of dividends and distribution of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution, or winding up.

Dividends. We may not declare or pay or set apart for payment full dividends on any series of preferred stock ranking, as to dividends, equally with or junior to the Outstanding Preferred Stock unless we have previously declared and paid or set apart for payment full dividends on the Outstanding Preferred Stock for the most recently completed dividend period. When dividends are not paid in full on the Outstanding Preferred Stock and any series of preferred stock ranking equally as to dividends, all referencesdividends upon the Outstanding Preferred Stock and such equally ranking series will be declared and paid pro rata.

With certain exceptions, unless we have paid or declared and set aside for payment full dividends on the Outstanding Preferred Stock for the most recently completed dividend period, we will not:

declare or make any dividend payment or distribution on any junior ranking stock, other than a dividend paid in junior ranking stock, or

redeem, purchase, otherwise acquire or set apart money for a sinking fund for the redemption of any junior or equally ranking stock, except by conversion into or exchange for junior ranking stock.

Rights Upon Liquidation. In the event we liquidate, dissolve or wind-up our business and affairs, either voluntarily or involuntarily, holders of the Outstanding Preferred Stock of each series will be entitled to “warrants” refer onlyreceive liquidating distributions equal to warrants issuedthe liquidation preference per share for such series, plus any declared and unpaid dividends, without accumulation of undeclared dividends, before we make any distribution of assets to the holders of our common stock or any other class or series of shares ranking junior to the Outstanding Preferred Stock of such series.

Redemption. We may redeem each series of Outstanding Preferred Stock on the dates and at the redemption prices set forth below. In addition, we may redeem each series of Outstanding Preferred Stock (other than the Series I Preferred Stock) in whole, but not in part, at a redemption price equal to the liquidation preference per share for each such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock, plus any declared and unpaid dividends, following the occurrence of a capital treatment event. For these purposes, “capital treatment event” means the good faith determination by JPMorgan Chase & Co.that, as a result of any:

amendment to, or change or any announced prospective change in, the laws or regulations of the United States or any political subdivision of or in the United States that is enacted or becomes effective after the initial issuance of any shares of such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock;

proposed change in those laws or regulations that is announced or becomes effective after the initial issuance of any shares of such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock; or

official administrative decision or judicial decision or administrative action or other official pronouncement interpreting or applying those laws or regulations that is announced or becomes effective after the initial issuance of any shares of such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock,

there is more than an insubstantial risk that JPMorgan Chase will not be entitled to treat an amount equal to the full liquidation amount of all shares of such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock then outstanding as “additional Tier 1 capital” (or its equivalent) for purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines or regulations of the appropriate federal banking agency, as then in effect and applicable, for as long as any share of such series of Outstanding Preferred Stock is outstanding. Redemption of any Outstanding Preferred Stock is subject to our receipt of any required approvals from the Federal Reserve Board or any other regulatory authority.

Voting Rights. The Outstanding Preferred Stock has limited voting rights. Each share of Outstanding Preferred Stock has one vote whenever it is entitled to voting rights.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series I

On April 23, 2008, we issued 600,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series I, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series I Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series I Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series I Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, April 30, 2018 at a rate of 7.90% per annum, payable semi-annually, in arrears, on April 30 and October 30 of each year, beginning on October 30, 2008. From and including April 30, 2018, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or such committee thereof at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.47% per annum, payable quarterly, in arrears, on January 30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each year. Dividends on the Series I Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series I Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after April 30, 2018, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. On October 30, 2018, we redeemed 169,925 of the outstanding shares of Series I Preferred Stock.

5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P

On February 5, 2013, we issued 90,000 shares of 5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series P Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series P Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series P Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 5.45% per annum, payable quarterly, in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2013. Dividends on the Series P Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series P Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after March 1, 2018, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series P Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event”, as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Q

On April 23, 2013, we issued 150,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Q, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series Q Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series Q Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series Q Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, May 1, 2023 at a rate of 5.15% per annum, payable semi-annually, in arrears, on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on November 1, 2013. From and including May 1, 2023, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.25% per annum, payable quarterly, in arrears, on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2023. Dividends on the Series Q Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series Q Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after May 1, 2023, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series Q Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event”, as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series R

On July 29, 2013, we issued 150,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series R, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series R Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series R Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series R Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, August 1, 2023 at a rate of 6.00% per annum, payable semi-annually, in arrears, on February 1 and August 1 of each year, beginning on February 1, 2014. From and including August 1, 2023, dividends will be paid when, as, and if

declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.30% per annum, payable quarterly, in arrears, on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on November 1, 2023. Dividends on the Series R Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series R Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after August 1, 2023, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series R Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event”, as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series S

On January 22, 2014, we issued 200,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series S, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series S Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series S Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series S Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, February 1, 2024 at a rate of 6.750% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears, on February 1 and August 1 of each year, beginning on February 1, 2014. From and including February 1, 2024, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.78% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on May 1, 2024. Dividends on the Series S Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series S Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after February 1, 2024, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series S Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series U

On March 10, 2014, we issued 100,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series U, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series U Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series U Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series U Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, April 30, 2024 at a rate of 6.125% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears, on April 30 and October 30 of each year, beginning on October 30, 2014. From and including April 30, 2024, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.33% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on January 30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each year, beginning on July 30, 2024. Dividends on the Series U Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series U Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after April 30, 2024, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series U Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series V

On June 9, 2014, we issued 250,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series V, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series V Preferred Stock”).

Shares of the Series V Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series V Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, July 1, 2019 at a rate of 5.00% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears, on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2015. From and including July 1, 2019, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.32% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on October 1, 2019. Dividends on the Series V Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series V Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after July 1, 2019, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series V Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

6.30% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series W

On June 23, 2014 and June 27, 2014, we issued an aggregate of 88,000 shares of 6.30% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series W, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series W Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series W Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series W Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 6.30% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2014. Dividends on the Series W Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series W Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after September 1, 2019, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series W Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series X

On September 23, 2014, we issued 160,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series X, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series X Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series X Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series X Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, October 1, 2024 at a rate of 6.10% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears, on April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on April 1, 2015. From and including October 1, 2024, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.33% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2025. Dividends on the Series X Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series X Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after October 1, 2024, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series X Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

6.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Y

On February 12, 2015, we issued an aggregate of 143,000 shares of 6.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Y, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series Y Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series Y Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series Y Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 6.125% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2015. Dividends on the Series Y Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series Y Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after March 1, 2020, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series Y Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Z

On April 21, 2015, we issued 200,000 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Z, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series Z Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series Z Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series Z Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, May 1, 2020 at a rate of 5.30% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears, on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on November 1, 2015. From and including May 1, 2020, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 3.80% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on August 1, 2020. Dividends on the Series Z Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series Z Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after May 1, 2020, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series Z Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

6.10% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series AA

On June 4, 2015, we issued an aggregate of 142,500 shares of 6.10% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series AA, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series AA Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series AA Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series AA Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 6.10% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2015. Dividends on the Series AA Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series AA Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after September 1, 2020, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series AA Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

6.15% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series BB

On July 29, 2015, we issued an aggregate of 115,000 shares of 6.15% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series BB, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series BB Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series BB Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends.Dividends on the Series BB Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 6.15% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2015. Dividends on the Series BB Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption.The Series BB Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after September 1, 2020, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series BB Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series CC

On October 20, 2017, we issued 125,750 shares of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series CC, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series CC Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series CC Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a one-tenth interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends. Dividends on the Series CC Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, from the date of issuance to, but excluding, November 1, 2022 at a rate of 4.625% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears, on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on May 1, 2018. From and including November 1, 2022, dividends will be paid when, as, and if declared by our board or such committee at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus a spread of 2.58% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on February 1, 2023. Dividends on the Series CC Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption. The Series CC Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after November 1, 2022, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series CC Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

5.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series DD

On September 21, 2018, we issued an aggregate of 169,625 shares of 5.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series DD, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series DD Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series DD Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends.Dividends on the Series DD Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 5.75% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2018. Dividends on the Series DD Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption.The Series DD Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after December 1, 2023, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series DD Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

6.00% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series EE

On January 24, 2019, we issued an aggregate of 185,000 shares of 6.00% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series EE, $1 par value, with a liquidation preference of $10,000 per share (the “Series EE Preferred Stock”). Shares of the Series EE Preferred Stock are represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/400th interest in a share of preferred stock of the series.

Dividends.Dividends on the Series EE Preferred Stock are payable when, as, and if declared by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board, at a rate of 6.00% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears, on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2019. Dividends on the Series EE Preferred Stock are neither mandatory nor cumulative.

Redemption.The Series EE Preferred Stock may be redeemed on any dividend payment date on or after March 1, 2024, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to $10,000 per share (equivalent to $25 per depositary share), plus any declared and unpaid dividends. We may also redeem the Series EE Preferred Stock following the occurrence of a “capital treatment event,” as described above.

DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES

General.We may, at our option, elect to offer depositary shares representing fractional interests in shares of preferred stock. If we do, we will arrange the issuance by a depositary of receipts for depositary shares, and each of those depositary shares will represent a fractional interest in a share of a particular series of preferred stock. We will specify that fractional interest in the applicable prospectus supplement.

The shares of any series of preferred stock underlying the depositary shares offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will be deposited under a deposit agreement between us and a depositary selected by us. Subject to the terms of the deposit agreement, each owner of a depositary share will be entitled, in proportion to the applicable fractional interest in the share of preferred stock underlying that depositary share, to all the powers, preferences and rights of the preferred stock underlying that depositary share, in proportion to the applicable fractional interest in a share of the preferred stock which those depositary shares represent. Those rights include dividend, voting, redemption, conversion and liquidation rights.

The depositary shares offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement will be evidenced by depositary receipts issued under the deposit agreement. The depositary will issue depositary receipts to those persons who purchase the fractional interests in the preferred stock underlying the depositary shares, in accordance with the terms of the offering. The following summary of the deposit agreement, the depositary shares and the depositary receipts is not complete. You should refer to the forms of the deposit agreement and depositary receipts that are filed as exhibits to the registration statement.

Dividends and Other Distributions. The depositary will distribute all cash dividends or other cash distributions received in respect of the preferred stock to the record holders of related depositary receipts in proportion to the number of depositary shares owned by those holders.

If we make a distribution other than in cash, the depositary will distribute property received by it to the record holders of depositary receipts that are entitled to receive the distribution as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of depositary shares held by each holder, unless the depositary determines that it is not feasible to make the distribution. If this occurs, the depositary may, with our approval, adopt a method of distribution that it deems practicable, including the sale of the property and distribution of the net proceeds from the sale to the applicable holders of the depositary receipts.

Redemption of Depositary Shares. Upon redemption, in whole or in part, of shares of any series of preferred stock that are held by the depositary, the depositary will redeem, as of the same redemption date, the number of depositary shares representing the shares of preferred stock so redeemed. The redemption price per depositary share will be equal to the applicable fraction of the redemption price per share payable with respect to that series of the preferred stock.

Depositary shares called for redemption will no longer be outstanding after the applicable redemption date, and all rights of the holders of those depositary shares will cease, except the right to receive any money, securities, or other property upon surrender to the depositary of the depositary receipts evidencing those depositary shares.

Voting the Preferred Stock. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which the holders of preferred stock are entitled to vote, the depositary will mail the information contained in the notice of meeting to the record holders of the depositary shares representing that preferred stock. Each record holder of those depositary shares on the record date, which will be the same date as the record date for the preferred stock, will be entitled to instruct the depositary as to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the amount of the preferred stock underlying that holder’s depositary shares. The depositary will try, to the extent practicable, to vote the number of shares of preferred stock underlying those depositary shares in accordance with those instructions, and we will agree to take all action that the depositary deems necessary in order to enable the depositary to do so. The depositary will not vote the shares of preferred stock to the extent it does not receive specific instructions from the holders of depositary shares representing the preferred stock.

Amendment and Termination of the Deposit Agreement. We and the depositary may amend the form of depositary receipt evidencing the depositary shares and any provision of the deposit agreement at any time regarding any depositary shares offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement. However, any amendment that materially and adversely alters the rights of the holders of depositary shares or would be materially and adversely inconsistent with the rights granted to holders of the underlying preferred stock pursuant to our certificate of incorporation will not be effective unless the amendment has been approved by the holders of at least a majority of the depositary shares then outstanding. The deposit agreement may be terminated by us or by the depositary only if:

all outstanding depositary shares have been redeemed; or

there has been a final distribution of the underlying preferred stock in connection with our liquidation, dissolution or winding up and the preferred stock has been distributed to the holders of depositary receipts.

Charges of Depositary. We will pay all transfer and other taxes and governmental charges arising solely from the existence of the depositary arrangements regarding any depositary shares offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement. We will also pay charges of the depositary in connection with the initial deposit of the preferred stock and any redemption of the preferred stock. Holders of depositary receipts will pay transfer and other taxes and governmental charges and other charges with respect to their depositary receipts as expressly provided in the deposit agreement.

Resignation and Removal of Depositary. The depositary for the depositary shares offered by use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement may resign at any time by delivering a notice to us of its election to do so. We may remove the depositary at any time. Any such resignation or removal will take effect upon the appointment of a successor depositary and its acceptance of its appointment. We must appoint a successor depositary within 60 days after delivery of the notice of resignation or removal.

Miscellaneous. The depositary will forward to holders of depositary receipts all reports and communications from us that we deliver to the depositary and that we are required to furnish to the holders of the preferred stock.

Neither we nor the depositary will be liable if either of us is prevented or delayed by law or any circumstance beyond our control in performing our respective obligations under the deposit agreement. Our obligations and those of the depositary will be limited to performing in good faith our respective duties under the deposit agreement. Neither we nor the depositary will be obligated to prosecute or defend any legal proceeding relating to any warrantsdepositary shares or preferred stock unless satisfactory indemnity is furnished. We and the depositary may rely upon written advice of counsel or accountants, or upon information provided by persons presenting preferred stock for deposit, holders of depositary receipts or other persons we believe to be competent, and on documents we believe to be genuine.

DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK

As of the date of this prospectus, we are authorized to issue up to 9,000,000,000 shares of common stock. As of December 31, 2018, we had 4,104,933,895 shares of common stock issued by JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC.

(excluding 829,167,674 shares held in treasury).

The warrants are options that are securities withinfollowing summary is not complete. You should refer to the meaningapplicable provisions of Section 2(a)(1)our certificate of incorporation and to the DGCL for a complete statement of the Securities Actterms and rights of 1933,our common stock.

Dividends. Holders of common stock are entitled to receive dividends if, as amended.and when declared by our board of directors out of funds legally available for payment, subject to the rights of holders of our preferred stock.

Voting Rights. Each holder of common stock is entitled to one vote per share. Subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of any series of preferred stock under its applicable certificate of designations and applicable law, all voting rights are vested in the holders of shares of our common stock. Holders of shares of our common stock have noncumulative voting rights, which means that the holders of more than 50% of the shares voting for the election of directors can elect 100% of the directors and the holders of the remaining shares will not be able to elect any directors.

Rights Upon Liquidation. In the event of our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up, the holders of our common stock will be entitled to share equally in any of our assets available for distribution after we have paid in full all of our debts and after the holders of all series of our outstanding preferred stock have received their liquidation preferences in full.

Miscellaneous. The issued and outstanding shares of common stock are fully paid and nonassessable. Holders of shares of our common stock are not entitled to preemptive rights or to the benefit of any sinking funds. Our common stock is not convertible into shares of any other class of our capital stock. Computershare Inc is the transfer agent, registrar and dividend disbursement agent for our common stock.

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES WARRANTS

We may issue securities warrants that arefor the purchase of debt warrants, index warrants, currency warrantssecurities, preferred stock or universal warrants.common stock. We may offer any of theseissue securities warrants separatelyindependently or together with one or more other types of these warrants or purchase contracts, debt securities, issued by us, debt obligationspreferred stock, common stock or other securities, of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us, other property or any combination of those securities in the form of units, as described in the applicable prospectus supplement. If we issue warrants as partunits. Each series of a unit, the accompanying prospectus supplement will specify whether those warrants may be separated from the other securities in the unit prior to the warrants’ expiration date. Universal warrants issued in the United States may not be so separated prior to the 91st day after the issuance of the unit, unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Debt Warrants. We may issue, together with debt securities or separately, warrants for the purchase of debt securities on terms to be determined at the time of sale. We refer to this type of warrant as a “debt warrant.”

Index Warrants. We may issue warrants entitling the holders thereof to receive from us, upon exercise, an amount in cash determined by reference to decreases or increases in the level of a specific index or in the levels (or relative levels) of two or more indices or combinations of indices, which index or indices may be based on one or more stocks, bonds or other securities, one or more currencies or currency units, or any combination of the foregoing,provided that any warrants that are based, in whole or in part, on one or more currency indices will be listed on a national securities exchange. We refer to this type of warrant as an “index warrant.”

