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JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and BofA Hit With Negative Ratings Outlook As Moody’s Says US Government Has Weaker Capacity To Support Big Banks – The Daily Hodl

  1. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and BofA Hit With Negative Ratings Outlook As Moody’s Says US Government Has Weaker Capacity To Support Big Banks The Daily Hodl
  2. ‘The American economy is fundamentally strong’: Janet Yellen disagrees with Moody’s ‘negative’ US outlook — says Treasuries are still the world’s main ‘safe and liquid’ asset. Who’s right? Yahoo Finance
  3. ‘The American economy is fundamentally strong’: Janet Yellen disagrees with Moody’s ‘negative’ US outlook — says Treasuries are still the world’s main ‘safe and liquid’ asset. Who’s right? Yahoo Finance
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‘Hold Your Horses,’ Says Wells Fargo About PayPal Stock – TipRanks.com – TipRanks

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The Fargo shooter used a binary trigger. Here’s what to know about the device that’s worrying police – The Associated Press

  1. The Fargo shooter used a binary trigger. Here’s what to know about the device that’s worrying police The Associated Press
  2. Fargo shooter who killed a police officer used ‘binary trigger’ device, had stockpile of weapons at home CNN
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Fargo shooter who killed a police officer used ‘binary trigger’ device, had stockpile of weapons at home – CNN

  1. Fargo shooter who killed a police officer used ‘binary trigger’ device, had stockpile of weapons at home CNN
  2. Man who ambushed Fargo officers likely had bigger and bloodier attack in mind, attorney general says The Associated Press
  3. Man who ambushed Fargo officers searched online for ‘kill fast’ and for crowded area events, AG says Bismarck Tribune
  4. Forum Editorial: Fargo mourns a fallen police officer and struggles to understand an incomprehensible tragedy INFORUM
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Wall Street Underdog Wells Fargo Grabs Highest Share in Years – Bloomberg

  1. Wall Street Underdog Wells Fargo Grabs Highest Share in Years Bloomberg
  2. Office real estate values are moving down so fast that banking giants like Wells Fargo are already bracing for losses Fortune
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Wells Fargo settlement includes $2 billion for customers. What to know

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People owed a piece of the $2 billion that Wells Fargo has agreed to pay to customers affected by some of its banking practices could soon receive those funds.

The nation’s fourth-largest bank reached a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced Tuesday, to resolve customer abuses related to auto lending, deposit accounts and mortgage lending, affecting about 16 million accounts.

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Wells Fargo also agreed to pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty — the largest ever doled out by the CFPB.

“We have already communicated with many of the customers who may have been impacted by the matters covered in the settlement, and those efforts are ongoing,” a Wells Fargo spokesperson told CNBC.

In other words, if you are among the affected customers, you may already have received your share of the $2 billion, or you will automatically hear from Wells Fargo. You do not need to take any action, the bank said.

The CFPB said that customers of the bank were illegally assessed fees and interest charges on auto and mortgage loans, had their cars wrongly repossessed and had payments to auto and mortgage loans misapplied. Additionally, Wells Fargo charged consumers unlawful surprise overdraft fees and applied other incorrect charges to checking and savings accounts, and improperly froze some accounts, the CFPB said.

$1.3 billion has already reached 11 million accounts

More than 11 million customer accounts already have received more than $1.3 billion related to auto loan issues. Another 5 million customers with deposit accounts are receiving $500 million in remediation, including $205 million related to surprise overdraft fees, and thousands of customers with mortgages will receive a piece of at least $195 million, a CFPB spokesperson said.

The amount that each harmed consumer will get (or already got) depends on the specifics. For customers whose vehicles were wrongly repossessed, the remediation includes $4,000, but could be higher. For deposit accounts that were wrongly frozen, the settlement calls for $150 for each affected customer.

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“As we have said before, we and our regulators have identified a series of unacceptable practices that we have been working systematically to change and provide customer remediation where warranted,” said Charlie Scharf, Wells Fargo CEO, in the company’s press release about the settlement.

“This far-reaching agreement is an important milestone in our work to transform the operating practices at Wells Fargo and to put these issues behind us,” Scharf said.

