The announcement of the Chief SEVP, Liu I Cheng to be the Acting Spokesperson of Cathay United Bank, subsidiary of the company.

2006-06-30

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:2006/06/30 3.Name, title, and resume of the replaced person:none 4.Name, title, and resume of the replacement: name Liu I Cheng title Chief SEVP–Individual Banking & Acting Spokesperson concurrent, Cathay United Bank resume Executive Vice President, Cathay Financial Holdings 5.Reason for the change:job rotation 6.Effective date:2006/06/30 7.Contact telephone number of the replacement:8722-6666Ext6016 8.Any other matters that need to be specified:none