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Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf: The Future of Financial Services

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Mary Cranston

Mary Cranston is Senior Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Commonwealth Club Board of Governors.

John G. Stumpf

John Stumpf became Chairman for Wells Fargo & Company in January 2010. He was named Chief Executive Officer in June 2007, elected to Wells Fargo's Board of Directors in June 2006, and has been President since August 2005.

A 28-year veteran of the company, he joined the former Norwest Corporation (predecessor of Wells Fargo) in 1982 in the loan administration department and then became senior vice president and chief credit officer for Norwest Bank, N.A., Minneapolis. He held a number of management positions at Norwest Bank Minneapolis and Norwest Bank Minnesota before assuming responsibility for Norwest Bank Arizona in 1989. He was named regional president for Norwest Banks in Colorado/Arizona in 1991. From 1994 to 1998, he was regional president for Norwest Bank Texas. During his four years in that position, he led Norwest's acquisition of 30 Texas banks with total assets of more than $13 billion.

In 1998, with the merger of Norwest Corporation and Wells Fargo & Company, he became head of the Southwestern Banking Group (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas). Two years later he became head of the new Western Banking Group (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming). In 2000, he led the integration of Wells Fargo's acquisition of the $23 billion First Security Corporation, based in Salt Lake City. In May 2002, he was named Group EVP of Community Banking. In December 2008, he led one of the largest mergers in history with the purchase of Wachovia.

He serves on the Board of Directors for The Clearing House, the Financial Services Roundtable, Target Corporation and Chevron Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A Minnesota native, he earned his bachelor's degree in finance from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota and his MBA with an emphasis in finance from the University of Minnesota.

Wells Fargo's John Stumpf: Why Aren't Banks Making Loans?

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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf answers a question he is frequently asked: "Why aren't you bankers making loans anymore?" "The biggest challenge we have today," he explains, "is finding people we want to lend money to."
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Millennian

Posted: 10.12.10, 11:52 PM

Not meaning to detract from the actual business of credit, how many times has the American public paid off it's college debt? And, how often does this zero balance occur in a decade?

PaoloPaolo49

Posted: 09.02.10, 01:42 AM

Hello BalthazarF: To take on your challenge about giving one example of democracy in capitalism: One of the pillars of capitalism, 'Entrepreneurship' is democratic. Day laborers who used to pick grapes on vineyards in Napa Valley now own some of those very vineyards. And please explain what you mean 'poverty is legislated'? I want to understand what you are talking about. The reference is murky. Thank u.

balthazarF

Posted: 08.25.10, 02:51 PM

America is not now nor has it ever been a democracy. It is a capitalist oligarchy founded on the voting power of white, male property owners. The capitalism of the day relied on the cheap labor from competition with slavery. Since the abolishment of slavery the capitalist oligarchy has legislated wages of poverty, which is the legislation of poverty itself. Legislated poverty is certainly not democratic. CHALLENGE: name one structure of capitalism which is democratic. Voting in America is an act from Circus Maximus . Notice how American "leadership" bows to corporate power, be it too big to fail or wasteful of America's natural assets while destroying America's environment. Those too big to fail were rewarded with bonuses from the taxpaying average (median wage) Americans. The stockholders of BP have not voluntarily appeared and cleaned up their mess as a way to protect their investment. The Queen's tiara might fall in the sludge, ya know. Stock ownership is so much neater and legally defensible than colonies. Shift a few assets and declare bankruptcy. One if by land, two if by sea and the middle digit if by corporate structure.

phiscal

Posted: 08.20.10, 05:40 PM

Mr. Stumpf is a terrific ambassador for banks. His bank is as solid his northern Minnesota background. He answered questions as honestly as he promised. He did not make as compelling an argument for executive pay as he could have, however. People's productivity varies enormously. If people who can make bigger contributions cannot make bigger paychecks, they won't make those bigger contributions. In the absence of undue influence over one's board (which CEOs often possess and exert), boards and stockholders should be the sole determiners of pay.

CulturalEngineer

Posted: 07.21.10, 06:08 AM

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CulturalEngineer

Posted: 07.21.10, 05:37 AM

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