Currency Warrants. We may also issue warrants entitling the holders thereof to receive from us, upon exercise, an amount in cash determined by reference to decreases or increases in the price or level (or relative price, level or exchange rate) of specified amounts of one or more currencies or currency units,provided that these warrants will be listed onissued under a nationalseparate securities exchange. We refer to this type of warrant as a “currency warrant.”

Universal Warrants. We may also issue warrants to purchase or sell securities issued by us or another entity, securities based on the performance of such entity, securities based on the performance of such entity but excluding the performance of a particular subsidiary or subsidiaries of such entity, a basket of securities, or any combination of the above.

We refer to the property in the above clauses as “warrant property.” We refer to this type of warrant as a “universal warrant.” We may satisfy our obligations, if any, with respect to any universal warrants by delivering the warrant property or the cash value of the securities, as described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

The prospectus supplement relating to the warrants being offered will specify the particular terms of, and other information relating to, those warrants.

Significant Provisions of the Warrant Agreements

We will issue the warrants under one or more warrant agreementsagreement to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company (which may be the Bank), as warrant agent, in one or more series, which will be described in the prospectus supplement for the warrants. The forms of warrant agreements are filed as exhibits to the registration statement. The following summarizes the significant provisions of the warrant agreements and the warrants and is not intended to be comprehensive. Holders of the warrants should review the detailed provisions of the relevant warrant agreement for a full description and for other information regarding the

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warrants. In addition, we will describe the specific terms that will apply to the warrants in an accompanying prospectus supplement, which will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms of the warrants described in the following section.  If there are any differences between the accompanying prospectus supplement and this prospectus, the prospectus supplement will control.

Modifications without Consent of Warrantholders.We and the warrant agent may amend the terms of the warrants and the warrant certificates without the consent of the holders to:

·cure any ambiguity,

·cure, correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision, or

·amend the terms in any other manner which will not adversely affect the interests of the holders in any material respect.

Modifications with Consent of Warrantholders.We and the warrant agent, with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in number of the then outstanding warrants affected, may modify or amend the warrant agreement. However, we and the warrant agent may not, without the consent of each affected warrantholder:

·change the exercise price of the warrants;

·reduce the amount receivable upon exercise, cancellation or expiration of the warrants other than in accordance with adjustment provisions included in the terms of the warrants;

·shorten the period of time during which the warrants may be exercised;

·materially and adversely affect the exercise rights of the owners of the warrants; or

·reduce the percentage of outstanding warrants the consent of whose owners is required for the modification of the applicable warrant agreement.

Merger, Consolidation, Sale or Other Disposition. If at any time there we merge or consolidate or transfer substantially all of our assets, the successor corporation will succeed to and assume all of our obligations under each warrant agreement and the warrant certificates. We will then be relieved of any further obligation under each of those warrant agreements and the warrants issued under those warrant agreements. See “Description of Debt Securities — Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets.”

Enforceability of Rights of Warrantholders.agent. The warrant agent will act solely as our agent in connection withunder the applicable securities warrant certificatesagreement and will not assume any obligation to, or relationship of agency or trust for or with, any registered holders or beneficial owners of securities warrants. This summary of certain provisions of the securities warrants and the securities warrant agreement is not complete. You should refer to the securities warrant agreement relating to the specific securities warrants being offered, including the forms of securities warrant certificates representing those securities warrants, for the complete terms of the securities warrant agreement and the securities warrants. Forms of those documents are filed as exhibits to the registration statement.

Each securities warrant will entitle the holder to purchase the principal amount of debt securities or the number of shares of preferred stock or common stock at the exercise price set forth in, or calculable as set forth in, the applicable prospectus supplement. The exercise price may be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events, as set forth in the prospectus supplement. We will also specify in the prospectus supplement the place or places where, and the manner in which, securities warrants may be exercised. After the close of business on the expiration date of the securities warrants, unexercised securities warrants will become void.

Prior to the exercise of any securities warrants, holders of the securities warrants will not have any of the rights of holders of the debt securities, preferred stock or common stock, as the case may be, that may be purchased upon exercise of those securities warrants, including, (1) in the case of securities warrants for the purchase of debt securities, the right to receive payments of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on those debt securities or to enforce covenants in the senior indenture or subordinated indenture, as the case may be, or (2) in the case of securities warrants for the purchase of preferred stock or common stock, the right to receive payments of dividends, if any, on that preferred stock or common stock or to exercise any applicable right to vote.

DESCRIPTION OF CURRENCY WARRANTS

We have described below certain general terms and provisions of the currency warrants that we may offer. We will describe the particular terms of the currency warrants and the extent, if any, to which the general provisions described below do not apply to the currency warrants offered in the applicable prospectus supplement. The following summary is not complete. You should refer to the currency warrants and the currency

warrant agreement relating to the specific currency warrants being offered for the complete terms of those currency warrants. Forms of those documents are filed as exhibits to the registration statement.

We will issue each issue of currency warrants under a currency warrant agreement to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company (which may be the Bank), as warrant agent. The warrant agent will act solely as our agent under the applicable currency warrant agreement and will not assume any obligation to, or relationship of agency or trust for or with, any holders of currency warrants.

We may issue currency warrants either in the form of:

currency put warrants, which entitle the holders to receive from us the cash settlement value in U.S. dollars of the right to sell a specified amount of a specified foreign currency or composite currency (the “designated currency”) for a specified amount of U.S. dollars; or

currency call warrants, which entitle the holders to receive from us the cash settlement value in U.S. dollars of the right to purchase a specified amount of a designated currency for a specified amount of U.S. dollars.

As a prospective purchaser of currency warrants, you should be aware of special United States federal income tax considerations applicable to instruments such as the currency warrants. The prospectus supplement relating to each issue of currency warrants will describe those tax considerations.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will issue the currency warrants in the form of global currency warrant certificates, registered in the name of a depositary or beneficial ownersits nominee. See “Book-Entry Issuance” below.

Each issue of currency warrants will be listed on a national securities exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance, as a condition of sale of that issue of currency warrants. Any holderIn the event that the currency warrants are delisted from, or permanently suspended from trading on, the applicable national securities exchange, the expiration date for those currency warrants will be the date the delisting or trading suspension becomes effective, and currency warrants not previously exercised will be deemed automatically exercised on that expiration date. The applicable currency warrant agreement will contain a covenant from us that we will not seek to delist the currency warrants or suspend their trading on the applicable national securities exchange unless we have concurrently arranged for listing on another national securities exchange.

Currency warrants involve a high degree of warrant certificatesrisk, including risks arising from fluctuations in the price of the underlying currency, foreign exchange risks and the risk that the currency warrants will expire worthless. Further, the cash settlement value of currency warrants at any beneficial ownertime prior to exercise or expiration may be less than the trading value of the currency warrants. The trading value of the currency warrants may, withoutwill fluctuate because that value is dependent, at any time, on a number of factors, including the consent of any other person, enforce its right, and may institute any proceeding, on its own behalf,time remaining to exercise the currency warrants, evidenced by the relationship between the exercise price of the currency warrants and the price of the designated currency, and the exchange rate associated with the designated currency. Because currency warrants are unsecured obligations of JPMorgan Chase, changes in our perceived creditworthiness may also be expected to affect the trading prices of currency warrants. Finally, the amount of actual cash settlement of a currency warrant certificatesmay vary as a result of fluctuations in the manner provided for in that seriesprice of warrants or pursuant to the applicable warrant agreement. Priordesignated currency between the time you give instructions to exercise no holderthe currency warrant and the time the exercise is actually effected.

As a prospective purchaser of any warrant certificatecurrency warrants you should be prepared to sustain a loss of some or beneficial owner of any warrants will be entitled to anyall of the rightspurchase price of a holderyour currency warrants. You should also be experienced with respect to options and option transactions and should reach an investment decision only after careful consideration with your advisers of the debt securities or any other warrant property that may be purchased upon exercisesuitability of the warrants, including, without limitation, the right to receive the payments on those debt securities or other warrant property or to enforce any of the covenants or rights in the Indenture or any other similar agreement.

Registration and Transfer of Warrants.Subject to the terms of the applicable warrant agreement,currency warrants in definitive form may be presented for exchange and for registrationlight of transfer, atyour particular financial circumstances. You should also consider the corporate trust office of the warrant agent for that series of warrants, or at any other office indicatedinformation set forth under “Risk Factors” in the prospectus supplement relating to that seriesthe particular issue of currency warrants without service charge. However,being offered and to the holder will be required to pay any taxesother information regarding the currency warrants and other governmental charges as describedthe designated currency set forth in the warrant agreement. The transfer or exchange will be effected only if the warrant agent for the series of warrants is satisfied with the documents of title and identity of the person making the request. See “Forms of Securities — Global Securities” for information regarding warrants in global form.prospectus supplement.

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Replacement of Warrants. We will replace any mutilated certificate evidencing a definitive warrant at the expense of the holder upon surrender of that certificate to the warrant agent. We will replace certificates that have been destroyed, lost or stolen at the expense of the holder upon delivery to us and the warrant agent of evidence satisfactory to us and the warrant agent of the destruction, loss or theft of the certificates. In the case of a destroyed, lost or stolen certificate, an indemnity satisfactory to the warrant agent and to us may be required at the expense of the holder of the warrant evidenced by that certificate before a replacement will be issued.DESCRIPTION OF UNITS

New York Law to Govern.The warrants and each warrant agreement will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

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Description of Units of jpmorgan chase & co.

General

UnitsWemay issue units that will consist of any combination of warrants, purchase contracts, debt securities, preferred stock, common stock and warrants issued by us, depositary shares representing preferred stock issued by us, debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or any other propertyproperty. We may issue units in one or more series, which will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. Each series of units will be issued under a separate unit agreement to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company (which we refer collectively as the “unit property”). The units or units property may impose obligations on the holder, which may be securedthe Bank), as unit agent. The below summary of certain provisions of the units and unit agreements is not complete. You should refer to the unit agreement for the complete terms of the unit agreement and the units. Forms of those documents will be filed as exhibits to or incorporated by other items of unit property or other assets or security. Thereference in the registration statement.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, each unit will be issued so that the holder of the unit is also describe:the holder of each security included in the unit. Thus, the holder of a unit will have the rights and obligations of a holder of each included security. The unit agreement under which a unit is issued may provide that the securities included in the unit may not be held or transferred separately, at any time or at any time before a specified date. We will describe the particular terms of any series of units being offered in the prospectus supplement relating to that series of units. Those terms may include:

 

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the designation and the terms of the units and unit property may be traded separately or as other kinds of units;

·whether holders of the units will be required to pledge any items to secure performance thereof, such as described in “— Description of Purchase Contracts of JPMorgan Chase & Co. —Purchase Contracts Issued as Part of Units — Pledge by Purchase Contract Holders to Secure Performance” below;

·any additional terms of the applicable unit agreement;

·any additional provisions for the issuance, payment, settlement, transfer or exchange of the units or of the unit property constituting the units; and

·any applicable United States federal income tax consequences.

The terms and conditions described under “— Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co.,” “— Description of Warrants of JPMorgan Chase & Co.,” “— Description of Purchase Contracts of JPMorgan Chase & Co.,” and those described below, under “— Significant Provisions of the Unit Agreement” will apply to each unitunits and to any unit property consistingcombination of warrants, purchase contracts, debt securities, preferred stock, common stock and warrants issued by us, depositary shares representing preferred stock issued by us, debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or other property asconstituting the units, including and whether and under what circumstances the debt securities, preferred stock, common stock and warrants issued by us, depositary shares representing preferred stock issued by us, debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or other securities may be traded separately;

any additional terms of the governing unit agreement;

any additional provisions for the issuance, payment, settlement, transfer or exchange of the units or of the debt securities, preferred stock, common stock and warrants issued by us, depositary shares representing preferred stock issued by us, debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or other property constituting the units; and

any applicable U.S. federal income tax consequences.

The terms and conditions described under “Description of Debt Securities,” “Description of Preferred Stock,” “Description of Common Stock,” “Description of Securities Warrants” and “Description of Currency Warrants” will apply to each unit and to any debt securities, preferred stock, common stock or warrants issued by us, depositary shares representing preferred stock issued by us, debt obligations or other securities of an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us or other property included in each unit, unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Significant Provisions of the Unit Agreement

We will issue the units under one or more unit agreements, each referred to as a unit agreement, to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company, as unit agent. We may issue units in one or more series, which will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement for the units. The form of unit agreement is incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement. The following summarizes the significant provisions of the unit agreements and the units and is not intended to be comprehensive. Holders of the units should review the detailed provisions of the relevant unit agreement for a full description and for other information regarding the units. In addition, we will describe the specific terms that will apply to the units in an accompanying prospectus supplement, which will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms of the units described in the following section.  If there are any differences between the accompanying prospectus supplement and this prospectus, the prospectus supplement will control.

Remedies. The unit agent will act solely as our agent in connection with the units governed by the unit agreement and will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of units or interests in those units. Any holder of units or interests in those units may, without the consent of the unit agent or any other holder or beneficial owner of units, enforce, and may institute any proceeding against us, on its own behalf, its rights under the unit agreement. However, the holders of units or interests in those units may only enforce their rights under the unit property underlying those units and the applicable purchase contract agreement in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the applicable warrant agreement and the applicable purchase contract agreement.

Modification without Consent of Holders. We and the unit agent may amend or supplement the unit agreement and the terms of the purchase contracts and the purchase contract certificates without the consent of the holders to:

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·cure any ambiguity;

·cure, correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision in the agreement; or

·amend the terms in any other manner which we may deem necessary or desirable and which will not adversely affect the interest of the affected holders of units in any material respect.

Modification with Consent of Holders. We and the unit agent, with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority of units at the time outstanding, may modify or amend the rights of the affected holders of the affected units and the terms of the unit agreement. However, we and the unit agent may not, without the consent of each affected holder of units, make any modifications or amendments that would:

·materially and adversely affect the exercise rights of the affected holders, or

·reduce the percentage of outstanding units the consent of whose owners is required to consent to a modification or amendment of the unit agreement.

Modifications of any debt securities issued pursuant to the Indenture and includedAn investment in units may only be made in accordanceinvolve special risks, including risks associated with indexed securities and currency-related risks if the Indenture, as described under “— Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Modification of the Indenture” Modifications of any warrants included in units may only be made in accordance with the terms of the applicable warrant agreement as described under “— Description of Warrants of JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Significant Provisions of the Warrant Agreement.”

Merger, Consolidation, Sale or Conveyance. The unit agreement provides that we will not merge or consolidate with any other person and will not sell or convey all or substantially all of our assets to any person unless:

·we will be the continuing corporation, or the successor corporation or person that acquires all or substantially all of our assets:

·will be a corporation organized under the laws of the United States, a state of the United States or the District of Columbia; and

·will assume due and punctual performance of all of our obligations under the unit agreement; and

·immediately after the merger, consolidation, sale or conveyance, we, that person or that successor corporation will not be in default in the performance of the covenants and conditions of the unit agreement applicable to us.

Replacement of Unit Certificates. We will replace any mutilated certificate evidencing a definitive unit at the expense of the holder upon surrender of that certificate to the unit agent. We will replace certificates that have been destroyed, lost or stolen at the expense of the holder upon delivery to us and the unit agent of evidence satisfactory to us and the unit agent of the destruction, loss or theft of the certificates. In the case of a destroyed, lost or stolen certificate, an indemnity satisfactory to the unit agent and to us may be required at the expense of the holder ofsecurities comprising the units evidenced by that certificate beforeare linked to an index or are payable in or otherwise linked to a replacement will be issued.non-U.S. dollar currency.

Title. We, the unit agent, the trustee, the warrant agent and any of their agents will treat the registered holder of any unit as its owner, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, for all purposes.

New York Law to Govern. The unit agreement and the units will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

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Description of Purchase Contracts of jpmorgan chase & co.

BOOK-ENTRY ISSUANCE

We may issue purchase contracts, including purchase contracts issuedseries of any securities as part ofglobal securities and deposit them with a unitdepositary with one or more items of unit propertyrespect to that series for the purchase or sale of, or settlement in cash based on the value of:

·securities issued by us or by an entity affiliated or not affiliated with us, a basket of those securities, an index or indices of those securities or any combination of the above;

·currencies;

·commodities; or

·other property.

We refer to the property in the above clausesand clearance through a book-entry settlement system, as “purchase contract property.”

