secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HOPE BANCORP INC (HOPE)
CIK:        0001128361
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001128361-23-000034
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hope Bancorp shareholders narrowly approve say-on-pay with 51.4% support; all directors re-elected
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- Say-on-pay passed with 51.37% for vs. 48.49% against, a very close vote; broker non-votes 5.96M abstained.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as auditor passed with 99.86% approval (105.7M for, 137.6K against).
- All 12 director nominees re-elected; Scott Yoon-Suk Whang received lowest support at 79.2% for.
- Turnout was 88.47% of outstanding shares (105.9M shares voted).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1128361/000112836123000034/0001128361-23-000034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1128361/000112836123000034/hope-20230518.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001128361-23-000034

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