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Wells Fargo to pay $1.3 billion in class-action lawsuit

Posted on May 16, 2023July 10, 2023 By 5amResearch No Comments on Wells Fargo to pay $1.3 billion in class-action lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO – Wells Fargo & Co agreed to pay US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) to settle a shareholder lawsuit that accused it of making misleading statements about its compliance with United States consent orders, following the 2016 scandal involving the opening of unauthorised customer accounts.

The settlement is one of the top six largest securities class-action settlements of the past decade, according to lawyers for the investors, who filed a request on Monday for a Manhattan judge to approve the accord.

The investors sued the bank in 2020, claiming that its former chief executive officer Tim Sloan and other executives made misleading statements in testimony before Congress, and to investors and the media.

The investors alleged that the executives presented too rosy a scenario about their interactions with regulators, including not disclosing that their initial reform plans had been rejected by authorities.

The proceeds of the settlement will go to investors who bought Wells Fargo stock from Feb 2, 2018 through March 12, 2020.

The accord follows a previous settlement four years ago over the bank’s fake-accounts scandal with executives and directors valued at US$320 million and a 2018 shareholder accord that cost the company US$480 million. In 2020, Wells Fargo agreed to pay US$3 billion to settle US investigations into more than a decade of widespread consumer abuses under a deal that let the bank avoid criminal charges.

While the sales abuses had been described repeatedly in earlier probes, the 2020 settlement provided more details on the high-pressure environment that led legions of low-level employees to break the law – often costing them their jobs when they were caught by the firm’s internal controls. Many inside the bank referred to abusive sales practices as “gaming”, according to prosecutors at that time. BLOOMBERG

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