---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-001215"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HAFC"
cik: "0001109242"
company_name: "HANMI FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:53:21.924328+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hanmi Financial appoints Christine P. Ball to board effective March 1, 2025

## Summary
- Ball has over 20 years of banking experience, most recently SVP and Deputy CCO at City National Bank.
- She previously held senior roles at Wells Fargo and Wachovia; holds B.A. in economics and MBA from Cornell.
- Appointed to Risk, Compliance and Planning Committee of the Company and two Bank committees.
- Her addition brings total board size to 11 directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-001215
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HAFC
- cik: 0001109242
- company_name: HANMI FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184325001215/0001171843-25-001215-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184325001215/f8k_030325.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-001215.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: d842e4f445
  claim: Christine P. Ball was appointed as Director at HANMI FINANCIAL CORP.
  evidence_excerpt: On March 3, 2025, Hanmi Financial Corporation (the “Company”), and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hanmi Bank (the “Bank”), announced that Christine P. Ball had been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company and the Bank effective March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109242/000117184325001215/0001171843-25-001215-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.