Each purchase contract will obligate the holder to purchase or sell, and obligate us to sell or purchase, on a specified date or dates, the purchase contract property at a specified price or prices, or cash in lieu of such purchase contract property, all as describedindicated in the applicable prospectus supplement. The applicable prospectus supplement will also specify the methods by which the holders may purchase or sell the purchase contract property and any acceleration, cancellation or termination provisions or other provisions relating to the settlement of a purchase contract.

Purchase Contracts Issued as Parts of Units

Purchase contracts issued as parts of units will be governed by the terms and provisions of a unit agreement. See “— Description of Units of JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Significant Provisions of the Unit Agreement.” The accompanying prospectus supplement will specify the following:

·whether the purchase contract obligates the holder to purchase or sell the purchase contract property;

·whether and when a purchase contract issued as part of a unit may be separated from the other securities constituting part of that unit prior to the purchase contract’s settlement date;

·the methods by which the holders may purchase or sell the purchase contract property;

·any acceleration, cancellation or termination provisions or other provisions relating to the settlement of a purchase contract;

·whether the purchase contracts will be issued in definitive or global form, although, in any case, the form of a purchase contract included in a unit will correspond to the form of the unit and of any debt security, warrant or other security included in that unit; and

·any applicable United States federal income tax consequences.

Holders of the purchase contracts should review the detailed provisions of the relevant unit agreement for a full description and for other information regarding the purchase contracts. In addition, we will describe the specific terms that will apply to the purchase contracts in an accompanying prospectus supplement, which will supplement and, if applicable, may modify or replace the general terms of the purchase contracts described in the following section.  If there are any differences between the accompanying prospectus supplement and this prospectus, the prospectus supplement will control.

Settlement of Purchase Contracts. Where purchase contracts issued together with debt securities or debt obligations as part of a unit require the holders to buy purchase contract property, the unit agent may apply principal payments from the debt securities or debt obligations in satisfaction of the holders obligations under the related purchase contract as specified in the prospectus supplement. The unit agent will not so apply the principal payments if the holder has delivered cash to meet its obligations under the purchase contract. To settle the purchase contract and receive the purchase contract property, the holder must present and surrender the unit certificates at the office of the unit agent. If a holder settles its obligations under a purchase contract that is part of a unit in cash rather than by delivering the

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debt security or debt obligation that is part of the unit, that debt security or debt obligation will remain outstanding, if the maturity extends beyond the relevant settlement date and, as more fully described in the applicable prospectus supplement, the holder will receive that debt security or debt obligation or an interest in the relevant global debt security.

Pledge by Purchase Contract Holders to Secure Performance. To secure the obligations of the purchase contract holders contained in the unit agreement and in the purchase contracts, the holders, acting through the unit agent, as their attorney-in-fact, will assign and pledge the items in the following sentence, which we refer to as the “pledge,” to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, in its capacity as collateral agent, for our benefit. Except as otherwise described in the applicable prospectus supplement, the pledge is a security interest in, and a lien upon and right of set-off against, all of the holders’ right, title and interest in and to:

·all or any portion of the debt securities, debt obligations or other securities that are, or become, part of units that include the purchase contracts, or other property as may be specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, which we refer to as the “pledged items”;

·all additions to and substitutions for the pledged items as may be permissible, if so specified in the applicable prospectus supplement;

·all income, proceeds and collections received or to be received, or derived or to be derived, at any time from or in connection with the pledged items described in the two immediately preceding clauses above; and

·all powers and rights owned or thereafter acquired under or with respect to the pledged items.

The pledge constitutes collateral security for the performance when due by each holder of its obligations under the unit agreement and the applicable purchase contract. Except as otherwise described in the applicable prospectus supplement, the collateral agent will forward all payments from the pledged items to us, unless the payments have been released from the pledge in accordance with the unit agreement. If the terms of the unit so provide, we will use the payments received from the pledged items to satisfy the obligations of the holder of the unit under the related purchase contract.

Property Held in Trust by Unit Agent. If a holder fails to settle its obligations under a purchase contract that is part of a unit and fails to present and surrender its unit certificate to the unit agent when required, that holder will not receive the purchase contract property. Instead, the unit agent will hold that holder’s purchase contract property, together with any distributions, as the registered owner in trust for the benefit of the holder until the holder presents and surrenders the certificate or provides satisfactory evidence that the certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen. The unit agent or JPMorgan Chase & Co. may require an indemnity from the holder for liabilities related to any destroyed, lost or stolen certificate. If the holder does not present the unit certificate, or provide the necessary evidence of destruction or loss and indemnity, on or before the second anniversary of the settlement date of the related purchase contract, the unit agent will pay to us the amounts it received in trust for that holder. Thereafter, the holder may recover those amounts only from us and not the unit agent. The unit agent will have no obligation to invest or to pay interest on any amount it holds in trust pending distribution.

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Description of Debt Securities of jpmorgan chase financial company llc

General

In this “Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC” section, “we,” “us” or “our” refer only to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and not to any of its affiliates, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., references to the “Guarantor” refer only to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and not to any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, and all references to “debt securities” refer only to debt securities issued by JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and not to any debt securities issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The following description of the terms of the debt securities contains certain general terms that may apply to the debt securities. The specific terms of any debt securities will be described in one or more prospectus supplements relating to those debt securities.

The debt securities will be issued under an Indenture among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, as issuer, JPMorgan Chase & Co., as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (as has been and as may be further supplemented from time to time, for purposes of this section entitled “Description of Debt Securities of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC,” the “Indenture”).

We have summarized below the material provisions of the Indenture and the debt securities and guarantees issued under the Indenture or indicated which material provisions will be described in the related prospectus supplement.

These descriptions are only summaries, and each investor should refer to the Indenture, which describes completely the terms and definitions summarized below and contains additional information regarding the debt securities issued under it. Where appropriate, we use parentheses to refer you to the particular sections of the Indenture. Any reference to particular sections or defined terms of the Indenture in any statement under this heading qualifies the entire statement and incorporates by reference the applicable section or definition into that statement.

The debt securities will be our direct, unsecured general obligations, the payment on which is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor, and will have the same rank in liquidation as all of our other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.

The Indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount of debt securities that may be issued under it. The Indenture provides that debt securities may be issued up to the principal amount authorized by us from time to time. (Section 2.03) We have previously established the Series A medium-term notes under the Indenture. As of December 31, 2017, we had approximately $7.5 billion aggregate principal amount of Series A medium-term notes outstanding under the Indenture. We have authorized the issuance of securities under the registration statement to which this prospectus relates, including Series A medium-term notes, with an aggregate initial public offering price not to exceed $35 billion, to be issued on or after January 24, 2018.

The Indenture allows us to reopen a previous issue of a series of debt securities and issue additional debt securities of that issue. We have no obligation to take your interests into account when deciding whether to issue additional debt securities. In addition, we are under no obligation to reopen any series of debt securities or to issue any additional debt securities.

The Guarantor is a holding company and conducts substantially all of its operations through subsidiaries. As a result, claims of the holders of the debt securities against the Guarantor under the guarantee will generally have a junior position to claims of creditors of the Guarantor’s subsidiaries, except to the extent that the Guarantor may be recognized, and receives payment, as a creditor of those subsidiaries. Claims of the Guarantor’s subsidiaries’ creditors other than the Guarantor include substantial amounts of long-term debt, deposit liabilities, federal funds purchased, securities loaned or sold under repurchase agreements, commercial paper and other borrowed funds.

We may issue debt securities from time to time in one or more series. (Section 2.03) The debt securities may be denominated and payable in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. (Section 2.03) We may also issue debt securities, from time to time, with the principal amount, interest or other amounts payable

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on any relevant payment date to be determined by reference to one or more currency exchange rates, interest rates, swap rates, securities or baskets of securities, commodity prices, indices, basket of indices, or any other financial, economic or other measure or instrument, including the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event or circumstance. The debt securities may also be issued as original issue discount debt securities, which will bear no interest or bear interest at below market rates and will be sold at a discount to their stated principal amount. All references in this prospectus, or any prospectus supplement to other amounts will include premium, if any, and other cash amounts payable under the Indenture, if any.

The debt securities may bear interest at a fixed rate, which may be zero, or a floating rate.

The prospectus supplement relating to a particular series of debt securities being offered will specify the particular terms of, and other information relating to, those debt securities.

Holders may present debt securities for exchange or transfer, in the manner, at the places and subject to the restrictions stated in the debt securities and described in the applicable prospectus supplement. We will provide these services without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with these services and subject to any limitations provided in the Indenture. (Section 2.08)

If any of the securities are held in global form, the procedures for transfer of interests in those securities will depend upon the proceduressummary of the depositary for those global securities. See “Forms of Securities.”

We will generally have no obligationarrangements applicable to repurchase, redeem, or change the terms of the debt securities upon any event (including a change in control of us or the Guarantor) that might have an adverse effect on our or the Guarantor’s credit quality.

Events of Default and Waivers

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, an “Event of Default” with respect to a series of debt securities issued under the Indenture is defined in the Indenture as:

·default in the payment of interest on any debt securities of that series and continuance of such default for 30 days;

·default in the payment of principal or other amounts payable on any debt securities of that series when due, at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration, or otherwise;

·default in the performance, or breach, of any other covenants or warranties applicable to us contained in the Indenture applicable to that series, and continuation of such default or breach for 90 days after written notice has been given by the trustee to us and the Guarantor or given by holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding securities of all series affected thereby to us, the Guarantor and the trustee;

·certain events of our bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding up or liquidation, whether voluntary or involuntary;

·the guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect, other than in accordance with the Indenture, or the Guarantor denies or disaffirms its obligations under the guarantee,provided that no Event of Default with respect to the guarantee will occur as a result of, or because it is related directly or indirectly to, the insolvency of the Guarantor or the commencement of proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code, or the appointment of a receiver for the Guarantor under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation having separately repudiated the Guarantee in receivership, or the commencement of or certain other events of the Guarantor’s bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution, receivership, winding up or liquidation; or

·any other event of default provided in the applicable supplemental indentures to the Indenture orpermanent global form of security. (Section 5.01)

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing because of a default in the payment of principal, interest or other amounts payable on the debt securities, a failure in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement applicable to us, the guarantee ceasing to be in full force and effect, or any other event of default provided in the applicable supplemental indentures to the Indenture or form of security, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of such series then outstanding, treated as one class, by written notice to us and the Guarantor, may declare the principal of all outstanding debt securities of such series and any interest accrued thereon, to be due and payable immediately. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, if a default due to specified events of our bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding up or liquidation, occurs and is continuing, the principal of all outstanding debt securities and any interest accrued thereon will automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the trustee or any holder, become immediately due and payable. Subject to certain conditions such declarations may be annulled and past defaults may be waived by the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of the series affected. (Sections 5.01 and 5.10)

Events of bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution, receivership, winding up or liquidation relating to the Guarantor will not constitute an Event of Default with respect to any series of debt securities. In addition, failure by the Guarantor to perform any of its covenants or warranties (other than a payment default) will not constitute an Event of Default with respect to any series of debt securities. Therefore, events of bankruptcy, resolution, receivership, insolvency, winding up or liquidation relating to the Guarantor (in the absence of any such event occurring with respect to us) will not permit any of the debt securities to be declared due and payable and the trustee is not authorized to exercise any remedy against us or the Guarantor upon the occurrence or continuation of these events with respect to the Guarantor. Instead, even if an event of bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution, receivership, winding up or liquidation relating to the Guarantor has occurred, the trustee and the holders of debt securities of a series will not be able to declare the relevant debt securities to be immediately due and payable unless there is an Event of Default with respect to that series as described above, such as our bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding up or liquidation or a payment default by us or the Guarantor on the relevant debt securities.The value you receive on any series of debt securities may be significantly less than what you would have otherwise received had our debt securities been declared due and payable immediately or the trustee been authorized to exercise any remedy against us or the Guarantor upon the occurrence or continuation of these events with respect to the Guarantor.

An Event of Default with respect to one series of debt securities does not necessarily constitute an Event of Default with respect to any other series of debt securities. The Indenture requires the trustee to provide notice of default with respect to the debt securities within 90 days, unless the default is cured, but provides that the trustee may withhold notice to the holders of the debt securities of any default if the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or responsible officers of the trustee determines in good faith that it is in the interest of the holders of the debt securities of the applicable series to do so. The trustee may not withhold notice of a default in the payment of principal of, interest on or any other amounts due under, such debt securities. (Section 5.11)

The Indenture provides that the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt securities of each series affected, with all such series voting as a single class, may direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee. The trustee may decline to act if the direction is contrary to law and in certain other circumstances set forth in the Indenture. (Section 5.09) The trustee is not obligated to exercise any of its rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of the holders of debt securities unless the holders offer the trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities incurred therein or thereby. (Section 6.02(d))

No holder of any debt security of any affected series has the right to institute any action for remedy unless such holder has previously given to the trustee written notice of default, the trustee has failed to take action for 60 days after the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of each affected series make written request upon the trustee to institute such action and have offered reasonable indemnity in connection with the same and the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of each affected series (voting as a single class) have not given direction to the trustee that is inconsistent with the written request referred to above. (Section 5.06)

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However, the right of any holder of a debt security or coupon to receive payment of the principal of and interest on that debt security or coupon on or after its due date, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, may not be impaired or affected without the consent of that holder. (Section 5.07)

The Indenture requires us and the Guarantor to file annually with the trustee a written statement as to whether or not we or the Guarantor, as the case may be, have knowledge of a default. (Section 3.05)

Discharge, Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

Discharge of Indenture. The Indenture will cease to be of further effect with respect to debt securities of any series and the guarantee as it relates to debt securities of that series, except as to rights of registration of transfer and exchange, substitution of mutilated, defaced, lost or stolen debt securities, rights of holders to receive principal, interest or other amounts payable under the debt securities on the due date thereof (but not upon acceleration), rights and immunities of the trustee and rights of holders with respect to property deposited pursuant to the following provisions, and our obligation to maintain an office for payments, if at any time:

·we or the Guarantor have paid the principal, interest and any other amounts payable under the debt securities of such series as and when due;

·we have delivered to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for cancellation all debt securities of such series; or

·the debt securities of such series not delivered to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for cancellation have become due and payable, or will become due and payable within one year, or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for the giving of notice of redemption, and we or the Guarantor has irrevocably deposited with the trustee or the applicable paying agent as trust funds the entire amount in cash or, in the case of securities payable in dollars, U.S. government obligations sufficient to pay all amounts due with respect to such debt securities on or after the date of such deposit, including at maturity or upon redemption of all such debt securities, including principal, interest and other amounts, and any mandatory sinking fund payments, on the dates on which such payments are due and payable. (Section 10.01)

The trustee, on our or the Guarantor’s demand, accompanied by an officers’ certificate of ours or the Guarantor’s, and an opinion of counsel and at our or the Guarantor’s cost and expense, will execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging the Indenture with respect to such series.

Defeasance of a Series of Securities at Any Time. We and the Guarantor may also discharge all of our and the Guarantor’s obligations, other than those obligations that survive as referred to under “—Discharge of Indenture” above, under any series of debt securities at any time, which we refer to as “defeasance.”

We and the Guarantor may be released with respect to any outstanding series of debt securities from the obligations imposed by Article 9 of the Indenture, which contains the covenant described below limiting consolidations, mergers and asset sales, and any other obligations described in a prospectus supplement, and elect not to comply with those provisions without creating an Event of Default. Discharge under these procedures is called “covenant defeasance.”

