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☆ Wells Fargo, once the No. 1 player in mortgages, is stepping back from the housing market
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

watch nowWells Fargo is stepping back from the multi-trillion dollar market for U.S. mortgages amid regulatory pressure and the impact of higher interest rates. It's the latest, and perhaps most significant, strategic shift that CEO Charlie Scharf has undertaken since joining Wells Fargo in late 2019. Following those once-huge mortgage players in slimming down their operations has implications for the U.S. mortgage market. Today, Wells Fargo is the third biggest mortgage lender after Rocket and United Wholesale Mortgage. Wells Fargo employees have speculated for months about changes coming after Scharf telegraphed his intentions several times in the past year.

☆ Wells Fargo labors under $100 bln sin discount
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( John Foley | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Wells Fargo shows what happens when misbehavior becomes a feature rather than a bug. TRAGIC NUMBERSerial mischief has cost Wells Fargo investors in three ways. Second, there are the expenses Wells Fargo has incurred from its internal deep clean. A little more than seven years ago, Wells Fargo, Bank of America (BAC.N) and JPMorgan (JPM.N) were roughly the same size in terms of market cap. At $161 billion, Wells Fargo now sits $110 billion short of Bank of America and a whopping $243 billion below JPMorgan.

☆ Wells Fargo's top strategy exec details the bank's the multi-year internal reorganization to cut down its tech development cycle
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Carter Johnson | Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Wells Fargo launched a digital strategy group in 2020 amid a broader re-org. "The heritage of Wells Fargo has been very fragmented. "Now you have to teach business people about tech development and tech development people about how the business works. In the wake of the CFPB announcement, Wells Fargo said it expects operating losses in the fourth-quarter to reach $3.5 billion. Wells Fargo reports quarterly earnings on January 13.

☆ The top stories in the world of banking in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While 2022 wasn't a banner year for banks, it also wasn't a complete disaster. Will Nance, Neena Bitritto-Garg, Corinne Blanchard, and Michael Elias Goldman Sachs; Citi; Cowen; Deutsche Bank; Sean Gladwell/Getty; Savanna Durr/Insider1. At Goldman Sachs ID swipes were tracked. But by 2022 the wheels were starting to fall off on CEO David Solomon's consumer ambitions, as first reported by Insider. This fall, Wells Fargo made the decision to move tens of thousands of accounts out of its private bank that had under $5 million.

☆ Premarket stocks: Japan just delivered a lump of coal to investors across the globe
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

A surprise announcement from the Bank of Japan sent investors spinning and global markets reeling on Tuesday. The country’s central bank signaled that it would reverse two decades of policy precedent and begin to move away from loose monetary policy intended to keep wages and prices high. The Japanese Central Bank loosened the yield on its 10-year government bonds from 0.25% to 0.5%. The central bank said that inflation expectations have risen. Japan’s is the last major central bank to keep rates negative and this signals that it could be shifting its stance.

☆ Wells Fargo faces another setback with $1.7 billion penalty
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But first, Wells Fargo heads to the penalty box, again. Wells Fargo faces the music. The regulators have once again come knocking at Wells Fargo, and it ain't pretty. Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $2 billion back to customers and pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for illegal activity involving auto loans, mortgages, and deposit accounts that impacted over 16 million accounts. "Wells Fargo is a corporate recidivist," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra told reporters on a call Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal, adding that the settlement "should not be read as a sign that Wells Fargo has moved past its longstanding problems."

Those are some of the infractions allegedly committed by Wells Fargo that has led the bank to agree to a $3.7 billion settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “The CFPB is ordering Wells Fargo to refund billions of dollars to consumers across the country. “As we have said before, we and our regulators have identified a series of unacceptable practices that we have been working systematically to change and provide customer remediation where warranted," Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said. "This far-reaching agreement is an important milestone in our work to transform the operating practices at Wells Fargo and to put these issues behind us. Wells Fargo has been the target of regulators since at least 2011, when reports of its strategy to cross-sell multiple products to customers first emerged.

☆ Wells Fargo agrees to $3.7 billion settlement with CFPB over consumer abuses
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Wells Fargo has agreed to a $3.7 billion settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over customer abuses tied to bank accounts, mortgages and auto loans, the regulator said Tuesday. The bank was ordered to pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty and "more than $2 billion in redress to consumers," the CFPB said in a statement. In October, the bank set aside $2 billion for legal, regulatory and customer remediation matters, igniting speculation that a settlement was nearing. But others remain: Wells Fargo is still operating under a series of consent orders tied to its 2016 fake accounts scandal, including one from the Fed that caps its asset growth.

