Wells Fargo Financial was the brand name for a group of subsidiaries of Wells Fargo & Company that provided consumer finance services, including auto loans, personal loans, and credit cards, often to customers with non-prime credit. Beginning in 2010, Wells Fargo & Company began winding down this subsidiary, closing its 638 retail stores and absorbing the remaining portfolio and operations into the parent bank. The parent company, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), is a diversified, community-based financial services company founded in 1852. It is a leading financial services company in the United States, providing a wide range of banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services through its banking locations, ATMs, the internet, and mobile banking.

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United States