finance.foundation / Banks / Wells Fargo
Bank · Universal bank
Wells Fargo
Fourth-largest US bank by assets, focused on retail and commercial banking across the United States. Operated under a Federal Reserve asset cap from 2018 until its lifting in 2025 following the fake-accounts scandal.
- Type
- Universal bank
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- G-SIB designation
- Yes — on the Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks (the FSB republishes it each November)
- Total assets ≈
- $1.9tn (approx., as of Q2 2026 · our seed dataset seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30, sources)
- Listed parent
- Not in covered set
- LEI
- KB1H1DSPRFMYMCUFXT09 ISO 17442 — the operating bank
- BIC
- 2 head-office BICs are registered in the entity's own country and nothing in the standard decides between them, so this is left empty rather than guessed: PNBPUS33XXX, PNBPUS3NXXX
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/wells-fargo
JSONCSV No key, CORS enabled — paste any of these straight into a notebook.
Code to fetch it
curl
curl -s https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/wells-fargo
Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/wells-fargo", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/wells-fargo");
if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.status);
const data = await r.json();
pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://finance.foundation/api/v1/banks/wells-fargo.csv")