The number of residential mortgages that were created last year rose by almost a third, with Wells Fargo leading as the biggest lender, followed by Bank of America.

Wells Fargo, one of America's biggest banks and also the most popular on the west coast, is offering new consumers a $50 bonus when they open a new checking account by 5/31/2010.

Wells Fargo has extended its mobile text banking to all customers, to ensure that even banking consumers who are less tech savvy can still receive all the benefits of instant SMS alerts on their phone

Youth always equals to being technologically savvy, right? Well, not necessarily. At least that's what a recent Wells Fargo survey shows.

With the popularity and widespread use of online personal finance tools offered by a variety of different websites and internet companies, banks are starting to catch on and compete by offering their own versions of similar services.

Brought to you by the good folks at Wells Fargo, Women Making Financial History is an exhibit that explores the topic of women and money from the frontier to the present.

Staving off the controversy that has generated around giving cash bonuses for top bank executives

And then there were none. Last month, three of the country's biggest banks, namely Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo, were still billions of dollar in debt in TARP funds.

After announcing yesterday its plan to pay off $45 billion in TARP loans, Bank of America entered into a sale of $19.3 billion of securities today, causing its common stock prices to rise .7% to $15.76.

In order to clean up some of the clutter left over from its October takeover of Wachovia last year, Wells Fargo has decided that is is going to close 122 branches in California, mostly smaller Wachovia branches that are located near existing Wells Fargo branches.