WACHOVIA

If you currently bank with Wachovia, you may already know that your bank has become a subsidiary of Wells Fargo. Since buying Wachovia in December 2008, Wells Fargo has been gradually implement a re-branding strategy to help customers understand and adjust to the merger more smoothly.

Wells Fargo Buys Wachovia

Smart phone applications are all the rage these days. There are so many available that it almost be a sin not to take advantage of at least a few. If you like the idea of making your banking transactions from your phone, you might consider downloading some of the latest, greatest smart phone bank iPhone or Android applications.

We’ve complied a list of the latest and greatest, along with some less popular reviews. How does you bank’s app stack up? Check them out and find out!

The name of Wachovia is filled with historic lineage. Moravian settlers purchased approximately 100,000 acres in the North Carolina Piedmont in 1753. To honor Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, their benefactor, the area was named after regions in Austria. The root of the word originates from the Latin form of the name “Wachau,” meaning the “place of water.” Over time the name ceased being used as a town name and stuck with several of the local business, and Wachovia Bank was one of them.

Wachovia Bank, now owned by Wells Fargo, is offering some competitive CD rates depending on the term limit you choose. Some of the rates they are offering as of today are a 2.75% APY CD for 32 months, a 2% APY CD for 21 months, and a 1.40% APY CD for 13 months.

Here are some important details when opening a CD with Wachovia Bank:

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Wells Fargo Beats out Citigroup

Another bank bites the dust. Citigroup agreed to a takeover of the troubled Wachovia in yet another government engineered rescue.