CATY Cathay General Bancorp

Cathay General Bancorp to Participate at the RBC Capital Markets Financial Institutions Conference LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY) announced today that Dunson K. Cheng, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Cathay General Bancorp, will be presenting at the RBC Capital Markets Financial Institutions Conference on Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 8:25 a.m. EDT or 5:25 a.m. PDT. RBC Capital Markets will make this conference available via Wall Street Webcasting. The audio webcast will be available to the general public approximately ten minutes after the actual presentation at http://www.wallstreetwebcasting.com/webcast/dr24/caty. The audio webcast will then be archived and be available for replay at the Wall Street Webcasting website for 30 days after the event, beginning September 30, 2004. Cathay General Bancorp does not control the information contained on the Wall Street Webcasting website, which is compiled and provided by a third party unrelated to Cathay General Bancorp. As such, Cathay General Bancorp is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of the information contained on that website and also cannot accept responsibility for the privacy practices or security of that website. ABOUT CATHAY GENERAL BANCORP Cathay General Bancorp is the one-bank holding company for Cathay Bank, a California state-chartered bank. Founded in 1962, Cathay Bank offers a wide range of financial services. Cathay Bank currently operates 32 branches in California, three branches in New York State, two branches in Massachusetts, one in Houston, Texas, one in Washington State, and representative offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, China. In addition, the Bank's subsidiaries, Cathay Investment Company and GBC Investment & Consulting Company, Inc., both maintain an office in Taipei. Cathay Bank's website is found at http://www.cathaybank.com/. DATASOURCE: Cathay General Bancorp CONTACT: Monica Chen of Cathay General Bancorp, +1-213-625-4749 Web site: http://www.cathaybank.com/

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