East West Bank (Chinese: 華美銀行) is a Chinese American bank in the state of California in the United States. It has 120 branch locations in northern and southern California, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington, one overseas branch in Hong Kong, one each in Shanghai and Shantou and representative offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Taipei. It is headquartered in Pasadena, California. As of 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 L.A.-based City National as the largest bank based in Southern California. At last report, City National had $18.4 billion in assets."
The current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Dominic Ng and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Julia S. Gouw.
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