In the two months since federal regulators seized and sold Washington Mutual's banking... 3,400 WaMu jobs will be slashed in Seattle Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Seattle-based Washington Mutual remains the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. (Bigstock Image) The government takeover and subsequent acquisition of Washington Mutual in 2008 could serve as a ...

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Ten years have passed, and the reverberations continue. It was this week in 2008 when Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapsed in what was the largest bank failure in U.S. history. WaMu was considered ...

Seattle-based Washington Mutural collapsed 10 years ago this week. How well were the lessons of its demise learned and how long will we remember them? WaMu’s failure offered some useful lessons.

When the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shut down Seattle-based Washington Mutual Bank on September 25, 2008, it seemed like an epochal event. It was the biggest bank failure in history, ...

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired a broker to sell the Seattle headquarters of its Russell Investment Group unit, the building it bought in 2009 after the collapse of previous owner ...

Not too long ago, I attended an event in Seattle with a group of former Washington Mutual employees and executives. The topic had nothing to do with banking. That hardly mattered. Whenever there ...

Fueled by the housing boom, Seattle-based Washington Mutual’s sales to investors of packaged subprime mortgage securities leapt from $2.5 billion in 2000 to $29 billion in 2006.

SEATTLE -- An attempt by former Washington Mutual Inc. employees to recoup their retirement account losses from JPMorgan Chase & Co., part of a complex tangle of litigation stemming from WaMu's ...

More uncertain is the fate of some 3,500 WaMu employees in the Seattle area. WaMu's 2,200 branches will now be folded into the network of 3,200 JPMorgan Chase branches, expanding the New York ...