Helping Our Customers Succeed


Innovation

Why generative AI is sparking Wells Fargo’s next chapter

Ather Williams, Wells Fargo’s head of Strategy, Digital, Innovation, and Enterprise Payments discusses how the rapid onset of generative artificial intelligence is changing innovation in financial services.


Small Business

3 easy steps for small business owners to start succession planning

Who will take on your business? It’s a question many experienced entrepreneurs wrestle with to keep their business and family legacy alive. Here are a few ways to start.


Small Business

4 things to do before you start a company

Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Many dream of being their own boss, but the process can be daunting. Here is a list of actions to consider before you create a company.


Financial Health

How to spot imposter scams

These sophisticated scams start with a phone call, email, or text that appears to come from a trusted source, so it’s important to know who you’re really talking to. Margarita Alvarez, head of Wells Fargo Risk Payment Programs, shares these fraud-fighting tips.


Financial Health

9 ways to pay less taxes, now and throughout the year

Credits, deductions, and even saving and giving can help you reduce your taxable income before taxes are due and maximize your take-home pay.


Small Business

How Pioneer Linens survived 111 years — and counting

For well over a century, Pioneer Linens — a longtime Wells Fargo customer — has evolved alongside its Palm Beach community. The secret to its success? A faithful family with a long legacy of caring about their customers.


Innovation

How AI can shape the future of banking

Today, artificial intelligence is at our fingertips, but its true impact is still taking shape. A Wells Fargo investment banker says AI has the potential to further transform financial services.


Financial Health

How the 100 Black Men of America empowers youths by investing in their future

High school students learn the keys to investing and building wealth during the Junior Investment Club, with the support of mentors from the 100 Black Men of America.


Innovation

Hacking for good: Meet the ethical hackers whose job it is to test Wells Fargo’s cybersecurity defenses

Sometimes more hackers — not fewer — are needed to combat today’s cyber threats. Wells Fargo’s Offensive Security Research Team simulates real cyberattacks to better protect customer money and information.


Innovation

How Wells Fargo builds responsible artificial intelligence

AI should enhance how you bank, not complicate it. Take a look inside the process of how Wells Fargo engineers are making the next AI tools based on your needs.


Financial Health

Expert tips and financial planning for securing and repaying student loans

Michael Liersch, head of Advice & Planning, shares tips for college students and their parents.


Small Business

Supporting the wave of new Black women entrepreneurs

More and more Black women have become entrepreneurs in recent years. Milestone Circles is on track to help thousands reach their business goals in a post-pandemic economy.


Financial Health

How being unbanked or underbanked could cost you $360,000 over a lifetime

In Gallup, New Mexico, a financial coach is helping the Navajo Nation and other residents stabilize their finances, build wealth, and avoid high-cost banking alternatives.


Small Business

Wells Fargo donated $420 million in PPP fees. Here’s how it helped 336,000 small businesses.

Bright storefronts. New equipment. New hires. These are a few ways small businesses felt the impact of Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund, a roughly $420 million effort that worked with nonprofits to keep small businesses strong during and after the pandemic.


Innovation

3 ways quantum computing could help you

More privacy. Optimized returns. More powerful technology. Quantum computers are on track to benefit Wells Fargo customers in the not-so-distant future.


Financial Health

How to prevent elder fraud and financial abuse

Stay informed about scams and fraud to protect yourself and loved ones. A Wells Fargo Advisors gerontologist offers these expert tips for caregivers, family, and friends.


Financial Health

Real career advice from real financial advisors

From personal finance to networking to philanthropy, here are five tips to help you get ahead at work and in life.


Financial Health

7 smart things to do with your summer job and side hustle money

It’s your money. You earned it. Here’s how to spend it.


Small Business

Meaningful investments and support keep small business doors open

Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund is helping thousands of small business owners navigate the pandemic and plan for the future.


Housing

These 3D-printed homes could be the future of affordable housing — for $99,000 or less

Homebuilding innovator ICON is laying the groundwork for affordable, 3D-printed homes in Community First! Village with support from Wells Fargo.


Innovation

Get to know Wells Fargo’s virtual assistant, Fargo®

Built into the Wells Fargo Mobile app, Fargo provides users with a personalized, helpful, and simplified banking experience.


Innovation

Wells Fargo, artificial intelligence, and you

The artificial intelligence revolution is here. Here’s what you need to know about AI and how Wells Fargo is using it to help customers.


Financial Health

Better banking is coming to a Wells Fargo branch near you

Wells Fargo is evolving the in-person banking experience to help you meet your financial goals. Here’s how branches are changing across the country.


Innovation

How Wells Fargo is becoming quantum-ready

Wells Fargo researchers are preparing today for tomorrow’s quantum computers through strategic partnerships and industry-leading technology.


Small Business

Ignite your entrepreneurial spirit: Learn from the Chandler brothers’ success at Seven Peaks Fence and Barn

A love of animals inspired Matt, Trevor, and Jeff Chandler to start Seven Peaks Fence and Barn, a fencing business that helps fellow animal lovers keep their livestock.


Financial Health

Your 2024 monthly money planner

Whether you’re coming across this page on New Year’s Day or during the holidays or anytime in between, you’ll find small steps to do each month — or any time — so you’ll know how to save money and reach your goals.


Small Business

5 life-balancing tips from mompreneurs

Many mothers who lost jobs or quit during the pandemic took the opportunity to turn their dream of running their own business into a reality. By 2023, these mom entrepreneurs were hitting their stride, according to a new study.


