Not exact matches
The disclosures signal that the bank's problematic sales practices go further than investors and analysts had expected after Wells Fargo reached a settlement with regulators in September
over unauthorized customer
accounts.
Wells Fargo already faces many lawsuits
over its opening of
unauthorized customer
accounts, in a scandal that led to last month's departure of the San Francisco - based bank's longtime chief executive, John Stumpf.
In 2017, the bank also reached a preliminary class - action settlement of $ 142 million
over concerns about retail sales practices and
unauthorized accounts from 2002.
Unauthorized Wells Fargo
Accounts Wells Fargo Chair and CEO John Stumpf appeared before the Senate Banking Committee to discuss his company's settlement with federal officials in which Wells Fargo agreed to pay $ 185 million in fines
over fraudulent
accounts opened without customers» permission.
Feuer's office sued Wells Fargo in May 2015
over allegations of
unauthorized accounts.
«The expanded analysis reviewed more than 165 million retail banking
accounts opened
over a nearly eight - year period — from January 2009 through September 2016 — and identified a new total of approximately 3.5 million potentially
unauthorized consumer and small business
accounts.»
Scarborough will also admit that between January 2007 and March 2014, he stole from the «Friends of Bill Scarborough» campaign committee by making
over $ 38,000 in
unauthorized cash withdrawals and transfers from his campaign
account for his own personal use, and taking checks totaling $ 3,450 which were intended as donations and instead depositing them directly into his personal bank.
This information is taken in case the bank needs to alert you to any
unauthorized activity on your
account or needs to confirm your identity
over the phone.
For the comprehensive category, I focused on features that could protect existing
accounts because, for
over 85 % of identity theft victims, the most recent incident involved the
unauthorized use of an existing
account.
If the adviser has discretionary authority
over the client's
account, is there any evidence of excessive trading, self - dealing, preferential treatment, unsuitable recommendations,
unauthorized transactions or incomplete disclosure?
«While not rising to the level of Wells Fargo's creation of
over two million
unauthorized accounts,» continued Harris, «overbilling 149,000 clients appears to be a darn good try.»