East West Bank is a Chinese American bank in the state of California in the United States. It has over 120 branch locations in the U.S and Greater China, including branches in northern and southern California, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington, one overseas branch in Hong Kong, one each in Shanghai and Shantou and representative offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Taipei.It is headquartered in Pasadena, California. As of its 2009 acquisition from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation of the assets of United Commercial Bank, the resulting bank was projected to start with almost $23 billion in assets, putting it ahead of L.A.-based City National as the largest bank based in Southern California. The current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Dominic Ng and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Julia S. Gouw. East West Bancorp is the holding company for East West Bank, which operates more than 120 branches worldwide, mainly in California (in and around Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area, Orange County, and Silicon Valley) and in the Atlanta, Boston, Houston, New York, and Seattle metropolitan areas, as well in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Catering to the Asian-American community, it provides international banking and trade financing to importers/exporters doing business in the Asia/Pacific region. East West Bank offers multilingual service in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Spanish.