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IRS chief Frank Bisignano dismisses JPMorgan spying allegations

Bisignano denied allegations The Wall Street Journal reported that he surveilled his colleagues while working at JPMorgan more than a decade ago.​Bisignano denied allegations The Wall Street Journal reported that he surveilled his colleagues while working at JPMorgan more than a decade ago. 

Internal Revenue Service CEO Frank Bisignano dismissed allegations that he spied on his fellow executives while working at JPMorgan Chase more than a decade age. “None of it’s true,” Bisignano told CNBC on Tuesday.

Bisignano surveilled colleagues at JPMorgan

“Charlie called me last night. We had a good laugh about it,” Bisignano said.

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Bisignano left JPMorgan to run payments processor First Data in 2013. That company later merged with Fiserv.

Bisignano left FiservScott Bessent appointed him in October to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS.  

Bessent tasked Bisignano last week with overseeing the implementation of the Trump Account savings vehicle created by last year’s Republican tax and policy law, CNBC reported. He retains his leadership roles at the IRS and the Social Security Administration.

Bisignano as IRS chief signed a settlement with President Donald Trump giving him immunity from some tax audits. A federal judge last week criticized that settlement.

Bisignano is named in a class-action shareholder lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. The suit alleges that Fiserv misled investors about its growth numbers and that Bisignano benefited from an artificially inflated share price.

Frank Bisignano, chief executive officer of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), during a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
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An attorney for Bisignano didn’t immediately respond to a question from CNBC about the lawsuit, but declined to comment to The Wall Street Journal on active litigation and said that much of the share price decline took place under Mike Lyons, who took over as CEO from Bisignano.

Fiserv’s

Lyons told investors in July 2025 after those sales that Fiserv would need to revise its guidance. In October, Lyons said that it would be “objectively difficult to achieve” the company’s shareholder guidance initially set under Bisignano and that the company would undergo a “critical and necessary reset.”

Fiserv’s shares are down 78% from their peak set in March 2025 under Bisignano through Tuesday morning, according to Factset data. Lyons has since left Fiserv.

Bisignano said he’s no longer at Fiserv when asked on CNBC about the company’s declining share price. “I know they went through a leadership change. That’s never … that good.”

Fiserv didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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