“A resounding shareholder endorsement of Jamie Dimon has done what JPMorgan Chase’s robust profits and soaring stock price could not: it helps the nation’s largest bank and its chief executive move beyond a multibillion-dollar trading loss that has dogged the bank for more than a year.

“At JPMorgan’s annual meeting in Florida on Tuesday, some 70 percent of the shares voted to keep Mr. Dimon as both chairman and chief executive. It was the culmination of one of the most closely watched corporate contests in recent memory — one that pitted a small but vocal group of shareholders against the most powerful banker in America.

“His victory secure, Mr. Dimon is now redoubling his efforts toward repairing JPMorgan’s frayed relationships with regulators, fortifying risk controls and bolstering the bank’s businesses, people briefed on the matter say.

“While the shareholder resolution to split the jobs of chief executive and chairman was pitched as improving corporate governance, it soon became tangled up in how Mr. Dimon handled last year’s trading blowup. The surprising loss at the chief investment office unit in London felled some of Mr. Dimon’s top lieutenants and helped lay bare broad risk and control weaknesses throughout the vast bank.”

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