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CLAIM #63272 · Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) · 2025Q4 earnings call · Jan 14, 2026 · due Dec 31, 2026

And so you'll see that grow throughout the year, for sure.

Michael Santomassimo · CFO

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graded after results covering Dec 31, 2026 are reported

How to check this claim

Look at: Balance sheet size attributable to lower-ROA financing/repo trades in the markets business (or, as a practical proxy, total average loans/assets in the markets/trading business as disclosed)

It came true if: Financing/repo-related balance sheet or markets-related earning assets higher in Q4 2026 than in Q1 2026 (sequential growth across the year)

Where: Company-disclosed balance sheet composition / average loan and trading asset disclosures (10-Q/10-K and quarterly earnings supplement)

In context

just kind of help us understand how you're thinking through those trade-offs? And when -- and what's the balancing act between the types of balance sheet growth that you're aspiring to as you think through the overall balance sheet mix? Michael Santomassimo: Yes. Sure, Ken. I'll take a shot at that because there's a few pieces that I'll try to disaggregate for you. When you look at what's happening in the markets business and adding some of the lower ROA financing repo trades I think that -- those don't attract a lot of capital or RWA because the collateral that sits behind them, right? So a lot of treasury collateral and other general collateral that sits there. And so -- and those are an important piece of the puzzle as you look to do more across the client base in the markets business. And so you'll see that grow throughout the year, for sure. But again, it doesn't attract a lot of capital to bring with it. What you're seeing across the rest of the balance sheet is growth in loans. And I think those bring varying degrees of capital depending on what they are. And even when you look at some of the growth that we've seen in the nonbank financial space, again, given sort of the way they're structured and given the collateral is behind them, they don't necessarily attract as much capital as a regular way, commercial loan. And so I think as we look at the opportunity there, we want to be able to support clients across the broad spectrum of businesses we have. We're going to continue to focus on the consumer side in the card space and in the auto space where we think we -- within our risk appetite there. And then I think on the comme

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SEC filings for WFC · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2025Q4 earnings call.