Defeasance or covenant defeasance may be effected only if, among other things:

·we or the Guarantor irrevocably deposits with the trustee or the applicable paying agent cash or, in the case of debt securities payable only in U.S. dollars, U.S. government obligations, as trust funds in an amount certified to be sufficient to pay on each date that they become due and payable, the principal of, interest on, other amounts due under, and any mandatory sinking fund payments for, all outstanding debt securities of the series being defeased; and

·we or the Guarantor delivers to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that:

·the beneficial owners of the series of debt securities being defeased will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of the defeasance or covenant defeasance; and

·the beneficial owners will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same time as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance or covenant defeasance, as the case may be, had not occurred (in the case of a defeasance, the opinion of counsel must be based on a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service or a change in United States federal income tax law); and

·in the case of a covenant defeasance, no Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of our deposit with the trustee of cash or U.S. government obligations, as applicable, or, with respect to certain Events of Default, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit; and

·in the case of a covenant defeasance, the covenant defeasance will not cause the trustee to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any of our or the Guarantor’s debt securities; and

·in the case of a covenant defeasance, the covenant defeasance will not cause any debt securities then listed on a national securities exchange to be delisted; and

·the defeasance or covenant defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, the Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which we or the Guarantor is a party or by which we or the Guarantor are bound. (Section 10.01)

Modification of the Indenture

The Indenture contains provisions permitting us, the Guarantor and the trustee to modify the Indenture or the rights of the holders of debt securities with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of each outstanding series of debt securities affected by the modification. Each holder of an affected debt security must consent to a modification that would:

·extend the final maturity date of the principal of, or of any interest on, or other amounts payable under any debt security;

·reduce the principal amount of, rate of interest on, or any other amounts due under any debt security;

·change the currency or currency unit of payment of any debt security or certain provisions of the Indenture applicable to debt securities in foreign currencies;

·change the method in which amounts of payments of principal, interest or other amounts are determined on any debt security;

·reduce any amount payable upon redemption of any debt security;

·impair the right of a holder to institute suit for the payment of a debt security or, if the debt securities provide, any right of repurchase at the option of the holder of a debt security;

·reduce the percentage of debt securities of any series, the consent of the holders of which is required for any modification; or

·make any change in the guarantee that would adversely affect the holders of the debt securities of such series or release the Guarantor from the guarantee other than pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. (Section 8.02)

The Indenture also permits us, the Guarantor and the trustee to amend the Indenture in certain circumstances without the consent of the holders of debt securities to evidence our or the Guarantor’s merger or the replacement of the trustee, to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision,to make any change to the Indenture or our debt securities that we deem necessary or desirable and that does not materially and adversely affect the interests of holders of the debt securitiesand for certain other purposes. (Section 8.01)

Consolidations, Mergers, Sales and Transfers of Assets

Neither we nor the Guarantor may merge or consolidate with any other entity or sell, convey or transfer all or substantially all of their respective assets to any other entity, unless:

·with respect to us:

·either we are the continuing company in the case of a merger or consolidation or the successor entity in the case of a merger or consolidation (including an affiliate of the Guarantor) or the entity to whom those assets are sold, conveyed or transferred in the case of a sale, conveyance or transfer is a United States corporation or limited liability company that expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any interest on, or any other amounts due under the debt securities and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the Indenture binding upon us, and

·no Event of Default and no event which with notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default has occurred or would be continuing, immediately after the merger or consolidation, or the sale, conveyance or transfer, and

·with respect to the Guarantor:

·either the Guarantor is the continuing corporation in the case of a merger or consolidation or the successor corporation in the case of a merger or consolidation or the entity to whom those assets are sold, conveyed or transferred in the case of a sale, conveyance or transfer is a United States corporation that expressly assumes the full and unconditional guarantee of the full and punctual payment of the principal of, any interest on, or any other amounts due under the debt securities and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the Indenture binding upon the Guarantor, and

·no Event of Default and no event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default has occurred or would be continuing, immediately after the merger or consolidation, or the sale, conveyance or transfer. (Sections 9.01 and 9.02)

Any transfer of material assets of the Guarantor to any other entity that occurs as a result of, or because it is related directly or indirectly to, any proceedings relative to the Guarantor under Title 11 of the United States Code or under a receivership under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 or under any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution or other similar law will be deemed to be a sale, conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of the Guarantor’s assets.

There are no covenants or other provisions in the Indenture that would afford holders of debt securities additional protection in the event of a recapitalization transaction involving us or the Guarantor, a change of control of us or the Guarantor or a highly leveraged transaction involving us or the Guarantor. The merger covenant described above would apply only if the recapitalization transaction, change of control or highly leveraged transaction were structured to include a merger or consolidation of us or the Guarantor or a sale or conveyance of all or substantially all of our or the Guarantor’s assets. However, we may provide specific protections, such as a put right or increased interest, for particular debt securities, which we would describe in the applicable prospectus supplement.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Guarantee

The Guarantor will fully and unconditionally guarantee the full and punctual payment of the principal of, interest on, and all other amounts payable under the debt securities when the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity, upon redemption, repurchase at the option of the holders of the applicable debt securities or upon acceleration. If for any reason we do not make any required payment in respect of our debt securities when due, the Guarantor will on demand pay the unpaid amount at the same place and in the same manner that applies to payments made by us under the Indenture. The guarantee is of payment and not of collection. (Section 14.01)

The Guarantor’s obligations under the guarantee are unconditional and absolute. However, (1) the Guarantor will not be liable for any amount of payment that we are excused from making or any amount in excess of the amount actually due and owing by us, and (2) any defense or counterclaims available to us (except those resulting solely from, or on account of, our insolvency or our status as debtor or subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding) will also be available to the Guarantor to the same extent as these defense or counterclaims are available to us, whether or not asserted by us. (Section 14.02)

Concerning the Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar and Transfer Agent

We, the Guarantor and certain of their affiliates have a wide range of banking relationships with Deutsche BankDepository Trust Company Americas, The Bank of New York Mellon and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch. The Bank of New York Mellon and, for notes settled through Euroclear Bank SA/NV or Clearstream Banking, S.A., Luxembourg, The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch,(“DTC”) will be the paying agents, authenticating agents, registrars and transfer agents for debt securities issued under the Indenture.

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas is initially servingact as the trustee for the debt securities issued under our Indenture, to which JPMorgan Chase & Co. acts as a guarantor, the warrants issued under our warrant indenture, to which JPMorgan Chase & Co. acts as a guarantor, and the debt securities issued under JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s indenture. Consequently, if an actual or potential event of default occurs with respect to any of these securities, the trustee may be considered to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended. In that case, the trustee may be required to resign under the Indenture, and we would be required to appoint a successor trustee. For this purpose, a “potential” event of default means an event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or for the default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.

Debt Securities in Foreign Currencies

Whenever the Indenture provides for an action by, or the determination of, any of the rights of, or any distribution to, holders of debt securities, in the absence of any provision to the contrary, any amount in respect of any debt security denominated in a currency or currency unit other than U.S. dollars may be treated for purposes of taking any such action or distribution as the amount of U.S. dollars that could reasonably be exchanged for such non-U.S. dollar amount. This amount will be calculated as of a date that we specify to the trustee or, if we fail to specify a date, on a date that the trustee may determine. (Section 11.11)

Replacement of Debt Securities

At the expense of the holder, we may, in our discretion, replace any debt security that has been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen or that is apparently destroyed, lost or stolen. The mutilated debt security must be delivered to the paying agent and the registrar or satisfactory evidence of the destruction, loss or theft of the debt security must be delivered to us, the paying agent, the registrar and the trustee. At the expense of the holder, an indemnity that is satisfactory to us, the Guarantor, the paying agent, the registrar and the trustee may be required before a replacement debt security will be issued. (Section 2.09)

Governing Law and Judgments

The debt securities and the Indenture, including the guarantee, will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. (Section 11.08) A judgment for money in an action

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based on debt securities payable in foreign currencies in a federal or state court in the United States ordinarily would be enforced in the United States only in U.S. dollars. The date used to determine the rate of conversion of the foreign currency in which a particular debt security is payable into U.S. dollars will depend upon various factors, including which court renders the judgment. However, if a judgment for money in an action based on the debt securities and the Indenture were entered by a New York court applying New York law, the court would render a judgment in that foreign currency, and the judgment would be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment.

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Description of Warrants of jpmorgan chase financial company llc

General

In this “Description of Warrants of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC” section, “we,” us” or “our” refer only to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and not to any of its affiliates, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., references to the “Guarantor” refer only to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and not to any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, and all references to “warrants” refer only to warrants issued by JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and not to any warrants issued by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The warrants are options that are securities within the meaning of Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The following description of the terms of the warrants contains certain general terms that may apply to the warrants. The specific terms of any warrants will be described in one or more prospectus supplements relating to those warrants.

The warrants will be issued under a Warrant Indenture among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, as issuer, JPMorgan Chase & Co., as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (as has been and as may be further supplemented from time to time, for purposes of this section entitled “Description of Warrants of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC,” the “Indenture”depositary (the “global securities”).

We have summarized below the material provisions of the Indenture and the warrants and guarantees issued under the Indenture or indicated which material provisions will be described in the related prospectus supplement.

These descriptions are only summaries, and each investor should refer to the Indenture, which describes completely the terms and definitions summarized below and contains additional information regarding the warrants issued under it. Where appropriate, we use parentheses to refer you to the particular sections of the Indenture. Any reference to particular sections or defined terms of the Indenture in any statement under this heading qualifies the entire statement and incorporates by reference the applicable section or definition into that statement.

The warrants will be our unsecured contractual obligations, the payment on which is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor, and will have the same rank in liquidation as all of our other unsecured contractual obligations and all our other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.

The warrants entitle the holders thereof to receive from us, upon exercise (including automatic or deemed exercise), an amount in cash, if any, determined by reference to one or more securities, currencies, currency units, composite currencies or one or more baskets, indices or other combinations of any of the foregoing,provided that any warrants based, in whole or in part, on one or more currencies, currency units or composite currencies will be listed on a national securities exchange.

We intend to issue warrants only to the extent permitted under Rule 3a-5 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or pursuant to another available exemption from registration as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

The Indenture does not limit the aggregate number of warrants that may be issued under it. The Indenture provides that warrants may be issued up to the number authorized by us from time to time. (Section 2.03) As of the date of this prospectus, we have not issued any warrants. We have authorized the issuance of securities under the registration statement to which this prospectus relates, including warrants, with an aggregate initial public offering price not to exceed $35 billion, to be issued on or after January 24, 2018.

The Indenture allows us to reopen a previous issue of a series of warrants and issue additional warrants of that issue. We have no obligation to take your interests into account when deciding whether to issue additional warrants. In addition, we are under no obligation to reopen any series of warrants or to issue any additional warrants.

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The Guarantor is a holding company and conducts substantially all of its operations through subsidiaries. As a result, claims of the holders of the warrants against the Guarantor under the guarantee will generally have a junior position to claims of creditors of the Guarantor’s subsidiaries, except to the extent that the Guarantor may be recognized, and receives payment, as a creditor of those subsidiaries. Claims of the Guarantor’s subsidiaries’ creditors other than the Guarantor include substantial amounts of long-term debt, deposit liabilities, federal funds purchased, securities loaned or sold under repurchase agreements, commercial paper and other borrowed funds.

We may issue warrants from time to time in one or more series. (Section 2.03) The warrants may be denominated and payable in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. (Section 2.03) We may also issue warrants, from time to time, with the amounts payable on any relevant payment date to be determined by reference to one or more currency exchange rates, securities or baskets of securities, indices or basket of indices, provided that any warrants that are based, in whole or in part, on one or more currency exchange rates will be listed on a national securities exchange.

The prospectus supplement relating to a particular series of warrants being offered will specify the particular terms of, and other information relating to, those warrants.

Holders may present warrants for exchange or transfer, in the manner, at the places and subject to the restrictions stated in the warrants and described in the applicable prospectus supplement. We will provide these services without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with these services and subject to any limitations provided in the Indenture. (Section 2.08)

If any of the securities are held inEach global form, the procedures for transfer of interests in those securities will depend upon the procedures of the depositary for those global securities. See “Forms of Securities.”

We will generally have no obligation to repurchase, redeem, or change the terms of the warrants upon any event (including a change in control of us or the Guarantor) that might have an adverse effect on our or the Guarantor’s credit quality.

Events of Default and Waivers

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, an “Event of Default” with respect to any warrant of any series issued under the Indenture is defined in the Indenture as:

·default in the payment of any amount payable on that warrant when due (but not such a default in respect of any other warrant of the same series or any other series), either upon exercise, upon redemption or otherwise;

·failure by us for 90 days to perform any other covenants or warranties applicable to us contained in the Indenture applicable to that series after written notice has been given by the trustee to us and the Guarantor or given by holders of at least 25% in aggregate number of the outstanding warrants of all series affected thereby to us, the Guarantor and the trustee;

·certain events of our bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding up or liquidation, whether voluntary or involuntary;

·the guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect, other than in accordance with the Indenture, or the Guarantor denies or disaffirms its obligations under the guarantee,provided that no Event of Default with respect to the guarantee will occur as a result of, or because it is related directly or indirectly to, the insolvency of the Guarantor or the commencement of proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code, or the appointment of a receiver for the Guarantor under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation having separately repudiated the Guarantee in receivership, or the commencement of or certain other events of the Guarantor’s bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution, receivership, winding up or liquidation;

·any other event of default provided in the applicable supplemental indentures to the Indenture or form of security. (Section 5.01)

However, a failure by the Issuer to perform any obligation or otherwise observe any covenant in any warrant or in the Indenture insofar as it applies to any warrant will not constitute a default unless all conditions precedent to the obligations of the Issuer to be satisfied by the holder of that warrant have been satisfied. (Section 5.01)

Neither the trustee nor any holder is entitled, whether by reason of a default or otherwise, to demand or accelerate any payment on a warrant before the payment is otherwise due in accordance with the terms of that warrant. (Section 5.02)

Subject to certain conditions, past defaults may be waived by the holders of a majority in number of the outstanding warrants of the series affected. (Section 5.10)

Events of bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution, receivership, winding up or liquidation relating to the Guarantor will not constitute an Event of Default with respect to any series of warrants. In addition, failure by the Guarantor to perform any of its covenants or warranties (other than a payment default) will not constitute an Event of Default with respect to any series of warrants. Therefore, the trustee is not authorized to exercise any remedy against us or the Guarantor upon the occurrence or continuation of events of bankruptcy, resolution, receivership, insolvency, winding up or liquidation relating to the Guarantor (in the absence of any such event occurring with respect to us). Instead, even if an event of bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution, receivership, winding up or liquidation relating to the Guarantor has occurred, the trustee and the holders of warrants of a series will not be entitled to institute any action or proceeding against us or the Guarantor unless there is an Event of Default with respect to that series as described above, such as our bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding up or liquidation or a payment default by us or the Guarantor on the relevant warrants.The value you receive on any series of warrants may be significantly less than what you would have otherwise received had our warrants authorized the trustee to exercise any remedy against us or the Guarantor upon the occurrence or continuation of these events with respect to the Guarantor.

An Event of Default with respect to one series of warrants does not necessarily constitute an Event of Default with respect to any other series of warrants. The Indenture requires the trustee to provide notice of default with respect to the warrants within 90 days, unless the default is cured, but provides that the trustee may withhold notice to the holders of the warrants of any default if the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or responsible officers of the trustee determines in good faith that it is in the interest of the holders of the warrants of the applicable series to do so. The trustee may not withhold notice of a default in the payment of any money due, under such warrants. (Section 5.11)

The Indenture provides that the holders of a majority in number of outstanding warrants of each series affected, with all such series voting as a single class, may direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee. The trustee may decline to act if the direction is contrary to law and in certain other circumstances set forth in the Indenture. (Section 5.09) The trustee is not obligated to exercise any of its rights or powers under the Indenture at the request or direction of the holders of warrants unless the holders offer the trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities incurred therein or thereby. (Section 6.02(d))

No holder of any warrant of any affected series has the right to institute any action for remedy unless such holder has previously given to the trustee written notice of default, the trustee has failed to take action for 60 days after the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate number of the warrants of each affected series make written request upon the trustee to institute such action and have offered reasonable indemnity in connection with the same and the holders of a majority in aggregate number of the warrants of each affected series (voting as a single class) have not given direction to the trustee that is inconsistent with the written request referred to above. (Section 5.06)

However, the right of any holder of a warrant to receive payment of the money due on that warrant on or after its payment date, to exercise that warrant in accordance with its terms, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and such right to exercise, may not be impaired or affected without the consent of that holder. (Section 5.07)

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The Indenture requires us and the Guarantor to file annually with the trustee a written statement as to whether or not we or the Guarantor, as the case may be, have knowledge of a default. (Section 3.05)

Discharge

The Indenture will cease to be of further effect with respect to warrants of any series and the guarantee as it relates to warrants of that series, except as to rights of registration of transfer and exchange, substitution of mutilated, defaced, lost or stolen warrants, rights of holders to receive amounts payable under the warrants on the due date thereof, rights and immunities of the trustee and rights of holders with respect to property deposited pursuant to the following provisions, and our obligation to maintain an office for payments, if at any time:

·we or the Guarantor have paid the amounts payable under the warrants of such series as and when due;

·we have delivered to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for cancellation all warrants of such series; or

·the warrants of such series not delivered to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for cancellation have been exercised, or will be automatically exercised within one year, or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the trustee or the applicable paying agent for the giving of notice of redemption, and we or the Guarantor has irrevocably deposited with the trustee or the applicable paying agent as trust funds the entire amount in cash or, in the case of securities payable in dollars, U.S. government obligations sufficient to pay amounts due with respect to such warrants on or after the date of such deposit, including upon expiration, exercise or redemption of all such warrants, including all amounts on the dates on which such payments are due and payable. (Section 10.01)

The trustee, on our or the Guarantor’s demand, accompanied by an officers’ certificate of ours or the Guarantor’s, and an opinion of counsel and at our or the Guarantor’s cost and expense, will execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging the Indenture with respect to such series.

