Wells Fargo: Not out of the woods yet

More than five years after succumbing to one of the biggest consumer abuse scandals in history, Wells Fargo still faces significant regulatory challenges.

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In September, Wells Fargo confirmed the expiry of a 2016 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau consent order over its fake-account sales practices. That followed the termination in January of a consent order from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January 2021, concerning its anti-money laundering compliance programme.

The good news was short lived, however. The lifting of the CFPB order merely served to mitigate a separate $250 million OCC fine, announced the very next day.

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