Announcement on behalf of the subsidiary Lucky Bank that the conversion date on which Cathay Financial Holdings acquires Lucky Bank by shares swap

2006-07-26

1.Date of occurrence of the event:2006/07/26 2.Name of the company:Lucky Bank Co.Ltd., 3.Relationship to the company (listed company or affiliated company): affiliated company 4.The shareholding ratios of mutual holding:Cathay Financial Holdings owns 81.35% stocks of Lucky Bank 5.Cause of occurrence:The Conversion Proposal has approved by the Financial Supervisory Commission, Executive Yuan. 6.Countermeasures:N/A 7.Any other matters that need to be specified: (1) The conversion date﹕2006/08/25(i.e. 81,944,155 shares of common stock newly-issued date) (2) The exchange ratio﹕ 3.8392 of Lucky shares per Cathay share ( i.e. 3.8392 : 1). (3) Starting and ending dates of suspension of share trnsfer: 2006/08/17~2006/08/25 (4) Lucky Bank Office﹕Secretary Dept(Stock Registration) Lucky Bank Address﹕ No.35, Chung Hwa Rd., Sec. 1, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. 403 Lucky Bank Telephone﹕886-4-22259111 Ext. 151-154