8-K 1 a05-6831_18k.htm 8-K

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

April 14, 2005

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported)

 

FIRST COMMUNITY BANCORP

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

CALIFORNIA

 

00-30747

 

33-0885320

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

6110 El Tordo

PO Box 2388

Rancho Santa Fe, California 92067

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

 

(858) 756-3023

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o            Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

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Item 7.01                              Regulation FD Disclosure*

 

On April 14, 2005, Matthew P. Wagner, president and chief executive officer of First Community Bancorp (the “Company”), and Victor R. Santoro, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Company, responded to questions on the Company’s earnings for the first quarter of 2005 from Gary B. Townsend of Friedman Billings Ramsey during a telephone conversation.  During that conversation, Mr. Wagner and Mr. Santoro stated that the Company’s remaining loss exposure to the foreign loan relationships on nonaccrual status at March 31, 2005 was approximately $600,000.

 

The furnishing of this information pursuant to Item 7.01 of Form 8-K is not an admission by the Company that such information is material.

 


*The information furnished under Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities under that Section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any registration statement or other filings of First Community Bancorp under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be set forth by specific reference in such filing.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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.

 

 

 

FIRST COMMUNITY BANCORP

 

 

 

 

Date: April 15, 2005

By:

/s/ Jared M. Wolff

 

 

 

Name:

Jared M. Wolff

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary

 

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