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Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets. [3] Wachovia provided a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate ...
CoreStates Financial Corporation, previously known as Philadelphia National Bank (PNB), was an American bank holding company in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. The bank was renamed in the mid-1980s after a series of mergers. After being acquired by First Union Corporation, which later also acquired Wachovia National Bank to ...
Berks County Trust Company. Wyomissing Valley Bank, Temple State Bank, Mount Penn Trust Company, Reamstown Exchange Bank, Schuylkill Trust Company. Berks County Trust Company (1964 as American Bank and Trust Co or American Bankcorp) Wells Fargo. 1964. National Bank of Commerce. Texas National Bank.
Golden West Savings and Loan Association was purchased in 1963 for $4 million by Herbert Sandler and Marion Sandler, through their newly created corporation, Golden West Financial. Some of the capital for the acquisition came from bank loans, with the balance coming from Marion's family money. [2] Marion Sandler, a former Wall Street analyst ...
Acquisitions in 1999–2000. Continuing the Norwest tradition of making numerous smaller acquisitions each year, Wells Fargo acquired 13 companies during 1999 with total assets of $2.4 billion. The largest of these was the February purchase of Brownsville, Texas -based Mercantile Financial Enterprises, Inc., which had $779 million in assets.
First Union Corporation was a bank holding company that provided commercial and retail banking services in eleven states in the eastern U.S.First Union also provided various other financial services, including mortgage banking, credit card, investment banking (First Union Securities), investment advisory, home equity lending, asset-based lending, leasing, insurance, international and ...
1976 - 2008. G. Kennedy Thompson, also known as Ken Thompson, (born November 25, 1950) is an American banker and businessman who was chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, formerly First Union Corporation, from 2000 through 2008. [1] During his leadership, Wachovia grew to become the nation's fourth largest bank. [2][3]
On December 31, 2008, Wachovia Corporation was purchased by Wells Fargo & Co. after the bank was nearly taken over by the FDIC. Wachovia had purchased Golden West Financial and its subsidiary World Savings in mid-2007. [8] The crash of subprime mortgages, which made up most of World Savings' nearly $200 billion mortgage portfolio, put ...