JPM pays $1.9bn for WaMu after biggest US bank failure

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JPM pays $1.9bn for WaMu after biggest US bank failure

Washington Mutual Bank became the latest casualty of the US banking crisis last night after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp took control of the sixth-largest lender in the country. It is the biggest bank failure in US history.

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