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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, April 8th, and this is your FT news briefing.

First, an FT exclusive. Several Financial Times reporters interviewed Warren Buffett about what he, the largest

shareholder in Wells Fargo, thinks the U.S. Bank should do moving forward.

Next, Saudi Aramco's newest international bond issue is attracting tens of billions

of investor dollars and it hasn't even been sold yet.

Then, Kirsten Nielsen, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, resigns from the Trump administration.

Plus, the FT's UK political editor George Parker talks about the upcoming week in British politics

ahead of the EU's emergency Brexit summit.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

US Bank Wells Fargo is still trying to rebuild its image after a fake account

scandal. It turns out Wells Fargo Branch employees were opening accounts for customers

without their consent in order to hit incentive targets.

Wells Fargo cheated millions of people for years. That's U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2017, grilling Tim Sloane, then CEO of Wells Fargo.

And Mr. Sloane, you say you've been making changes at Wells Fargo for 30 years but you enabled this fake

account scam you got rich off it and then you tried to cover it up at best you

were incompetent at worst you were complicit and either way you should be fired.

Sloane stepped down as CEO in March and Alan Parker, the general counsel for Wells, has stepped

in on an interim basis.

So who will eventually lead Wells long term as it recovers from the scandal?

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