JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon said the US bank may move 60 jobs to Paris following Brexit during a meeting with France’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, in Washington DC on Thursday.

“I had a productive meeting with Minister Le Maire today and I am impressed with France’s progress toward economic reforms. As we discussed today, JPMorgan is considering adding jobs in Paris after Brexit negotiations are complete,” said Mr Dimon on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington.

A spokeswoman for JP Morgan confirmed the meeting.

“JP Morgan may increase our headcount in Paris by roughly 60 people as part of our Brexit planning, depending on the outcome of negotiations and after any transition period,” said a source familiar with the meeting.

The jobs will mostly be client-facing roles that deal with EU clients, according to the same source who stressed that keeping the bank’s options open is central to its strategy.

The US bank has already said it plans to shift “several hundred” of the bank’s 16,000 United Kingdom staff to the continent as soon as the UK leaves the EU, with the jobs spread across cities such as Paris, Frankfurt, Dublin and Luxembourg.

Mr Dimon said in July that JP Morgan had chosen Frankfurt for its legal hub, but that jobs from the bank would most probably be moved from London to all over Europe.

Paris has made no secret of its desire to lure such financial jobs to the French capital, announcing measures to lower the tax burden and cut red tape for international bankers.

France’s newly elected president Emmanuel Macron has also renewed interest in the country with a series of pro-business reforms, such as increasing job market flexibility, aimed at boosting economic growth.

“It’s the image of France that is changing, the way that other countries look at France is changing,” said Gérard Mestrallet, the head of Europlace Paris, which lobbies for French finance.

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