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Kurr
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 Posted - 09/08/2008 : 22:41:19
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Washington Mutual today slammed the door shut on an empty barn, saying in effect that its insiders were out and its game was up.
Washington Mutual Inc., the biggest U.S. savings and loan, removed Kerry Killinger as chief executive officer after he failed to halt losses tied to home mortgages that already total $6.3 billion.
Alan Fishman, 62, of Meridian Capital Group, a commercial mortgage broker, will replace Killinger, 59, Seattle-based WaMu said in a statement today. Regulators will be monitoring WaMu after the bank agreed to reduce risks and tighten its procedures, according to the statement, and the stock dropped as much as 14 percent.
The move was not unexpected. Killinger had been voted out as the bank’s chairman in June, investors blaming him for the expansion into the sub prime minefield, causing the banks blow up.
Killinger’s expansion into subprime mortgages helped trigger losses for three straight quarters, and the stock tumbled 88 percent in 12 months.
Killinger now goes the way of former CEOs Charles O. “Chuck” Prince of Citigroup Inc., Kennedy Thompson of Wachovia Corp.’, and Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch & Co, and yesterday the heads of mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were replaced.
It is probably not a coincidence that Killinger’s resignation came the same day as the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did. Nor should the resignation be confused as an appropriate ouster by justifiably outraged investors. It seems far more consistent with Wall Street’s ways that departure, coming as it is the very end of the subprime, kamikazei run simply means management has drained Wa Mu blood dry and Killinger will be spared the indignities of the consequences of his actions. Conservatorship.
By the time the regulators move in it is already way too late.
WaMu said it signed a memorandum of understanding with its chief regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, that calls for the bank to improve risk management and compliance. The lender promised to give the agency a “multi-year business plan and forecast for its earnings, asset quality, capital and business segment performance.”
The plan doesn’t call for more capital or increasing liquidity, WaMu said, which may allay investor concern that the lender may have to seek new cash on top of the $7 billion raised earlier this year.
Washington mutual won’t be around for multi-years. So the business plan will not require capital to be raised or liquidity to be increased.
Had this been a true exercise in investor power, it would’ve common much earlier, when something significant could’ve come by it.
“We’ve been surprised that it hasn’t come sooner,” Patrick Becker Jr., chief investment officer at Becker Capital Management, said of Killinger’s departure. “He was the architect who put this together. Clearly the foundation of it was not built to withstand the mortgage crisis.”
Becker said his Portland, Oregon-based firm, which oversees about $2 billion, hasn’t owned WaMu shares since before the mortgage bubble began to deflate.
Well there’s no reason to be surprised, not with the cozy relationship of the CEO to the board.
Company directors, some of them civic leaders in WaMu’s hometown of Seattle, were loyal to Mr. Killinger, who had served as chief executive since 1990.
No this is simply a case of the money’s gone, the gig is up, and Wa Mu not seeing itself on the forbidden to naked short sell lists, it is simply time to get out.
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fb101
Administrator
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Posted - 09/08/2008 : 22:45:35
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| WaMu has been begging me to take credit fro them. I've gotten 4 pre-approved offers in the last 11 days from them. I never got any before August. |
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 09/09/2008 : 00:18:04
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| Washington is picked for the current bank seizer contest, but WaMu might hold on for another round since there are lots of loser banks competing to give us the next contest winner. |
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WheatieFan
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 09/09/2008 : 00:21:20
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Originally posted by Kurr
Killinger now goes the way of former CEOs Charles O. “Chuck” Prince of Citigroup Inc., Kennedy Thompson of Wachovia Corp.’, and Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch & Co, and yesterday the heads of mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were replaced.
"Goes the way.." What's that? Retiring as multimillionaires?
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 09/09/2008 : 17:45:18
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I heard a rule that you can tell when a bank it getting ready to fail they will start advertizing high savings interest. I noticed Washington Mutual do this about two months back. Haven't heard of any others recently.
It is a way to get cash fast, but generally not enough. |
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