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Website. Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) Washington Mutual, Inc. (often abbreviated to WaMu) was an American savings bank holding company based in Seattle. It was the parent company of WaMu Bank, which was the largest savings and loan association in the United States until its collapse in 2008.
Providian was a company that sold credit in the "subprime" market. Providian provided credit cards primarily to the lowest income groups in the U.S. at high interest rates. The annual percentage rates (APR) charged by Providian were as high as 29.9 percent. In a March 1999 memorandum published by the San Francisco Chronicle, the founder of the ...
Berks County Trust Company. Wyomissing Valley Bank, Temple State Bank, Mount Penn Trust Company, Reamstown Exchange Bank, Schuylkill Trust Company. Berks County Trust Company (1964 as American Bank and Trust Co or American Bankcorp) Wells Fargo. 1964. National Bank of Commerce. Texas National Bank.
Personal loans. Credit cards. Average interest rates. 11.91%. 20.75%. Repayment terms. Make fixed monthly payments during a set period, typically between 12 and 84 months
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 ...
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 ...
JPMorgan Chase, in its current structure, is the result of the combination of several large U.S. banking companies that merged since 1996, combining Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan & Co., and Bank One, as well as asset assumptions of Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and First Republic.
A money market account is a type of interest-bearing account that combines the best of a high-yield savings account with the features of a checking account. MMAs offer rates of 4% APY or higher ...