Washington Federal Bank (WaFd Bank) is a state-chartered bank based in Seattle, Washington founded in 1917. WaFd Bank offers personal and business banking services including personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, construction loans, agricultural loans, commercial loans and lines of credit, merchant services, credit cards, treasury management services, and other banking services. WaFd Bank serves customers with locations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Bank of England holds rates steady in narrow vote ahead of Autumn Budget
The Bank of England on Thursday voted narrowly to hold interest rates steady, exercising caution ahead of the government’s Autumn Budget in November. Out of the BOE’s nine-member monetary policy commi...
Huntington Bank will acquire Texas- and Mississippi-based Cadence Bank in a $7.4 billion, all-stock transaction that’s expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, the banks said Monday. It’s the s...
Subprime lender PrimaLend Capital Partners files for bankruptcy protection
Subprime lender PrimaLend Capital Partners filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, in another sign that low-income consumers in the United States are under strain. The company's filings in a Tex...
UK banks' online services are beginning to recover after a problem with Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread outages across several apps and websites. According to website Downdetector, the out...
Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups
“I probably shouldn't say this, but when you see one cockroach, there are probably more.” Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan Chase, America’s biggest bank, offered a warning on October 14th that the recent...
Regional banks, Jefferies shares tank as concerns about sour loans grow on Wall Street
Regional bank stocks tumbled as fears mount around the health of their lending businesses.
All but one stock in a popular regional banking ETF is tracking to end Thursday down.
Zions was among the har...
The stockmarket is not the economy, as the old investing cliché goes. That is obvious enough to anyone paying attention in America this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff fervour has dented growth,...
First Brands Bankruptcy Damage Spreads to Jefferies, UBS
Auto-parts supplier First Brands crashed into bankruptcy last month. Now, banks are sifting through their exposure to the company and its chain of customers and suppliers. Jefferies Financial on Wedne...
US regional bank Fifth Third strikes $11bn deal to buy Comerica
US bank Fifth Third has struck a $10.9bn all-stock deal to buy Comerica, in the latest example of regional banks combining to compete with larger rivals. The deal, announced on Monday, will propel Fi...
The speed at which US car parts maker First Brands Group unravelled has shocked Wall Street.
The privately held group’s longtime bankers at Jefferies were marketing a $6bn loan deal to investment fund...