Modification of the Indenture

The Indenture contains provisions permitting us, the Guarantor and the trustee to modify the Indenture or the rights of the holders of warrants with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in number of each outstanding series of warrants affected by the modification. Each holder of an affected warrant must consent to a modification that would:

·extend the final expiration date of any warrant;

·reduce or extend the time of payment of any money due under any warrant;

·change the currency or currency unit of payment of any warrant or certain provisions of the Indenture applicable to warrants in foreign currencies;

·change the method in which amounts of payments are determined on any warrant;

·reduce any amount payable upon exercise or redemption of any warrant;

·impair the right of a holder to institute suit for the payment of a warrant, the right of a holder to exercise a warrant in accordance with its terms or, if the warrants provide, any right of repurchase at the option of the holder of a warrant;

·reduce the percentage of warrants of any series, the consent of the holders of which is required for any modification; or

·make any change in the guarantee that would adversely affect the holders of the warrants of such series or release the Guarantor from the guarantee other than pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. (Section 8.02)

The Indenture also permits us, the Guarantor and the trustee to amend the Indenture in certain circumstances without the consent of the holders of warrants to evidence our or the Guarantor’s merger or the replacement of the trustee, to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision,to make any change to the Indenture or our warrants that we deem necessary or desirable and that does not materially and adversely affect the interests of holders of the warrantsand for certain other purposes. (Section 8.01)

Consolidations, Mergers, Sales and Transfers of Assets

Neither we nor the Guarantor may merge or consolidate with any other entity or sell, convey or transfer all or substantially all of their respective assets to any other entity, unless:

·with respect to us:

·either we are the continuing entity in the case of a merger or consolidation or the successor entity in the case of a merger or consolidation (including an affiliate of the Guarantor) or the entity to whom those assets are sold, conveyed or transferred in the case of a sale, conveyance or transfer is a United States corporation or limited liability company that expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any interest on, or any other amounts due under the warrants and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the Indenture binding upon us, and

·no Event of Default and no event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default has occurred or would be continuing, immediately after the merger or consolidation, or the sale, conveyance or transfer, and

·with respect to the Guarantor:

·either the Guarantor is the continuing entity in the case of a merger or consolidation or the successor entity in the case of a merger or consolidation or the entity to whom those assets are sold, conveyed or transferred in the case of a sale, conveyance or transfer is a United States corporation that expressly assumes the full and unconditional guarantee of the full and punctual payment of the principal of, any interest on, or any other amounts due under the warrants and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the Indenture binding upon the Guarantor, and

·no Event of Default and no event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default has occurred or would be continuing, immediately after the merger or consolidation, or the sale, conveyance or transfer. (Sections 9.01 and 9.02)

Any transfer of material assets of the Guarantor to any other entity that occurs as a result of, or because it is related directly or indirectly to, any proceedings relative to the Guarantor under Title 11 of the United States Code or under a receivership under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 or under any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution or other similar law will be deemed to be a sale, conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of the Guarantor’s assets.

There are no covenants or other provisions in the Indenture that would afford holders of warrants additional protection in the event of a recapitalization transaction involving us or the Guarantor, a change of control of us or the Guarantor or a highly leveraged transaction involving us or the Guarantor. The merger covenant described above would apply only if the recapitalization transaction, change of control or highly leveraged transaction were structured to include a merger or consolidation of us or the Guarantor or a sale or conveyance of all or substantially all of our or the Guarantor’s assets. However, we may provide specific protections, such as a put right for particular warrants, which we would describe in the applicable prospectus supplement.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Guarantee

The Guarantor will fully and unconditionally guarantee the full and punctual payment of amounts payable under the warrants when the same becomes due and payable, whether at expiration, upon exercise, redemption or repurchase at the option of the holders of the applicable warrants. If for any reason we do not make any required payment in respect of our warrants when due, the Guarantor will on demand pay the unpaid amount at the same place and in the same manner that applies to payments made by us under the Indenture. The guarantee is of payment and not of collection. (Section 14.01)

The Guarantor’s obligations under the guarantee are unconditional and absolute. However, (1) the Guarantor will not be liable for any amount of payment that we are excused from making or any amount in excess of the amount actually due and owing by us, and (2) any defense or counterclaims available to us (except those resulting solely from, or on account of, our insolvency or our status as debtor or subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding) will also be available to the Guarantor to the same extent as these defense or counterclaims are available to us, whether or not asserted by us. (Section 14.02)

Concerning the Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar and Transfer Agent

We, the Guarantor and certain of their affiliates have a wide range of banking relationships with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, The Bank of New York Mellon and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch. The Bank of New York Mellon and, for warrants settled through Euroclear Bank SA/NV or Clearstream Banking, S.A., Luxembourg, The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, will be the paying agents, authenticating agents, registrars and transfer agents for warrants issued under the Indenture.

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas is initially serving as the trustee for the warrants issued under our Indenture, to which JPMorgan Chase & Co. acts as a guarantor, the debt securities issued under our indenture for debt securities, to which JPMorgan Chase & Co. acts as a guarantor, and the debt securities issued under JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s indenture. Consequently, if an actual or potential event of default occurs with respect to any of these securities, the trustee may be considered to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended. In that case, the trustee may be required to resign under the Indenture, and we would be required to appoint a successor trustee. For this purpose, a “potential” event of default means an event that would be an event of default if the requirements for giving us default notice or for the default having to exist for a specific period of time were disregarded.

Replacement of Warrants

At the expense of the holder, we may, in our discretion, replace any warrant that has been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen or that is apparently destroyed, lost or stolen. The mutilated warrant must be delivered to the paying agent and the registrar or satisfactory evidence of the destruction, loss or theft of the warrant must be delivered to us, the paying agent, the registrar and the trustee. At the expense of the holder, an indemnity that is satisfactory to us, the Guarantor, the paying agent, the registrar and the trustee may be required before a replacement warrant will be issued. (Section 2.09)

Governing Law and Judgments

The warrants and the Indenture, including the guarantee, will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. (Section 11.08) A judgment for money in an action based on warrants payable in foreign currencies in a federal or state court in the United States ordinarily would be enforced in the United States only in U.S. dollars. The date used to determine the rate of conversion of the foreign currency in which a particular warrant is payable into U.S. dollars will depend upon various factors, including which court renders the judgment. However, if a judgment for money in an action based on the warrants and the Indenture were entered by a New York court applying New York law, the court would render a judgment in that foreign currency, and the judgment would be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment.

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Forms of Securities

Each debt security, warrant, unit and purchase contract will be represented either by a certificate issued in definitive form to a particular investor or by one or more global securities representing the entire issuance of securities. Both definitive securities and global securities will be issued only in registered form, where our or JPMorgan Financial’s obligation runs to the holder of the security named on the face of the security or, if a registry is kept, the registered owner of the note in the registry, and not in bearer form, where our or JPMorgan Financial’s obligation would run to the bearer of the security. Definitive securities name you or your nominee as the owner of the security, and in order to transfer or exchange these securities or to receive payments other than interest or other interim payments, you or your nominee must physically deliver the securities to the trustee, registrar, paying agent or other agent, as applicable. Registered global securities name a depositary or its common depositary or nominee as the owner of the debt securities, warrants, units or purchase contracts represented by these global securities. The depositary maintains a computerized system that will reflect each investor’s beneficial ownership of the securities through an account maintained by the investor with its broker/dealer, bank, trust company or other representative, as we explain more fully below.

Book-Entry System

General. Unless otherwise specified in the relevant prospectus supplement, the securities will be initially issued in the form of one or more fully registered global securities that will be deposited with, or on behalf of, oneDTC, as depositary, or more depositaries, including, without limitation, The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), Euroclear Bank SA/NV (“Euroclear”) and/or Clearstream Banking, S.A., Luxembourg (“Clearstream”)its nominee and will be registered in the name of such depositary or its common depositary or nominee. Under thesea nominee of DTC. Except under the limited circumstances one or more registereddescribed below, global securities will not be issuedexchangeable for certificated securities.

Only institutions that have accounts with DTC or its nominee (“DTC participants”) or persons that may hold interests through DTC participants may own beneficial interests in a denomination or aggregate denominations equal to the portionglobal security. DTC will maintain records evidencing ownership of the aggregate principal or face amount of the securities to be represented by registered global securities. Unless and until it is exchanged in whole for securities in definitive registered form, a registered global security may not be transferred except as a whole by and among the depositary for the registered global security, the common depositaries or the nominees of the depositary or any successors of the depositary or those common depositaries or nominees.

The securities may be accepted for clearancebeneficial interests by DTC Euroclear and Clearstream. Unless otherwise specifiedparticipants in the relevant prospectus supplement, the initial distributionglobal securities and transfers of the securitiesthose ownership interests. DTC participants will be cleared through DTC only. Under these circumstances,maintain records evidencing ownership of beneficial interests in the registered global securities will be shown on,by persons that hold through those DTC participants and transfers thereofof those ownership interests within those DTC participants. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the securities. You will be effected onlynot receive written confirmation from DTC of your purchase, but we do expect that you will receive written confirmations providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic statements of your holdings, from the DTC participant through which you entered the book-entry records maintained by DTC and its direct and indirect participants, including, as applicable, Euroclear and Clearstream.

transaction. The laws of some states mayjurisdictions require that somecertain purchasers of securities take physical delivery of thesethose securities in definitivecertificated form. TheseThose laws may impair your ability to own, transfer or pledge beneficial interests in registered global securities.

Ownership of beneficial interests in a registered global security will be limited to persons, called participants,security.

DTC has advised us that have accounts with the depositary or persons that may hold interests through participants. Uponupon the issuance of a registered global security and the depositarydeposit of that global security with DTC, DTC will immediately credit, on its book entrybook-entry registration and transfer system, the participants’ accounts with the respective principal amounts or face amountsnumber of the securities beneficially ownedshares represented by the participants. Any dealers, underwriters or agents participating in the distribution of the securities will designatethat global security to the accounts to be credited. Ownership of beneficial interests inDTC participants.

We will make payments on securities represented by a registered global security will be shown on, and the transfer of ownership interests will be effected only through, records maintained by the depositary, with respect to interests of participants, and on the records of participants, with respect to interests of persons holding through participants.

So long as the depositary,DTC or its common depositary or nominee, is the registered owner of a registered global security, that depositary or its common depositary or nominee, as the case may be, will be consideredas the soleregistered owner and holder of the securities represented by the registered global security for all purposes underrepresenting those securities. DTC has advised us that upon receipt of any payment on a global security, DTC will immediately credit accounts of DTC participants with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in that security, as shown in the Indenture, warrant agreement, unit agreement or purchase contract, as applicable. Except as described below,records of DTC. Standing instructions and customary practices will govern payments by DTC participants to owners of beneficial interests in a global security held through those DTC participants, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in “street name.” Those payments will be the sole responsibility of those DTC participants, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements in effect from time to time.

None of JPMorgan Chase, the trustees, the depositary or any of our respective agents will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records of DTC, any nominee or any DTC participant relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial interests in a global security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of the records of DTC, any nominee or any DTC participant relating to those beneficial interests.

A global security is exchangeable for certificated securities registered in the name of a person other than DTC or its nominee only if:

DTC notifies us that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for that global security or DTC ceases to be registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;

we determine in our discretion that the global security will not be exchangeable for certificated securities in registered form; or

if applicable to the particular type of security, there shall have occurred and be continuing an event of default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an event of default under the securities.

Any global security that is exchangeable as described in the preceding sentence will be exchangeable in whole for certificated securities in registered form, and, in the case of global debt securities, of like tenor and of an equal aggregate principal amount as the global security, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 (or in denominations and integral multiples as otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement). The registrar for the securities will register the certificated securities in the name or names instructed by DTC. We expect that those instructions may be based upon directions received by DTC from DTC participants with respect to ownership of beneficial interests in the global security. In the case of global debt securities, we will make payment of any principal and interest on the certificated securities and will register transfers and exchanges of those certificated securities at the corporate trust office of The Bank of New York Mellon or any successor paying agent that we may designate. However, we may elect to pay interest by check mailed to the address of the person entitled to havethat interest payment as of the securities represented byrecord date, as shown on the registeredregister for the securities.

Except as provided above, as an owner of a beneficial interest in a global security, registered in their names,you will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of the securities in definitivecertificated form and will not be considered the owners or holdersa holder of securities for any purpose under either of the securities underindentures. No global security will be exchangeable except for another global security of like denomination and tenor to be registered in the Indenture, warrant agreement, unit

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agreementname of DTC or purchase contract, as applicable.its nominee. Accordingly, each person owning a beneficial interest in a registered global securityyou must rely on the procedures of DTC and the depositary for that registered global security and, if that person is not a participant, on the procedures of theDTC participant through which the person owns itsyou own your interest to exercise any rights of a holder under the Indenture, warrant agreement, unit agreementglobal security or purchase contract, as applicable. the applicable indenture.

We and JPMorgan Financial understand that, under existing industry practices, ifin the event that we or JPMorgan Financial request any action of holders, or if an owner of a beneficial interest in a registered global security desires to give or take any action that a holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture, warrant agreement, unit agreementsecurities or purchase contract, as applicable, the depositary for the registered global securityindentures, DTC would authorize the DTC participants holding the relevant beneficial interests to give or take that action, and thethose DTC participants would authorize beneficial owners owning through themthose DTC participants to give or take that action or would otherwise act upon the instructions of beneficial owners holdingowning through them.

The Clearing Systems.DTC Euroclear and Clearstream, as applicable, havehas advised us and JPMorgan Financial as follows:

that DTC is a limited-purposelimited purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law, a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A ofunder the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. DTC holds and provides asset servicing for1934.

If specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, investors may elect to hold interests in the global securities deposited with DTC outside the United States through Clearstream Banking, S.A. (“Clearstream”) or Euroclear Bank SA/NV, as operator of the Euroclear System (“Euroclear”), if they are participants in those systems, or indirectly through organizations that are participants in those systems. Clearstream and Euroclear will hold interests on behalf of their participants through customers’ securities accounts in Clearstream’s and Euroclear’s names on the books of their respective depositaries. Those depositaries in turn hold those interests in customers’ securities accounts in the depositaries’ names on the books of DTC. Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, The Bank of New York Mellon will act as depositary for each of Clearstream and Euroclear in the case of global debt securities.

Clearstream has advised us that it byis incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg as a professional depositary. Clearstream holds securities for its participants. DTC alsoparticipants and facilitates the post-tradeclearance and settlement among direct participants of sales and other securities transactions in deposited securities,between its participants through electronic computerized book-entry transfers between their accounts. Clearstream provides its participants with, among other things, services for safekeeping, administration, clearance and pledges between direct participants’ accounts. This eliminatessettlement of internationally traded securities and securities lending and borrowing. Clearstream interfaces with domestic securities markets in several countries through established depository and custodial relationships. As a professional depositary, Clearstream is subject to regulation by the needLuxembourg Commission for physical movementthe Supervision of securities certificates. Directthe Financial Sector, also known as theCommission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier. Clearstream participants include both U.S. and non-U.S.are recognized financial institutions around the world, including underwriters, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations. DTC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (“DTCC”). DTCC isClearstream’s participants in the holding company for DTC, National Securities Clearing CorporationUnited States are limited to securities brokers and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, all of which are registered clearing agencies. DTCC is owned by the users of its regulated subsidiaries. Accessdealers and banks. Indirect access to the DTC systemClearstream is also available to othersother institutions such as both U.S.banks, brokers, dealers and non-U.S. securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a direct participant, either directly or indirectly. The DTCClearstream participants.

Distributions with respect to interests in global securities held through Clearstream will be credited to cash accounts of its customers in accordance with its rules applicable to its participants are on file with the SEC. More information about DTC can be found at www.dtcc.com. We and JPMorgan Chase & Co. make no representation or warranty asprocedures, to the accuracy or completeness ofextent received by the information displayed on such website, and such information is not incorporated by reference herein and should not be considered a part of this prospectus.

