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...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....
...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....
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...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....
...Wells Fargo is setting aside as much as $1bn for “unanticipated severance” in the last three months of the year, the bank has said....
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...Wells Fargo workers have said that the trend has made their jobs more stressful as they struggle to help customers who prefer to bank with human tellers....
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...to act as a trustee in place of the deceased trustee....
...Wells Fargo reported a 60 per cent increase in profits in the third quarter, as the bank continues to benefit from higher interest rates....
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...The stock is trading at near book value even as rival main street lenders like Citigroup, Bank of America and Truist Financial are trading below....
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...But banks are finally having to pass on higher savings rates to depositors, according to JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, which also reported earnings....
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...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....
...So that’s basically for big banks that take in lots of deposits like JPMorgan or Wells Fargo. That’s really where they make a lot of their profits from....
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...Apas criticised the Big Four firm’s “deficient execution” of its Wirecard audits as well as its “insufficient audit reporting” that resulted in the issuing of “objectively inaccurate audit opinions”....
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