The announcement of the conge of the Acting Spokesperson of Cathay United Bank subsidiary of the company.

2006-04-17

1.Change person (please enter: ”spokesperson” , ”acting spokesperson”,”financial officer”,” accounting officer”, ”research and development officer”, ”internal officer”):acting spokesperson 2.Date of occurrence of the change:2006/04/17 3.Name, title, and resume of the replaced person:Peggy Wang Senior Executive Vice President-Cathay United Bank 4.Name, title, and resume of the replacement: None 5.Reason for the change:job rotation 6.Effective date:2006/04/17 7.Contact telephone number of the replacement:None 8.Any other matters that need to be specified:None