Golden West Financial was the second-largest savings and loan association in the United States, operating branches under the name of World Savings Bank. The business was founded in 1929 as Golden West Savings and Loan Association, a small savings and loan in Oakland, California. Golden West Financial's subsidiary, World Savings, was established in Madera, California, in 1912. The Sandlers, who had run the company for forty-three years, were ready to retire and focus on philanthropy. In 2006, they agreed to acquisition of Golden West Financial and its thrift, World Savings, by Wachovia Bank, The acquisition gave Wachovia an additional 285-branch network spanning 10 states. Wachovia greatly raised its profile in California, where Golden West held $32 billion in deposits and operated 123 branches. Wachovia also picked up about $122 billion in option adjustable rate mortgages. More information...
According to PR-model, goldenwestworld.com is ranked 1,602,541st in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 891,597th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before johannesburg1912.com and after ww2colorfarbe.blogspot.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