Dec 20 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle charges from a U.S. consumer watchdog over widespread mismanagement of car loans, mortgages and bank accounts, the regulator said Tuesday. "Wells Fargo is a corporate recidivist that puts one-third of American households at risk of harm,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra told journalists in a briefing. Shares of Wells Fargo were down less than 1% in late morning trading. Wells Fargo has faced multiple enforcement actions taken by the CFPB and other banking regulators for violations across the bank's business lines. Scharf became CEO in 2019, the fourth person to lead Wells Fargo since the scandal emerged.

☆ Wells Fargo ordered to pay $3.7 billion for ‘illegal activity’ including unjust foreclosures and vehicle repossessions
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Federal regulators fined Wells Fargo $1.7 billion on Tuesday for “widespread mismanagement” over multiple years that harmed over 16 million consumer accounts. Chopra described Wells Fargo as a “repeat offender” and said Tuesday’s fine is just an “initial step” towards holding the bank accountable. That suggests Wells Fargo may not be out of the penalty box with regulators anytime soon. Those failures caused Wells Fargo to wrongfully repossess some borrowers’ vehicles, to improperly charge fees and interest and to fail to refund certain fees, regulators say. Regulators said Wells Fargo has also been ordered to pay almost $200 million in refunds to those harmed by the bank’s mortgage servicing accounts.

☆ Wells Fargo is paying yet another huge penalty to settle more allegations it harmed its own customers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here are some of the other scandals Wells Fargo has been embroiled in. In what has become a common practice in these types of resolutions, Wells Fargo neither admitted nor denied the CFPB's allegations. "Put simply, Wells Fargo is a corporate recidivist that puts one third of American households at risk of harm," Chopra said in prepared remarks on Tuesday. At a Senate hearing in 2017 over the scandal, Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, called for then Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan to be fired. In 2020, Wells Fargo said it would pay $3 billion to resolve enforcement actions over the episode.

☆ Wells Fargo ordered to pay $3.7 billion for past scandals. Here's why we see it as a positive
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Wells Fargo will pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty and more than $2 billion to the "over 16 million affected consumer accounts," the CFPB said. Wells Fargo has already paid out some of that $2 billion, the bank told Jim Cramer. Wells Fargo has long made clear it was being investigated by the CFPB, so Tuesday's announcement wasn't a complete shock. Shares of Wells Fargo dropped roughly 2% to just under $41 each. However, Wells Fargo had already reserved, or set aside, more than half of that.

☆ Who's afraid of Wells Fargo?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Wells Fargo reached a $3.7 billion deal with regulators over the bank’s “widespread mismanagement” that allegedly hit more than 16 million consumer accounts. KEY CONTEXTSadly, all of this echoes earlier reports about Wells Fargo’s practices that have emerged since 2016, when its fake-accounts scandal made national headlines, my colleague Matt Egan writes. Wells Fargo workers ended up creating millions of bank accounts for customers without their knowledge. Chopra described Wells Fargo as a “repeat offender” and a “corporate recidivist,” adding that Tuesday’s fine is just an initial step toward holding the bank accountable. The web of scandals at Wells Fargo is massive, and after six years of fallout, a lot of folks aren’t convinced the bank can save itself.

☆ Goldman Sachs says the two major investor groups agree these are good stocks for 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Profit growth for the median shared favorite is expected to be 15% in 2023, compared to 7% for the median S & P 500 stock, Kostin said. Since 2013, an equal-weighted basket of shared favorites has outpaced the S & P 500 in 58% of the months. The basket has underperformed the S & P 500 by 3 percentage points so far this year, "consistent with other periods of market stress," Kostin wrote. However, since the market rally in June, it has outperformed the S & P, he said. Lastly, Wells Fargo 's stock is down about 12% in 2022.

☆ ‘There is a slowdown happening’ – Wells Fargo, BofA CEOs point to cooling consumer amid Fed hikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

After two years of pandemic-fueled, double-digit growth in Bank of America card volume, "the rate of growth is slowing," CEO Brian Moynihan said Tuesday at a financial conference. It was a similar story at rival Wells Fargo , according to CEO Charlie Scharf, who cited shrinking growth in credit-card spending and roughly flat debit card transaction volumes. Fortified by pandemic stimulus checks, wage gains and low unemployment, American consumers have supported the economy, but that appears to be changing. "There is a slowdown happening, there's no question about it," Scharf said. Bank of America's Moynihan said he expects three quarters of negative growth next year followed by a slight uptick in the fourth quarter.

