EAST WEST BANCORP INC

Note 19 —Subsequent Events

Declaration of Dividend — On January 23, 2024, the Company’s Board of Directors declared first quarter 2024 cash dividends for the Company’s common stock. The common stock cash dividend of $0.55 per share was paid on February 15, 2024 to stockholders of record as of February 2, 2024.

Redemption of Junior Subordinated Debt and Trust Preferred Securities Issued by East West Capital Trusts —In January 2024, the Company provided notice that it would redeem $113 million of the principal face value of junior subordinated debt and $4 million of the principal face value of trust preferred securities issued by the East West Capital Trusts. Of these amounts, $16 million was redeemed in February 2024 and the remaining $101 million is scheduled to be redeemed in March 2024.

Increase in FDIC Special Assessment —In November 2023, the FDIC approved a final rule to implement a special deposit insurance assessment to recover losses to the DIF arising from the protection of uninsured depositors following the receiverships of failed institutions in the spring of 2023. The Company recorded a pre-tax $70 million special assessment charge based on the November 2023 final rule. In February 2024, the FDIC estimated the losses attributable to the protection of uninsured depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank to increase approximately $4.1 billion from $16.3 billion, as described in the November 2023 final rule, to $20.4 billion. As the loss estimates resulting from the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank may be further subject to change pending the projected and actual outcome of loss share agreements, joint ventures, and outstanding litigation, the exact amount of losses incurred will be determined when the FDIC terminates the receiverships. As of the date of this filing, the Bank cannot reasonably estimate whether the FDIC’s increased estimate of losses attributable to the protection of uninsured depositors will result in an increase in or modifications to the Bank’s special assessment charge. The FDIC plans to provide depository institutions that are subject to the special assessment with an updated estimate of each institution’s quarterly and total special assessment expense with its first quarter 2024 special assessment invoice in June 2024.