Wells Fargo chief Stumpf heads to Hill with pressure mounting

Wells Fargo & Co's Chief Executive John Stumpf returns to Capitol Hill on Thursday with his job still under threat and the bank facing rising political pressure over a sales scandal that has become a major issue in Washington and on Wall Street. The bank's move earlier this week to claw back $41 million in stock awarded to Stumpf, an unprecedented rebuke for a major U.S. bank CEO, is unlikely to silence calls for him to resign over revelations Wells Fargo's branch staff opened as many as two million unauthorized credit card and deposit accounts to meet sales quotas. California, Wells Fargo's home state, suspended business relationships with the bank for a year on Wednesday and said it would work with the state's two giant public pension funds to change the management structure at the bank, including separating the roles of CEO and chairman.

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Wells Fargo chief Stumpf heads to Hill with pressure mounting

Wells Fargo CEO to take ‘full responsibility’ in Senate hearing: NY Times

Stumpf will strike a contrite tone in a testimony over the fake accounts at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, the New York Times said, citing a copy of his prepared remarks. “We never directed nor wanted our employees, whom we refer to as team members, to provide products and services to customers they did not want or need,” the Times quoted Stumpf as saying.

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Wells Fargo CEO to take ‘full responsibility’ in Senate hearing: NY Times