CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP — Director's Dealing 2019

Mar 6, 2019

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP (CATY)
CIK: 0000861842
Period of Report: 2019-03-01

Reporting Person: BINGHAM KIM R (EVP, Chief Risk Officer)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2019-03-01	Common Stock	M	8166	—	Acquired	35287	Direct
2019-03-01	Common Stock	F	2824	$38.36	Disposed	32463	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2019-03-01	Restricted Stock Units	$	M	5068	Disposed		Common Stock (5068)	Direct

Footnotes

F1: Shares of the Issuer's Common Stock received by the Reporting Person from the vesting of performance-based restricted stock units granted on December 17, 2015. Such restricted stock units were previously reported in Table II on a Form 4 filed by the Reporting Person with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 21, 2015.

F2: Shares withheld by Registrant to satisfy tax withholding requirement on vesting of restricted stock units.

F3: Performance-based restricted stock units vested on December 31, 2018.