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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 ...
(Reuters) -The former head of Wells Fargo's retail bank on Friday avoided prison time after pleading guilty to an obstruction charge related to the bank's sweeping fake-accounts scandal. Carrie ...
In 2000, he led the integration of Wells Fargo's acquisition of the $23 billion First Security Corporation, based in Salt Lake City. In May 2002, he was named Group EVP of Community Banking. In December 2008, he led one of the largest mergers in history with the purchase of Wachovia. [7] Stumpf became CEO of Wells Fargo in June 2007 and ...
What happens if your bank opened up a fake account in your name – do you cancel the account or leave the fake account in your name?
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 ...
And in John Stumpf's case, it was a fake-account scandal in which low-level employees were, if a growing multitude of allegations are to be believed, all but forced to commit fraud in order to ...