WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., said the timing of his meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday was not awkward. J.P. Morgan JPM, -0.21% is also in talks to avoid possible criminal charges over the bank's handling of mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the financial crisis. Obama invited Dimon and other bank chief executives to the White House to discuss the approaching debt-ceiling deadline. The executives were in town for a meeting of the Financial Services Forum, an industry trade group. In comments to reporters as he entered the White House, Dimon said the executives wanted to help find solutions to the government shutdown and the debt ceiling.