Washington Mutual

...( AMD - news - people ) on Monday. The financial crisis that pushed Lehman Brothers ( LEHMQ - news - people ), General Motors and Washington Mutual into bankruptcy made borrowing costs soar as creditors began to fear offering new loans.

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Other banks are asking appraisers to value properties without leaving their desks. That's the kind of shady behavior that marked Washington Mutual and other subprime home lenders for an untimely death not too long ago. Morford worries...

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...orderly fashion, argue those banks. The firms deemed "too big to fail" are those that the FDIC would have trouble taking over, like a Washington Mutual, a $307 billion behemoth that was pushed into a shotgun marriage with JPMorgan Chase, or...

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By Elinor Comlay JPMorgan Chase & Co's <JPM.N> acquisition of Washington Mutual Inc's <WAMUQ.PK> assets last year could still cause some headaches for Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, according to bank analyst Paul Miller at FBR Capital...

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...Corp CEO Charles Rinehart. And Miller said rumors persist that former Washington Mutual Chief Executive Kerry Killinger is raising a fund. Washington Mutual was the nation's largest thrift, but failed in 2008 as the biggest U.S. bank...

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...and loans crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, taking part in the purchase of American Savings Bank and its subsequent sale to Washington Mutual in 1996 at a large profit. TPG failed to repeat that success when it invested in...

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...president of Holland & Co in New York. Profits were boosted by earnings from investment bank Bear Stearns Cos and Seattle-based thrift Washington Mutual Inc, two ailing businesses JPMorgan was able to snap up last year in the depths of...

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...twice: once by the apparent scammer who took their $1,350 check for a vending machine he never delivered, and again, they believe, by Washington Mutual, which cashed the check six months and six days after the stop-payment order was placed.

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...hours of depositions, was more than $4 billion in deposits that the holding company said was held by its Washington Mutual Bank fsb and Washington Mutual Bank affiliates. "Not a single witness, not a single witness, says the most obvious and...

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