Wells Fargo Plans Major Retreat From Mortgage Business It Long Dominated
Bloomberg, Aug. 14, 2022–Hannah Levitt
Wells Fargo & Co. plans to shrink its vast mortgage empire, which once churned out one of every three home loans in the US and for a time made the bank the most valuable in the nation. No longer committed to ranking No. 1 in the business, Wells Fargo’s leadership is preparing a retreat that will probably start with the bank’s ties to outside mortgage firms that generated roughly a third of its $205 billion in new home loans last year.
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