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Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets. [3]
Wachovia Securities was the trade name of Wachovia's retail brokerage and institutional capital markets and investment banking subsidiaries.
The Wachovia Corporation developed from a small bank in Salem, North Carolina to become the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States.
In September 2001, First Union completed their acquisition of Wachovia National Bank to become Wachovia Corporation, which used to be one of the largest financial holding companies in the U.S. As of the end of 2000, First Union had over $171 billion of total assets, over 70,000 employees and 2,193 branches. [2]
The new Wachovia Corporation was formed from the September 2001 merger of First Union Corporation and Wachovia Corporation. The deal created the fourth-largest bank holding company in the U.S. based on assets and the fifth-largest U.S. broker/dealer based on registered representatives.
Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets.
Wachovia Is Now Wells Fargo. Founded in Winston-Salem, N.C. as Wachovia National Bank on June 16, 1879, Wachovia grew to be one of the largest diversified financial services companies in the United States. It traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WB.
By 2006, after a merger with Southtrust Corporation, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the nation, with $542 billion in assets, 3,200 financial centers, and 97,000 employees. Wachovia is now Wells Fargo, as of 2012.
In a March 2010 agreement with US federal prosecutors, Wells Fargo acknowledged that between 2004 and 2007 Wachovia had failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers, including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine into Mexico.
Wachovia Corporation was a Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank holding company, incorporated in 1967 and acquired by Wells Fargo during the Credit Crisis of 2008. By fall of 2008, Wachovia faced a near collapse of its share price and weakening confidence because of its exposure to troubled mortgage assets.
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Wachovia Corporation is a southeastern interstate bank holding company with dual headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and Winston – Salem, North Carolina. Wachovia ’ s principal subsidiaries are Wachovia Bank of Georgia, Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, and Wachovia Bank of South Carolina.
In an excerpt from the new book Banktown, journalist Rick Rothacker tells how Citigroup and Wells Fargo dueled over Wachovia, while Sheila Bair's FDIC played referee -- and thanks to its powers...
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. [1] The subsidiary was formerly known as Wachovia Securities until May 1, 2009, when it legally changed names following Wells Fargo's acquisition of Wachovia Corporation. [2] History.
The site of the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina, Wachovia, or Wachau, was the 100,000 acre tract in present-day Forsyth County. The name Wachovia was derived from Der Wachau, the name of Count Zinzendorf’s estate where the early Moravians lived in Eastern Europe.
By 2006, after a merger with Southtrust Corporation, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the nation, with $542 billion in assets, 3,200 financial centers, and 97,000 employees. Wachovia is now Wells Fargo [14], as of 2012.
A former Wachovia branch converted to Wells Fargo in the fall of 2011 in Durham, North Carolina. During the financial panic of September 2008, Wells Fargo made a bid to purchase the troubled Wachovia Corporation.
Wachovia was the name used to designate a large tract of land in the northern Piedmont of North Carolina purchased by the Moravians, or the Unity of Brethren, from John Lord Carteret, Earl Granville, in 1752.
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. The firm was acquired by Wachovia to be folded into Wachovia Securities; [1] Wachovia was subsequently acquired by ...
Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets. Wachovia provided a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services. At its ...