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Issuer:     CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK:        0000861842
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-24-016660
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Cathay General Bancorp elects all six director nominees, passes advisory say-on-pay and auditor ratification
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- All six director nominees were elected, including Class I directors Jelenko, Kono, Tang, Wang, Wu, and Class II director Woo.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 51.9M for, 3.2M against (94.2% support), with 6.1M broker non-votes.
- Ratification of KPMG as independent auditor for fiscal 2024 passed with 60.8M for, 0.5M against.
- Broker non-votes totaled approximately 6.1 million shares on director elections and compensation proposal.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861842/000143774924016660/0001437749-24-016660-index.htm
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-016660

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