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One Wells Fargo Center, formerly One Wachovia Center.The former corporate headquarters of Wachovia in Charlotte, North Carolina.. Wachovia was the product of a 2001 merger between the original Wachovia Corporation, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Charlotte-based First Union Corporation.
Wells Fargo Securities was established in 2009 to house Wells Fargo's new capital markets group, which it obtained during the Wachovia acquisition. Prior to that point, Wells Fargo had little to no participation in investment banking activities, though Wachovia had a well-established investment banking practice which operated under the Wachovia ...
Wells Fargo: Wachovia: Wells Fargo: $15.1 Billion [40] Wells Fargo: 2008 JPMorgan Chase: Washington Mutual: JPMorgan Chase: $1.9 Billion [41] JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2008 Fifth Third Bank: First Charter Bank: Fifth Third Bank: $1.1 billion [42] Fifth Third Bank: 2008 PNC Financial Services: National City Corp. PNC Financial Services: $5.08 billion ...
The crash of subprime mortgages, which made up most of World Savings' nearly $200 billion mortgage portfolio, put significant strain on Wachovia and eventually caused its collapse. On July 1, 2009, Wachovia Securities was renamed Wells Fargo Advisors and Wells Fargo Investments, which included the former A.G. Edwards business lines.
First Union Corporation was a bank holding company that provided commercial and retail banking services in eleven states in the eastern U.S.First Union also provided various other financial services, including mortgage banking, credit card, investment banking (First Union Securities), investment advisory, home equity lending, asset-based lending, leasing, insurance, international and ...
The brand was merged into Wells Fargo Advantage Funds and subsequently phased out following Wells Fargo's acquisition of Wachovia. [1] The brand was officially retired on July 20, 2010. [2] Outside the United States, the sales and distribution business was conducted under the brand name of Wachovia Global Asset Management.
The bank was renamed in the mid-1980s after a series of mergers. After being acquired by First Union Corporation, which later also acquired Wachovia National Bank to become Wachovia Corporation, CoreStates Financial Corporation became a part of Wells Fargo in 2008 when Wachovia (formerly known as First Union) was acquired by that company.
On Monday June 21, 2004 Wachovia Corporation announced it would buy SouthTrust in an all-stock transaction valued at $14.3 billion. [5] The merger closed on November 1, 2004. [6] The Birmingham market was the last market for the conversion to the Wachovia brand which occurred in October 2005.