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Wells Fargo's credit card business is slowly growing, especially among students and lower-income borrowers. But now it's about to make a play for the biggest spenders by unveiling a travel-rewards credit card.
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The San Francisco bank is mainly counting on organic loan growth and improved asset quality to drive future profits, but it would also be open to acquisitions, especially in the credit card in wealth management businesses.
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Wells Fargo is in succession-planning mode. CEO John Stumpf is moving CFO Tim Sloan, widely considered to be one of his potential heirs, over to run the wholesale banking business, and promoting securities head John Shrewsberry to replace Sloan.
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Wells Fargo (WFC) shareholders approved compensation for John Stumpf, the chairman and chief executive, at the company's annual meeting Tuesday and also rejected a proposal to split the chairman and CEO roles.
Shareholders approved Stumpf's $19.3 million compensation package in a nonbinding resolution during the annual meeting, held in San Antonio, Texas, Wells Fargo said in a news release. Compensation was also approved for other executives, including Timothy Sloan, chief financial officer, and David Hoyt, senior executive vice president for wholesale banking.
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In other nonbinding questions, shareholders rejected calls to make Wells Fargo's chairman independent, and for it to review its mortgage-servicing and loan-modification procedures to confirm they comply with federal law. One of the nation's largest mortgage lenders, Wells Fargo reported this month that its
Shareholders also elected the 14 nominees for director seats and confirmed KPMG as Wells Fargo's auditor.
Final voting results will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the coming days, a company spokesman said.
Wells Fargo's moved its annual meeting to a Hyatt Regency hotel in San Antonio this year after protestors disrupted meetings held the past two years in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, Utah, according to media reports. A number of shareholders also attended today's meeting in San Antonio and questioned Stumpf about the bank's mortgage practices.
