The Wachovia Corporation is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services. With over 97,000 employees and 3,109 financial centers, Wachovia serves banking, brokerage and corporate customers in 16 states from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas. They also have 738 full-service retail brokerage offices that serve customers under the Wachovia Securities name in 49 states and Washington D.C. Global services are provided through more than 40 international offices.
As the nation's tenth largest insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm, Wachovia Insurance Services employs more than 1,700 insurance professionals in offices throughout the United States.
Wachovia gets it's name from the Latin form of the German name Wachau. In 1753, Moravian settlers gave this name to a tract of land they acquired in North Carolina. The settlers chose the name because the land resembled a valley along the Danube River known as Der Wachau.
