Ann Marsh

This is how the firm tried to make sure no one knew.

For First Republic Bank in San Francisco, “the pain index is likely somewhere between excruciating and traumatic,” says one expert. But few realize how much the bank got for its money.

State Treasurer John Chiang says that Wells Fargo is keeping patterns of abuse hidden from view by resolving customer disputes through private arbitration.

It’s tough enough to grapple with sexual harassment in the workplace. It’s more complex when clients are involved.

Wells may have settled with former employee Claudia Ponce de Leon because it wanted to avoid the "massive exposure" of a jury trial, an expert says. It is unclear how the agreement will affect Wells’ other cases.

Wells Fargo is extending a 6-year-old fight with a whistleblower, despite a government order to immediately reinstate the former employee.

The mishandling of the two former employees’ complaints, detailed in documents and by former OSHA officials, raises questions about the government’s treatment of whistleblowers throughout the financial services industry.

Despite a categorical denial this week by Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan, former employees like Yesenia Guitron say trawling for immigrants was routine.

Finra now has punished just one person associated with JPMorgan's admitted nationwide fiduciary violation of its clients: a whistleblower.

Such reinstatements are unusual, and could signal a more aggressive approach by the government to protecting whistleblowers in the financial services sector.