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Wachovia agreed to purchase Golden West Financial for a little under $25.5 billion on May 7, 2006. [30] [31] This acquisition gave Wachovia an additional 285-branch network spanning 10 states. Wachovia greatly raised its profile in California, where Golden West held $32 billion in deposits and operated 123 branches. [30]
Wells Fargo Advisors is a subsidiary of Wells Fargo, located in St Louis, Missouri.It is the third largest brokerage firm in the United States as of June 30, 2021 with $1.9 trillion retail client assets under management.
A.G. Edwards, Inc. was an American financial services holding company; its principal wholly owned subsidiary was A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., which operated as a full-service securities broker-dealer in the United States and Europe.
Wachovia Securities grew through the mergers of multiple companies. Its oldest predecessor company, Leopold Cahn & Co. was founded in 1879. One of main Wachovia Securities' predecessor companies was founded in 1934 as the investment firm of J.C. Wheat & Co. Wheat fostered growth through mergers, including the 1971 merger with First Securities that created Wheat First Securities, Inc. and the ...
Prudential Securities, formerly known as Prudential Securities Incorporated (PSI), was an American financial services arm of the insurer, Prudential Financial. In 2003, Prudential Securities was merged into Wachovia Securities, a division of Wachovia Bank. [1]
Wachovia greatly raised its profile in California, where Golden West held $32 billion in deposits and operated 123 branches. [10] Wachovia also picked up about $122 billion in option adjustable rate mortgages. [11] The acquisition was announced on May 7, 2006, with a price of a little under $25.5 billion.
G. Kennedy Thompson, also known as Ken Thompson, (born November 25, 1950) is an American banker and businessman who was chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, formerly First Union Corporation, from 2000 through 2008. [1] During his leadership, Wachovia grew to become the nation's fourth largest bank. [2] [3]
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 ...