Wachovia news from FierceFinanceIT

We've noted often over on FierceComplianceIT that while external threats garner the most media attention, the most pressing threats to a company often come from insiders. This is something that most... Read more...

There's a lot of critical post-merger integration work underway right now: Wells Fargo-Wachovia, JPMorgan-Washington Mutual, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Bank of America-Countrywide. The success... Read more...

An oligopoly in online banking? At the end of 2007, the top three online banks accounted for nearly 60 percent of all of the customers of the top 10 banks, according to comScore. That seemed like a... Read more...

The Intercontinental Exchange took a step toward setting up a central clearinghouse for credit default swaps when it received approval from the New York State Banking operations. This paves the way... Read more...

Wachovia has gotten some rare good press lately for its fairly successful deployment of videoconferencing technologies. Wall Street & Technology reports that the bank has enjoyed a positive ROI... Read more...

No one doubts the synergies of Wells Fargo and Wachovia on paper. But the success of the program will hinge, to some degree, on the ability of the two banks to integrate their technology. This... Read more...

Even today, we tend to associate the phrase "run on a bank" with long lines of restive people waiting outside of banks to get access to their accounts. With the failure of IndyMac, we saw jarring... Read more...