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...Profits at US bank Wells Fargo fell in the first quarter, in a sign that the benefits of high interest rates are waning for the big lenders....
...Earnings at Wells Fargo jumped 9 per cent in the fourth quarter, despite an increase in loan loss provisions, as the US bank cut costs....
...But it jumped 34 per cent at JPMorgan to $89.7bn, more than double the increase of the next bank, Wells Fargo, which reported a 16.5 per cent rise....
...Many of those hires have been part of Wells Fargo’s efforts to comply with the Federal Reserve, which in 2018 imposed a cap on the size of the bank’s balance sheet following the lender’s fake accounts scandal...
...JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup collectively made $253bn in net interest income (NII) for the whole of 2023 — a 19 per cent jump from 2022’s total....
...Former Wells Fargo chief executive Tim Sloan, who led the bank’s early efforts to address a burgeoning fake accounts scandal, has sued the lender for more than $34mn over its decision to cancel stock grants...
...Wells Fargo is setting aside as much as $1bn for “unanticipated severance” in the last three months of the year, the bank has said....
...Workers at a Wells Fargo bank branch in Albuquerque on Wednesday voted to form a union, making them the first employees of a major US bank to unionise in the latest sign of the resurgence of the labour movement...
...Other top banks Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo also recorded drops in lending in the first three months of the year as they revealed results late last week....
...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...
...Wells Fargo reported a 60 per cent increase in profits in the third quarter, as the bank continues to benefit from higher interest rates....
...The 12 large cap banks followed by Morgan Stanley analysts, including PNC, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, now have more than $180bn of excess common equity tier one capital — a record high...
...Wells Fargo has partnered with asset manager Centerbridge to launch a $5bn private credit fund that will lend to mid-sized US companies, as banks race to find a toehold in the rapidly growing private credit...
...The common equity tier one ratio of 10.7 per cent is well above the regulatory minimum of 8.9 per cent. Some of these improvements are reflected in Wells Fargo’s valuation....
...Wells Fargo has partnered with asset manager Centerbridge to launch a $5bn private credit fund that will lend to midsized US companies, as banks race to find a toehold in the rapidly growing private credit...
...Wells Fargo bank analyst Mike Mayo said it made sense for banks with healthy levels of capital to return money to shareholders when profits were high....
...But banks are finally having to pass on higher savings rates to depositors, according to JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, which also reported earnings....
...Department of Justice, she pleaded guilty to obstructing in the investigations of regulators, who were looking into allegations of misconduct at the bank....
...Wells Fargo has agreed to buy Neiman Marcus’s vacant space at 20 Hudson Yards for $550mn in a deal that confirms the changing fortunes of one of New York City’s largest property developments....
...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....
...Larger banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo also saw their profits fall in the final quarter of 2023....
...The US has eight G-SIBs: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, State Street and Wells Fargo....
...We are at the start of earnings season this week. Look out the first of the large financial groups reporting their results, including JPMorgan, Citi, State Street, Wells Fargo and BlackRock on Friday....
...US lenders — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup, according to a Bloomberg analysts’ consensus....
...Its price to book value of nearly 3 times trumps that for mortgage-heavy Wall Street banks like JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. But Rocket doesn’t have appreciably higher return on equity....
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