Financial Health

Scam-spotters share red flags

How good are you at spotting fakes? Scams can be difficult to detect, but here are some clues to watch for that can help you avoid becoming a victim of fraud.


Financial Health

No, the IRS isn’t texting you, and other things to know about tax fraud and scams

Tax time is historically a prime opportunity for sneaky scammers. Jennifer Hessing, a fraud analytics director at Wells Fargo, shares these red flags to help you outsmart the latest tax fraud schemes.


Small Business

McDonald’s franchisees share lessons learned from more than a decade of ownership

There were nearly 150,000 limited-service franchise establishments in the United States in 2017, and Wells Fargo has a dedicated team to help many of these future entrepreneurs start their business.


Small Business

Betting on burgers: How a mother and her daughters built a McDonald’s franchise empire

A single loan from Wells Fargo four decades ago helped a family build a thriving portfolio of 21 McDonald’s restaurants in South Los Angeles.


Financial Health

Easy ways to prevent check fraud and scams

Although check crimes are on the rise, you have the power to avoid becoming a victim, starting with your pen. Joe Bernardo, Wells Fargo head of Fraud & Claims Operations, shares tips.


Small Business

Women-owned businesses are driving economic growth. Here’s what entrepreneurs should know.

A new landscape for women-owned businesses has begun to appear over the past few years. They’re forming, increasing revenue, and employing more people faster than men-owned businesses, according to a Wells Fargo report. What’s changed?


Small Business

Learn how Chef Merito cooked up multimillion-dollar success

The Los Angeles-based business started in 1985 and has grown into a nationally known brand of spices, marinades, and seasonings.


Housing

Inside an innovative response to California’s homelessness crisis

Thousands of Californians experiencing homelessness now have homes through an initiative bringing together cities, affordable housing developers, and supporters like Wells Fargo.


Business to Business

Investing in Detroiters keeps world-class business DMS on the road to success

With the help of Wells Fargo, DMS is looking to diversify its product suite beyond the automotive industry.


Financial Health

4 big questions to ask your financial advisor right now

With all that’s happening in the world — from geopolitical tensions and inflation to tech innovations — even seasoned investors may be asking, what should I be doing?


Small Business

How a mini food creator, a pepper farming duo, and other Iowans are accelerating their businesses

The Drake University Business Clinic is fostering a wide variety of new businesses from underrepresented entrepreneurs in Iowa with the help of a Wells Fargo grant.


Business to Business

OrderMyGear is the technology company behind your company swag

After acquiring BrightStores in November 2022 with help from Wells Fargo’s technology banking team, OMG’s growth brings much-needed solutions to the branded merchandise space.


Innovation

5 big questions on quantum computing answered

Quantum computing is here. Wells Fargo is working with key tech partners to be quantum ready.


Small Business

How to run a business with a loved one

Are you in business with the one you love? Learn tips for mixing personal and entrepreneurial pursuits and meet one couple who have gone into business together — and survived to tell the tale.


Small Business

Deploying capital for veteran entrepreneurs

Veteran Loan Fund is putting $5 million from Wells Fargo to work for veteran small business owners.


Innovation

Breeder’s Choice owner Joey Herrick: ‘I wanted to make animals’ lives better through nutrition’

In 1985, a television show you’ve never heard of changed the way we feed our pets. Today, Wells Fargo is helping Joey Herrick revolutionize the pet food industry once again.


Small Business

Veteran entrepreneurs turn military skills into business ownership

Warrior Rising, with funding from Wells Fargo, offers veterans mentoring, education, networking, and more as they pursue a path to business ownership.


Small Business

Four-wheelers, three owners, one family

The owners of Roco 4x4 are proving it’s possible to not just survive, but thrive in a family business.


Small Business

Women entrepreneurs ‘Connect to More’ through Milestone Circles

Hundreds of women entrepreneurs are building powerful peer networks as part of Wells Fargo’s relationship with the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center.


Financial Health

Program helps Native Americans buy a home, enhance financial acumen

Nika Saunders, a U.S. National Guardsman and mother of three, purchased her first home in Anchorage, Alaska, thanks to support from the Cook Inlet Lending Center and Wells Fargo.


Small Business

Boosting business with ‘mucho’ gusto

After more than a full year, the Open for Business Fund enters its third phase: focusing on grants to nonprofits for sustaining small businesses like LA’s Los Taquero Mucho for the long term.


Financial Health

How to tell if your sweet talker is a scam artist

Romance scams are on the rise, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Here’s how a Wells Fargo team spotted red flags — and how you can, too.


Small Business

For women entrepreneurs, a way to Connect to More

The new Connect to MoreSM initiative links women business owners to mentoring, networks, and other support, encouraging them to invest in themselves.


Small Business

‘Asian American small businesses continue to reel from the weight of the battles they face on two fronts’

Viewpoints: It is essential that we all draw on the lessons of the past year and see them as opportunities for advancement in the future, writes Susan Au Allen, national president and CEO of US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation.


Small Business

A tailor-made grant helps continue a family legacy

JC Lofton Tailors is continuing a family legacy that has been around for almost a century, with the help of a $10,000 grant from Wells Fargo through Local Initiatives Support Corporation.


Financial Health

New investments to back Black-owned banking

Wells Fargo is working with minority depository institutions to help financially empower Black communities.