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Innovation

Customers find ways to use Zelle in the holiday season

More consumers are using Zelle to send money as a gift to friends and family members during the holidays.

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Financial Health

8 tips for savvy holiday spending

With the holiday season in full swing, Wells Fargo offers tips on how to use mobile and online banking features to track spending and help protect account information.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Investing in the next generation of future female STEAM leaders

DIY Girls is a nonprofit in Los Angeles exposing girls to science, technology, engineering, art, and math careers and majors, thanks to support from Wells Fargo.

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Inside the Stagecoach

Getting paid to learn how to code

Carolina Fintech Hub’s Workforce Investment Network program trains economically challenged individuals as developers and places them in jobs at sponsor companies like Wells Fargo.

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History

How Wells Fargo used secret codes to do business

In the 1800s, the telegraph allowed Wells Fargo to do business and help customers transfer money. To secure messages and minimize risk, the company used a system of encryption with secret codes.

A couple appears to be packing to move to a new place. Both are warily peeking out from within open cardboard boxes.

Financial Health

A moving experience: Tips to make a less stressful, smoother move

Whether it’s 5 miles or 500 miles, the experience of moving all that you own to a new place can be stressful and fraught with potential hazards. Here are some tips on how to make it go as smoothly as possible.

In a close-up shot of a table, there is a plate of muffins to the left and a tray with a teapot to the right. In the middle, a person’s hand is holding a tap-to-pay card hovering over a card reader.

Innovation

‘Tap-to-pay’ cards deliver speed and convenience

With the rollout of contactless payment cards, analysts report Wells Fargo is among the U.S. industry leaders in bringing the speed and convenience of tap-to-pay cards to customers.

Erik Gruber holds a video camera resting on his right shoulder, shooting some outdoors footage, with a bridge in the background to his right. Above him, birds are flying in a partly cloudy sky.

Housing

Reaching homebuyers in the age of digital

Erik Gruber spends most of his life in cyberspace, whether editing video or ordering pizza. When it came to buying a house, it was only natural for him to use an online mortgage application.

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Financial Health

Ready for college? These webinars can help

Wells Fargo’s free webinar series, Preparing and Paying for College, returns with insights about the college admissions process.