Preferred Bank Announces Director Departure

Preferred Bank (NASDAQ: PFBC)

, one of the larger independent commercial banks in California, today announced that Ms. Shirley Wang, Director has tendered her resignation from the Bank’s Board of Directors. Ms. Wang’s departure is for personal reasons and is not the result of any disagreements with management or accounting irregularities.

Li Yu, Chairman and CEO, commented, ”On behalf of the Board of Directors, we regretfully accept Ms. Wang’s resignation and we thank her for her three years of service and guidance to Preferred Bank.”

About Preferred Bank

Preferred Bank (the “Bank”) is one of the larger independent commercial banks headquartered in California. The Bank is chartered by the State of California, and its deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Bank conducts its banking business from its main office in Los Angeles, California, and through eleven full-service branch banking offices in California (Alhambra, Century City, City of Industry, Torrance, Arcadia, Irvine, Diamond Bar, Pico Rivera, Tarzana and San Francisco (2)) and one branch in Flushing, New York. In addition, the Bank operates a loan production office in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, Texas. Preferred Bank offers a broad range of deposit and loan products and services to both commercial and consumer customers.  The Bank provides personalized deposit services as well as real estate finance, commercial loans and trade finance to small and mid-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, real estate developers, professionals and high net worth individuals. Although originally founded as a Chinese-American Bank, Preferred Bank now derives most of its customers from the diversified mainstream market but does continue to benefit from the significant migration to California of ethnic Chinese from China and other areas of East Asia.

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