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| 8-K - FORM 8-K - WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN | wfcform8k02022018.htm |
Exhibit 99.1
Media Investors
Arati Randolph John Campbell
Corporate Communications
704-383-6996
arati.randolph1@wellsfargo.com
@AratiRandolphWF
Mark Folk
Corporate Communications
704-383-7088
mark.folk@wellsfargo.com
@MarkFolkWF
Investor Relations
415-396-0523
john.m.campbell@wellsfargo.com
Wells Fargo Commits to Satisfying Consent Order
with Federal Reserve
CEO Sloan cites efforts well underway to enhance
company’s compliance and operational risk management program
SAN FRANCISCO, February 2, 2018 – Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced it is
confident it will satisfy the requirements of the consent order it agreed to today with the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Under the consent order, the company will provide plans
to the Federal Reserve within 60 days that detail what already has been done, and is planned, to
further enhance the board’s governance oversight, and the company’s compliance and operational
risk management. The order also provides for third-party reviews of such plans and, until they are
approved and implemented, limits on the growth of the company’s total consolidated assets to the
level as of December 31, 2017.
“We take this order seriously and are focused on addressing all of the Federal Reserve’s concerns,”
said Timothy J. Sloan, Wells Fargo’s president and chief executive officer. “It is important to note
that the consent order is not related to any new matters, but to prior issues where we have already
made significant progress. We appreciate the Federal Reserve’s acknowledgment of our actions to
date. In addition, the order is not related to Wells Fargo’s financial condition -- we remain in a
strong financial position and stand ready to serve the varied financial needs of our customers.”
“Our board is committed to meeting the expectations of our regulators and protecting and serving
the interests of our shareholders, customers, team members and the community,” said Betsy Duke,
independent chair of Wells Fargo’s Board of Directors and a former member of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve. “Every change we’ve made over the past year reflects this and
the valuable feedback of investors and stakeholders. Moving forward, we’ll continue to be focused
on maintaining an appropriate mix of professional experiences and diverse perspectives necessary
to govern a franchise as important as Wells Fargo.”
The Federal Reserve’s consent order – which recognizes that the company already has
implemented improvements in its governance and risk management – includes the following
requirements:
• Within 60 days:
o The company’s board will submit a plan to further enhance the board’s effectiveness
in carrying out its oversight and governance of the company.
o The company will submit a plan to further improve the company’s firm-wide
compliance and operational risk management program.
• After Federal Reserve approval, the company will engage independent third parties to
conduct a review to be completed no later than September 30, 2018 to confirm adoption
and implementation of the plans.
• The asset limitation will remain in effect until third-party reviews have been completed to
the satisfaction of the Federal Reserve.
• After removal of the limits on asset growth, a second third-party review will be conducted to
assess the efficacy and sustainability of the risk management improvements.
“While there is still more work to do, we have made significant improvements over the past year to
our governance and risk management that address concerns highlighted in this consent order,”
Sloan said.
These actions have included:
Board governance:
• Separating the roles of chairman and CEO and amending the company’s by-laws to require
an independent chair.
• Electing six new independent directors in 2017 as five directors retired, bringing to eight
the total number of directors elected since 2015, and planned refreshment of an additional
four directors in 2018, with the retirement of three of those directors occurring by the time
of our 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
• Enhancing the overall capabilities and experience represented on the board, including
financial services, risk management, cyber, technology, regulatory, human capital
management, finance, accounting, and consumer and social responsibility.
• Reviewing the board’s committee structure and leadership, amending committee charters
to enhance risk oversight, and refreshing the chairs of certain key committees, including the
Risk Committee and Governance and Nominating Committee.
• Conducting a board self-evaluation in 2017 facilitated by Mary Jo White, a senior partner at
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The self-evaluation informed the board’s changes in its structure, composition and
governance practices.
Risk management:
• Centralizing critical control functions (including Human Resources, Finance, and
Technology) to improve enterprise visibility, consistency and control.
• Centralizing all risk management functions to accelerate the design and implementation of a
fully integrated operating model for risk management.
• Developing and executing comprehensive plans that addressed our compliance and
operational risk management programs, organizations, processes, technology and controls.
• Hiring external talent for critical risk management leadership roles – chief operational risk
officer, chief compliance officer and head of regulatory relations (newly created).
• Forming new centralized enterprise functions dedicated to key risk control areas, including
the Conduct Management Office (January 2017), Enterprise Data Management function
(September 2017) and Comprehensive Customer Remediation Group (November 2017).
Conference Call
The company will host a live conference call on February 2, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. PT (7:30 p.m. ET) to discuss
the consent order. The live audio webcast will be available at the following address:
https://engage.vevent.com/rt/wells_fargo_ao~9499813.
You also may participate by dialing 855-604-1135 (U.S. and Canada) or 574-990-3591 (International).
A replay of the conference call will be available beginning at 7:30 p.m. PT (10:30 p.m. ET) on Friday,
February 2, 2018, through Friday, February 16. Please dial 800-585-8367 (U.S. and Canada) or 404-537-
3406 (International) and enter Conference ID #9499813. The replay will also be available online at
https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/investor-relations/events/ and
https://engage.vevent.com/rt/wells_fargo_ao~9499813.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services
company with $2 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs
and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells
Fargo provides banking, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through
more than 8,300 locations, 13,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and
has offices in 42 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global
economy. With approximately 263,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households
in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortune’s 2017 rankings of
America’s largest corporations.
Cautionary Statement about Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements about our future financial performance and
business. Because forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and
assumptions regarding the future, they are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. Do not
unduly rely on forward-looking statements as actual results could differ materially from
expectations. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and we do not undertake
to update them to reflect changes or events that occur after that date. For information about factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations, refer to our reports filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the “Forward-Looking Statements”
discussion in Wells Fargo’s most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as well as to Wells Fargo’s
other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the discussion under
“Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, available
on its website at www.sec.gov.
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