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Washington Mutual Inc
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| Type: |
Public |
| Founded: |
1889 |
| Headquarters: |
Seattle, Washington |
| Key people: |
Kerry Killinger, CEO & Chairman |
| Industry: |
Finance and Insurance |
| Products: |
Financial Services |
| Revenue: |
$15.962B USD |
| Employees: |
60,798 |
| Subsidiaries: |
WM Financial Services; Washington Mutual Insurance Services; Washington Mutual Card Services |
| Website: |
http://www.wamu.com/ |
Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is one of United States's leading consumer and small business banks. Despite its name, it is not a credit union or mutual company. It is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. As of June 30, 2005, it stands as the 6th largest bank in the United States by assets, valued at $350.7 billion.
Its headquarters are in the Washington Mutual Tower in downtown Seattle (the second tallest building in the city). As of March 2006, tenants from Washington Mutual began moving into the new Wamu center, Washington Mutual's new headquarters on Third Ave, about a block away from its current headquarters.
Washington Mutual's principal activities are to provide financial services to consumers and small businesses such as retail banking, mortgage lending, consumer lending, business banking, business lending, insurance services, credit card services, commercial real estate mortgage and consumer investment services.
Washington Mutual is the sole surviving major Seattle-based bank after the flurry of mergers in the 1980s and 1990s ended the independence of Rainier Bank, Seafirst Bank, and Peoples Bank, among others.
A Washington Mutual Financial Center in San Jose, California
Washington Mutual operates more than 2,600 retail banking, mortgage lending, commercial banking, and financial services offices, as of June 30, 2006.
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Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Occasio Branches
- 3 Acquisitions
- 4 External links
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History
Washington Mutual was founded as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on September 25, 1889 in an attempt to save Seattle's economy after a fire nearly destroyed the city. It made the first home mortgage loan on the West Coast four months later. Its name was changed to Washington Savings and Loan Association on June 25, 1908. During World War I its assets would expand by 68%.
By now called Washington Mutual Savings Bank, the company made its first acquisition on July 25, 1930, by purchasing Continental Mutual Savings Bank. Over the next fifty years it would be involved in pioneering cash machine networks and telephone banking.
Its marketing slogan for much of its history was "The Friend of the Family."
In 1983, Washington Mutual bought the brokerage firm Murphey Favre and demutualized. Today, it trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WM. By 1989, its assets had doubled.
In March, 2006, Washington Mutual re-introduced its Free Checking product under the trademark WaMu Free Checking. It introduced benefits including: free checks for life, free ATM withdrawals (no Washington Mutual fees for non-proprietary ATMs), one free overdraft or insufficient funds refund per year, three cents back on debit card purchases, free custom email alerts, and free outgoing wire transfers (both international and domestic). Along with the new product, Washington Mutual changed its slogan from "More Human Interest" to "The WaMu Way" (WaMu is the official abbreviation for the company name).
In August 2006, Washington Mutual began using the official abbreviation of WaMu in all but the legal viewpoint. The move by Washington Mutual is gaining alot of media attention, bringing positive views from all over the United States, and through the banking industry.
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Washington Mutual
Occasio Branches
Occasio is Latin for "favorable opportunity". It has an open, welcoming space with the look and feel of a contemporary retail store.
Acquisitions
Since the acquisition of Murphey Favre, Washington Mutual has made numerous acquisitions with the aim of expanding the corporation. By acquiring corporations such as PNC Mortgage, Fleet Mortgage, and Homeside Lending; Washington Mutual is now the 3rd largest mortgage lender in the United States. With the acquisition of Providian Financial Corporation in October 2005, WaMu has also become the nation's 9th largest credit card company.
A list of Washington Mutual acquisitions since demutualization follows:
- Commercial Capital Bancorp, California, 2006
- Providian Financial Corporation, California, 2005
- HomeSide Lending, Inc., Florida, a unit of National Australia Bank, 2002
- Dime Bancorp, Inc., New York, 2002
- Fleet Mortgage Corp., South Carolina, 2001
- Bank United Corp., Texas, 2001
- PNC Mortgage, Illinois, 2001
- Alta Residential Mortgage Trust, California, 2000
- Long Beach Financial Corp., California, 1999
- Industrial Bank, California, 1998
- H.F. Ahmanson & Co. (Home Savings of America), California, 1998
- Great Western Bank, 1997
- United Western Financial Group, Inc., Utah, 1997
- Keystone Holdings, Inc. (American Savings Bank), California, 1996
- Utah Federal Savings Bank, 1996
- Western Bank, Oregon, 1996
- Enterprise Bank, Washington, 1995
- Olympus Bank FSB, Utah, 1995
- Summit Savings Bank, Washington, 1994
- Far West Federal Savings Bank, Oregon, 1994
- Pacific First Bank, Ontario, 1993
- Pioneer Savings Bank, Washington, 1993
- Great Northwest Bank, Washington, 1992
- Sound Savings & Loan Association, Washington, 1991
- CrossLand Savings FSB, Utah, 1991
- Vancouver Federal Savings Bank, Washington, 1991
- Williamsburg Federal Savings Association, Utah, 1990
- Frontier Federal Savings Association, Washington, 1990
- Old Stone Bank of Washington, FSB, Rhode Island, 1990
External links
- Official corporate websites
- http://www.wamu.com/
- http://www.wamuhomeloans.com/
- http://www.wamu.com/wmfinancial/investmentshome.asp
- http://www.wamuins.com/
- http://www.wamucards.com/
- http://www.wamoolaforschools.com/
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