Three banks that have failed this year are bigger than the 25 that crumbled in 2008 holding a total of 532 billion dollars in assets. All three were smaller than washington mutual america's largest savings and loan association in 2008 before its collapse which had 430 billion dollars in Assets. First republic is the second biggest bank failure in u.s history behind only washington mutual like washington mutual 15 years ago first republic was taken over by jp morgan chase hmm how about 80 of the banks that went down in 2008 were also taken over byJPMorgan Chase now who are using these banks because i don't use them? Well they could be the people who got fired for actually