Wells Fargo, heavyweight champion of financial crime gets yet another chance to show it's reformed. Hah!
Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 3 days ago to Business
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Just a small example of WF's dedication to ethics and fair play:
"Let’s say a client needs to sell USD for CAD, and that the $1 USD is worth $1.32 CAD. In banking parlance, the 32 cents is called the “Big Figure.” Wells would buy the CAD at $1.32 for $1 USD and then transpose the actual exchange rate on the customer statement from $1.32 to $1.23. If the customer didn’t notice, Wells would pocket the difference. On a transaction where the client is buying 5 million CAD with USD, the ill-gotten gain for Wells would be about $277,000 USD!
Conversely, if the customer did notice the difference, Wells would just blame it on the grunts in its operational back office, saying they accidentally transposed the number and “correct” the transaction. From the complaint, here is some give and take between two Wells FX specialists:
“You can play the transposition error game if you get called out.” Another FX sales specialist noted to a colleague about a previous transaction that a customer “didn’t flinch at the big fig the other day. Want to take a bit more?”"
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Give the banking cartel the ability to create money from nothing and what do they do?
Steal even more from their customers.
Banking cartel: NIFO
Just a small example of WF's dedication to ethics and fair play:
"Let’s say a client needs to sell USD for CAD, and that the $1 USD is worth $1.32 CAD. In banking parlance, the 32 cents is called the “Big Figure.” Wells would buy the CAD at $1.32 for $1 USD and then transpose the actual exchange rate on the customer statement from $1.32 to $1.23. If the customer didn’t notice, Wells would pocket the difference. On a transaction where the client is buying 5 million CAD with USD, the ill-gotten gain for Wells would be about $277,000 USD!
Conversely, if the customer did notice the difference, Wells would just blame it on the grunts in its operational back office, saying they accidentally transposed the number and “correct” the transaction. From the complaint, here is some give and take between two Wells FX specialists:
“You can play the transposition error game if you get called out.” Another FX sales specialist noted to a colleague about a previous transaction that a customer “didn’t flinch at the big fig the other day. Want to take a bit more?”"
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Give the banking cartel the ability to create money from nothing and what do they do?
Steal even more from their customers.
Banking cartel: NIFO
I paid off my mortgage immediately and never had to deal with Wells Fargo again!
When the bonus is paid cash out and immediately close the account.
I favor whatever legally can be done to kill the TBTF banks without direct harm to honest people.