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2. Washington Mutual - Wikipedia

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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.

3. H. F. Ahmanson & Co. - Wikipedia

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   Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson, the company's founder, was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1906. [1] Considered by his father to be a genius by the age of five, Ahmanson founded the H.F. Ahmanson company in 1927, before graduating from the University of Southern California. [2] Ahmanson's company specialized in casualty insurance and quickly ...

4. Ameriquest Mortgage - Wikipedia

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   Ameriquest was founded in 1979 by Roland Arnall, in Orange County, California, as a savings and loan association, or thrift, called Long Beach Savings & Loan. After moving to Long Beach, California and being converted to a pure mortgage lender in 1994, the company was renamed Long Beach Mortgage Co. In 1997, the department that funded loans ...

5. Washington Mutual's Reckless Lending Practices ... - AOL

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   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 ...

6. Government intervention during the subprime mortgage crisis

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   The holding company, Washington Mutual Inc was left without its major asset and equity investment, its former subsidiary Washington Mutual Savings Bank, and filed for bankruptcy the following day, the 26th. WaMu's collapse is the largest U.S. bank failure in history. Wachovia

7. The Layoff Kings: The 25 Companies Responsible for 700,000 ...

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   The credit crisis caused the near-collapse of big mortgage lender Washington Mutual. JPMorgan bought most of the faltering company and cut redundant staff, including 9,200 workers in December 2008 ...