Item  8.01 Other Events" -->
Item 8.01 Other Events.
In a press release dated October 8, 2008, filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein, W Holding Company, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it had received a letter from The New York Stock Exchange, Inc. granting the Company’s request for up to an additional six-month trading period extension to file its delinquent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, subject to reassessment on an ongoing basis.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
     
Exhibit No.   Description
99.1
  Press release dated October 8, 2008

 

 

SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
 
  W HOLDING COMPANY, INC.    
 
  (Registrant)    
 
       
 
  /s/ Freddy Maldonado
 
Name: Freddy Maldonado
   
 
  Title: Chief Financial Officer    
Date: October 8, 2008