JPMorgan is poaching developers who work on video games like Fortnite — and they say it’s ‘actually been very easy’ to lure them away (JPM)

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• JPMorgan Chase co-president Gordon Smith said the bank is having no trouble competing for top tech talent to fuel its $ 10.8 billion digital ambitions.
• Smith said a number of software developers the bank has hired come from the video game world.
• How does JPMorgan get programmers to ditch Fortnite for mobile banking? “It’s actually been very easy,” Smith said.
• Part of the allure is working on projects that affect tens of millions of people, Smith said. 

Wall Street banks are increasingly competing with Silicon Valley start-ups and tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook for top talent. 

JPMorgan Chase, for one, says it’s having no struggle at all when it comes to hiring engineers and developers to build out its vast digital ambitions. 

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