May 26 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. stands to reap a $29 billion windfall thanks to an accounting rule that lets the second-biggest U.S. bank transform bad loans it purchased from Washington Mutual Inc. into income...
When JPMorgan bought WaMu out of receivership last September for $1.9 billion, the New York-based bank used purchase accounting, which allows it to record impaired loans at fair value, marking down $118.2 billion of assets by 25 percent. Now, as borrowers pay their debts, the bank says it may gain $29.1 billion over the life of the loans in pretax income before taxes and expenses...
“One of the beauties of purchase accounting is after you mark down your assets, you accrete them back in,” Cassidy said. “Those transactions should be favorable over the long run.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYhaiSOq_Tbc&refer=home
So was WaMu insolvent, or not? Oh that's right. We already answered that question!
http://aaronandmoses.blogspot.com/2009/05/does-anyone-really-think-that-elizabeth.html
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