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Issuer:     CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK:        0000861842
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-19T20:30:12+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-26-017795
Event type: other
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.10
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Cathay General Bancorp stockholders elect four Class III directors, approve executive compensation
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- All four Class III director nominees elected: Nelson Chung, Felix S. Fernandez, Maan-Huei Hung, Richard Sun.
- Advisory (non-binding) vote to approve executive compensation passed with 47,296,739 for, 1,061,747 against.
- Stockholders preferred every year for frequency of advisory votes; board will hold annual vote until 2032.
- Ratification of KPMG LLP as independent auditor for 2026 fiscal year passed with 54,781,568 for, 754,933 against.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/861842/000143774926017795/0001437749-26-017795-index.htm
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  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-26-017795

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