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Wells Fargo to Pay Record CFPB Fine to Settle Allegations It Harmed Customers

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& Co. reached a $3.7 billion deal with regulators to resolve allegations that it harmed more than 16 million people with deposit accounts, auto loans and mortgages.

The settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau includes a $1.7 billion penalty, the agency’s largest-ever fine, and more than $2 billion in consumer restitution, the regulatory agency said Tuesday.

The consumer watchdog agency said the bank illegally assessed fees and interest charges on loans for cars and homes. Some consumers had their vehicles illegally repossessed while others had overdraft fees unlawfully applied, the agency said.

Wells Fargo’s regulatory troubles continue to ripple through the bank more than six years after its fake account scandal burst into public view. Other problems later surfaced across the San Francisco-based bank, including in its lending and deposit-taking businesses.

The CFPB settlement resolves a major penalty hanging over Wells Fargo but leaves it handcuffed by other regulators. The Federal Reserve has had a cap on the bank’s asset growth in place for nearly five years. Politicians continue to target the bank, and investors have filed a series of class-action lawsuits.

“Wells Fargo is a corporate recidivist,” said CFPB Director

Rohit Chopra,

on a call with reporters Tuesday. He said the settlement “should not be read as a sign that Wells Fargo has moved past its longstanding problems.”

The bank had been negotiating with the CFPB for months in an effort to lump as many outstanding issues into the settlement as possible, according to people familiar with the matter. 

Much of the $2 billion remediation included in the settlement has already been doled out to customers. The bank, for example, has paid $1.3 billion to 11 million customers who had auto-loan servicing issues, the CFPB said.

Wells Fargo has been working for years to resolve a series of regulatory matters stemming from a fake-accounts scandal in 2016. Afterward, other problems surfaced across the bank, including in its mortgage and auto-lending businesses.

The CFPB said the bank’s actions span over a decade. Wells Fargo incorrectly applied auto-loan payments because of technology and compliance failures from 2011 through 2022, the agency said. Errors in its home loan modification process went on from 2011 to 2018, the agency said.

The bank sometimes charged overdraft fees even when a customer had enough funds available to make a debit-card transaction or ATM withdrawal, CFPB said. Wells Fargo is required to refund customers about $205 million in fees since the beginning of last year that weren’t yet reversed. CFPB will oversee that process.

Mr. Chopra, an appointee of President Biden, has said he plans to target repeat offenders. “Corporate recidivism has become normalized and calculated as the cost of doing business,” he said in a speech earlier this year. He has also sought to make his agency more adversarial toward financial firms.

The CFPB said Wells Fargo has accelerated efforts to clean up its act since 2020. Tied to the settlement, the agency will terminate one of the consent orders it had placed on the bank in 2016 and clarify that a 2018 consent order will terminate in no more than three years.

Wells Fargo, led by CEO Charlie Scharf, had signaled for months that it expected another large regulatory penalty.



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“This far-reaching agreement is an important milestone in our work to transform the operating practices at Wells Fargo and to put these issues behind us,” Chief Executive

Charlie Scharf

said in a statement.

Mr. Scharf was brought in to clean up the bank in 2019. He has overhauled the top executive ranks, cut its workforce and gave priority to remaking the bank’s back-end systems for managing internal controls and risk. 

The bank had signaled for months that it expected another big regulatory penalty, and it took a $2 billion charge in the third quarter tied to resolving long-running legal and regulatory issues. The bank said Tuesday that it expects an operating losses expense of $3.5 billion in the current quarter.

Shares of the bank fell about 1.5%.

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Wells Fargo agrees to $3.7 billion settlement with CFPB over consumer abuses

Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.

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Wells Fargo agreed to a $3.7 billion settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over customer abuses tied to bank accounts, mortgages and auto loans, the regulator said Tuesday.

The bank was ordered to pay a $1.7 billion civil penalty and “more than $2 billion in redress to consumers,” the CFPB said in a statement. In a separate statement, the San Francisco-based company said that many of the “required actions” tied to the settlement were already done.

“The bank’s illegal conduct led to billions of dollars in financial harm to its customers and, for thousands of customers, the loss of their vehicles and homes,” the agency said in its release. “Consumers were illegally assessed fees and interest charges on auto and mortgage loans, had their cars wrongly repossessed, and had payments to auto and mortgage loans misapplied by the bank.”

