If Mr Dimon stays more than five years, the next leader is more likely to come from a crop of forty-somethings who have penetrated the top ranks, such as Mike Cavanagh, the finance chief, and Mary Callahan Erdoes, the new head of asset-management.

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Assuming he stays healthy and has another five or six years at the highest level, he could retire as England's greatest ever scorer.

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The first half will be made available to him five years from when Cook officially became CEO, and the rest will vest five years after that, as long as he stays.

CNN: Mark Milian,