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EXHIBIT 23.2
[LETTERHEAD OF KPMG LLP]
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
The Board of Directors
Wells Fargo & Company:
We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Post-Effective Amendment
No. 1 on Form S-8 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No. 333-45384 relating
to the acquisition of Brenton Banks, Inc. and Brenton Bank) of Wells Fargo &
Company (the "Company"), of our report dated November 27, 2000, with respect to
the supplemental consolidated balance sheet of Wells Fargo & Company and
Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1999 and 1998, and the related supplemental
consolidated statements of income, changes in stockholders' equity and
comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year
period ended December 31, 1999 (the "supplemental consolidated financial
statements"), which report appears in the Company's Supplemental Annual Report
filed on November 30, 2000, on Form 8-K. Our report contains an explanatory
paragraph that states that the supplemental consolidated financial statements
give retroactive effect to the merger of the Company and First Security
Corporation on October 25, 2000, which has been accounted for as a
pooling-of-interests as described in Note 1 to the supplemental consolidated
financial statements.
/s/ KPMG LLP
San Francisco, California
December 4, 2000
