摩根大通中國高管方方辭職，下一個是誰

????《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal）周日報道，正值美國政府調查摩根大通（J.P. Morgan）亞洲招聘行為之際，該行中國高層方方辭職。方方對媒體態度友善，和中共當局保持緊密關系。那么，還會有其他的摩根大通中國高管辭職嗎？

????《華爾街日報》稱，調查發現的電子郵件顯示，摩根大通聘用光大集團（Everbright Group）董事長唐雙寧之子牽扯到方方，這讓他成了靶子。摩根大通一直想擴大和光大集團的業務往來。

????美方人員正在調查的問題是，摩根大通以及其他在華運營的美國銀行以贏得業務為目的而聘用中國政府官員的子女是否違反了美國《反海外腐敗法》（Foreign Corrupt Practices Act）。上述電子郵件牽涉到了方方，而與之類似的電子郵件肯定數不勝數。隨著美國政府繼續搜集證據，這些電子郵件將陸續流入媒體手中。為了避開這個風頭，摩根大通最近退出了光大銀行的香港IPO承銷團。這次IPO的規模高達20億美元。

????方方2001年進入摩根大通，后升任這家銀行中國投行業務首席執行官，2009年又被任命為亞洲投行業務副董事長。他和中共黨內人士建立了聯系，2008年當選政協委員。2011年接受《金融時報》（Financial Times）采訪時，方方提到政協時說：“它打開了通向中國最高領導層的大門?！?/p>

????方方還和青年一代中的關鍵人物保持著聯系。他是香港華菁會（Hua Jing Society）主席。這個組織成立于2011年，發起人是一批在大陸出生、在海外接受教育，隨后在香港開始職業生涯的年輕專業人士。華菁即“中國精英”之意，李寧品牌創始人李寧和當紅男演員黎明在華菁會擔任名譽主席。

????方方辭職后留下的一個問題是，摩根大通其他高管在聘用所謂的中國“太子黨”過程中發揮了什么作用。摩根大通中國業務負責人是邵自力。他曾擔任過律師，2009年進入摩根大通。此前本刊曾向摩根大通詢問邵自力在聘用中國官員子女方面扮演了什么角色，但這家銀行中國區的發言人梁麗華拒絕就此發表評論。

????過去一年中，美國證券交易委員會（SEC）已經將針對在華招聘事務的調查擴大到了幾乎所有美國大型銀行，包括摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）、高盛（Goldman Sachs）和花旗集團（Citigroup）。此舉已經產生了影響。瑞銀集團（UBS）已經因為招聘問題暫停了兩位投行人員的工作，包括該集團中國IPO業務的負責人，原因是內部調查發現瑞銀聘用了中國一家擬上市化工企業的董事長之女，那兩人都有牽扯。

????與此同時，對摩根大通的調查還在繼續推進。據彭博社（Bloomberg）報道，去年底，該行亞太區業務前負責人在紐約肯尼迪國際機場被調查人員截住，詢問和招聘事務有關的問題。上個月，《紐約時報》（the New York Times）報道稱，中國監管部門一位高級官員曾在兩年前要求摩根大通首席執行官杰米?戴蒙聘用自己世交的兒子。此人目前就在摩根大通任職。

????在調查美國銀行在華事務的過程中，無論是戴蒙、方方，還是摩根大通的任何成員都未傳出過遭到調查的消息。然而，隨著美國調查人員步步逼近，可能會有更多的高管發現自己已經不堪重負。（財富中文網）

????譯者：Charlie

????J.P. Morgan's (JPM) top dealmaker in China, Fang Fang, a media-friendly executive with close ties to the Communist Party, has stepped down from his role amid the U.S. government's investigation into the bank's hiring practices in Asia, as reported by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. But are more resignations in China coming?

????Fang became a vulnerable figure after investigators found emails linking him and the hiring of the son of China Everbright Group's chairman, the Journal said. J.P. Morgan was seeking to do more business with the Chinese bank.

????U.S. investigators are determining whether J.P. Morgan and other U.S. banks operating in China violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by hiring the sons and daughters of China officials in order to win business. Countless more emails like Fang's surely exist, and they will continue leaking into the press as the government builds its case. J.P. Morgan, in reaction to the heat, recently withdrew from underwriting China Everbright's $2 billion listing in Hong Kong.

????Fang started at J.P. Morgan in 2001, rising to become CEO of J.P. Morgan's Investment Bank in China before adding the role of vice chairman of investment banking in Asia in 2009. He cultivated relationships with Communist Party members. In 2008 he joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the private citizens' advisory group that works with officials to shape policy. "It opens doors to the country's top leaders," he said of the CPPCC, in a 2011 interview with the Financial Times.

????Fang also cultivated relationships with key young people. Fang serves as the chairman of a Hong Kong society club called Hua Jing Society, founded in 2011 by a group of young professionals who were born in Mainland China, educated abroad, and started their careers in Hong Kong. The literal meaning in Chinese is "elite Chinese." Chinese apparel brand Li Ning's founder Li Ning and popular actor Leon Lai Ming serve as honorary chairmen.

????What's unclear following Fang's resignation is what role others played in J.P. Morgan's hiring of China's so-called princelings. J.P. Morgan's China operations are led by an executive named Zili Shao, a former lawyer who joined the bank in 2009. J.P. Morgan China's head of communications Lisa Liang previously declined to comment on Fortune's questions about the role he played in hiring of Chinese officials' children.

????The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened investigations over the past year into almost all the big American banks, including Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Citigroup (C), concerning their hiring practices in China. There has already been fallout. UBS suspended two bankers, including its top IPO banker in China, over hiring concerns after an internal investigation found the executives were involved in hiring the daughter of the chairman of a Chinese chemicals company looking to go public.

????Meanwhile, the investigation at J.P. Morgan keeps growing. Late last year, J.P. Morgan's former Asia-Pacific head was stopped at JFK Airport in New York for questioning about the bank's hiring programs, according to Bloomberg. And last month the New York Times reported that a top Chinese regulator asked J.P. Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon to hire a young family friend two years ago. The man now works at the bank.

????As the investigation into U.S. banks in China drags on, neither Dimon, Fang, nor any individuals at J.P. Morgan are said to be under investigation themselves. But as U.S. investigators press on, more executives could find themselves pressured out.