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Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... wage gains. And oh, there's also Trump's tax cut - which had already prodded several US companies - Walmart, AT&T, Wells Fargo, etc. - to pass some on onto their employees in the form of pay hikes. The Fed's wish is coming true. Inflation here we come! ...

Wells Fargo opens up on pay gaps

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Wells Fargo has become the third major US bank to take action on gender and ethnicity pay gaps. Responding to shareholder pressure the bank released the findings of its most recent pay equity study. It showed women working for Wells Fargo in the US ...

Citigroup takes action on pay inequality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... Capital. In 2017 Arjuna Capital also issued resolutions to Bank of America, MasterCard, American Express, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo. Citi also originally rejected the proposal. Responding to shareholder pressure, the move by Citi has been described ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... it would pay more than 200,000 U.S. employees $1,000 each and increase its capital spending budget by $1 billion. Wells Fargo, meanwhile, also said it would be boosting its minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour, which was prompted by the tax plan." ...

Wealth begins its blockchain reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... solutions solving vast problems and inefficiencies in the marketplace. In October 2016, the Commonwealth Bank and Wells Fargo embarked on the first blockchain-based global trade transaction between two commercial banks. The transaction involved a shipment ...

Aussie banks cleared of Wells Fargo-type conduct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... eight Australian banks of any systemic misconduct involving illegal opening of accounts as seen at international firm Wells Fargo. The audits, undertaken by ASIC in December 2016 of the big four plus BOQ, Citibank, HSBC and Suncorp, found no evidence ...

Xero seeks global growth, director steps down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... resources to its global team and building relationships with financial institutions including Australia's big four banks, Wells Fargo and HSBC. "The future of finance is steeped in collaboration rather than competition between banking institutions and ...

FoFA should also protect retail banking customers: FSU

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... take effect at the branch level. Also addressing the Senate committee was Kilian Colin, a former personal banker at Wells Fargo for three years until June 2016. He stated there were "unreasonable sales goals" that prioritised selling products rather ...

Global bank tests customer service 'bot'

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Global bank Wells Fargo is launching an artificial intelligence-driven customer service 'chat' experience within Facebook's Messenger application. Wells Fargo customers who frequently use Messenger will be able to save time using the chat bot functionality ...

Younger investors flock to offshore equities

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... raised their turnover by 73%. The former showed a strong preference for stocks such as Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, Wells Fargo, Lloyds and Berkshire Hathaway, while the latter took an interest in technology and videogame companies including AMD, Nvidia ...