Wells Fargo Securities Forms Client Trade Services Group and Names Eamon McCooey Head of Prime Services

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.4 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, and the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the bank’s customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortune’s 2013 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.

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Are you at risk if the bond bubble bursts?

The main crisis is for existing fixed-rate bond savers who come to the end of their term this month — they could see their income more than halve. They enjoyed interest of as much as 3.6 per cent after tax (4.5 per cent before) over the past three years with Halifax, Britannia, Cheshire and Derbyshire building societies.

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Bercow's rent-free home courtesy of the taxpayer

The consolidated fund accounts for 2011-12 list Mr Bercow's salary, but do not mention any benefit in kind. The Treasury, which administers the fund, said it had no responsibility for setting the Speaker's pay or benefits. Advertisement "; s+="

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Crisis-hit Co-op hires new £1m a year banking boss

Co-op is also likely to appoint a new finance boss and chief risk officer for the bank soon following pressure from City watchdog the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).

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FCA sets out impact of Ucis ban on structured products

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out the impact on structured products from its ban on the retail sale of unregulated collective investment schemes (Ucis).

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