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0001437749-18-000212.txt : 20180103 0001437749-18-000212.hdr.sgml : 20180103 20180103192214 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001437749-18-000212 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20180102 FILED AS OF DATE: 20180103 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20180103 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BINGHAM KIM R CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001301191 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-31830 FILM NUMBER: 18507852 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CATHAY BANK STREET 2: 777 NORTH BROADWAY CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90012 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000861842 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022] IRS NUMBER: 954274680 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 777 N BROADWAY CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90012 BUSINESS PHONE: 2136254700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 777 NORTH BROADWAY CITY: LOS ANGELES STATE: CA ZIP: 90012 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CATHAY BANCORP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930328 4 1 rdgdoc.xml KIM BINGHAM X0306 4 2018-01-02 0000861842 CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP CATY 0001301191 BINGHAM KIM R 777 NORTH BROADWAY LOS ANGELES CA 90012 1 EVP - Chief Risk Officer Common Stock 2018-01-02 4 M 0 9558 0 A 29369 D Common Stock 2018-01-02 4 F 0 3766 42.64 D 25603 D Restricted Stock Units 2018-01-02 4 M 0 5947 0 D Common Stock 5947 0 D Shares of the Issuer's Common Stock received by the Reporting Person from the vesting of performance-based restricted stock units granted on December 18, 2014. Such restricted stock units were previously reported in Table II on a Form 4 filed by the Reporting Person with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 24, 2014. Shares withheld by Registrant to satisfy minimum statutory withholding requirements on vesting of restricted stock units. Of this previously reported target award of performance-based restricted stock units, 150% of the target award was earned based upon the achievement of certain performance criteria. Performance-based restricted stock units vested on December 31, 2017. /s/ Georgia Lo, attorney-in-fact 2018-01-03 EX-24 2 kb_poa.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY KB_POA.htm

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Lisa L. Kim, and Georgia Lo, signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)

prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of Cathay General Bancorp (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, and any other forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file in connection with the undersigned’s ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the Company;

(3)

do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, or other form or report, and timely file such form or report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(4)

take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 21st day of December, 2017.

	Signature: /s/ Kim Bingham

	Print Name: Kim Bingham