EXCLUSIVE: Unaffiliated presidential candidate Cornel West joined a group of protesters picketing in front of Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon – bolstering ...

and more than two years after an ill-timed acquisition of California mortgage lender Golden West Financial Corp., Wachovia Corp. said Monday that board members have forced CEO Ken Thompson to ...

The merged companies would adopt the Wachovia name, even though First ... president and CEO Ken Thompson said this acquisition was different. "This is not growth for growth sake, but to strengthen ...

Shareholders, such as Wheeler, likely relied heavily on the statements from Ken Thompson, who was forced out as Wachovia’s chairman and chief executive by the board of directors in spring 2008 ...

Ten years ago, as Charlotte’s Wachovia teetered on collapse, commercial banking executive Carlos Evans hardly slept over what he calls “the adoption agency weekend.” That was the fateful ...

The board of directors of Insteel Industries Inc. said Wednesday it has named former Wachovia Corp. top executive Ken Thompson to the board. H.O. Woltz III, Insteel’s president and chief ...

Charlotte-based LendingTree has a new shareholder: Former Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson, who is shown here in a 2008 file photo. Chuck Burton ASSOCIATED PRESS Charlotte-based LendingTree has a new ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct 25 (Reuters) - Don Truslow heads a trade group for chief risk officers, but he used to oversee risk taking at Wachovia, a bank that nearly collapsed under the weight of its ...

Former Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson has joined the board of directors at BNC Bancorp, the holding company of High Point-based Bank of North Carolina. Thompson fills a seat vacated by Mark Graf.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Wachovia’s board of directors has asked Chief Executive Ken Thompson to retire. Thompson will be replaced on an interim basis by Lanty Smith. Smith currently serves as ...

Wachovia announced June 2 that director Lanty Smith was appointed interim CEO, succeeding Ken Thompson, who retired at the request of the board; Thompson had been with the company 32 years ...