OP Bancorp

Certain matters set forth herein constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Rule 175 promulgated thereunder, and 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 3b-6 promulgated thereunder. All statements that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking, and readers should not construe these statements of assurances of expected or intended results, or of promises that management will take a given course of action or pursue the currently expected strategies and objectives. Forward-looking statements in this report include comments about the Company’s current business plans and expectations regarding future operating results, as well as management’s statements about expected future events and economic developments, plans, strategies and objectives. All such statements reflect the current intentions, beliefs and expectations of the Company’s executive management based on currently available information and current and expected market conditions. Forward-looking statements can sometimes be identified by the use of forward-looking language, such as “likely result in,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “forecasts,” “projects,” “intends to,” or may include other similar words or phrases, such as “believes,” “plans,” “trend,” “objective,” “continues,” “remains,” or similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs, such as “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may,” “might,” “can,” or similar verbs.

Our forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those projected or could cause us to change plans or strategies or otherwise to take actions that differ from those we currently expect. These risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond management's control, include, but are not limited to:

•our ability to anticipate and respond to technological changes and challenges, including our ability to identify and timely and effectively respond to cyber-security risks, including those posed by the increasing use of artificial intelligence, such as data security breaches, "denial of service" attacks, "hacking" and identify theft affecting us, our clients or our third party vendors or service providers, which risks continue to grow more serious with the rise of artificial intelligence and increasingly sophisticated attacks on infrastructure, information, and software;

•risks of geographic concentration of our client base, our loans, and the collateral securing our loans, as those clients and assets may be particularly subject to natural disasters and to events and conditions that directly or indirectly affect those regions, including the particular risks of natural disasters (including earthquakes, fires, and flooding) and other events that disproportionately affect our primary operating markets;

•government, quasi-governmental and extra-governmental actions in response to actual or expected economic, political or social events, such as disease outbreaks, domestic or international terrorism, or war or other hostilities, as such government actions restrict our ability to conduct business or that have the effect of reducing our customers’ ability to maintain compliance with their borrowing obligations or that affect their need for deposit liquidity or increased borrowing capacity;

•public confidence in the Bank and the banking system generally, and current volatility and market uncertainties on the banking system generally and our Bank in particular;

•inflationary pressures and interest rate fluctuations, which could have an adverse effect on our profitability, reduce our margins and yields, the fair value of financial instruments or our level of loan originations, or increase the level of defaults, losses and prepayments on loans to clients, whether held in the portfolio or in the secondary market;

•external economic and/or market factors, such as changes in monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including the interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve, inflation or deflation, changes in the demand for loans, and fluctuations in consumer spending, borrowing and savings habits, which may have an adverse impact on our financial condition;

•business and economic conditions, particularly those affecting our primary market areas and customer concentrations;

•management's ability to assess and accurately estimate the risk of losses in our credit portfolio and to establish and maintain adequate reserves to offset those risks;

• economic, market and political factors that affect our borrowers’ ability to repay and timely to perform their obligations under their borrowing obligations;

•continued or increasing competition from other financial institutions, credit unions, and non-bank financial services companies, many of which are subject to different and potentially less restrictive regulations than us;

•liquidity, earnings and other factors that impact the Bank’s ability to continue paying dividends to the Company, which would restrict the Company's ability to meet its operating capital needs;

•increased capital requirements imposed by banking regulators, which may require us to raise capital at a time when capital is not available on favorable terms or at all, or may limit our ability to invest in growing our business;

•the effectiveness and operation of the internal controls we maintain to address the risks inherent to the business of banking, including but not limited to our ability to detect promptly any physical security breach, employee misfeasance or malfeasance, data security violation, disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting;

•changes in our management personnel or our inability to retain, motivate and hire qualified management personnel;

•disruptions, security breaches, or other adverse events affecting the third-party vendors who perform several of our critical processing functions;

•the effects of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, drought, pandemic diseases (such as the coronavirus) or extreme weather events, any of which may affect services we use or affect our customers, employees or third parties with which we conduct business; and

•our ability to manage and respond to changes in the foregoing.

The foregoing factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read together with the other cautionary statements included in this report, including the information disclosed under Item 1A – Risk Factors . Because of these risks and other uncertainties, our actual future results, performance or achievement, or industry results, may be materially different from the results indicated by the forward-looking statements in this report. In addition, our past results of operations are not necessarily indicative of our future results. You should read all forward-looking statements in the context of the foregoing and should not consider them to be reliable predictions of future events or as assurances of a particular level of performance or intended course of action. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

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