U.S. depositary for Clearstream.

Euroclear holdshas advised us that it was created in 1968 to hold securities for its participants and clearsto clear and settlessettle transactions between itsEuroclear participants through simultaneous electronic book-entry delivery against payment, thusthereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates.certificates and any risk from lack of simultaneous transfers of securities and cash. Euroclear provides various other services, including safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement and securities lending and borrowing, and interfaces with domestic markets in several countries. Euroclear is operated by Euroclear Bank SA/NV under contract with Euroclear plc, a U.K. corporation. Euroclear Bank conducts all operations, and all Euroclear securities clearance accounts and Euroclear cash accounts are accounts with Euroclear Bank, not Euroclear plc. Euroclear plc establishes policy for Euroclear on behalf of Euroclear participants. Euroclear participants include banks, (includingincluding central banks),banks, securities brokers and dealers and other professional financial intermediaries and may include any underwriters for the securities.intermediaries. Indirect access to Euroclear is also available to other firms that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Euroclear participant, either directly or indirectly. Euroclear is an indirect participant in DTC. Securities clearance accounts and cash accounts with Euroclear are governed by the Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear and the related Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System (collectively, the “Euroclear Terms and Conditions”) and applicable law. The Euroclear Terms and Conditions govern transfers of securities and cash within Euroclear, withdrawals of securities and cash from Euroclear and receipts of payments with respect to securities in Euroclear.

Clearstream is incorporated under the laws of The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as a société anonyme and is subject to regulation by the Luxembourg Commission for the Supervision of the Financial Sector (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier). Clearstream is owned by Deutsche Börse AG, a publicly traded company. Clearstream holds securities for its participants and facilitates the

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clearance and settlement of securities transactions among its participants through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of its participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates. Clearstream provides other services to its participants, including safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement of internationally traded securities and securities lending and borrowing. Clearstream interfaces with domestic markets in several countries. Clearstream’s customers include worldwide securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations and may include professional financial intermediaries. Its U.S. customers are limited to securities brokers, dealers and banks. Indirect access to the Clearstream system is also available to others that clear through Clearstream customers or that have custodial relationships with its customers, such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies. Clearstream is an indirect participant in DTC. Clearstream has established an electronic bridge with Euroclear to facilitate settlement of trades between Clearstream and Euroclear. Distributions with respect to interests in global securities held beneficially through Clearstream areEuroclear will be credited to the cash accounts of Clearstream customersEuroclear participants in accordance with its rulesEuroclear’s terms and conditions and operating procedures and applicable Belgian law, to the extent received by Clearstream.

Payments on Registered Global Securities. Principal, interest payments on debt securities, other amounts due under debt securities and any payments to holders with respect to warrants, units or purchase contracts, represented by a registered global security registered in the name of a depositary or its common depositary or nominee will be made to the depositary or its common depositary or nominee, as the case may be, as the registered owner of the registered global security. None of us, JPMorgan Financial, the trustees, the warrant agents, the unit agents or any of our or JPMorgan Financial’s other agents, agent of the trustees or agent of the warrant agents or unit agents will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in the registered global security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to those beneficial ownership interests.

We and JPMorgan Financial expect that theU.S. depositary for any of the securities represented by a registered global security, upon receipt of any payment of principal, interest, other amounts or other distribution of underlying securities or other property to holders on that registered global security, will immediately credit participants’ accounts in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in that registered global security as shown on the records of the depositary. We and JPMorgan Financial also expect that payments by participants to owners of beneficial interests in a registered global security held through participants will be governed by standing customer instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with the securities held for the accounts of customers registered in “street name,” and will be the responsibility of those participants.Euroclear.

Global Clearance and Settlement Procedures.YouProcedures

Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement with respect to a particular series of global securities, initial settlement for global securities will be required to make your initial payment for the securitiesmade in immediately available funds. Secondary market trading between DTC participants will occurconduct secondary market trading with other DTC participants in the ordinary way in accordance with DTC rules andrules. Thereafter, secondary market trades will be settledsettle in immediately available funds using DTC's Same-Day Funds Settlement System,DTC’s same day funds settlement system.

If the prospectus supplement specifies that interests in the global securities may be held through Clearstream or any successor thereto. Secondary market trading betweenEuroclear, Clearstream customers and/or Euroclear participants will occurconduct secondary market trading with other Clearstream customers and/or Euroclear participants in the ordinary way in accordance with the applicable rules and operating procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear andEuroclear. Thereafter, secondary market trades will be settled using the procedures applicable to conventional eurobondssettle in immediately available funds.

Cross-market transfers between persons holding directly or indirectly through DTC on the one hand, and directly or indirectly through Clearstream customers or Euroclear participants, on the other, will be effected in DTC in accordance with DTCDTC’s rules on behalf of the relevant European international clearing system by athe U.S. depositary;depositary for that system; however, suchthose cross-market transactions will require delivery of instructions toby the counterparty in the relevant European international clearing system by the counterparty in suchof instructions to that system in accordance with its rules and procedures and within its established deadlines (based on European(European time). The relevant European international clearing system will, if the transaction meets its settlement requirements, deliver instructions to the U.S. depositary for that system to take action to effect final settlement on its behalf by delivering or receiving interests in global securities in DTC, and making or receiving payment in accordance with normal procedures for same-day funds settlement applicable to DTC. Clearstream customers and Euroclear participants may not deliver instructions directly to their respective U.S. depositaries.DTC.

Investors should be aware that they will be able to make and receive deliveries, payments and other communications involving the securities through Clearstream and Euroclear only on days when those systems are open for business. Those systems may not be open for business on days when banks,

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brokers and other institutions are open for business in the United States. In addition, becauseBecause of time-zone differences, there may be problems with completing transactions involving Clearstream and Euroclear on the same business day as in the United States. U.S. investors who wish to transfer theircredits of interests in theglobal securities or to receive or make a payment or delivery of the securities, on a particular day, may find that the transactions will not be performed until the next business dayreceived in Luxembourg or Brussels, depending on whether Clearstream or Euroclear is used.

as a result of a transaction with a DTC participant will be made during subsequent securities settlement processing and will be credited the business day following the DTC settlement date. Those credits or any transactions in global securities settled during that processing will be reported to the relevant Euroclear participants or Clearstream customers on that business day. Cash received in Clearstream or Euroclear as a result of sales of interests in global securities by or through a Clearstream customer or a Euroclear participant to a DTC participant will be received with value on the DTC settlement date but will be available in the relevant Clearstream or Euroclear cash account only as of the business day following settlement in DTC.

Although DTC, Clearstream and Euroclear have agreed to the foregoing procedures described above in order to facilitate transfers of interests in global securities among DTC participants, of DTC, Clearstream and Euroclear, they are under no obligation to perform or continue to perform suchthose procedures and suchthose procedures may be discontinued at any time.

Issuance of Definitive Securities.

Special Provisions Relating to Certain Foreign Currency Securities

If specified in the depositary for any of theseapplicable prospectus supplement, book-entry securities represented by a registered global security is at any time unwilling or unable to continue as depositary or ceases to be either a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and anydenominated in currencies other applicable statute or regulation or a foreign clearing agency regulated by a foreign financial authority as defined in Section 3(a)(52) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including, without limitation, Clearstream and Euroclear, and a successor depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is not appointed by us or JPMorgan Financial, as the casethan U.S. dollars may be within 90 days, weheld directly through participants in the systems of Clearstream or JPMorgan Financial, as applicable,Euroclear, or indirectly through organizations that are participants in such systems. Such securities will issue securitiesbe issued in definitivethe form in exchange for the registered global security that had been held by the depositary. In addition, the Indenture permits us and JPMorgan Financial, as the case may be, at any time and in our or JPMorgan Financial’s sole discretion to decide not to have any of the securities issued under it represented by one or more registered global securities. However, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York has advised us and JPMorgan Financial that, under its current practices, it would notify its participants of our or JPMorgan Financial’s request, but will only withdraw beneficial interests from thecertificates (the “international global securities at the request of each DTC participant. We or JPMorgan Financial, as the case may be, will issue securities in definitive form in exchange for the registered global security or all the securities representing those securities. Any securities issued in definitive form in exchange for a registered global securitysecurities”), which will be registered in the name of a nominee for, and shall be deposited with, a common depositary for Clearstream and/or names thatEuroclear. If a particular tranche or series of securities is issued utilizing both a global security and an international global security, in order to allow transfers between account holders utilizing the depositary gives todifferent book-entry systems the trustee, warrant agent, unit agent or other relevant agentregistrar will adjust the amounts of ours, JPMorgan Financial’s or theirs. It is expected that the depositary’s instructions will be based upon directions received byglobal securities on the depositary from participantsregister for the accounts of the nominees for the respective systems.

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, with respect to ownershipan international global security, distributions of beneficial interestsprincipal and interest for a global debt security and dividends for a global equity security will be credited, in the registeredspecified currency, to the extent received by Clearstream or Euroclear, to the cash accounts of Clearstream or Euroclear customers in accordance with the relevant system’s rules and procedures. If the prospectus supplement provides for both a global security that had beenand an international global security or if a beneficial interest in a global security is held by the depositary.

Forma participant in Clearstream or Euroclear, then a holder of Securities Included in Units

The form of any warrant includeda beneficial interest in a unitglobal security will correspond toreceive all payments in U.S. dollars in accordance with DTC’s rules and procedures, unless it has, or participants through which it holds its beneficial interest have, made other arrangements.

Relationship of Accountholders with Clearing Systems

Unless otherwise specified in the formapplicable prospectus supplement, each of the unit andpersons shown in the records of Clearstream, Euroclear or any other security includedclearing system as the holder of the securities represented by the global securities must look solely to Clearstream or Euroclear for such holder’s share of each payment made by or on behalf of JPMorgan Chase to Clearstream or Euroclear, and in that unit.relation to all other rights arising under the global securities, subject to and in accordance with the respective rules and procedures of Clearstream or Euroclear. Such persons shall have no claim directly against JPMorgan Chase in respect of payments due on the securities for so long as the securities are represented by global securities and such obligations of JPMorgan Chase will be discharged by payment to Clearstream or Euroclear in respect of each amount so paid.

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Plan of Distribution (Conflicts of Interest)

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We may sell ourthe debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares, common stock, securities warrants, currency warrants or units or purchase contractsbeing offered by use of this prospectus and JPMorgan Financial may sell its debt securities or warrants fully and unconditionally guaranteed by us:an applicable prospectus supplement:

 

·through agents;

through underwriters;

 

·through underwriters;

through dealers;

 

·through dealers; and

through agents; or

 

·directly to purchasers, any of whom may be customers of, engage in transactions with, or perform services for, us in the ordinary course of business.

directly to purchasers.

We will set forth the terms of the offering of any securities being offered in the applicable prospectus supplement.

If we or JPMorgan Financial offer and sellutilize underwriters in an offering of securities through an agent, that agentusing this prospectus, we will be named, and any commissions payable to that agent by us or JPMorgan Financial, as applicable, will be set forth in the prospectus supplement. Any agent will be acting on a best efforts basis. An agent may be deemed to be an underwriter under the federal securities laws.

If underwriters are used in the sale of the securities, we or JPMorgan Financial, as applicable, will signexecute an underwriting agreement with them.those underwriters. The underwriting agreement will provide that the obligations of the underwriters with respect to a sale of the offered securities are subject to certain conditions precedent and that the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all of the offered securities if any are purchased.purchased, other than securities subject to an underwriter’s overallotment option. Underwriters will buy themay sell those securities for their own accountto or through dealers. The underwriters may change any initial public offering price and may resell themany discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers from time to timetime. If we utilize underwriters in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at fixed publican offering prices or at varying prices determined atof securities using this prospectus, the time of sale. Securities may be offered toapplicable prospectus supplement will contain a statement regarding the public either through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters or directly by the managing underwriters. The name of the managing underwriter or underwriters, as well asintention, if any, other underwriters, and the terms of the transaction, including compensation of the underwriters and dealers, if any, will be set forthto make a market in the prospectus supplement. The underwriters named in the prospectus supplement will be the only underwriters for the securities offered by that prospectus supplement.

securities.

If we utilize a dealer is utilized in the salean offering of securities using this prospectus, we or JPMorgan Financial, as applicable, will sell thosethe offered securities to the dealer, as principal or as agent for its customers.principal. The dealer may then resell those securities to the public at a fixed price or at varying prices to be determined by the dealer at the time of resale. A dealer

We may be deemedalso use this prospectus to be an underwriter of thoseoffer and sell securities under the federal securities laws. The name of the dealer and the terms of the transaction will be set forththrough agents designated by us from time to time. Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement.

Our and JPMorgan Financial’s net proceedssupplement, any agent will be acting on a reasonable efforts basis for the purchase priceperiod of its appointment.

Underwriters, dealers or agents participating in the case of sales to a dealer, the public offering price less discount in the case of sales to an underwriter or the purchase price less commission in the case of sales through an agent — in each case, less other expenses attributable to issuance and distribution.

In order to facilitate the offering of these securities, the underwriters may engage in transactions that stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the price of these securities or any other securities the prices of which may be used to determine payments on these securities. Specifically, the underwriters may sell more securities than they are obligated to purchase in connection with the offering, creating a short position for their own accounts. A short sale is covered if the short position is no greater than the number or amountdistribution of securities available for purchase by the underwriters under any overallotment option. The underwriters can close out a covered short sale by exercising the overallotment option or purchasing these securities in the open market. In determining the sourceuse of securities to close out a covered short sale, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the open market price of these securities compared to the price available under the overallotment option. The underwriters may also sell these securities or any other securities in excess of the overallotment option, creating a naked short position. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of these securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.

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Asthis prospectus and an additional means of facilitating the offering, the underwriters may bid for, and purchase, these securities or any other securities in the open market to stabilize the price of these securities or of any other securities. Finally, in any offering of the securities through a syndicate of underwriters, the underwriting syndicate may also reclaim selling concessions allowed to an underwriter or a dealer for distributing these securities in the offering, if the syndicate repurchases previously distributed securities to cover syndicate short positions or to stabilize the price of these securities. Any of these activities may raise or maintain the market price of these securities above independent market levels or prevent or retard a decline in the market price of these securities. The underwriters are not required to engage in these activities, and may end any of these activities at any time.

We and JPMorgan Financial may agree to indemnify agents, underwriters or dealers against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the securities laws, or to contribute to payments that agents, underwriters or dealers may be required to make. Agents, underwriters and dealers may be customers of, engage in transactions with or perform services for, us or JPMorgan Financial in the ordinary course of business.

We and JPMorgan Financial may directly solicit offers to purchase securities, and we or JPMorgan Financial may sell securities directly to institutional investors or others whoapplicable prospectus supplement may be deemed to be underwriters, within the meaningand any discounts and commissions received by them and any profit realized by them on resale of the offered securities, laws. The termswhether received from us or from purchasers of any such sales will be described in the prospectus supplement.

We or JPMorgan Financial may enter into derivative or other hedging transactions with financial institutions. These financial institutions may in turn engage in sales ofoffered securities to hedge their position, deliver this prospectus in connection with some or all of those sales and use the securities covered by this prospectus to close out any loan of securities or short position created in connection with those sales. We or JPMorgan Financial may also sell securities short using this prospectus and deliver securities covered by this prospectus to close out any loan of securities or such short positions, or loan or pledge securities to financial institutions that in turn may sell the securities using this prospectus. We or JPMorgan Financial may pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the securities covered by this prospectus to support a derivative or hedging position or other obligation and, if we or JPMorgan Financial default in the performance of our or JPMorgan Financial’s obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the securities from time to time pursuant to this prospectus.

We or JPMorgan Financial may loan or pledge securities to a financial institution or other third party that in turn may sell the securities using this prospectus. Such financial institution or third party may transfer its short position to investors in our or JPMorgan Financial’s securities or in connection with a simultaneous offering of other securities offered by this prospectus.

If so indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, one or more firms, including J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, which we refer to as “remarketing firms,” may also offer or sell the securities in connection with a remarketing arrangement upon their purchase. Remarketing firms mayfor whom they act as principals for their own accounts or as agents for us. These remarketing firms will offer or sell the securities in accordance with a redemption or repurchase pursuant to the terms of the securities. The prospectus supplement will identify any remarketing firm and the terms of its agreement, if any, with us or JPMorgan Financial and will describe the remarketing firm’s compensation. Remarketing firmsagent, may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act of 1933.

