---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-236970"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WFC"
cik: "0000072971"
company_name: "WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN"
filed_at: "2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T15:34:03.199361+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.05
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wells Fargo removes Series Q Preferred Stock designation from charter

## Summary
- Filed Certificate Eliminating Certificate of Designations for Series Q Preferred (5.85% Fixed-to-Floating).
- Effective September 18, 2023, upon filing with Delaware Secretary of State.
- Eliminates all matters set forth in the original Certificate of Designations from July 19, 2013.
- No other changes to articles of incorporation or bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-236970
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WFC
- cik: 0000072971
- company_name: WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN
- filed_at: 2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.05
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000119312523236970/0001193125-23-236970-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000119312523236970/d518134d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN: Certificate Eliminating the Certificate of Designations for the Series Q Preferred was filed, removing all matters set forth in that Certificate of Designations from the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (effective 2023-09-18).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-18
  source text: On September 18, 2023, Wells Fargo & Company (the “Company”) filed with the Delaware Secretary of State a Certificate Eliminating the Certificate of Designations with respect to the Company’s 5.85% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series Q (the “Series Q Preferred”), which, effective upon filing, eliminated from the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation all matters set forth in the Certificate of Designations for the Series Q Preferred, filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 19, 2013.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000119312523236970/0001193125-23-236970-index.htm

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