by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Commercial Banking, National, News
By Samantha Masunaga and James Rufus Koren | Los Angeles Times | August 31, 2017 Wells Fargo & Co. said Thursday it may have created as many as 3.5 million checking, savings and credit card accounts without customers’ authorization over the last eight years — a...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News, Public Bank, Santa Fe
By Tripp Stelnicki|The New Mexican|August 31, 2017 City councilors on Wednesday approved a four-year contract extension with Wells Fargo as the city’s fiscal agent. Councilors, both for and against the measure, expressed trepidation over the extension through 2021,...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 31, 2017 | Monetary Policy, National, News
By Mike Krauss | Intelligencer Watching the broadcast media reporting on the catastrophe in Texas, I heard the team on Fox News wonder aloud what the evacuees would do and where to turn to find shelter and safety? Many left their homes with little more than the...
by Anthony Colombo | Aug 25, 2017 | Local Economies, Monetary Policy, National, News, Santa Fe
By Mark Oswald | Albuquerque Journal North SANTA FE, N.M. — The Santa Fe City Council, as a customer looking for the best deal, is now faced with something similar to the rancorous debate that took place when a new Super Walmart opened about a decade ago. Santa Feans,...
by Anthony Colombo | Jul 27, 2017 | Local Economies, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Los Angeles should explore whether to create a municipal bank that would finance affordable housing and throw its doors open to the cannabis industry, City CouncilPresident Herb Wesson said Tuesday. Wesson tossed out the idea as part of a sweeping speech that set out...