Under agreements that we may enter into, underwriters, dealers or agents who participate in connection with the distribution of securities they remarket. Remarketing firmsby use of this prospectus and an applicable prospectus supplement may be entitled under agreements that may be entered into with us or JPMorgan Financial to indemnification by us or JPMorgan Financial against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, andor to contribution with respect to payments that those underwriters, dealers or agents may be required to make.

We may offer to sell securities either at a fixed price or at prices that may be changed, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices.

Underwriters, dealers, agents or their affiliates may be customers of, engage in transactions with, or perform services for, us and JPMorgan Financialour subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.

We and/or JPMorgan Financial may authorize agents, underwriters and dealers to solicit offers by certain institutions to purchase the securities from us or JPMorgan Financial at the public offering price stated in the prospectus supplement pursuant to delayed delivery contracts providing for payment and delivery on a specified date in the future and on terms described in the prospectus supplement. These contracts will be subject only to those conditions described in the prospectus supplement, and the prospectus supplement will state the commission payable for solicitation of these offers. Institutions with which delayed delivery contracts may be made include commercial and savings banks, insurance

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companies, pension funds, investment companies, educational and charitable institutions and other institutions but will in all cases be institutions that we or JPMorgan Financial have approved.

These contracts will be subject only to the conditions that:

·the underwriters purchase the securities at the time of the contract; and

·the purchase is not prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction in the United States to which the purchase is subject.

We or JPMorgan Financial will pay a commission, as indicated in the prospectus supplement, to agents and dealers soliciting purchases of securities pursuant to delayed delivery contracts that we or JPMorgan Financial have accepted.

This prospectus and related prospectus supplement may be used byOur direct or indirect wholly ownedwholly-owned subsidiaries, of ours, including J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, may use this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement in connection with offers and sales related to secondary market transactionsof securities in the securities.secondary market. Those subsidiaries may act as principal or agent in those transactions. Secondary market sales will be made at prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale.

Following the initial distribution of any of the securities, our affiliates

We may offer and sell these securitiesalso use this prospectus to directly solicit offers to purchase securities. Except as set forth in the course of their business as broker dealers. Our affiliates may act as principals or agents in these transactions and may make any sales at varying prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of sale or otherwise. Noneapplicable prospectus supplement, none of our affiliates is obligateddirectors, officers, or employees nor those of our bank subsidiaries will solicit or receive a commission in connection with those direct sales. Those persons may respond to make a marketinquiries by potential purchasers and perform ministerial and clerical work in any of these securities and may discontinue any market making activities at any time without notice.connection with direct sales.

Conflicts of Interest

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC has a "conflict of interest" within the meaning of FINRA Rule 5121 in any offering of the securities in which it participates because weWe own directly or indirectly all of the outstanding equity securities of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, because J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and JPMorgan Financial are under common control by us and because the net proceeds received from the sale of the securities will be used, in part, by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC or its affiliates in connection with hedging our or JPMorgan Financial’s obligations under the securities.LLC. The offer and sale of the securities by J.P. Morgan Securities LLCunderwriting arrangements for any offering pursuant to this prospectus will comply with the requirements of FINRA Rule 5121 of the regulations of FINRA regarding a FINRA member firm’s participation in a public offeringunderwriting of securities of an affiliate. In accordance with FINRA Rule 5121, neither J.P. Morgan Securities LLC nor any other affiliated underwriter, agent or dealer of ours or JPMorgan Financial’s may sell the securitiesnot make sales pursuant to this prospectus to any of its discretionary accountsaccount without the specific writtenprior approval of the customer.

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Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The audited financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this prospectus by reference to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sthe Annual Report on Form 10-K of JPMorgan Chase for the year ended December 31, 20162018 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

LEGAL OPINIONS

Legal Matters

The validity of the securities will be passed upon for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. The validity of certain of the securities will be passed upon for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, as special products counsel, or by Sidley Austin LLP, as counsel. Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP will also pass upon certain legal matters relating to the securities for the agents. Each of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Davis PolkNew York, New York, will provide an opinion for us regarding the validity of the offered securities and Cravath, Swaine & WardwellMoore LLP, New York, New York, will provide such an opinion for the underwriters. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP acts as legal counsel to us and Sidley Austin LLP hasour subsidiaries in a substantial number of matters on a regular basis.

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The information in this prospectus addendum is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the past representedregistration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus addendum is not an offer to sell these securities, and we are not soliciting offers to buy these securities, in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED MARCH 6, 2019

Prospectus addendum

(To Prospectus dated                , 2019)

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Debt Securities

Preferred Stock

Depositary Shares

Warrants

Units

Affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (“JPMorgan Chase”), including J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, may use this prospectus addendum in connection with offers and its affiliates and continuessales in the secondary markets related to representmarket-making transactions in the outstanding securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and itsreferenced herein. These affiliates on a regular basis andof JPMorgan Chase may act as principal or agent in a varietythose transactions. Secondary market sales by any of matters.

Benefit Plan Investor Considerations

A fiduciarythese affiliates will be made at prices related to prevailing market prices at the time of a pension, profit-sharing or other employee benefit plan subject to Title Isale. JPMorgan Chase will not receive any of the Employee Retirement Income Security Actproceeds of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), including entities such as collective investment funds, partnerships and separate accounts whose underlying assets include the assetsthose sales. These affiliates of such plans (collectively, “ERISA Plans”) should consider the fiduciary standards of ERISAJPMorgan Chase do not have any obligation to make a market in the contextsecurities referenced herein, and may discontinue their market-making activities at any time with notice, in their sole discretion.

The outstanding securities being offered by use of this prospectus addendum consist of debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares, warrants and units previously registered under the ERISA Plan’s particular circumstances before authorizing an investment in the securities. Among other factors, the fiduciary should consider whether the investment would satisfy the prudencefollowing registration statements of JPMorgan Chase or predecessor companies of JPMorgan Chase: 333-209681, 333-191692, 333-169900, 333-146731, 333-117775, 333-107207, 333-71876, 333-94393, 333-14959, 333-14959-02, 333-14959-03, 333-37567, 333-37567-03, 333-117785, 333-117785-05, 333-126750, 333-126750-02, 333-126750-04, 333-116775, 333-116775-02, 333-116773, 333-116773-01, 333-70639,33-49965, 33-64261, 33-64193, 33-60807, 33-64195, 333-22413, 333-15649 and diversification requirements of ERISA and would be consistent with the documents and instruments governing the ERISA Plan.

Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), prohibit ERISA Plans, as well as plans (including individual retirement accounts and Keogh plans) subject to Section 4975 of the Code (together with ERISA Plans, “Plans”), from engaging in certain transactions involving the “plan assets” with persons who are “parties in interest” under ERISA or “disqualified persons” under Section 4975 of the Code (in either case, referred to herein as “Parties in Interest”) with respect to such Plans. As a result of our business, we, and our current and future affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial), may be Parties in Interest with respect to many Plans. Where we (or our affiliate, including JPMorgan Financial) are a Party in Interest with respect to a Plan (either directly or by reason of our ownership interests in our directly or indirectly owned subsidiaries), the purchase and holding333-136666. The descriptions of the securities bybeing offered hereby are contained in the prospectuses and supplements thereto pursuant to which those securities were initially offered that are contained in or on behalfdeemed a part of the Plan could be a prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA and/or Section 4975 of the Code, unless statutory or administrative exemptive relief were available.

In this regard, certain prohibited transaction class exemptions (“PTCEs”) issued by the U.S. Department of Labor may provide exemptive relief for direct or indirect prohibited transactions resulting from the purchase or holding of the securities. Those class exemptions are PTCE 96-23 (for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), PTCE 95-60 (for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTCE 91-38 (for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds), PTCE 90-1 (for certain transactions involving insurance company separate accounts) and PTCE 84-14 (for certain transactions determined by independent qualified asset managers). In addition, ERISA Section 408(b)(17) and Section 4975(d)(20) of the Code may provide a limited exemption for the purchase and sale of theregistration statements referred to above. The instruments governing those securities and related lending transactions,providedother exhibits in respect of those securities were filed as exhibits or incorporated by reference in those registration statements. Those descriptions and exhibits are incorporated by reference into this prospectus addendum, except that neither the issuerinformation contained in those prospectuses and supplements thereto that (i) constitutes a description of the securities norJPMorgan Chase or any of its affiliates havepredecessors or exercise(ii) incorporates by reference any discretionary authorityinformation contained in JPMorgan Chase’s current or control or render any investment adviceperiodic reports filed with respect to the assets ofSEC, are superseded by the Plan involvedinformation contained in the transaction and provided further thatprospectus to which this prospectus addendum is attached.

The following securities are listed on the Plan pays no more, and receives no less, than adequate consideration in connection withNew York Stock Exchange under the transaction (the so-called “service provider exemption”). There can be no assurancetrading symbols indicated:

 

42 Depositary shares representing a 1/400th interest in a share of 5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P, listed under the trading symbol “JPM A”;

that any of these statutory or class exemptions will be available with respect to transactions involving the securities.

Accordingly, the securities may not be purchased or held by any Plan, any entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of any Plan’s investment in the entity (a “Plan Asset Entity”) or any person investing “plan assets” of any Plan, unless such purchaser or holder is eligible for the exemptive relief available under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14 or the service-provider exemption or there is some other basis on which the purchase and holding of the securities will not constitute or resultDepositary shares representing a 1/400th interest in a non-exempt prohibited transactionshare of 6.30% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series W, listed under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. Each purchaser or holder of the securities or anytrading symbol “JPM E”;

Depositary shares representing a 1/400th interest therein will be deemed to have represented by its purchase or holding of the securities that (a) it is not a Plan or a Plan Asset Entity and its purchase and holding of the securities is not made on behalf of or with “plan assets” of any Plan or a Plan Asset Entity or (b) its purchase and holding of the securities will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transactionshare of 6.125% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series Y, listed under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.trading symbol “JPM F”;

In this regard, certain governmental plans (as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA), church plans (as defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA) and non-U.S. plans (as described in Section 4(b)(4) of ERISA) (“Non-ERISA Arrangements”) are not subject to these “prohibited transaction” rules of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, but may be subject to similar rules under other applicable laws or regulations (“Similar Laws”). Accordingly, each such purchaser or holder of the securities shall be required to represent (and deemed to have represented by its purchase of the securities) that such purchase and holding will not constitute or resultDepositary shares representing a 1/400th interest in a violationshare of any applicable Similar Laws.

Due to6.10% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series AA, listed under the complexity of these rules, it is particularly important that fiduciaries or other persons considering purchasing the securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” of any Plan, Plan Asset Entity or Non-ERISA Arrangement consult with their counsel regarding the relevant provisions of ERISA, the Code or applicable Similar Laws and the availability of exemptive relief under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1, 84-14, the service provider exemption or some other basis on which the acquisition and holding will not constitute or resulttrading symbol “JPM G”;

Depositary shares representing a 1/400th interest in a non-exempt prohibited transactionshare of 6.15% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series BB, listed under ERISA or Section 4975the trading symbol “JPM H”;

Depositary shares representing a 1/400th interest in a share of 5.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series DD, listed under the Code ortrading symbol “JPM PR D”; and

Depositary shares representing a violation1/400th interest in a share of any applicable Similar Laws.

The securities are contractual financial instruments. The financial exposure provided by6.00% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series EE, listed under the securities is not a substitute or proxy for, and is not intended as a substitute or proxy for, individualized investment management or advice for the benefit of any purchaser or holder of the securities. Thetrading symbol “JPM PR C”.

These securities have not been designedapproved by the Securities and will not be administeredExchange Commission (the “SEC”) or any state securities commission, nor have these organizations determined that this prospectus addendum is accurate or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

See the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and any risk factors described in an applicable prospectus supplement, for a manner intended to reflect the individualized needs and objectivesdiscussion of risks you should consider in connection with an investment in any purchaser or holder of the securities.securities offered under this prospectus addendum.

In making your investment decision, you should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus addendum or any supplement to this prospectus addendum. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with any other information.

Each purchaser or holder of any securities acknowledges and agrees that:

(i)the purchaser or holder or its fiduciary has made and shall make all investment decisions for the purchaser or holder and the purchaser or holder has not relied and shall not rely in any way upon us or our affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial) to act as a fiduciary or adviser of the purchaser or holder with respect to (A) the design and terms of the securities, (B) the purchaser or holder’s investment in the securities, or (C) the exercise of or failure to exercise any rights we or JPMorgan Financial has under or with respect to the securities;

(ii)we and our affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial) have acted and will act solely for our own accounts in connection with (A) all transactions relating to the securities and (B) all hedging transactions in connection with our or JPMorgan Financial’s obligations under the securities;

(iii)any and all assets and positions relating to hedging transactions by us or our affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial) are assets and positions of those entities and are not assets and positions held for the benefit of the purchaser or holder;

(iv)our and JPMorgan Financial’s interests are adverse to the interests of the purchaser or holder; and

(v)neitherNeither we nor any of our affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial) is a fiduciary or adviser of the purchaser or holder in connection with any such assets, positions or transactions, and any

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information that we or any of our affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial) may provideis making an offer of securities in any state or jurisdiction where the offer is not intended to be impartial investment advice.permitted.

This prospectus addendum is dated                     , 2019.

Each purchaser and holder of the securities has exclusive responsibility for ensuring that its purchase, holding and subsequent disposition of the securities does not violate the fiduciary or prohibited transaction rules of ERISA, the Code or any applicable Similar Laws. The sale of any securities to any Plan, Plan Asset Entity or Non-ERISA Arrangement is in no respect a representation by us or any of our affiliates (including JPMorgan Financial) or representatives that such an investment is appropriate for, or meets all relevant legal requirements with respect to investments by, Plans, Plan Asset Entities or Non-ERISA Arrangements generally or any particular Plan, Plan Asset Entity or Non-ERISA Arrangement.


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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 14.Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

ITEM 14.

Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

Estimated expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities being registered other than underwriting compensation and related hedging costs, are as follows:

 

  Amount to be
Paid
Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee $3,112,500.00 
Legal fees and expenses $300,000.00*
Accounting fees and expenses $125,000.00*
Trustees fees and expenses (including counsel fees) $75,000.00*
Printing expenses $25,000.00*
Miscellaneous $25,000.00*
TOTAL $3,662,500.00*

* Estimated

Registration fee — Securities and Exchange Commission

$(15,773,392)† 

Attorneys’ fees and expenses

(350,000)

Accountants’ fees and expenses

(150,000)

Printing and engraving expenses

(150,000)

Rating agency fees

(100,000)

Trustee fees

(100,000)

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. fee

(75,500)

Miscellaneous expenses

(75,500)

Total

$(16,774,392)

 

Item 15.Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Of this fee, $10,773,392 has previously been paid with respect to unsold securities of JPMorgan Chase & Co. registered under Registration No. 333-209681 filed on February 24, 2016, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 filed on April 4, 2016, which is being included in this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; and $5,000,000 is being paid herewith.

*

Estimated

 

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

ITEM 15.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”), a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than a derivative action by or in the right of such corporation) who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or serving at the request of such corporation in such capacity for another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of such corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.

The DGCL also permits indemnification by a corporation under similar circumstances for expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such persons in connection with the defense or settlement of a derivative action, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to such corporation unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which such court shall deem proper.

The DGCL provides that the indemnification described above shall not be deemed exclusive of any other indemnification that may be granted by a corporation pursuant to itsby-laws, disinterested directors’ vote, stockholders’ vote, agreement or otherwise.

The DGCL also provides corporations with the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request

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of the corporation in a similar capacity for another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify him or her against such liability as described above.

The certificate of incorporation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (“JPMorgan Chase”) provides that, to the fullest extent that the DGCL as from time to time in effect permits the limitation or elimination of the

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liability of directors, no director of JPMorgan Chase shall be personally liable to JPMorgan Chase or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.

JPMorgan Chase’s certificate of incorporation empowers JPMorgan Chase to indemnify any director, officer, employee or agent of JPMorgan Chase or any other person who is serving at JPMorgan Chase’s request in any such capacity with another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan) to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL as from time to time in effect, and any such indemnification may continue as to any person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and may inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

JPMorgan Chase’s certificate of incorporation also empowers JPMorgan Chase by action of its board of directors, notwithstanding any interest of the directors in the action, to purchase and maintain insurance in such amounts as the Board of Directors deems appropriate to protect any director, officer, employee or agent of JPMorgan Chase or any other person who is serving at JPMorgan Chase’s request in any such capacity with another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan) against any liability asserted against him or her or incurred by him or her in any such capacity or arising out of his or her status as such (including, without limitation, expenses, judgments, fines (including any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan) and amounts paid in settlement) to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL as from time to time in effect, whether or not JPMorgan Chase would have the power or be required to indemnify any such person under the terms of any agreement orby-law or the DGCL.

