What Is the Largest Bank Failure? The 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual was the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Washington Mutual held $307 billion in assets when it failed. Like many other ...

Orr joined IBJ in 2016. She’s been a reporter since 1995 and has worked at four newspapers in three states. Before moving to Indianapolis, she wrote for the Courier & Press in Evansville. When she’s ...