JPMorganChase opens Claude Code to staff beyond engineers

JPMorganChase is taking Claude Code past its engineers to product, risk and planning teams across the firm, Anthropic said in a November 10 post on Claude. Gains like work moving into production faster come from Anthropic’s own account. The concrete part is the control setup: Claude Code runs inside Devspace, the bank’s containerized development platform, new Claude models clear the bank’s own approval before anyone there can use them, and an automated pass-or-halt gate means Claude can’t sign off on its own work.

Devspace runs on the firm’s own infrastructure, and the stated intent is to prevent agents from getting direct access to employee credentials or internal systems. Access widens in stages. Code ships under the same discipline: thousands of automated tests and approval gates check every change, the automated gate returns a hard pass or halt that the pipeline enforces, and people stay accountable for every production change.

Outside engineering, product teams turn requirements directly into engineering backlogs, and other teams use Claude Code for risk and controls assessments and program planning. In Asset & Wealth Management, the bank puts the people with the deepest business insight in small teams with technology and product experts to build customized client investment solutions. Claude Code is part of their engineering workflow there, and every change goes through more rigorous testing before it reaches clients.

Engineers are building their own agents, including pull request review and self-healing agents, and sharing what works. Infrastructure and operations teams use Claude Code for monitoring, alerting and root cause analysis, and the security team uses Anthropic’s frontier models to find and fix vulnerabilities, work Anthropic first described in Project Glasswing.

Goldman Sachs drew its line by role. Under internal guidance updated in October, after a review of productivity and risk concerns, most of its bankers and traders lost access to Claude Code and GitHub, Bloomberg reported; engineers kept the tools and, by a second person’s account, so did strats. At JPMorganChase, the people Goldman cut off, the ones closest to the business, are the ones now getting Claude Code.

Over the past year the bank’s use of Claude has grown from software engineering to cyber defense to tools for financial advisors. In October, J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced a connector that brings 55ip’s ActiveTax Technology into Claude for Financial Advisors, putting tax-aware portfolio transition analysis into advisors’ daily work.