The Unethical Treatment of Small Businesses by Wells Fargo Bank
Sagarika Prajapati
Bristol Community College
BNK 101 Project
Abstract
In 1852, Wells, Fargo & Co. was founded by two men named Henry Wells and William Fargo. They originally opened for business in the gold rush port of San Francisco offering two services: banking (purchasing and selling paper bank drafts as good as gold) as well as express (rapid delivery of the gold and anything else valuable). There was a lot of things happening in the world in the 19th century, including the Panic of 1857, a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy. A violent hurricane had just lashed out in Central America, and there was a vessel at sea carrying a huge shipment of gold from California. The ship full of gold ended up sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Banks had already been struggling due to their investments in businesses failing, and the American people panicked and feared financial ruin. Along with their failed investments, it was impossible for the banks to gather all the gold that their customers demanded. In the boom and bust economy of the 1850s, from the Gold Rush to the early 20th century, through prosperity, depression and war, Wells Fargo earned a reputation of trust due to its attention and loyalty to customers and by dealing rapidly and responsibly with people’s money. However, in recent years, there has been an
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In the year eighteen fifty-two, two men by the names of Henry Wells and William Fargo chose to establish a monetary administrations organization that we know today to be Wells Fargo (Wells Fargo, 2017). Before establishing the organization, Mr. Wells and Mr. Fargo chose to ground their organization in five standards which turned into their five essential esteems. Their first esteem being "individuals as an aggressive esteem" which implies an association with a colleague will prompt a superior association with the clients. Second "morals" Wells Fargo prides its self on being a straightforward organization and having nothing to cover up. Third, "what's ideal for the clients" as indicated by the Wells Fargo Website this esteem is characterized as ensuring clients' private data (Wells Fargo, 2017). The fourth esteem is "assorted variety and incorporation" which implies Wells Fargo advances the enhancement of its organization and customers while including pioneers all through the organization to decide. The last guideline is "administration" which implies learning and serving their vision.
Our paper today will be on Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo is an American bank that was created in 1852 by Henry Wells and James Fargo. It is the second largest bank in the USA in terms of market cap, operates in over 42 countries around the world, and has over 260,000 employees.
At Wells Fargo, to serve our consumers in a timely manner is and will always be a top
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Wells Fargo, the world’s most valuable retail bank, has been fined to pay $185 million dollars after the exposure of schemes that defrauded customers in line with a business model, organized from the highest levels of the company, to boost its profits and growth (Beams). According to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bank opened 1.5 million store records and more than a large portion of a million accounts without clients ' authorization. Bankers moved assets from clients ' records into newly made accounts without their insight. The CFPB said that it resulted in customers being charged for insufficient funds or overdraft fees because the amounts that they were charged were not in their accounts. The bank also created more than 565,000 credit card accounts, of which 14,000 credit cards totaled more than $400,000 in fees and interest charges (Beams).
Wells Fargo is known to be a very strong financial lending company. Their strengths is the high cash volume of over $500 billion in assets as well as being a powerful distribution in the banking industry. Another strength is that they have relationships to serval different industries such as real estate, technology, media, financial services, retail, and many others. Since the 1800’s they have main their roots into the mind of individuals of being a strong and trustworthy company. Wells Fargo is a well-known name and so is their marketing strategy. The company is fundamentally base on hardworking and smart employees from all over types of diverse lifestyles. Being considered America largest bank ranking at number twelve in the most admired companies worldwide. A strategy that I believe Wells Fargo should take maximum advantage of its strength will be there market strategy. Wells Fargo is well recognize for their marketing strategy in the banking industry, so by marketing well their services is a way of building strategy like a bridge. It help deliver these services nationwide and reach the company goals by using various means available. Overall Wells Fargo strengths is the reason why they are top competitors. Now like any other company Wells Fargo has their weaknesses, these weaknesses include confusion or large scale activity. Being such a large company it is hard to personally know all individuals within the community. By being so large they become targets of fraud and
Wells Fargo was founded on March 18th, 1852 by Henry Wells and William Fargo to serve the West during the gold rush. The company offered Banking (buying gold and selling paper bank drafts as good as gold) and Express (rapid delivery of the gold and anything else valuable). They opened for business in San Francisco, and earned a reputation of trust by dealing rapidly and responsibly with people’s money. (History of Wells Fargo, n.d.)
I really don’t have any clue, but I look online and i have found an article about Wells Fargo. Apparently Wells Fargo have set the vision for an organization. Wells Fargo vision is that they want to “satisfy all their customers’ financial needs, ect. Wells Fargo is the largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. It beat Bank of America and JP Morgan in last few years. Barron’s ranked it as the best financial services company in the world. Wells Fargo is the only “AAA” credit-rated bank in the United States. This is the highest possible rating from Moody’s.
The premise for this paper is the conflict that occurred with Wells Fargo Bank that came to Americas attention in 2016. Wells Fargo employees opened accounts in customer’s names without their consent. Employees went as far as signing the customer’s names to the paperwork. There have been many reasons that have come to light as to why employees would have opened accounts without customer’s knowledge. One of the key issues that have been discussed is the fact that employee (sales employees as well as management) bonuses were dependent on the employees selling bank products and opening new accounts. This includes credit cards, overdraft protection, new checking and savings accounts any product the bank offered were included in the bonus eligible
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