---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-001438"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CATY"
cik: "0000861842"
company_name: "CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T22:45:24.581120+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cathay General Bancorp CRO Kim Bingham retires; Diana Deen appointed effective Jan 21

## Summary
- Kim R. Bingham retires as Chief Risk Officer of Cathay Bank effective January 21, 2025.
- Bingham will serve as EVP, Special Advisor to the President through ~March 31, 2025.
- Diana Deen, 62, appointed EVP and Chief Risk Officer effective January 21, 2025.
- Deen brings 20+ years experience; previously at Bank of the West, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-001438
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CATY
- cik: 0000861842
- company_name: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861842/000143774925001438/0001437749-25-001438-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861842/000143774925001438/caty20250118_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-001438
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-001438.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-001438.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Diana Deen was appointed as Chief Risk Officer at CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Risk Officer
  source text: Succeeding Mr. Bingham, Diana Deen will join Cathay Bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer on January 21, 2025, and will be a designated executive officer of Cathay Bank.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861842/000143774925001438/0001437749-25-001438-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kim R. Bingham retired as Chief Risk Officer at CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Risk Officer
  source text: Cathay General Bancorp (the “Company”) announced that Kim R. Bingham will retire as Chief Risk Officer of Cathay Bank effective January 21, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861842/000143774925001438/0001437749-25-001438-index.htm

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