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NEW YORK Washington Mutual Inc., ravaged by losses from sour mortgages, removed Kerry Killinger as chief executive of the nation's largest savings and loan yesterday, adding him to the growing list of banking bosses ousted by their boards. Killinger, 59,...

Washington Mutual, one of the country's largest banks, collapsed yesterday because of its bad bets on the mortgage market. Washington Mutual was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Thursday, and then sold the thrift's banking assets to...

Alan Fishman has replaced Kerry Killinger as chief executive of Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest savings and loan on Monday. Washington Mutual has been hurt by sour mortgages; its shares have sunken almost 22 percent. Fishman, Killinger's...

Washington Mutual Inc., ravaged by losses from sour mortgages, replaced Kerry Killinger as chief executive Monday, adding him to the growing list of banking bosses ousted by their boards. Killinger, 59, is being replaced as head of the nation's...

by Frank James It wasn't a surprise that Washington Mutual, better known as WaMu, failed. For months It's been the thrift institution equivalent of a dead-man walking, finally being put to death by a run by its depositors, making it......

Although bank mergers and acquisitions in New York City have slowed, the city's banking industry is a hive of activity, with new competitors moving in and existing banks adding branches. The situation worries some analysts who say that changes in interest...

If you've been priced out of Park Slope, the first place you're likely to think about moving is the neighboring area of Windsor Terrace. This is a neighborhood not of lofty brownstones but of more modest two-family houses. Instead of trendy restaurants,...

If gentrification were an earthquake, then Alphabet City would be the epicenter, from which waves of rent hikes and community upheaval spread out over New York City. Once upon a time, in the era of Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent," the lettered...

Joseph Ficalora is not a happy banker. The chief executive of New York Community Bancorp is tired of listening to the nonstop speculation within the industry and on Wall Street that his thrift is up for sale. Ever since New York Community announced...

Joseph Ficalora is not a happy banker. The chief executive of New York Community Bancorp is tired of listening to the nonstop speculation within the industry and on Wall Street that his thrift is up for sale. Ever since New York Community announced...