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...When I chaired the FDIC during the financial crisis, we sold the failed the mortgage lender Washington Mutual to JPMorgan. It was our only bidder and was prepared to take over WaMu immediately....
...In 2008, Washington Mutual went down after haemorrhaging $16.7bn over nine days. This time, SVB’s depositors pulled out $42bn in 10 hours....
...News clip Washington Mutual has gone under the FDIC, took over Washington Mutual yesterday, then sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase for nearly $2bn....
...Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver....
...If San Francisco-based First Republic is taken over by the FDIC, it would rank among the biggest bank failures in US history, alongside Washington Mutual in 2008 and SVB....
...The only bigger bank failure in US history was the collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008....
...The First Republic deal, and one in 2008 when JPMorgan purchased the assets of Washington Mutual, fall under an exception for deals involving failed banks....
...This is not just a difference from 90 years ago when the FDIC was founded. In 2008, it took Washington Mutual nine days to lose about 9 per cent of deposits....
...It took Washington Mutual nine days to lose $16.7bn, or about 9 per cent of deposits, back in 2008. Something has changed. So why not just insure all deposits?...
...In that period, FHLB advances rose by nearly two-thirds by lending to large, poorly capitalised banks — some of which, such as Washington Mutual, Countrywide and Wachovia — eventually failed....
...During the 2008 financial crisis, America’s largest bank was the saviour of choice for failing investment bank Bear Stearns and bankrupt mortgage lender Washington Mutual, the biggest ever bank failure....
...Another acquisition by JPMorgan — which, after it acquired Washington Mutual in 2008, has now been the buyer in the two largest bank collapses in US history — raises awkward questions....
...and Washington Mutual, a troubled commercial lender....
...It has high customer satisfaction ratings in California, tied in part to its acquisition of Washington Mutual in 2008....
...The largest bank failure in US history — the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual — is unmemorable because it was also resolved in this manner. The FDIC took receivership....
...Washington Mutual, for example, was sold to JPMorgan Chase. The FDIC said it would use the sale proceeds of SVB to fund payouts to larger depositors....
...Citibank, Bank of America, Wachovia and Washington Mutual all failed in 2008 (three were bailed out and one was seized and sold) because managers fatally misunderstood mortgage risk....
...The collapse of the $209bn-in-assets lender marks the second-largest bank failure in US history after the 2008 shuttering of Washington Mutual....
...It had taken less than 40 hours for a top 20 bank with $209bn in total assets to become the second-largest bank failure in American history after Washington Mutual in 2008....
...Most legislative proposals in Washington don’t become the law. So, waiting for Congress can be like waiting for Godot; that’s not a winning strategy for any administrator....
...Barclays had taken a plunge by acquiring the US parts of Lehman Brothers when the investment bank imploded in 2008, but the deal quickly became a deadweight dragging the British bank down as well....
...As the FT’s Richard Henderson reported in January: BlackRock has voted against shareholder proposals brought about by Climate Action 100+ in the past and is under no obligation to vote for them in the future...
...US mutual funds have cut back their overweighting to technology stocks to the lowest level in three years, according to research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Savita Subramanian published this...
...Only a few days after Lehman’s collapse, the FDIC wound down Washington Mutual, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders. Depositors were protected but other creditors forced to take losses....
...Colonial was the 25th biggest bank by assets when it went bust, ranking as the sixth biggest collapse in history. Washington Mutual tops the list, with $307bn....
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