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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 WaMu Bank , which was the largest savings and loan association in the United States until its collapse in 2008.
Kerry Killinger. Kerry Killinger (born June 6, 1949) is an American businessman and author. He is founder and CEO of Crescent Capital Associates, [1] and previously served as chairman and chief executive officer of Washington Mutual from 1990 until 2008. [2] [3]
Providian Financial Corporation. Providian Financial Corporation was one of the leading credit card issuers in the United States when it was sold to Washington Mutual for approximately US$ 6.5 billion in October 2005. Providian was headquartered in San Francisco, California, and had more than 10 million card holders at the time of its sale.
On September 25, 2008, JPMorgan Chase bought most of the banking operations of Washington Mutual from the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. That night, the Office of Thrift Supervision, in what was by far the largest bank failure in American history, had seized Washington Mutual Bank and placed it into receivership. The ...
However, its stock price plunged 27 percent on September 26 due to the seizure of Washington Mutual the previous night. On the same day, several businesses and institutional depositors withdrew money from their accounts in order to drop their balances below the $100,000 insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – an event ...
www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern Financial Group, also commonly referred to as Western & Southern, is a Cincinnati, Ohio -based diversified company of financial services subsidiaries with $111.6 billion in assets owned and managed as of December 2021. [2] As of 2022, it held a "AA- Very Strong" rating from Standard & Poor's, a "A+ ...
16 March 1946. Nationality (legal) American. Occupation. Businessman. Known for. Washington Mutual 's last weeks. Alan H. Fishman (born 16 March 1946) [1] is an American businessman. He was the last CEO of Washington Mutual (WaMu) [2] prior to federal regulators seizing its assets on September 25, 2008.
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.