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Wells Fargo Quantitative Prime Services Offers HPR Trading Platform to Clients

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Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking (NYSE: WFC) has partnered with HPR to enhance its Quantitative Prime Services division. The collaboration aims to launch a next-generation trading platform that provides custom trading solutions engineered on HPR products. Clients will gain access to HPR’s technology, including low-latency trading and advanced risk management systems. This partnership is expected to bolster Wells Fargo's service offerings and position in the electronic trading market.

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NEW YORK--()--Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking, a division of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), announced today that its Quantitative Prime Services division has partnered with HPR, a leading financial technology player in electronic trading, to provide an elite next-generation trading platform for clients.

Through its collaborative partnership with HPR, Wells Fargo will provide custom trading solutions to its clients that are engineered on HPR products. In addition to launching its HPR engineered trading platform, Wells Fargo plans to offer clients access to additional HPR products, more details of which will be shared at a later date.

“HPR’s scale service architecture provides the flexibility to access solutions across the latency spectrum,” said Anthony D. Amicangioli, HPR Founder and CEO. “Wells Fargo understands the future of electronic trading and we are excited to partner with them to provide highly differentiated services on our unified Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) architecture.”

Wells Fargo’s Quantitative Prime Services and Quantitative Execution Desk provides an all-inclusive relationship management model and in-house quantitative expertise to provide customized execution and financing facilities across all fund sizes and quantitative strategies. Wells Fargo combines creditworthiness and balance sheet strength with leading-edge technologies to engineer custom solutions for firms across the quantitative spectrum.

“Through our collaborative partnership with HPR, our clients will have the opportunity to deploy market-aware network hardware, advanced data delivery systems, latency management solutions and trade surveillance platforms,” said John Leone, Managing Director, Head of Quantitative Strategy at Wells Fargo Corporate and Investment Banking. “HPR is the gold standard in risk gateways and at-trade risk management, and we’re pleased that HPR will soon launch an additional suite of products which will raise all components of the trading stack.”

About HPR

HPR provides a Platform-as-a-Service that powers the industry's leading brokers, clearing firms, market makers and quantitative hedge funds. The firm's visionary Unimus™ platform is built on a highly unified scale architecture which strips away complexity and is central to HPR’s success. The Unimus™ platform's solutions include: Omnibot™, Riskbot® and Softbot® for ultra-low latency Direct Market Access and pre-trade risk management; CRM-X, an intuitive and powerful user interface for managing global, system-wide risk controls; and Databot™, an ultra-low latency, highly customizable market data delivery system. For more information, visit www.hyannisportresearch.com

About Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking

Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking delivers a comprehensive suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services. A trusted partner to our clients, we provide corporate and transactional banking, commercial real estate lending and servicing, investment banking, equity and fixed income solutions including sales, trading, and research capabilities to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients across the globe. Our office locations span the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.92 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through 7,200 locations, more than 13,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 31 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 30 on Fortune’s 2020 rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.

Additional information may be found at www.wellsfargo.com | Twitter: @WellsFargo.

Cautionary Statement about Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements about our future financial performance and business. Because forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and assumptions regarding the future, they are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. Do not unduly rely on forward-looking statements as actual results could differ materially from expectations. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and we do not undertake to update them to reflect changes or events that occur after that date. For information about factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations, refer to our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the “Forward-Looking Statements” discussion in Wells Fargo’s most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as well as to Wells Fargo’s other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the discussion under “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, available on its website at www.sec.gov.

News Release Category: WF-PR

Contacts

For business-related inquiries
Robert Newhouse
WFQS@wellsfargo.com

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Lylah Holmes
Lylah.Holmes@wellsfargo.com

Mark Dowd (for HPR)
mdowd@forefrontcomms.com

FAQ

What is the recent partnership involving Wells Fargo (WFC) and HPR about?

Wells Fargo partnered with HPR to enhance its trading platform and provide advanced trading solutions.

How will the Wells Fargo (WFC) and HPR partnership benefit clients?

Clients will benefit from custom trading solutions and access to advanced technology for improved trading and risk management.

When was the partnership between Wells Fargo (WFC) and HPR announced?

The partnership was announced in the recent press release from Wells Fargo.

What trading solutions will Wells Fargo (WFC) offer through HPR?

Wells Fargo will offer custom trading solutions including low-latency trading and advanced data delivery systems.

What is the significance of the platform that HPR provides for Wells Fargo (WFC)?

HPR's platform provides a unified architecture that enhances trading capabilities and risk management solutions for Wells Fargo.

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