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0001437749-24-002216.txt : 20240125 0001437749-24-002216.hdr.sgml : 20240125 20240125180245 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001437749-24-002216 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20240118 FILED AS OF DATE: 20240125 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20240125 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Lo Thomas M. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0002009474 ORGANIZATION NAME: FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-31830 FILM NUMBER: 24563465 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9650 FLAIR DRIVE CITY: EL MONTE STATE: CA ZIP: 91731 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000861842 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022] ORGANIZATION NAME: 02 Finance 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 3 1 rdgdoc.xml THOMAS LO X0206 3 2024-01-18 0 0000861842 CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP CATY 0002009474 Lo Thomas M. 777 NORTH BROADWAY LOS ANGELES CA 90012 1 EVP, Chief Admin Officer Common Stock 3019 D Restricted Stock Units Common Stock 1928 D Restricted Stock Units Common Stock 2134 D Restricted Stock Units Common Stock 2896 D These restricted stock units are scheduled to fully vest on May 27, 2024, or earlier in the event of death, disability, retirement, or change in control. Each restricted stock unit represented a contingent right to receive one share of Common Stock of the Issuer. These restricted stock units are scheduled to fully vest on March 16, 2025, or earlier in the event of death, disability, retirement, or change in control. These restricted stock units are scheduled to fully vest on July 27, 2026, or earlier in the event of death, disability, retirement, or change in control. /s/ Georgia Lo, attorney-in-fact 2024-01-25 EX-24 2 poa_tlo.htm ex_619520.htm

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Georgia Lo, and May Chan, 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 24th day of January 2024.

Signature: /s/ Thomas M. Lo

Print Name: Thomas M. Lo