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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....
...The fake accounts scandal was centred in the bank’s consumer division rather than the wholesale lending division where Sloan spent most of his career....
...A source close to Wells Fargo said that some of the cuts would not happen until sometime in 2024....
...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....
...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...
...Wells Fargo reported a 60 per cent increase in profits in the third quarter, as the bank continues to benefit from higher interest rates....
...Carrie Tolstedt, the former Wells Fargo executive who oversaw a division that created over 2 million fake accounts in customers’ names, has avoided prison time for her role in the scandal, which led to billions...
...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...
...Under chief executive Charlie Scharf, Wells Fargo has made progress on fixing the internal problems that gave rise to a series of scandals....
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...Last year, Wells Fargo signed a deal to lend billions to a new credit fund run by Centerbridge, a $40bn private equity firm that led the buyouts of restaurant chain P.F....
...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....
...But banks are finally having to pass on higher savings rates to depositors, according to JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, which also reported earnings....
...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....
...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....
...Four banks dominate vehicle lending in the US — Ally Financial, Capital One, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase....
...Larger banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo also saw their profits fall in the final quarter of 2023....
...Wells Fargo also raised its outlook for net interest income for the remainder of 2023....
...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....
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