JPMorgan Chase (JPM -1.52%) is the largest commercial bank in the U.S., with about $4.5 trillion in assets. Chase Bank is the company's consumer and community banking subsidiary. Its other three segments are corporate and investment banking, commercial banking, and asset and wealth management.
JPMorgan Chase's roots go all the way back to 1799, when its earliest predecessor institution, The Manhattan Co., was founded. The Manhattan Co.'s founders included Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Later, tycoon J. Pierpont Morgan joined with Philadelphia banker Anthony Drexel to form a private merchant banking house called Drexel, Morgan & Co. in New York City in 1871.