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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.
By September 12, 1917, it was operating under the name Washington Mutual Savings Bank. [3] In mid 2008 WaMu suffered a massive run where customers pulled out $16.7 billion in deposits in a ten-day span. On the night of September 25th the Office of Thrift Supervision seized WaMu Bank and placed it into the receivership of the FDIC.
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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]
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]
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 ...
1201 Third Avenue (formerly Washington Mutual Tower) is a 235.31-meter (772.0 ft), 55-story skyscraper in Downtown Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the third-tallest building in the city , the eighth-tallest on the West Coast of the United States , and the 97th-tallest in the United States .