Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. Announces 2011 Fourth Quarter and Year End Earnings Conference Call

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIBC), will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss 2011 fourth quarter and year end results on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 11:00 A.M. PST (2:00 P.M. EST).

The financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011 will be released after market close on January 23, 2012. The conference call will be hosted by J.W. Yoo, President and Chief Executive Officer and Alex Ko, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at www.wilshirebank.com. The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson’s individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site, or by dialing toll-free 866-713-8307 (domestic) or 617-597-5307 (international) and providing passcode number 86489960.

The replay will be available for one year on both websites and a telephone replay will be available until January 31, 2012 by dialing 888-286-8010 (domestic) or 617-801-6888 (international) and entering passcode 68012641.

About Wilshire Bancorp, Inc.:

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wilshire State Bank operates 24 branch offices in California, Texas, New Jersey and New York, and seven loan production offices in Dallas and Houston, TX, Aurora, CO, Annandale, VA, Fort Lee, NJ, Newark, CA, and Bellevue, WA, and is an SBA preferred lender nationwide. Wilshire State Bank is a community bank with a focus on commercial real estate lending and general commercial banking, with its primary market encompassing the multi-ethnic populations of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Wilshire Bancorp's strategic goals include increasing shareholder and franchise value by continuing to grow its multi-ethnic banking business and expanding its geographic reach to other similar markets with strong levels of small business activity.