ANALYSIS: Politics, Finance Merge as Banks Become Fewer in Number, More Aligned With Government

'Wall Street and Washington, D.C., Are More Tightly Intermeshed With Each Other Than Ever,' Expert Says The absorption of First Republic Bank by JPMorgan Chase connected May 1 was conscionable the latest measurement successful a relentless march of consolidation among U.S. banks, arsenic America’s banking manufacture becomes some much concentrated and much intimately entwined with the national government. Since the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008, national r...