The resolution lifts one overhang for the bank, which has been led by CEO Charlie Scharf since October 2019. In October, the bank set aside $2 billion for legal, regulatory and customer remediation matters, igniting speculation that a settlement was nearing. But other regulatory hurdles remain: Wells Fargo is still operating under consent orders tied to its 2016 fake accounts scandal, including one from the Fed that caps its asset growth.

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said Wells Fargo’s “rinse-repeat cycle of violating the law” hurt millions of American families and that the settlement was an “important initial step for accountability” for the bank.

Shares of the bank fell 2.5% in premarket trading.

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‘Fargo’ Season 5 To Star Juno Temple, Jon Hamm & Jennifer Jason Leigh – Deadline

Juno Temple (Ted Lasso), Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Atypical) are set as leads in the upcoming fifth installment of Fargo, FX’s acclaimed limited series created and executive produced by Noah Hawley.

As usual, Hawley is not revealing much about the plot of the new season, which the series’ most contemporary to date. Set in 2019, it answers two questions: When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?

Temple, Hamm and Leigh will play the central characters of Dot, Roy and Lorraine, respectively.

Previous seasons of Fargo have been headlined by Billy Bob Thornton, Kirsten Dunst, Ewan McGregor and Chris Rock, among others.

Fargo creator, writer, director and executive producer Hawley, and his production company 26 Keys, lead the creative team of the latest installment of the true crime story. Warren Littlefield, and his production company The Littlefield Company, also serves as executive producer along with Joel & Ethan Coen, Steve Stark of Toluca Pictures, Kim Todd, and Vincent Landay. Fargo is produced by MGM Television and FX Productions, with MGM Television serving as the lead studio and MGM distributing the series internationally.

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In addition to her Emmy-nominated tole in Apple TV+’s hit comedy series Ted Lasso, Temple also stars in the Paramount+ limited series The Offer. She is repped by UTA, B-Side Management, Maison 2, Lichter Grossman Nichols, and Relevant PR.

Hamm, Emmy winner for his starring role on Mad Men, is onscreen in the box office mega hit Top Gun: Maverick. He is repped by CAA, Forward Entertainment and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.

Leigh next stars in Season 2 of Prime Video’s Hunters. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.



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Wells Fargo accused of holding fake job interviews with minority candidates: report

A former executive at Wells Fargo bank is claiming that the company held “fake” job interviews for minority candidates for positions that had already been filled and says he was fired for bringing attention to the matter.

Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division at Wells Fargo’s corporate offices in Jacksonville, Florida, told the New York Times that the company would interview minority candidates for positions to adhere to an informal policy promoting diversity but noticed that the candidates were often interviewing for jobs that had been promised to someone else.

This Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 photo shows a Wells Fargo location in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke / AP Newsroom)

Bruno says that he was fired last summer after telling his superiors that the interviews were “inappropriate” and “ethically and morally wrong.”

The Times reported that Bruno was one of seven current and former Wells Fargo employees who say they were instructed to interview “diverse” candidates for positions even if the decision had already been made to hire a different candidate.

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Raschelle Burton, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, said “To the extent that individual employees are engaging in the behavior as described by The New York Times, we do not tolerate it,” Raschelle Burton, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, told the Times.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Wells Fargo said that it could not verify Bruno’s claim.

“We researched all specific claims the reporter shared with us in advance of the story’s publication and could not corroborate the claims as factual,” a spokesperson for the company said. 

The spokesperson added that Wells Fargo “will continue our internal review and if we find evidence of inappropriate behavior or shortcomings in our guidelines or their implementation, we will take decisive action.”

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In August 2020, amid widespread protests and rioting following the death of George Floyd, Wells Fargo agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle a claim from the Department of Labor alleging the company discriminated against tens of thousands of Black job applicants.

Months before that, the company agreed to a $3 billion settlement to resolve a fake account scandal and admitted that it wrongly collected millions of dollars in fees and interest, harmed the credit ratings of some customers and illegally used customers’ private information.

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Unrealistic sales goals led to millions of accounts being opened without customers’ knowledge or under false pretenses, the company also admitted. 

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