Hope Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOPE) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 19, 2022 12:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Angie Yang - Director of IR & Corporate Communications

Kevin Kim - Chairman, President & CEO

Alex Ko - CFO

Peter Koh - Senior EVP & COO

Conference Call Participants

Chris McGratty - KBW

Gary Tenner - D.A. Davidson

Matthew Clark - Piper Sandler

Tim Coffey - Janney Montgomery Scott

Operator

Good day. And welcome to the Hope Bancorp 2022 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Angie Yang. Please go ahead.

Angie Yang

Thank you, Chuck. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us for the Hope Bancorp 2022 First Quarter Investor Conference Call. As usual, we will begin -- we’ll be using a slide presentation to accompany our discussion this morning. If you have not done so already, please visit the Presentations page of our IR website to download a copy of the presentation or if you are listening in through the webcast, you should be able to view the slides from your computer screen as we progress through the presentation.

Beginning on Slide 2, let me begin with a brief statement regarding forward-looking remarks. The call today may contain forward-looking projections regarding the future financial performance of the company and future events. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, projections and management assumptions about the future performance of the company, including any impact as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the businesses and markets in which the company does and is expected to operate.

These statements constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements.

We refer you to the documents the company files periodically with the SEC as well as the safe harbor statements in our press release issued yesterday. Hope Bancorp assumes no obligation to revise any forward-looking projections that may be made on today's call. The company cautions that the complete financial results to be included in the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, could differ materially from the financial results being reported today.