It seems Wells Fargo is on the winning end of the European debt crisis. The San Francisco bank is picking up a whopping $9.5 billion energy portfolio from BNP Paribas, France's largest bank by assets. BNP has been searching for ways to downsize its ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/02/21/wells-fargo-nabs-9-billion-loan-portfolio-from-bnp-paribas/

16, Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust (IRT) began promoting "America Saves Week" via the Wells Fargo Twitter account (@Ask_WellsFargo). America Saves Week, an annual event coordinated by America Saves and the America Savings Education ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wells-fargo-tweets-about-the-need-to-save-for-retirement-2012-02-20

25 AP) Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center. Villanova, which is 12-19 in 31 previous games against ranked teams at this arena, lost to No. 1 Syracuse 79-66 and No. 17 Marquette 82-78 at this arena earlier this season.

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Enlarge image Wells Fargo & Co CFO Timothy J. Sloan Wells Fargo & Co CFO Timothy J. Sloan Cindy Charles/Wells Fargo & Co. Wells Fargo had $3.2 billion of exposure to Europe, of which “very little” is sovereign risk, Chief Financial Officer Timothy J.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/wells-fargo-breaks-away-from-bank-pack-in-default-swaps-corporate-finance.html

There's a problem though: Moody's is hosting. Notice someone missing? That would be Wells Fargo, the nation's fourth largest bank with over $1.3 trillion in assets. Surely this is a party Wells chief John Stumpf is happy his bank wasn't invited to.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/02/16/missing-from-moodys-downgrade-list-warren-buffetts-favorite-bank/

Wells Fargo convened a home preservation workshop at the convention center as a means to connect customers with bank employees who may be able to negotiate a loan modification. The event is scheduled to continue today from 9 am to 7 pm Real, ...

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A) has accumulated a larger stake in Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), the largest US bank by market value. The holdings are as of Dec. 31, according to regulatory papers filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Berkshire also raised its ...

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14 (Bloomberg) -- Directors of Wells Fargo & Co., the largest US mortgage lender, must face investors' claims the bank failed to properly disclose details of its foreclosure practices to government investigators, a judge ruled.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-14/wells-fargo-s-directors-ordered-to-face-foreclosure-claims.html

It added to Wells Fargo & Co. shares and maintained its “already high” position in PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (PNC), betting they will beat European peers. Low also bought Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the world's largest retailer.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-13/scottish-widows-investment-bets-on-u-s-economy-with-wells-fargo.html

If you're in the market for a new home and the city of Atlanta is among the places you might be considering, Wells Fargo is offering help with your down payment Saturday. Spokesman Jay Lawrence said the workshop can accommodate hundreds of walk-ins.

http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/2012/02/11/wells-fargo-offering-down-payment-help/

CHARLOTTE, NC -- Wells Fargo celebrates the one year anniversary of the launch of Beyond Today, a retirement site for women and announces that Pamela Mitchell, recognized as one of the nation's premier career reinvention professionals and Julie ...

http://www.sunherald.com/2012/02/10/3744149/wells-fargos-beyond-today-a-retirement.html

(JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) said Thursday they have reserved for their respective $5.3 billion share of the settlement big banks reached with the federal government and state attorneys general. A spokeswoman for JP Morgan said in a statement that ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120209-714760.html

By Rick Rothacker | CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - After years of driving bank merger integrations, David Carroll is putting the same kind of energy into fine-tuning the wealth, brokerage and retirement services business he runs for Wells Fargo ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/us-wellsfargo-brokerage-idUSTRE81721A20120208

Wells Fargo & Co. and New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest US mortgage lenders, said they aren't stalling customers. The delays may push borrowers to other lenders or discourage them from taking advantage of record low interest rates.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-08/bofa-stalls-refinance-work-as-wells-fargo-is-open-for-business-.html

In a shakeup at the top of the banking brand rankings released last week, Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) jumped ahead of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) for the second spot on Brand Finance's Banking 500, a list of the best global banking brands in 2012, ...

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2012/02/06/report-shakeup-among-top-bank-brands.html

Saying they're fed up with Wells Fargo's corporate ethics, the Berkeley City Council this week took steps toward cutting ties with the banking giant and investing instead with smaller, local institutions. "Large multinational banks like Wells Fargo are ...

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a suit against Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo over their abuse of a private database, MERS, in handling mortgages. The suit claims that this led to several wrongful foreclosures.

http://www.jdjournal.com/2012/02/04/ny-ag-sues-bofa-wells-fargo-jpmorgan-chase-over-mortgage-fraud/

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. were sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over the use of a mortgage database that the state said led to improper foreclosures. The banks' use of the database, ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-03/bank-of-america-jpmorgan-chase-wells-fargo-sued-by-new-york-over-mers.html

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wells Fargo & Company /quotes/zigman/239557/quotes/nls/wfc WFC +0.03% has been named a 2011 Compuware Best of the Web award winner. The annual Best of the Web Compuware Web & Mobile Performance Awards ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wells-fargo-named-2011-compuware-best-of-the-web-award-winner-2012-02-02

Wells Fargo & Co. ranked No. 2 on brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance's international Banking 500 report, behind British lender HSBC. The San Francisco-based bank, which bought Charlotte's Wachovia in 2008, was the top US bank on the list, ...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/02/2977612/wells-fargo-bofa-rank-near-top.html

It was about a year after Wells Fargo and Kovacevich, the bank's chairman at the time, had announced a plan to purchase Wachovia, and he was reaching out to Warren Buffett for help. Just days before, Buffett had heralded his own acquisition of railroad ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/31/BUJ61N0VBB.DTL

It was about a year after Wells Fargo & Co. and Kovacevich, the bank's chairman at the time, had announced a plan to purchase Wachovia Corp., and now he was reaching out to Warren Buffett for help, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its March issue.

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Wells Fargo & Co, the fourth-biggest bank, also is counting on lower mortgage expenses this year. With fewer problem loans to process, the banks could reduce the army of back-office staffers who handle the paperwork and phone calls required by ...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/banks-like-citibank-wells-fargo-expect-to-spend-less-on-bad-mortgages/articleshow/11683816.cms

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Jan 27 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co on Friday won a federal judge's preliminary approval of a $75 million settlement to resolve shareholder claims that the former Wachovia Corp misled investors about its troubled mortgage operations.

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