How it operates
The company serves households, small businesses, middle-market companies and large institutions through deposits, cards, personal and auto lending, home lending, commercial credit, payments and wealth management.
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Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company providing consumer and business banking, lending, mortgage, commercial banking, investment banking and wealth services.
Wells Fargo’s public filings describe four operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate & Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. The company includes a home-lending business as well as consumer, commercial and wholesale financial services.
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Financial services relevance
Wells Fargo spans community banking, mortgages, commercial finance and capital markets, making it relevant to household finance and institutional banking developments.
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