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The Clearing House, Financial Services Roundtable, Chevron. John Gerard Stumpf (born September 15, 1953) [2] is an American business executive and retail banker. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo, one of the Big Four banks of the United States. He was named CEO in June 2007, elected to the board of directors in June ...
The Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal was caused by creation of millions of fraudulent savings and checking accounts on behalf of Wells Fargo clients without their consent or knowledge due to aggressive internal sales goals at Wells Fargo. News of the fraud became widely known in late 2016 after various regulatory bodies, including the Consumer ...
Wells Fargo's board of directors will release its investigation into the bank's fraudulent accounts scandal, pinning blame on two former executives.
And in John Stumpf's case, it was a fake-account scandal in which low-level employees were, if a growing multitude of allegations are to be believed, all but forced to commit fraud in order to ...
Here's an overview of Wells Fargo's most notable scandals and missteps as CEO Tim Sloan testifies before the House Financial Services Committee.
Former Wells Fargo executive Carrie Tolstedt was sentenced to three years’ probation on Friday for her role in the bank’s sprawling fake-accounts scandal.
Carrie L. Tolstedt is an ousted American banking executive and former head of the community banking division at Wells Fargo, [1] from which she retired in 2016 before the company's account fraud scandal came to light. In 2017, Wells Fargo retroactively fired Tolstedt for cause. In 2023, she would plead guilty to obstructing a bank examination.
Acquisitions in 1999–2000. Continuing the Norwest tradition of making numerous smaller acquisitions each year, Wells Fargo acquired 13 companies during 1999 with total assets of $2.4 billion. The largest of these was the February purchase of Brownsville, Texas -based Mercantile Financial Enterprises, Inc., which had $779 million in assets.