Public | |
Traded as |
NASDAQ: EWBC S&P 400 Component |
Industry | Financial Services |
Founded | Los Angeles, California, United States (1973 ) |
Headquarters | Pasadena, California, United States |
Key people
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Dominic Ng (Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer) Gregory L. Guyett (President and COO) Irene H. Oh (EVP and CFO) |
Services | Banking |
US$431.7 million (2016) | |
Total assets | US$34.8 billion (2016) |
Parent | East West Bancorp |
Website | eastwestbank.com |
East West Bank (traditional Chinese: 華美銀行; simplified Chinese: 华美银行; pinyin: Huáměi Yínháng) is a bank based in the state of California in the United States, with assets of $34.8 billion and a market capitalization of over $7.4 billion. It was founded to serve the Chinese American community in California, and has over 130 branch locations in the U.S and Greater China, including branches in northern and southern California, Georgia, Nevada, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington. In Greater China, East West’s presence includes full service branches in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shantou and Shenzhen, and representative offices in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Taipei and Xiamen. It is headquartered in Pasadena, California. After its 2009 acquisition from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of the assets of United Commercial Bank, the resulting bank was projected to start with almost $23 billion in assets, putting it ahead of Los Angeles-based City National as the largest bank based in Southern California.