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On October 9, 2008, Citigroup abandoned its attempt to purchase Wachovia's banking assets, allowing the Wachovia-Wells Fargo merger to go through. However, Citigroup pursued $60 billion in claims, $20 billion in compensatory and $40 billion in punitive damages, against Wachovia and Wells Fargo for alleged violations of the exclusivity agreement ...
2008 [2] 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. ...
September 30, 2008: Dexia: The Belgian, French and Luxembourg governments Public finance and retail [29] October 3, 2008: Wachovia, Charlotte, North Carolina: Wells Fargo, San Francisco, California: Retail and investment banking $ 1.5 × 10 ^ 10 [30] October 7, 2008: Landsbanki: Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority: Commercial bank [31 ...
Here are some of the biggest bank mergers and acquisitions in ... 2008. Wells Fargo. Wachovia Corp. $15.1 billion ... The number of banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has ...
When Wells Fargo (WFC) dived in and broke up a government-backed bid by Citigroup (C) for teetering Wachovia last fall, it seemed like a logical move. Buying Wachovia would give Wells a coast-to ...
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.
First Union later merged with Winston-Salem’s Wachovia and was bought by Wells Fargo after the bank nearly collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis. Some of Crutchfield’s deals were duds.
In May 2007, Wells Fargo acquired Greater Bay Bancorp, which had $7.4 billion in assets, in a $1.5 billion transaction. [4] [5] In June 2007, Wells Fargo acquired CIT's construction unit. [6] In January 2008, Wells Fargo acquired United Bancorporation of Wyoming. [7] In August 2008, Wells Fargo acquired Century Bancshares of Texas. [8]