Cathay General Bancorp (CATY)

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Cathay General Bancorp (Bancorp) is a holding company of Cathay Bank (the Bank), a California state-chartered commercial bank, six limited partnerships investing in housing investments, in which the Bank is the sole limited partner, and GBC Venture Capital, Inc. It also owns five statutory business trusts created for the purpose of issuing capital securities. In addition to its wholly owned bank subsidiary, the Bancorp’s subsidiaries include Cathay Capital Trust I, Cathay Statutory Trust I, Cathay Capital Trust II, Cathay Capital Trust III and Cathay Capital Trust IV. As of December 31, 2010, the Bank had branch offices in Southern California (20 branches), Northern California (11 branches), New York (eight branches), Massachusetts (one branch), Texas (two branches), Washington (three branches), Illinois (three branch locations and one drive-through location), New Jersey (one branch), and Hong Kong (one branch) and a representative office in Shanghai and in Taipei.

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