In addition, JPMorgan Chase’sby-laws require JPMorgan Chase to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, as from time to time in effect, any person who was or is involved in any manner (including, without limitation, as a party or witness), or is threatened to be made so involved, in any threatened, pending or completed investigation, claim, action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (including without limitation, any action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of JPMorgan Chase to procure a judgment in its favor, but excluding any action, suit, or proceeding, or part thereof, brought by such person against JPMorgan Chase or any of its affiliates unless consented to by JPMorgan Chase) (a “Proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, or employee of JPMorgan Chase, or is or was serving at the request of JPMorgan Chase as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such Proceeding (or part thereof). Theby-laws specify that the right to indemnification so provided is a contract right, set forth certain procedural and evidentiary standards applicable to the enforcement of a claim under theby-laws and entitle the persons to be indemnified to receive payment in advance of any expenses incurred in connection with such Proceeding, consistent with the provisions of applicable law, as from time to time in effect. Such provisions, however, are intended to be in furtherance and not in limitation of the general right to indemnification provided in theby-laws, which right of indemnification and of advancement of expenses is not exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification may otherwise be entitled, under any statute, by-law, agreement, vote or otherwise.

JPMorgan Chase’sby-laws also provide that JPMorgan Chase may enter into contracts with any director, officer or employee of JPMorgan Chase in furtherance of the indemnification provisions in theby-laws, as well as create a trust fund, grant a security interest or use other means (including, without limitation, a letter of credit) to ensure payment of amounts indemnified.

 

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Lastly, JPMorgan Chase’sby-laws also provide that any repeal or modification of the indemnification rights provided in theby-laws shall not adversely affect any right or protection thereunder of any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.

The foregoing statements are subject to the detailed provisions of Section 145 of the DGCL and the certificate of incorporation andby-laws of JPMorgan Chase.

 

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JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC

Pursuant to Section 18-108 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, a Delaware limited liability company is empowered to indemnify and hold harmless any member or manager or other persons from and against all claims and demands whatsoever.

The limited liability company agreement of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC (“JPMorgan Financial”) provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware, no member, manager or officer shall be liable to JPMorgan Financial or any other member for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such member, manager or officer in good faith on behalf of JPMorgan Financial and in a manner reasonably believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such member, manager or officer by the limited liability company agreement.

JPMorgan Financial’s limited liability company agreement provides that each person (and the heirs, executors or administrators of such person) who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a member, manager or officer, or is or was serving at the request of JPMorgan Financial as a manager, director, officer, or trustee of another company, corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a member, manager, director, officer or trustee, or in any other capacity while serving as a member, manager, director, officer, or trustee, shall be indemnified and held harmless by JPMorgan Financial to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware for members, managers and officers of limited liability companies formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, as then in effect, against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith;provided,however, that JPMorgan Financial shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by JPMorgan Financial’s board of managers.

In addition, JPMorgan Financial’s limited liability company agreement provides that an indemnitee shall have the right to be paid by JPMorgan Financial the expenses (including attorney’s fees) incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”);provided,however, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a member, manager or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to JPMorgan Financial of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under the limited liability company agreement or otherwise.

JPMorgan Financial’s limited liability company agreement empowers JPMorgan Financial to maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any member, manager, officer, employee or agent of JPMorgan Financial or another company, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not JPMorgan Financial would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability, or loss under the limited liability company agreement or the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act.

JPMorgan Financial’s limited liability company agreement empowers JPMorgan Financial, to the extent authorized from time to time by its board of managers, to grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of JPMorgan Financial to the fullest extent of the limited liability company agreement with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of member, managers and officers of JPMorgan Financial.

JPMorgan Financial’s limited liability company agreement also provides that the rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in the limited liability company agreement

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shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, agreement (including the limited liability company agreement), vote of disinterested managers or otherwise.

Lastly, JPMorgan Financial’s limited liability company agreement provides that the rights conferred upon indemnitees in the limited liability company agreement shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a member, manager, director, officer or trustee and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators. Any amendment, alteration or repeal of the indemnity section of the limited liability company agreement that adversely affects any right of an indemnitee or its successors shall be prospective only and shall not limit or eliminate any such right with respect to any proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place prior to such amendment, alteration or repeal. Any indemnity under the limited liability company agreement shall be provided out of and to the extent of JPMorgan Financial’s assets only, and no member shall have personal liability on account thereof.

The foregoing statements are subject to the detailed provisions of Section 18-108 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act and the limited liability company agreement of JPMorgan Financial.

Item 16.Exhibits

ITEM 16.

Exhibits

The exhibits to this registration statement are listed in the exhibit index, which appears elsewhere herein and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 17.Undertakings

ITEM 17.(a)Each of the undersigned Registrants hereby undertakes:

Undertakings.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statementregistration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement.the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percenta 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement;registration statement; and

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statementregistration statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;registration statement;

provided,,however,, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by JPMorgan Chase & Co.the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended, that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement,the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the Registration Statement.

registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initialbona fide offering thereof.

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(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, to any purchaser:

(i) Each prospectus filed by athe Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date

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such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initialbona fide offering thereof.Provided, however,, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of athe Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, each of the undersigned RegistrantsRegistrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of suchthe undersigned Registrant pursuant to this Registration Statement,registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, suchthe undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of suchthe undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of suchthe undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by suchthe undersigned Registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about suchthe undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of suchthe undersigned Registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by suchthe undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

(b)     Each of theThe undersigned RegistrantsRegistrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, each filing of the JPMorgan Chase & Co.’sRegistrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended, (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended)1934) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statementthe registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initialbona fide offering thereof.

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(c)    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of athe Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, described under Item 15 of this Registration Statement, or otherwise, suchthe Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by athe Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of suchthe Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, suchthe Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in suchthe Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Index

Exhibit

Number

Document Description

1(a)(1)1.1Form of Debt Securities Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions (including formAgreement.
1.2Form of Delayed Delivery Contract) dated asEquity Securities Underwriting Agreement.
1.3Form of June 12, 2001Master Agency Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a)(1)1.1 to Amendmentthe Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 1-5805) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. filed February 1, 2017).
4.1Form of Certificate for shares of Common Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826)333-71876) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).
 
1(a)(2)4.2Master Agency Agreement dated asForm of December 1, 2005, among JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Agents party theretoCertificate of Designations for Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a)(2)4.2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-130051)333-191692) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).
 
1(a)(3)4.3Addendum to Master Agency Agreement dated asForm of October 12, 2006, between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Agents party theretoDeposit Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a)(3)4.3 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-155535)333-191692) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).
 4.4Form of Depositary Receipt representing Depositary Shares, included in Exhibit 4.3 hereto.
1(a)(4)
4.5Master Addendum to Master Agency Agreement and Calculation Agent Agreement each dated December 1, 2005, dated asForm of February 4, 2008 between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Agents party theretoDebt Securities Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a)(4)4.24 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-155535)333-71876) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).
 
1(a)(5)4.6Amendment No. 1 to Master Agency Agreement dated asForm of November 21, 2008, to the Master AgencyPreferred Stock Warrant Agreement dated as of December 1, 2005 (as amended) between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Agents party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a)(5)4.25 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-155535)333-71876) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).
 
1(a)(6)4.7Amendment No. 2 to Master Agency Agreement dated asForm of November 14, 2011, to the Master AgencyCommon Stock Warrant Agreement dated as of December 1, 2005 (as amended) between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Agents party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1(a)(6)4.26 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-177923)333-71876) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.).
 4.8
1(a)(7)*Master AgencyForm of Currency Warrants Warrant Agreement dated as(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.27 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-71876) of April 18, 2016 among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Agents party thereto).
 
4(a)(1)4.9Indenture, dated as of May 25, 2001,October 21, 2010, between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(1) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(a)(2)First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 9, 2008 to the Indenture dated as of May 25, 2001 between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-05805)1-05805) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. dated May 8, 2008)filed October 21, 2010).
 
4(a)(3)4.10SecondFirst Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 14, 2011 to the Indenture dated as of May 25, 2001January 13, 2017, between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(3) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-177923) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)

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Exhibit
Number 

Document Description 

4(a)(4)Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 24, 2014Trustee, to the Indenture, dated as of May 25, 2001October 21, 2010 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (File No. 1-5805) filed January 13, 2017).
4.11Form of Senior Debt Security, included in Exhibit 4.9 hereto.
4.12Subordinated Indenture dated as of March 14, 2014 between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and DeutscheU.S. Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company),National Association, as trustee (incorporatedTrustee, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(4) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199966) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(a)(5)Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014 to the Indenture dated as of May 25, 2001 between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(5) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199966) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(a)(6)Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 30, 2014 to the Indenture dated as of May 25, 2001 between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(6) to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199966) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(a)(7)Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 13, 2017 to the Indenture dated as of May 25, 2001 between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly Bankers Trust Company), as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.34.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-05805)1-5805) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. dated January 13, 2017)filed March 14, 2014).
 
4(a)(8)4.13First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 19, 2016, among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(7) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)
4(a)(9)Form of Warrant Indenture, among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(a)(8) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)
4(b)(1)Form of Fixed Rate Note of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)(1) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-177923) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(b)(2)Form of Floating Rate Note of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)(3) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-177923) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(b)(3)Form of Note of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)(3) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199966) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(b)(4)Non-U.S. Distribution Form of Note of JPMorgan & Co. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)(4) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199966) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(b)(5)Form of Note of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)(5) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)

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Exhibit
Number 

Document Description 

4(b)(6)Non-U.S. Distribution Form of Note of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(b)(6) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)
4(c)Form of Debt Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(c) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(d)Forms of Debt Warrant Certificates (included as Exhibits A and B to form of Debt Warrant Agreement) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(d) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(e)Form of Index Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(e) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(f)Forms of Index Warrant Certificates (included as Exhibits A and A-1 to form of Index Warrant Agreement) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(f) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(g)Form of Currency Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(g) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(h)Forms of Currency Warrant Certificates (included as Exhibits A and A-1 to form of Currency Warrant Agreement) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(h) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(k)Form of Universal Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(k) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(l)Forms of Universal Warrant Certificates (included as Exhibits A and B to form of Universal Warrant Agreement) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(1) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(m)(1)Form of Warrant of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(m)(1) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)
4(m)(2)Non-U.S. Distribution Form of Warrant of JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(m)(2) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)
4(n)Form of Unit Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(m) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(o)Form of Unit Certificate (included as Exhibit A to form of Unit Agreement) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(n) to Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-52826) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
4(p)+Form of Purchase Contract

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Exhibit
Number 

Document Description 

4(q)(1)Calculation Agent Agreement dated as of November 7, 2014January 13, 2017, between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLCU.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee, to the Subordinated Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2014 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(p)(1)4.2 to the Registration StatementCurrent Report on Form S-3 (File No. 333-199966)8-K of JPMorgan Chase & Co.) (File No. 1-5805) filed January 13, 2017).
 4.14Form of Subordinated Debt Security, included in Exhibit 4.12 hereto.
4(q)(2)*Calculation Agent Agreement dated as of April 18, 2016 among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
 4.15Form of Unit Agreement.*
4(r)(1)Paying Agent, Registrar & Transfer Agent and Authenticating Agent Agreement dated as of October 2, 2006 between JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and The Bank of New York Mellon (formerly, The Bank of New York) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(q)(1) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-155535) of JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
 4.16Form of Units.*
4(r)(2)*Paying Agent, Registrar & Transfer Agent and Authenticating Agent Agreement for Notes dated as of April 18, 2016 among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and The Bank of New York Mellon
 5.1
4(r)(3)Form of Paying Agent, Registrar & Transfer Agent and Authenticating Agent Agreement for Warrants among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and The Bank of New York Mellon (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4(r)(3) to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-209682 and 333-209682-01) of the Registrants)
   
5.1*Opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPLLP.
 23.1
5.2*Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, special products counsel to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
   
5.3*Opinion of Sidley Austinllp,counsel to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
12.1Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the Periods Ended December 31, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 12.1 to Annual Report on Form 10-K (File No. 001-05805) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the year ended December 31, 2016)
12.2Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the Period Ended September 30, 2017 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 12.1 to Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-05805) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. filed on October 12, 2017)
15.1*Letter re Unaudited Interim Financial Information of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.1*Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPLLP.
 23.2
23.2*Consent of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
 24.1
23.3*Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, special products counsel to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC (included in Exhibit 5.2)
   
23.4*ConsentPowers of Sidley Austinllp, counsel to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (included in Exhibit 5.3)
23.5*ConsentAttorney of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, special tax counsel to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Exhibit

Number

   

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Exhibit
Number 

Document Description

23.6*Consent of Sidley Austinllp,special tax counsel to JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
 25.1
24.1*Powers of Attorney of Linda B. Bammann, James A. Bell, Crandall C. Bowles, Stephen B. Burke, Todd A. Combs, James S. Crown, James Dimon, Timothy P. Flynn, Nicole Giles, Laban P. Jackson, Jr., Marianne Lake, Michael A. Neal, Lee R. Raymond and William C. Weldon
   
24.2*Powers of Attorney of Thomas S. Pluta, Scott A. Mitchell, Masahiro D. Yamada, Patrick Dempsey and Fater Belbachir (included on signature page to the Registration Statement)
25.1*Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualifications under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as trustee under the Indenture dated as of May 25, 2001, between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as TrusteeSenior Indenture.
 25.2
25.2*Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualifications under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of DeutscheU.S. Bank Trust Company Americas as trusteeNational Association under the Indenture dated as of February 19, 2016 among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee, and under the Warrant Indenture among JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as TrusteeSubordinated Indenture.

______________________

*Filed herewith
+

To be filed by amendment or under subsequentwith a Current Report on Form 8-K8-K.

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SIGNATURES

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant named below certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on thisForm S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on January 24, 2018.March 6, 2019

 

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
(Registrant)
By:/s/    STEPHEN B. GRANT        
Name:

Stephen B. Grant

Title:

Name:Stephen B. Grant
 Title:Assistant Corporate Secretary

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed on behalf of the Registrant by the following persons in the capacities and on the datedates indicated.

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.

 

SIGNATURETITLEDATE

Signature

  

Title

Date

*

James Dimon

Director, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

January 24, 2018
James Dimon

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018

Linda B. Bammann

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018

James A. Bell

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018
Crandall C. Bowles

Stephen B. Burke

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018
Stephen B. Burke

Todd A. Combs

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018
Todd A. Combs

James S. Crown

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018
James S. Crown

Timothy P. Flynn

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018
Timothy P. Flynn

Mellody Hobson

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018

Laban P. Jackson, Jr.

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018

Michael A. Neal

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018

Lee R. Raymond

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

DirectorJanuary 24, 2018

William C. Weldon

  

Director

 March 6, 2019

*

Marianne Lake

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

January 24, 2018
Marianne Lake

 March 6, 2019

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Signature

Title

Date

*

Nicole Giles

Managing Director and Corporate Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)

January 24, 2018
Nicole Giles

 March 6, 2019

*

Stephen B. Grant hereby signs this Registration Statement on behalf of each of the indicated persons for whom he is attorney-in-fact on January 24, 2018March 6, 2019 pursuant to a powerpowers of attorney filed as an exhibitexhibits to this registration statement.the Registration Statement.

 

By:  
By:/s/S/    STEPHEN B. GRANT        

Stephen B. Grant

Stephen B. Grant

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant named below certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on January 24, 2018.Dated: March 6, 2019

JPMORGAN CHASE FINANCIAL COMPANY LLC
(Registrant)
By:/s/Patrick Dempsey
Name:Patrick Dempsey
Title:Treasurer & Managing Director



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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints MASAHIRO D. YAMADA and PATRICK DEMPSEY, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to act separately and full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement and any and all additional registration statements pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or either of them or his or her or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.II-8

OFFICERS AND MANAGERS OF JPMORGAN CHASE FINANCIAL COMPANY LLC

SIGNATURETITLEDATE
/s/ Masahiro D. YamadaPresident (Principal Executive Officer) and ManagerJanuary 24, 2018
Masahiro D. Yamada
/s/ Thomas S. PlutaManagerJanuary 24, 2018
Thomas S. Pluta
/s/ Scott A. MitchellManagerJanuary 24, 2018
Scott A. Mitchell
/s/ Patrick DempseyTreasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) and ManagerJanuary 24, 2018
Patrick Dempsey
/s/Fater BelbachirManagerJanuary 24, 2018
Fater Belbachir

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