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		treyfitty on March 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Robber Bank: Can America Ever Rid Itself of We... Wells Fargo and American Express have a close knit history. As a matter of fact, Butterfield Wells and Fargo were founders of AmEx. It’s no surprise AmEx was caught doing the same thing: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amex-staff-misled-small-busines...

philwelch on March 9, 2020 [–]

While true, the Wells Fargo company that Wells and Fargo founded was taken over in 1998 by Norwest, which ended up rebranding itself as Wells Fargo.

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