Wells Fargo Bank

Specialties

Complete banking services, retail brokerage services, asset management, wealth management, and innovative products for individual customers. Financial expertise in treasury services, corporate and investment banking and international banking for business customers. We also offer credit and debit card products, trust services, auto dealer finance, mortgage banking, and home equity lending.

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores and 12,000 ATMs and the Internet (wells​fargo​.com) across North America and internationally. We’re headquartered in San Francisco, but we’re decentralized so every local Wells Fargo store is a headquarters for satisfying all our customers’ financial needs and helping them succeed financially.

History

Established in 1852.

In 1852 Henry Wells and William Fargo founded Wells, Fargo & Co. to serve the West. The new 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).

Wells Fargo opened for business in the gold rush port of San Francisco, and soon Wells Fargo’s agents opened offices in the other new cities and mining camps of the West. In the boom and bust economy of the 1850s, Wells Fargo earned a reputation of trust by dealing rapidly and responsibly with people’s money. In the 1860s, it earned everlasting fame — and its corporate symbol — with the grand adventure of the overland stagecoach line.

Today in the 21^st Century, with extensive and diversified financial services, the Wells Fargo name once again extends «Ocean-​to-​Ocean,» «Over-​the-​Seas,» and, of course, On-​Line.