NEW YORK (

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JPMorgan Chase

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CEO Jamie Dimon said the U.S. should consider pulling out of the Basel group of global regulators because the new international bank capital rules are "anti-American."

Dimon, in an interview with

The Financial Times

, said he supports forcing banks to have more capital but argued that moves to impose additional charges on the largest global banks, particularly U.S. banks, went too far.

"I'm very close to thinking the United States shouldn't be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American," Dimon said in the interview. "Our regulators should go there and say: 'If it's not in the interests of the United States, we're not doing it'."

The Basel III agreement calls for banks to hold equity capital equal to at least 7% of risk-weighted assets. The biggest banks, such as JPMorgan, have to reach 9.5%, according to

FT

.

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