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By September 12, 1917, it was operating under the name Washington Mutual Savings Bank. [26] The company purchased its first company, the financially distressed Continental Mutual Savings Bank, on July 25, 1930. [2] Its marketing slogan for much of its history was "The Friend of the Family".
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The receivership of Washington Mutual Bank by federal regulators on September 26, 2008, was the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Regulators simultaneously brokered the sale of most of the banks's assets to JPMorgan Chase, which planned to write down the value of Washington Mutual's loans at least $31 billion. [7] [8]
Agency infighting and regulators' repeated disregard of shoddy lending practices allowed Washington Mutual Bank, a $300 billion thrift and the sixth largest U.S. depository institution before it ...
In 1998, Seattle-based thrift Washington Mutual (WaMu) purchased HF Ahmanson and its Home Savings unit for $10 billion. As a result of this takeover and those of American Savings and Great Western Financial, Washington Mutual became California’s second largest bank. At the time, HF Ahmanson had $55 billion in assets. [9]
Reckless credit practices at Washington Mutual Bank were detailed Tuesday at a hearing held by a Senate subcommittee investigating the role of high-risk home loans in the financial crisis. The ...
The bank was acquired by Washington Mutual in 1997 for $6.8 billion. Great Western Bank was held by Great Western Financial Corporation ("GWFC"), a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware that was traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol "GWF". [5]
The holding company, Washington Mutual Inc was left without its major asset and equity investment, its former subsidiary Washington Mutual Savings Bank, and filed for bankruptcy the following day, the 26th. WaMu's collapse is the largest U.S. bank failure in history. [40]