Published on Saturday, February 06, 2010
By Pasadena Star Staff Writer
PASADENA - When East West Bank's Chairman and CEO Dominic Ng first crafted the bank's mission statement 18 years ago, the goal was to make the business a bridge between the East and West.
That's when it had about nine branches and about 200 employees.
When the Pasadena-based bank acquired the troubled San Francisco-based United Commercial Bank in November, that bridge became a reality for what now is about 2,500 employees who work at 111 branches around the globe.
Along with new branches in Boston, New York, Atlanta and Seattle, the bank acquired two branches in China, noticeably raising its profile in trade and finance.
"UCB is clearly a transformational change," Ng said.
Now, Ng prefers not to speak about his bank in terms of "regional," or "community" terms.
Rather, he likes to think of the bank as unique - the largest of its kind in the nation, bank officials said, that is focused on the Asian American community
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