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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.
September 17, 2008: Lehman Brothers, New York City B: Barclays: Investment bank $ 1.3 × 10 ^ 9 [21] September 18, 2008: HBOS: Lloyds TSB: Diversified financial services $ 2.185 × 10 ^ 10 [22] September 26, 2008: Washington Mutual, Seattle: JPMorgan Chase, New York City Savings and loan association $ 1.9 × 10 ^ 9 [23] September 26, 2008 ...
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.
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 addition, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2008, citing bank debt of $613 billion and $155 billion in bond debt. The solvency of other U.S. banks was severely threatened, forcing the George W. Bush government to intervene with the $700 billion bailout plan of the Troubled Asset ...
The Seattle-based bank holding company Washington Mutual declared bankruptcy on 26 September 2008. The 120-year-old company, one of the largest banking institutions in the US West, was driven into bankruptcy by the subprime crises.
After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest U.S. investment bank, on September 15, the next day the Fed bailed out the American International Group (the largest U.S. insurance company), and on September 25 the government seized Washington Mutual (the largest savings and loan firm).
In 2008, the financial crisis caused 25 banks to fail, followed by more than 400 in the next three years. Washington Mutual was one of the victims of the 2008 financial crisis, becoming the ...