Cathay General Bancorp filings document the reporting, governance, and capital actions of a bank holding company for Cathay Bank. Form 8-K reports record operating results and financial-condition updates, Regulation FD materials for earnings presentations, common-stock repurchase programs, and officer or director changes.
Proxy filings cover annual-meeting matters, board structure, executive compensation, equity-award disclosures, shareholder voting items, and related governance information. The filing record also connects Cathay Bank's commercial banking, deposit, lending, fee-income, and wealth management activities with public-company disclosures about financial condition and capital structure.
Jelenko Jane H reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP director Jane H. Jelenko received a grant of 1,593 shares of fully vested common stock on April 15, 2026, at no cost. After this grant, she holds 1,593 shares directly, plus 2,116 shares indirectly via the Jelenko-Norris Marital Trust and 12,988 shares via the Jelenko-Norris Survivors Trust.
FERNANDEZ FELIX S reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Cathay General Bancorp director Felix S. Fernandez received a grant of 1,593 shares of common stock on April 15, 2026. The award was fully vested and carried a reported price of $0.00 per share, indicating equity compensation rather than an open-market purchase. Following the grant, he holds 1,593 shares directly and an additional 14,960 shares indirectly through the Felix & Katherine Fernandez Trust.
CHUNG NELSON reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Cathay General Bancorp director Nelson Chung received a grant of 1,593 shares of Common Stock on April 15, 2026, as fully vested stock with no cash price per share. Following this award, he holds 10,432 shares directly, in addition to indirect holdings through a Defined Benefit Plan, a Pension Plan, and the Chung Family Trust.
CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP director Shally Wang received a grant of 1,593 shares of fully vested common stock of CATY on April 15, 2026 at no cost per share. Following this award, Wang directly holds 10,908 common shares, which include 67.381 shares acquired year-to-date through dividend reinvestment.
Cathay General Bancorp is asking stockholders to approve four Class III directors, an advisory vote on executive pay, the preferred frequency of future pay votes, and ratification of KPMG LLP as independent auditor for fiscal 2026. The annual meeting will be held virtually on May 18, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time for holders of common stock as of the March 26, 2026 record date, when 66,972,039 shares were outstanding. Major institutional holders include BlackRock, The Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors and State Street. The proxy details board structure, committee assignments, director compensation and stock ownership, and explains an executive pay program built on base salary, annual cash bonuses tied mainly to EPS and ROA, and performance-based RSUs linked to three-year EPS, total shareholder return and return on assets versus peer banks. The filing also notes 2025 total shareholder return of 4.64%, compared with 28.85% for the S&P U.S. BMI Banks – Western Region Index.
Cathay General Bancorp’s President and CEO Chang Liu reported an open-market sale of 4,836 shares of common stock at a weighted-average price of $50.3527 per share. The transaction was executed automatically under a Rule 10b5-1(c) trading plan. Following this sale, Liu directly holds 127,819 shares of Cathay General Bancorp common stock.
Cathay General Bancorp Executive Chairman Dunson K. Cheng reported multiple compensation-related equity transactions. On April 1, 2026, he exercised and vested a total of 41,395 performance-based restricted stock units (RSUs) into common stock that had been granted earlier and tied to performance goals.
Footnotes show different RSU awards earned between 52.875% and 150% of target based on performance, with these performance-based RSUs vesting on December 31, 2025. To cover tax obligations, 13,320 common shares were withheld at $50.69 per share, classified as tax-withholding dispositions rather than market sales.
After these vesting and withholding entries, Cheng holds 167,531 common shares directly, along with additional indirect holdings reported through a Husband & Wife Trust, a Nonmarital Share Trust, and an ESOP. No open-market purchases or sales were reported in this filing.
Cathay General Bancorp President & CEO Chang Liu reported multiple equity compensation transactions. On April 1, 2026, performance-based restricted stock units covering 47,954 shares of common stock were earned and converted based on the achievement of specified performance criteria.
The underlying awards were target grants of 11,581, 12,124 and 24,249 performance-based restricted stock units, with 121.74%, 150% and 52.875% of the targets earned, respectively. As part of the vesting, 25,046 shares of common stock were withheld at $50.69 per share to satisfy tax obligations, a non-market tax-withholding disposition. Following these transactions, Liu directly owned 132,655 shares of Cathay General common stock.
Cathay General Bancorp: The Vanguard Group filed Amendment No. 14 to a Schedule 13G/A reporting 0 shares beneficially owned (0%) of Cathay General Bancorp common stock. The filing states that on January 12, 2026 Vanguard completed an internal realignment and now reports certain subsidiaries separately in reliance on SEC Release No. 34-39538.
The filing lists Vanguard's principal office in Malvern, PA, confirms no sole or shared voting or dispositive power over Cathay shares, and is signed by Ashley Grim, Head of Global Fund Administration, dated 03/26/2026.