☆ Wells Fargo mortgage staff brace for layoffs as U.S. loan volumes collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Mortgage volumes at Wells Fargo slowed further in recent weeks, leaving some workers idle and sparking concerns the lender will need to cut more employees as the U.S. housing slump deepens. The bank had about 18,000 loans in its retail origination pipeline in the early weeks of the fourth quarter, according to people with knowledge of the company's figures. Homebuyers have been squeezed and the pace of refinancing has plummeted as borrowing costs surged to more than 7% for a 30-year loan from about 3% a year earlier. And rates may climb further as the Fed is expected to boost its benchmark rate again Wednesday. Among the six biggest U.S. banks, Wells Fargo has historically been the most reliant on mortgages.

☆ Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf had his breakout quarter, says Jim Cramer
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf had his breakout quarter, says Jim CramerCNBC's Jim Cramer and the 'Squawk on the Street' team discuss bank stocks following a slew of earnings reports before the bell on Friday.

☆ Wells Fargo profit falls as bank boosts loan loss reserves; shares rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Pedestrians pass a Wells Fargo bank branch in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Wells Fargo on Friday reported lower quarterly earnings than a year ago as a decision to build up reserves cut into profits. Wells Fargo shares were up 2% in premarket trading, as revenue topped expectations. Wells Fargo, with its focus on retail and commercial banking, was widely expected to be one of the big beneficiaries of higher rates. "Wells Fargo is positioned well as we will continue to benefit from higher rates and ongoing disciplined expense management," Scharf said.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: JPMorgan Chase, Albertsons, Tesla, Beyond Meat, Delta and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Citigroup — Citigroup rose more than 1% after its third-quarter revenue climbed more than analysts expected, helped by rising interest rates. However, its earnings fell 25% from the year-earlier period as it bulked up its credit loss provisions and investment banking slumped. Wells Fargo — The bank stock was up 3% after Wells Fargo reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts' expectations. US Bancorp - Shares of US Bancorp rose 3.7% after the bank's third-quarter earnings came in above Wall Street analyst expectations. First Republic Bank — The bank stock dropped more than 14% after First Republic posted its third-quarter results.

A side effect of those increased interest rates is that banks can increase the amount of money they pay to consumers who put some of their dollars in savings accounts. Not all banks have significantly increased their interest rates for savings accounts. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the average national savings account interest rate is 0.17%. Those low interest rates on savings account deposits recently caught the attention of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who pressed big bank CEOs last week on why rates weren't higher. Some financial institutions, especially those that are Internet-only with no brick-and-mortar locations, have traditionally advertised higher interest rates with their high-yield savings account products.

☆ Watch JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and six other bank leaders get grilled by Congress
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

[The stream is slated to start at 10:00 a.m. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The CEOs of the biggest U.S. retail banks, including JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon and Wells Fargo's Charlie Scharf, are set to testify before the Democrat-led House Financial Services Committee. The hearing is called "Holding Megabanks Accountable: Oversight of America's Largest Consumer Facing Banks" will begin at 10 a.m. E.T.

☆ 3 of our stocks are in the news — here's our take on what's happening
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Scharf, who took over the troubled lender in October 2019, said in his congressional testimony Wednesday that Wells Fargo has "approximately $1.9 trillion in assets." The Club take: Our investment thesis in Wells Fargo largely rests on a two-pronged approach to boost earnings. As rates rise, Wells Fargo can make more money on the spread between what it pays customers for deposits and what it charges for loans. Still, intensifying recession fears have ultimately been a drag on Wells Fargo shares this year. Investors must be realists, though, and our stake in Wells Fargo never assumed it would be a quick fix.

☆ Wells Fargo is undergoing a major transformation under CEO Charlie Scharf. These are the units most affected.
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-28 | by ( Business Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Wells has been revamping its wealth business and shrinking its mortgage unit under Charlie Scharf. Change is hard — just ask Charlie Scharf, CEO of Wells Fargo. And for every scandal Wells Fargo has put behind it, a new one seems to crop up. Wells Fargo has fired dozens of loan officers accused of misusing appraisal waivers. Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf has called the change in leadership at the bank a 'dramatic change.'

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