Recruiting

The additions are expected to include financial advisors and customer service agents, and represent a 15% increase in associates who focus on clients.

The No. 1 IBD’s 2,500-advisor bank channel will add 285 more reps when two massive investment programs affiliate next year.

The wirehouse plucked the trio from Wells Fargo

The regional BD picked off teams from Merrill Lynch, UBS and Raymond James in a (mostly) September sweep.

The company plans to expand services to the high-net-worth by doubling the number of its advisors, its wealth management head says.

The multigenerational group includes a grandfather, father and son.

The new recruits came at the expense of Merrill Lynch, UBS and Wells Fargo.

Charlie Scharf’s insensitive and factually incorrect remark perpetuates a damaging trope, financial advisor Lazetta Braxton writes.

As Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf himself admitted, it’s an excuse — and a weak one.

The company has been experimenting with ways to recruit more women and minorities, including a program to hire professionals who had left banking.