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Wealth head Andy Sieg sees bank-based advisors as key to securing more of the $3 trillion its U.S. banking customers hold elsewhere. But he's also looking to AI.

Wells' latest advisor recruiting coup comes just days after it pulled over a 19-person team formerly managing nearly $6 billion at Morgan Stanley.

The Taylor Group of Wells Fargo Advisors is led by nine advisors, all of them relatively young and many of them siblings.

Touchstone Wealth Partners is the fourth team with more than $1 billion in client assets to join Wells Fargo's FiNet unit this year.

Financial Planning announces its 2026 class of the top 40 most productive employee wealth management brokers under the age of 40.

Wells Fargo joins Bank of America, Citi and Charles Schwab in stepping away from its DEI policies.

Citi's head of wealth said the firm is already working with a quarter of the billionaires in the world through its private bank. Now it just needs them to entrust it with managing more of their money.

The big payday comes after a year in which the bank made progress toward the removal of a federally imposed asset cap.

Nicholas Takahashi and his team are accused of deliberately trying to poach the clients of a former colleague managing hundreds of millions in assets and producing more than $1 million a year in revenue.

Researchers wonder if similar regulatory attention could eventually hit the bottom lines of independent broker-dealers and RIAs.

Like its Wall Street rival Morgan Stanley, Citi sees a path to trillions in client assets in its workplace division.

The latest appointment comes amid Citi's continued overhaul of its executive ranks and wealth business.

The banking giant nonetheless saw strong growth in net new assets in the first quarter and a 14% jump in returns from asset management fees.

Barry Sommers comes in for high praise amid his firm's attempts to move beyond the banking scandals of its past.

A lawyer says the industry has been on notice at least since the "Boom Boom Room" scandal of the 1980s that hostile workplaces won't be tolerated.

Greg Wilson of the Wall Street giant's Asset & Wealth Management unit wants to provide employees with tailored plans using a blend of technology and personal financial coaching.

Industry recruiters see the changes as intended to make client assets and advisory teams "stickier" and to retain executive talent.

Two frontrunners have emerged as possible successors to the long-serving CEO, but even more potential candidates wait in the wings.

The change comes over massive overhaul as the mega bank seeks to build divison under Sieg.

Officials are looking into the banking giant's anti-money laundering measures with clients outside the U.S.