Wells Fargo fails US bankruptcy test for a second time
The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said that Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan Chase, and State Street, whose living wills were also deemed deficient in April, had now adequately addressed their shortcomings. But Wells Fargo had failed to do so.
www.bbc.com/news/business-38309520
How many whistle-blowers did the Feds ignore? In the Wells Fargo case about 700.
The nation’s top banking regulator identified problems with Wells Fargo’s sales practices as far back as 2010 but failed to take timely action to halt the abuses that ultimately exploded in scandal six years later, a new government report says.
Compiled by two divisions of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the internal report posted online Wednesday said the federal regulator “missed opportunities” to launch an earlier and deeper investigation of complaints that Wells Fargo sales incentives pushed employees to open accounts that may not have been approved by customers.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t until September 2016 that the OCC, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Los Angeles city attorney’s office hit Wells Fargo with $185 million in penalties for secretly opening more than two million deposit and credit card accounts without customer approval. An estimated 5,300 employees were fired during a five-year period for their involvement with the practices.
There were multiple red flags and missed signals at the OCC for years, the bank’s main regulator, the report said.
Most tellingly, bank examiners assigned to review Wells Fargo were aware of approximately 700 whistle-blower complaints related to “gaming of incentive plans” when they met with senior managers of the San Francisco-based bank in January 2010, the report said.
Carrie Tolstedt, who at the time headed the community banking division that was ground zero for the scandal was dismissive of the complaints, attributing them to a corporate culture that encouraged valid claims “which are then investigated and appropriately addressed,” the report said. Tolstedt also said the bank’s sales incentive programs were capped at 10% to 20% of bank workers’ total compensation “to keep motivation in check.” Tolstedt no longer works for the bank and has had to give back millions in compensation in connection with her role in the scandal.
www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/04/20/feds-found-sales-issues-wells-fargo-early-2010/100688602/
Fired Wells Fargo employees say they were made scapegoats in mortgage scheme
A group of fired Wells Fargo Home Mortgage employees are suing the company, saying they were made the scapegoats for an illegal practice encouraged by higher-ups.
The nine employees, who are residents of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, worked as home mortgage consultants for Wells Fargo and were terminated in 2015.
They allege the company violated federal regulations to boost business by obtaining referrals of potential mortgage customers from a real estate title firm and in turn referring its mortgage customers to that title company for closing services. The practice went on from 2009 through 2012, when Wells Fargo was sued.
Rather than end the practice, the company went on to commit the same violations with another title company, Patriot Land Title, which is headquartered in New Jersey, according to the new suit.
The federal Consumer Protection Finance Bureau and the State of Maryland sued Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase Bank in 2015, alleging the practices violated the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (known as the Dodd-Frank Act).
www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2017/04/wells_fargo_employees_claim_wrongful_termination_o.html
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Wells Fargo is BANKRUPT?! The bank fails US bankruptcy test for a second time!
Wells Fargo corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California
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Doesn’t such a headline qualify as
Blatantly Fake News???
Its stock was at a share price of about 53 dollars
a share of Friday.
Maybe there is a conspiracy to keep stockholders
in the dark. If they were to realize that they were
holding stock in a bankrupt bank, with no solid
guarantee of a bailout – – – – – The effects on
the stock price on Monday Morney would be
dramatic to say the least. Just Think!!!! So
many experts, and this Bankruptcy has gone
unreported! Even by Zero Hedge!!!
Maybe the whole world is Bankrupt,
But the Boat is Still Afloat.
RR.
(((They))) can’t go under fast enough. But (((they’ll))) probably get a bailout.
we have three years left on our mortgage and unfortunately our mortgage is with wells fargo. we have never been late and we will be finishing our mortgage early. Both my wife and I have credit scores in the low 800’s. We have always paid our debts off early.
Better not screw us or they will be buying us a mansion tax fricken free.
The real estate market is all rigged. Millions of people can not make the payments and the banks can not foreclose now is what I am being told. Why, to keep the fraud going is my guess. That is why prices are so high now.
All of these boys are in a bubble of fraud and why do you thing they shorted so much gold with naked shorts?
I made my original comment because he had the headline without the question mark.
(he re-edited the question mark in) What you say is 110% correct..
RR.