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Wells Fargo's sales culture and cross-selling strategy, and their impact on customers, were documented by the Wall Street Journal as early as 2011. [5] In 2013, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed intense pressure on bank managers and individual bankers to produce sales against extremely aggressive and even mathematically impossible [7] quotas. [8]
Here's an overview of Wells Fargo's most notable scandals and missteps as CEO Tim Sloan testifies before the House Financial Services Committee.
Three former Wells Fargo executives must pay $18.5 million for their role in the bank’s widespread fake sales accounts scandal that came to light nearly a decade ago. Based in San Francisco ...
Wells Fargo & Co has agreed to pay $3 billion (2.3 billion pounds) to resolve criminal and civil probes into fraudulent sales practices and has admitted to pressuring employees in a fake-accounts ...
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.
U.S. banking giant Wells Fargo confessed to creating millions of fake accounts from 2002 to 2016. Now, new troubles have come to light.
He was named CEO in June 2007, elected to the board of directors in June 2006, and named president in August 2005. He became chairman in January 2010. Stumpf resigned as chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo on October 12, 2016, after a scandal involving customer accounts and subsequent pressure from the
The company wants to bolster its reputation after creating millions of fake bank and credit card accounts, resulting in a large scandal and $185M in fines.