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...Lloyds and Wells Fargo make an interesting comparison, and again Lloyds is tempting....
...Over the past two years, big banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo charged more for loans in lockstep with the Fed lifting interest rates, without passing on the increase...
...Despite this, in recent days executives from the country’s four largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo — said during earnings calls that consumers were resilient....
...Wells Fargo’s bank analyst Mike Mayo has a well-deserved (if not entirely unblemished) reputation for being an unusually acerbic member of the “great quarter guys!” industry....
...of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, according to a Bloomberg analysts’ consensus....
...Wells Fargo and Truist have strong businesses serving lawyers outside Manhattan, but Citi’s private bank dominates the market among New York’s attorneys, having launched a dedicated team to serve them more...
...Profits at Wells Fargo fell from $5bn to $4.6bn. Private equity pioneer KKR is predicting a revival in global IPOs and takeover activity after a two-year slowdown....
...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...“If Jamie Dimon left tomorrow, I do think the stock would decline 5 per cent,” said Mike Mayo, a longtime banking analyst at Wells Fargo who is known for sparring with bank executives in earnings calls....
...Wells Fargo recently cited WeWork’s troubles among its reasons for adding a $20.5mn mortgage on 599 Broadway, a midsized office building in lower Manhattan, to its watchlist of loans at risk of missed payments...
...In the past year delinquent commercial property debt for the six big banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — nearly tripled to $9.3bn....
...Several pointed out that it has avoided the whopping big mistakes of rivals such as Wells Fargo and Citigroup (they all noted that the London Whale was not a good look)....
...“There is a sense that [the market] might continue to feel good, but it very well might not,” said Wells Fargo’s O’Connor....
...Wells Fargo is a case in point....
...(FT) Allen & Overy rolls out AI contract negotiation tool in challenge to legal industry (FT) Wells Fargo branch workers vote to form union in a first for major US bank (FT) Barclays agrees deal to stay...
...The move is the latest attempt by JPMorgan to beef up its legal wealth management business after two decades of trying to break the grip of Citi in New York, as well as that of Wells Fargo, which dominates...
...Of the Big Six banks, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are all expected to report a drop in their earnings per share this quarter. JPMorgan will be the exception....
...In December, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Wells Fargo $1.7bn and ordered it to pay $2bn in redress to customers for mismanagement of mortgages, car loans and bank accounts....
...Wells Fargo has been ordered by US regulators to pay $3.7bn over illegal activity in car loans, mortgages and bank accounts, the latest in a series of regulatory penalties incurred by the lender....
...This month, US homebuilder confidence slipped for the first time this year according to an index compiled by the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo....
...’d had retail banks that have your savings account and makes you a mortgage....
...By contrast, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo — the nation’s first and third-largest banks, respectively — each had about $40bn in unrealised bond market losses, while fourth-largest Citigroup’s paper losses...
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