JPMorgan Chase Settles 'Whale' Lawsuit: Report

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is taking another step to put last year's "London Whale" saga behind it.

JPMorgan Chase has settled a lawsuit against Javier Martin-Artajo, who supervised a trader in the New York company's London-based investment office whose trades last year cost the company $6.2 billion, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Terms of the settlement were disclosed. Greg Campbell, a lawyer for Martin-Artajo, declined to comment.

JPMorgan Chase sued Martin-Artajo in a U.K. court in October as part of a series of steps to claw back compensation from managers in the office that placed bets that led to the loss. The company said last summer that all managers who were responsible for overseeing the trades had left the firm.

News of the settlement follows JPMorgan Chase's release Wednesday of an internal report that takes traders in the London office to task for failing to provide senior managers with "good-faith estimates" of the full extent of losses in their portfolios. The report also found that senior managers should have done more to address the "risks, risks controls and personnel" associated with the investment office.

The findings also prompted the company's board to cut chief executive Jamie Dimon's compensation for 2012 by roughly half, to $11.5 million.

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