Government regulators seized WaMu in late September and let other companies bid to take over the bank. JP Morgan had the winning bid. The economic crisis in the U.S., driven in part by a housing slump, hit WaMu particularly hard because it was one of the country's biggest providers of home mortgages, including risky loans.

Amid the troubles in the financial sector, many analysts say that the surviving financial organizations will still need to rely heavily on technology, so IT vendors may not be hit too hard by banking failures. While the wider economic meltdown is sure to slow IT spending overall, many analysts still say that they expect most of the big vendors to be able to weather the storm.