WaMu Bought by Chase: All Your Bank Are Belong to Us

Washington Mutual has foundered in the stormy seas of Wall Street, and has been salvaged by JPMorgan Chase. When I read the news while patrolling the site this morning,  I immediately checked my own account, since I'm a WaMu customer... I was greeted with the image you see to the left, as well as some hasty front-end changes to the website (Hint to site managers: rollover items must stay open long enough to accept text, and the buttons need to work if you're going to display them. You're hastily-acquired bank, and therefore confidence in you is at an ebb: don't scare us away via your UI as well! But I digress).

I logged in and saw that my forty-seven US cents were still there. Whew. We at NowPublic are keeping an eye on this in a special Channel.

I left Chase Bank in the first place because, well, they sucked at dealing with customers. Then JP Morgan bought them. Then WaMu failed. Then JPMorgan Chase bought WaMu. Now here I am. *Sigh*

I guess the silver lining here is that there will be more ATMs available in NYC, since WaMu only had a few. I wonder what it means for free checking in the long term, since Chase was a notorious nickel-and-dimer.

Obviously that question did not come from me!
(Headline reference: "All your base are belong to us" was one a' them Internet memes))