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Washington Mutual, Inc. (often abbreviated to WaMu) was an American savings bank holding company based in Seattle. It was the parent company of Washington Mutual Bank , which was the largest savings and loan association in the United States until its collapse in 2008.
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Bank United Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas, was a broad-based financial services provider and the largest publicly traded depository institution headquartered in Texas before its merger with Washington Mutual in 2001. [1] Bank United Corp. conducted its business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank United, a federally ...
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]
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 ...
Commercial bank € 1.14 × 10 ^ 9 [35] [36] October 9, 2008: Bankwest (subsidiary of HBOS) Commonwealth Bank: Bank £ 1.2 × 10 ^ 9 [37] October 13, 2008: Sovereign Bank, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania: Banco Santander: Bank $ 1.9 × 10 ^ 9 [38] October 13, 2008: Royal Bank of Scotland Group (up to 81.14% Bought) Government of the United Kingdom ...
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]
Bank executives, meanwhile, complain that regulators' foot-dragging and uncertainty caused by looming regulatory reforms have depressed merger activity among healthy banks to historic lows.