Wells Fargo

NYC mayor wants city to halt doing business with Wells Fargo

05/31/17

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer are pushing to prevent the city from hiring Wells Fargo to lead bond sales or handle other banking business until it improves its track record of lending in poor communities.

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Wells revamps retail unit again; Goldman hears it from protestors

05/31/17

Wells Fargo streamlines Western unit, shifts executives as post-scandal overhaul continues; Goldman Sachs gets grief for "cynical" purchase of Venezuelan bonds at deep discount.

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This is how financial services chatbots are going to evolve

05/26/17

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

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Bitcoin frenzy continues; broker bonus battle

05/26/17

The price of bitcoin continues to rise in volatile trading; Wells Fargo, still reeling from its phony accounts scandal, is boosting signing bonuses for brokers just as competitors decrease theirs.

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Would Wells scandal have come to light with a defanged CFPB?

05/25/17

Free-market advocates believe that consumers discipline wayward companies better than the government by eschewing their offerings, but switching products is not the same as punishing malefactors.

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Wells Fargo CEO Sloan sees B of A's Moynihan as crisis management role model

05/23/17

Brian Moynihan won praise from the Wells Fargo CEO for his handling of subprime, legal and other post-crisis issues during his first years as Bank of America's top executive.

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The evolution of the ATM

05/23/17

Automated teller machines have come a long way since Barclays rolled out the world’s first ATM at a branch in north London 50 years ago. Here’s a look at some of the milestone moments and key innovations in ATM technology over the past five decades.

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Why Wells Fargo is stepping up fintech partnerships now

05/18/17

Wells Fargo is expanding its fintech accelerator so it is better positioned to connect with customers through channels like the internet of things.

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Wells Fargo, consumers try to rescue bogus-account settlement

05/18/17

Both sides of Wells Fargo's $142 million settlement over its fake-accounts scandal made last-ditch efforts to salvage the class-action pact after a federal judge voiced misgivings about some of its terms.

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Former Wells Fargo examiner-in-charge sues OCC

05/18/17

Bradley Linskens, the former top examiner of Wells Fargo at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, sued the agency Tuesday over records requests he had made related to his removal earlier this year.

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