JPMorgan banker says he spent a year meeting regulator in Australian cartel case

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A senior JPMorgan Chase & Co banker spent over a year in meetings with the Australian antitrust regulator before signing a statement that would be used to bring criminal cartel charges against two rival banks and their executives, a court heard on Friday.The account from Mark Dewar, JPMorgan's Australian head of trading, gives a sense of the level of cooperation between the bank and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) before the regulator ordered cartel..