Wells Fargo Plans To Add Actively-Managed Crypto Product

Wells Fargo will launch an actively-managed cryptocurrency strategy to qualified investors, likely to include some form of bitcoin exposure.

Wells Fargo will soon offer “a professionally managed solution” for cryptocurrency to clients. “We think the cryptocurrency space has just kind of hit an evolution and maturation of its development that allows it now to be a viable investable asset,” said the president of Wells Fargo Investment Institute. Wells Fargo Getting Into Crypto Darrell Cronk, the president of Wells Fargo Investment Institute, a registered investment adviser and wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, revealed his team’s crypto plans to the Insider in an interview published....

"Rules of Engagement" are the exact words that Wells Fargo used, I can't make this stuff up guys... Even if I wanted to. As reported first in an FT article by Stephen Foley and Camilla Hall, Wells Fargo's anti-money laundering chief Jim Reynolds has launched a group to investigate how exactly Wells Fargo, and major financial institutions by extension and inclusion, might offer banking arrangements safely to Bitcoin-related services. Wells Fargo's chief executive John Stumpf further elaborated stating that it was Wells Fargo's standard bank practice to look into any financial innovations,....

A major factor which played a part in the Wells Fargo scam was poor and non-transparent data management. Could implementation of the Blockchain have helped in preventing the occurrence of such fraudulent activities? Bank too big to manage. The unethical behaviour by Wells Fargo has generated a lot of reaction from both the legal and the financial institutions in recent weeks. Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts without their customers knowing it. The illegal accounts earned the bank unwarranted fees and allowed Wells Fargo employees....

Wells Fargo, one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S., has reportedly started offering crypto investments to its wealth management clients. Wells Fargo Offers Crypto Exposure A spokesperson for American financial services company Wells Fargo reportedly confirmed to Business Insider Friday that the company has started offering cryptocurrency exposure to its wealth management clients. Wells Fargo’s wealth and investment management arm, which includes the firm’s private banking services and Wells Fargo Advisors, is one of the largest U.S. wealth managers. It oversees nearly....