WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Wells Fargo, one of the leading U.S. banks, has agreed to pay 3 billion U.S. dollars to settle criminal and civil investigations with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its fake accounts scandal,...
LOS ANGELES -- A former Wells Fargo Bank executive accused of overseeing a ruse that created millions of bogus customer accounts has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges likely to send her prison for her role in the scandal. The agreement filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles federal c...
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While scandal in the banking sector is no surprise, particularly since the global financial crisis of 2008, many were surprised to find Wells Fargo at the center of one. After all, the bank is considered one of the more conservative of the major banks, and with its headquarters in...
Wells Fargo’s independent directors are punishing two top executives after the bank’s scandal over sales practices. Chairman and CEO John Stumpf is forfeiting $41 million dollars in stock awards and will forgo his salary during the investigation. Former executive Carrie Tolstedt, who oversa...
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Wells Fargo is preparing to shed a number of its businesses as the U.S. bank tries to restore investor confidence in the wake of the fake account scandal, Financial Times reported on Sunday. "We get a little bit smaller, a little bit less complex and ...
“Fraudulent activity of your employees was not limited to Wells Fargo’s consumer banking operations,” he wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday, explaining that the revelations came during congressional staffer discussions with the bank. Several business owners who discovered...
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lifted until at least 2025, according to Reuters.19The order limiting Wells Fargo to a maximum of $1.9 trillion in assets was imposed by the Federal Reserve in 2016. It will stay in place until regulators deem that the bank has corrected the problems that led to the fake accounts scandal....
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Major U.S. multinational bank Wells Fargo & Company said Friday it has reached a settlement with the federal government worth 3 billion U.S. dollars to resolve the bank's liabilities for a fake-accounts scandal. ...