secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Community West Bancshares (CWBC)
CIK:        0001127371
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-014012
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Community West Bancshares COO Blaine Lauhon to retire effective Dec 31, 2026
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- Blaine C. Lauhon, EVP and COO of Community West Bank, notified of retirement effective December 31, 2026.
- Lauhon joined in 2017 via the Folsom Lake Bank acquisition; became COO in December 2024.
- He oversaw Operations Division: Loan Ops, Facilities, Technology/Data/Analytics, Project Mgmt, Deposit Ops, Marketing.
- CEO James Kim thanked Lauhon for nearly a decade of leadership; no successor was named in the release.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1127371/000162828026014012/0001628280-26-014012-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1127371/000162828026014012/cvcy-20260225.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-014012

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