2026 · Evidence audit

Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking FX — institutional liquidity provider

Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking FX operates as a Tier-1 US bank with a UK entity. The bank has been in operation since 1852 and holds relevant licenses from FCA and SEC/FINRA. Self-measured claims regarding client growth and awards should be independently verified.

Wells Fargo & Company; UK entity: Wells Fargo Securities International Limited; US arm: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC · San Francisco, California, USA · last re-checked 2026-09 · evidence score 77/100

Licence, read on the register

Regulator	Licence number	Jurisdiction	Tier	Source
FCA	186745	United Kingdom	tier-1	open source ↗
SEC/FINRA (broker-dealer)	8-65876	United States	tier-1	open source ↗

Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-1 = FCA/ASIC/CFTC-class supervision, tier-2 = CySEC/FSC-Mauritius/MFSA-class, tier-3 = offshore registration. A tier-2 licence is genuine supervision without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.

What the firm commits to

Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.

Testable claims

Own CIB page states the Foreign Exchange team was recognized as the 2025 Best Bank in North America by Euromoney (wellsfargo.com/cib)
'Since 2021, our FX client base has almost doubled, and we have made substantial investments in both top-tier talent and advanced technology' (wellsfargo.com/cib)
Own about page: 'serving customers… since our founding by Henry Wells and William Fargo in 1852' (wellsfargo.com/about)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

'Best Bank in North America 2025' is a Euromoney award relayed on the bank's own page — third-party award, not a measured metric
FX client base 'almost doubled since 2021' — self-measured

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes	Venues	Connectivity	Clients accepted	Explicitly refused
FX			Corporates, Institutions

A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as a disclosure, not a defect.