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The merger created a coast-to-coast super-bank with $1.4 trillion in assets and 48 million customers and expanded Wells Fargo's operations into nine Eastern and Southern states. There would be big overlaps in operations only in California and Texas, much less so in Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.
Bank of America: 1986 Wells Fargo Corp. Crocker National Bank: Wells Fargo Corp. (combined California bank uses Crocker's charter) Wells Fargo: 1987 Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. Texas Commerce Bank: Chemical Banking Corporation (TX banks continued to operate as Texas Commerce) $1.2 billion JPMorgan Chase: 1987 NBD Bancorp: USAmeribancs: NBD ...
Map of Wells Fargo branches in August 2015 Wells Fargo branch in Berkeley, California A former Wachovia branch converted to Wells Fargo in the fall of 2011 in Durham, North Carolina American Express Co. early receipts (1853, 1869) Stagecoach with Christmas gifts at a Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco Wells Fargo & Co. Express building circa 1860, Stockton, California Mud wagon — Wells Fargo U ...
Here are some of the biggest bank mergers and acquisitions in American history. ... Wells Fargo. Wachovia Corp. $15.1 billion. Aug. 28, 1995. Chase Manhattan Corp. Chemical Banking Corp.
The name was again shortened to Wells Fargo Bank in 1962. In 1964, H. Stephen Chase was elected president with Cook as chairman. This merger of California's two oldest banks created the 11th largest banking institution in the United States. [37] Following the merger, Wells Fargo's involvement in international banking greatly accelerated.
The $1.34 billion deal, the largest bank merger up to that time, turned First Fidelity into a regional powerhouse and one of the nation's 25 largest banks. [ 14 ] In 1996, First Fidelity was absorbed into First Union , which in 2001 merged with Wachovia , which was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008.
Norwest had grown into this position of strength without completing any of the blockbuster mergers that shook up the banking industry in the 1990s, but in June 1998 the bank announced the pending merger with San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Company in a stock swap worth $34 billion. [1]
First Interstate Bancorp was a bank holding company based in the United States.Headquartered in Los Angeles, it was the nation's eighth largest banking company. [1]Although First Interstate Bancorp was taken over by Wells Fargo in 1996, the name (along with the company logo) has continued to be used in the banking world by First Interstate BancSystem, who has been using the name under a ...