WFC

Wells Fargo & Co.

HARAM — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSstock

Is WFC Halal?

Conventional bank — disclosed net interest income is 56.40% of Q1 revenue and core lending is riba-based.

What You Should Know

Wells Fargo's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q shows $2,205,752 million of assets, $1,942,000 million of interest-bearing funding and $12,096 million of net interest income against $21,446 million of quarterly revenue. The quantitative ratios and conventional banking activity fail the examined methodologies.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Interest-bearing banking operations
  • Mortgage and commercial lending
  • Consumer credit and card products

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
88.04%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,942,000 / 2,205,752

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
37.05%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

817,336 / 2,205,752

Receivables + cash / assets
60.91%Above limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,343,543 / 2,205,752

Non-compliant income / revenue
56.40%Above limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

12,096 / 21,446

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Interest-bearing funding is 88.05% of assets, identifiable conventional liquidity is 37.65%, and net interest income is 56.40% of revenue. Conventional banking independently fails.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Interest-bearing funding, identifiable liquidity and receivables-plus-cash exceed the examined total-assets limits; conventional banking independently fails.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Interest-bearing funding, identifiable liquidity and net interest income exceed the examined limits. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official SAC classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

Historical market-cap ratios are not stored; another denominator cannot cure the failed conventional-banking business activity.

Business-activity disclosure

Wells Fargo is a conventional retail, commercial and investment bank whose core activities include deposits, mortgages, consumer and commercial loans, credit cards, markets and wealth management. Net interest income alone was 56.40% of quarterly revenue, far above the examined 5% activity benchmark.

Limitation: The filing does not classify each fee, trading, card, mortgage or advisory contract by Sharia status. The core conventional-banking model and disclosed net interest income independently establish failure.

Purification

Purification is not calculated because Wells Fargo fails at the core business-activity level. The 56.40% net-interest figure establishes failure rather than a donation percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Wells Fargo's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing funding is a conservative aggregate of deposits, securities-financing liabilities, short-term borrowings and long-term debt.
  • Identifiable interest-bearing assets include interest-bearing bank deposits, resale agreements and available-for-sale and held-to-maturity debt securities; trading assets are excluded.
  • Receivables use loans and loan-related receivables together with cash and resale balances as a conservative screening input.
  • Net interest income of $12,096 million is compared with $21,446 million of quarterly revenue as a directly disclosed minimum non-compliant business-revenue numerator.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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