Thursday, January 6, 2011

East West Bancorp pays back TARP funds

East West Bancorp announced that they have fully paid back the preferred shares issued as part of TARP.  The bank repurchased $306.5 million of preferred shares and made a final dividend payment of $1.8 million to the U.S. Treasury.  They intend to repurchase the related warrant from the U.S. Treasury in the first quarter of 2011.

Read the press release here >>

Read the L.A. Times article here >>

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